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EDWARD WHELAN] Chis is true Liberty, when Free-born Men, having to

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description, vis :— 130 to 160 Tons of square Birch sound good TIMBER, | 2 to 25 M of 3 inch Spruce DFALS, |

THE PRESSMAN,

6 to 8 M Sioch WHITE HEMLOCK.

As many Spars and Lathwood as may be required to suit the size vessel to load.

About 100 toas of HARDWOOD, to suit the St. John’s market, or for | Ship building, will be eold cheap if taken by the end of September next. | Enquire of Besjamin Davies, Charlottetown, Epwarp ALBro & Co., Halifax, Taomas ANnxan, who has charge of the Cargo, or to

PATRICK STEPHENS, Orwell.

The above Cargo can be delivered at Three Kivers, by Mr. Thomas Apnear, at ten days’ noties.

July 25, 1859. Isl, tf. RS :

Pull up my boys, turn quick the rounce, And let the work begin,

The world is pressing on without, And we must press within —

And we who guide the public mind, Have influence far and wide,

And all our deeds are good although The devz/ is at our side.

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Let fly the frisket, now my boys, Who are more proud than we, While wait the anxious crowd without The inward power to see? So pull away—none are so great, As they who run the car, And who have dignity like those Who practiee at the dar?

. y SPECIAL Novices, OOO LOL NOL Ah ll Al ll A ll NL ll AML hh at

FALSE RULES ve COMMON SENSE PRACTICE.

Professional pretension is often wrong by dogmatic rules, while common sense is content to be right without them. This! is pre-eminently true as regards the science of medicine ; and | the superiority of a common sense practice over the cut-and- | dried system of mere slaves of precedent, has been abundantly established by the success of Hlotnowar’s world-renowned re- medies.

This extraordinary man is especially appreciated in Spain. The Spanish people know that his preparations will cure, with entire certainty, what are usually termed hopeless cases. I[m- mense success has attended the use of the Pilis in violont fevers and severe and dangerous bowel complaints, more or less pre- valent in all parts of that country during the Summer and Autninn. In fact, their operation in disorders of this kind ig little short of miraculous. Signor Jose Martinez, 2 gentleman from Havana, recently arrived at Cadiz, has stated through the press that on the voyage he was attacked with malignant fever, accompanied with vomiting, purging, and terrible pain and constriction of the bowels. ‘he ship's physician deemed him past recovery, and asa last resort, a box of Hollownay’s Pills was taken from the captain’s medicine chest, and a dose administered to the sick man. From that hour, according to his own account, he began to convalesce, and before the vessel entered the harbour of Cadiz he was quite well.

Facts like this render arguments unnecessary, and with such facts the journals of Mexico, Brazil, Central America, Peru, Chili, Buenos Ayres, and all Spanish America, literally teem. Nor is the reputation of the Ointment, asa means of eradicating blotches of the skin, erysipelas, scrofula, and all eternal disorders less widely known. Our ladies use it with confidence as « means of removing superficial blemishes, for they are aware that it contains no deleterious substance ; and asa family curative for reducing exterior inflamation, and healing woygns and bruises, it is esteemed above every other cvtward ape: sation by all ranks.

AYER’S CATHARTIC PILLs.

The sciences of Chemistry and Medicine have been taxed their ut- most to produce this best, most perfect purgative which is known to man. Innumerabie proofs are shown that these Pics have virtues which surpass in exce|lence the ordinary medicines, aod that they win unpre- eedentediy upon the esteem of all men. are safe and pleasant to take, but powerful tocure. Their penetrating propertics stimulate the Vital activities of the body, remove the obstructions of its organs, purify the blood, and expel disease. They purge out the foul humors which breed and grow distemper, stimulate sluggish or disordered organs into their natural action,and impart a healthy tone with strength to the whole system. Not only do they cure the every-day complaints of every body, but also formidable and dangerous diseases that have bafiled the best of human skill. While they produce powerful effects, they are at the

And you who twiil the rollers there, Be quick thou inky man ; Old Time is re//ing on himself, So beat him if you can ; Be careful of the /ight and shade, Nor let the sheet grow pale, Be careful of the monkey looks Of every head and tale.

Though high in office is our séand, And pr-ous is our case,

We would not cast a s/ur on those Who fill a lower place.

The gaping world is fed by us, Who retail knowledge here :

By feeding them we feed ourselves, Nor deem our fare too dear.

Pull up, my boys, turn quick the rownce, And thus the chase we'll join :

We have deposits in the bank— Our drawers are full of guoin ;

And who should more genteely cut A figure or a dash?

Alas! that we who press so much, Should e’er be pressed for cash !

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COLDSTREAM.

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A large party is assembled to celebrate the feast of St. Partridge at Ravelstcke Hall, an old country house about two miles distant from the north-west coast of Devon. ‘The various branches of English society are very fairly repre- sented by its component parts. There are two peers, three members of the lower house, some guardsmen, some under- graduates, a clergynfin, and a lieutenant in the navy. But our hero is not a representative man: yet he belongs to a class which, called into existence by the accumulated wealth of the nineteenth century, is ever on the ingrease.

Frederick Tyrawley resembles Sir Charles Coldstream. inasmuch as he has been everywhere and done everything;

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same time, in diminished doses, the safest and best physic that can be employed for children. Being sugar-coated, they are pleasant to take; and being purely vegetable, are free from any risk of harm. Cures have been mace which surpass belief were they not substantiated by men of such exalted position and character as to forbid the suspicion of untruth. Many eminent clergymen and physicians have lent their names to certify to the public the reliability of my remedies, while others have sent me tlic assurance of their conviction that my preparations contribute immensely to the relief of my afflicted, suffering fellow-men.

The Ageat is pleased to furnish gratis my American Almanac, con- taining directicns for their use and certificates of their cures, of the following compl ints :—

but he is by no means used up, and can stil] take an interest in whatever his hand finds to do. Nor is his everything everybody else’s everything. It is not bounded by Jerusalem and the pyramids.

Mr. Tyrawley has fought in more than one state of South America, and bas wandered for more than two years from isle to isle of the Pacific. A mysterious reputation hovers round him, He is supposed to have done many things, but no one is very clear what they are; and it is not likely that

/True. not all of this is taken by the very sick, but alas, much | 5,4 goes not exhibit any tendency to carry out Mrs. Mellish’s

Costiveness, }i\lious Complaints, Rhenmatism, Dropsy, Heartburn,; much information on the point will be obtained from him, Headache aris'nz from a foul stomach, Nausea, Ludigestion, Morbid [n-| for he seldom talks much, and never speaks of himself. THis action of the EB wels and Pains arising therefrom, Flatulency, Loss of mace enteilia so. hn. bo, eal. eacietiens. died alae Appetite, sli Uicerous and Cutaneous Diseases which require an evacu-| Present miseion appears to be to Kill partridges, play cricket ast medicine, Scrofula or King’s Evil. They also, by purifying the | and dress himself. Not that it must be supposed that he blood and stimulating the system, cure many complaints which it would) has ever been in the habit of wearing less clothing than the

|custom of the country in which be may have been located

not be supposed they could reach, such as Deafness, Partial Blindness,

Neuralgia and Nervous Irritability, Derangement of the Liver and ’ :

Kidveys, Gout, and other kindred compiaints arising from a low state of | required; but only that at the present time he devoted much

the body or obstruction of its eee on lla attention to buff waistcoats and gauze neck-ties, braided De not be pu: eff by some unprincipied deators with some otlier pi oats, and curled mustachios.

they make more profit on. Ask for Arer’s PILLs, and take nothing | ©! : : : else. No other they can give you compares with this in its intrinsic, Such as he is, however, he is an object of interest to the

valag or curative powers. The sick wact the beet aid there is for them, fe minine portion of the party at Ravelstoke Hall; for he is

and they should have it. * ee ye Me otart ‘ +t Chemist, | rich and bandsome, as well as mysterious, and he cannot be Prepared by Dr. J. C. AYER, Practical and Analytica! Chemist, | rie eee aio : , {more than two-and-thirty. And the ladies at Ravelstoke

Lowell, Maas. : pee ‘ 4 Five Boxes ror $1. ‘outnumber the men: for although it is still rare for the fair

Paice 25 Cre. per Box.

“Holloway’s Pills.—In indigestion, and all inflammatory and sex io participate actively in the saturnalia of the pariridge constipated disorders of the bowels, growing out of indigestion | god, they will be always found hovering in considerable num- there is something chemically wrong in the fluids which should) pers on the outskirts of the feast: and the varieties uf the dissolve and assimilate the food. These searching Pills, acting} British lady are fairly represenied. Upon the gastric juice, and upon the bile, as chemical agents.) Tyre are some mammas with daughters to marry, and Testore to the one its solvent prepertics, and to the other its | ' go Gaukteeed with ow aii ia iaishieeal cada! modifying and tempering qualities. Such seems to be the | Were are SOME Cau Qa iere Penn ee ee try philosophy of t .eir operation. As regards their almost magi- | ing again, which is, perhaps, the most difficult thing of the cal effect in dyspepsia, aud all cemplaints affecting the diges-| two, as she has an income in her own right. There are tive functions of the liver, there can be but one opinion among | blondes and brunettes, and pretiy, brown-haired, brown-eyed candid observers. girls who hover between the two orders, and combine the ret lee ot ee ~ | most dangerous characteristics of both, who can wear both ‘ rend Davis’ oe Spaeth irda ie eo, blue and pink, and who look prettier in the one colour than and wales, aa bathing the yottanars woh bdteahs with the me-| they,do in the other ; but wee always command owe suffrage dicine laid on warm with flannel eloths , repeat as often as/|in favour of that which they are wearing when you look at they get dry. Sold by all dealers in family medicines. them. ~ ‘ me s. . Aud there is Constance Bayaton with grey eyes and black

Daring our visit to Lowell we were shown through the La-|hair. And the nicest critic of feminine appearance might boratory of our celebrated countryman, Dr. J. C. AvzR. je defied to state what she had worn, half an hour after he Scarcely could we haye believed what is seen there without | left her; for no one can ever look at anything except her

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a4 wists tat 1 of solid Pills, about 50,000 a |

The ume a barrel of solid Pills, about o doses, | : , :

and 3 lassie Clary Pectoral, 120,000 doses, per diem. To| Yet Constance s three-and-tweaty, and still unmarried.

what am inconceiveable amount of human suffering does this, Alas, what cowards men are! The fact is that Constance is oint ; 180000 doses a day !! 50,000,000 of doses per year!!!) very clever; but as Mrs. Mellish (the widow) says, ** uot V hat acres and thousands of acres of sick beds does this spread | clever enough to hide it.”

before the imagination ' Is she a little vexed at her present condition ?

Face,

Certainly |

And what sympathies and woe! | , |

it is. This Che an i gvared Pill : be the | , a vn amen ae fo oa Aare ede etl ees she in- | Suggestion, if it has ever been repeated to her. The young 9 ye , uo |

5 : S heritance our mother Eye bequeathed to the whole family of Men are more afraid of her than ever ; aud on she roan. \ Here the infant darling bas been touched too early by does say vory sharp things, sometimes. Espccially ‘she is | the bligtt that withers half our race. Its little lungs are | severe upon idlers, the butterflies of fashionable existence. | afieeted, asd only watching and waiting shail tell which way|She appears to consider that she has a special mission to! its breath shal! turn. This red drop on its table isthe talisman | sroyse them; but they do not appear to like being lectured. on which its life shall hang. There the blossom of the world! With the young ladies she is a great favourite, for she is just bursting imgo womanhood, is stricken also. Affection’s very affectionate ; and though so beautiful and distinguished,

; i i ig still fading ee! ; ; ves aon = ae a oe Seiey deck. This. she has proved berself to be not so dangerous a rival as nig |

little mediciment here, their last, perhaps their only have been expected. Indeed, it has happened, more than | hope. oe oe ~ planted in ie vitals: this same once, that male admiration, rebounding from the hard surface | disease. This red drop by his eifle is helping him to wrestle of her manner, has found more yielding metal in the bosoms with the inexorable enemy; the wife of his bosom and the of her particular friends. Besides, she is always ready to cherubs of his heart are waiting in sick sorrow and fear lest, the rod on which they lean in this world be broken.

_ © Doctor! spare no skill, nor cost, nor toil, to give the per- ishing sick the best that human art can give.—{Galveston, | Texas, News.] }

lead the van in the general attack upon the male sex, when | the ladies retire to the drawing-room.

Not that she ever says anything behind their backs she | would not be ready to repeat to their faces ; |

but in that

cliff.”

“ What depth of water below ?”

‘* The cliff goes down like a wall, forty fathom, at least.”

“ The deeper the better. What distance to the water ?”

“ A good fifty feet.”

“ Well, I have dived off the main yard of the Chesapeake. Now listen to me. Have you got some light, strong rope ?”

** As much as you like.”

“ Well, take a double coil round my chest, and do you take care to pay it out fast enough as Ll draw upon it.”

“You won't draw much after the first plunge ; it will be the same thing as suicide, every bit.”

“ Weil, we shall see. There’s no time to be lost: lend me a knife.”

And in an instant he whipped off his hat, boots, and pea- jacket, then with the knife he cut off its sleeves avd passed the rope through them, that it might chafe him less.

The eyes of the old boatman brightened. There was evi- dently a method in his madness, “ You are a very good swimmer, I suppose, sir ?”

« [have dived through the surf at Nukuheva a few times.”

‘I never knew a white man that could do that.”

Tyrawley smiled. “ But whatever you do.” he said, ‘mind and Jet me have plenty of rope. Now, out of the way, my friends, xud Jet me have a clear start.”

Lie walked slowly to the edge of the cliff, looked over to see how much the rock shelved outwards; then returned, looked to see that there was plenty of rope for him to carry out, then took a short ran, and leaped as if from the spring- ing-board of a plunging-bath. He touched the water full five-and-twenty fect from the edge of the cliff. Down into its dark depth he went, like a plummet, but soon to rise again. As he reached the surface he saw the erest of a mighty wave afew yards in frontof him—the wave that he had been told was to dash him lifeless against the cliff. But now his old experience of the Pacific stands him in good stead, For two moments he d:aws breath, then, ere it reaches him, he dives below its centre. The water dashes against the cliff, but the swimmer rises far beyond it. A faint cheer rises from the shore as they feel bim draw upon the rope. The waves follow in succession, and he dives again and again, rising like an otter to take breath, making very steadily on- ward, though more below the water than above it.

We must now turn to the ship, The waves have made a

clean breach over her bows. The crew are crowded upon the stern. They hold on to the dulwarks, and await the end, for no boat can live in such a sea. Suddenly she is hailed from the waters. ‘* Ship a-hoy!” shouts a loud clear voice, which makes itsclf heard above the storm. ‘Throw me % rope or a buoy!” The life-buoy was still hanging in its accustomed place by the mainmast. The captain almost mechanically takes it down, and with well-directed aim throws it within a yard or two of the swimmer. In a mo- ment it is under his arnis, and in half a minute he is on board. . ‘Come on board, sir,” he says to the captain, pulling one of his wet curls professionally. ‘he captain appeared to be regarding him asa visitor from the lower world ; so, turning to the crew, he lifted up the rope he had brought frem the Then for the first time the object of his mission flushed upon their minds, and a desperate cheer broke forth from all hands, instantly re-echoed from the shore. Then a strong cable is attached to the small rope and drawn on board—then a second—and the communication is complete. But no time is to be lost, for the stern shews signs of break- ing up, and there isa lady passenger. Wiilst the captain is planning a sort of chair in which she might be moved, Tyrawley lifts her up in his left arm, steadies himseii with is right by the upper rope, and walks along the lower as if he had been a dancer. He is the first on shure, for no sailor would leave till the lady was safe. But they soon follow, and in five minutes the ship is clear—five minutes more, and no trace of her is left.

her opinion to her intimate friends, that she did not believe he ever had done, or ever would do anything worth doing ; but that he plumed himself on a cheap reputation, which, as all were ignorant of its foundation, no one could possibly impugn,

There is reason to betiove that in this instance Miss Con- stance was not as conscientious as usual; but that she really entertained a higher opinion of the gentleman than she chose to confess, He certainly was not afraid of her, and had even dared to contradict her favourite theory of the general worthlessness of Koglish gentlemen of the nineteenth century. Lt was one wet morning when she had been reading Scott to three or four of ber particular friends,—and it must be con- fessed that she read remarkably well,—that she began to lament the deeline of chivalry. Tyrawley was sitting half in and half out of range. Perhaps she talked a little at him. At any rate he chose to accept the challenge.

‘“ L cannot agree with you, Miss Baynton,” he said. “ It is true we no longer wear ladies’ gloves in our helmets, nor do we compel harmless individuals, who possibly may have sweethearts of their own,to adwit the superiorityof our lady love at the point of the lance; but of all that was good in chivalry, of courage, truth, honour enterprise, self-sacrifice, you will find ag much in the nineteenth century as in the tweifth.

He brightened up as he spoke, and it was quite evident that he believed what he said, a circumstance which always gives an advantage to a disputant.

More than one pair of bright eyes smiled approval, and Miss Constance saw a probability of a defection from her ranks, She changed her tactics.

‘You are too moderate in your claims for your contem- poraries, Mr. Tyrawley. If L remember right, modesty has always been considered a qualification of a true knight.”

‘Lam not ashamed to speak the truth,” be replied; ‘‘ your theor;; would have been more tenable before the days of the Crimean war and the Indian mutiny; but the men who lit their cigars in the trenches of the Redan, and who carried the gate of Delhi, may bear comparison with Bayard or Coeur de Lion.” .

“Oh! Ido not allude to our soldiers,” said she. * of course, | know they are brave; but,”—and here she hesi- tated 2 moment, till possibly piqued because her usual success had not attended her in the passage of arms, she eoucluded,—** but to our idle gentlemen, who seem to have no heart for anything.”

Tyrawley smiled. ‘ Possibly you may judge too much by the outside,” he said. ‘ [ am inclined to fancy that some of those whom you are inclised to call idle gentlemen would be found to have heart enough for anything that honour, or duty, or even chivalry, could find for them to do.”

“T hope you are right,” said Miss Constance, with a slightly perceptible curl of her upper lip, which implied that she did not think so.

Tyrawley bowed, and the conversation terminated a few minutes afterwards; when he hal left the room, the conyer- ration of the young ladies was interrupted by Master George Baynton, aged fourteen, who suddenly attacked his sister.

“| think you are wrong, you know, when you call Ty- rawley a humbug.

* My dear,” said Constance, with a start, “I never said anything so ru—”’

“ Weil, you implied it, you know, in your girl’s words, and I think you make a mistake; for he can shaot like one o'clock, never misses a thing, and [ hear he can ride no end, He was rather out of practice in his cricket when he came down; but heis improving every day. Yoa should have seen the hit he made yesterday-—right up to the cedars.”

“Do you think there is nothing else for a mian to do, but ride, and shoot, and play cricket ?”

“Qh! that’s all very well; but you should hear what Merton, our second master says; and a great brick he is too. ‘Whatever you do, do it as well as you can, whether it's cricket or verses.’ And [ believe if Tyrawley had to fight, be’d go in and wiv, and no mistake.”

** Ah!” said Constance, with a sigh, “ he has evidently— What is it you boys call it?—tipped you. Isnt’t it ?”

Indignant at this insult, George walked off to find his friend, and have a lesson in billiards. ;

The day lingered on, after the usual fashion of wet days in September m full country houses. There was a little daneiag after dinner; but all retired early in hopes of a liner day on the morrow.

Tyrawley had some letters to write, so that it was past two beiore he thought of going to bed. He always slept with his window open, and as he threw up the sash, a fierce gust of wind blew out his candles, aud blew down the look- ing-giass.

* Pleasant, by Jove!” he soliloquised. ‘1 wonder whetber it’s smashed—unlucky to break a looking-glass— I'm hanged if | know where the matches are; never mind ; { can find my way to bed in the dark. What a night,” asa flash of lightning illumined the room for a moment, and he bent out of the window. ‘ The wind must be about nor-nor- west. Cheerful for anything coming up to Bristol from the southward. I wonder what a storm is iike on this coast. I[ have a great mind to go and see. I shall never be able to get that hail-door open without waking them up; what a nuisance! Stay, capital idea! I'll go by the window.” -

Before starting upon his expedition, he changed the re- mains of his evening dress (for he had been writing in his dressing-gown) for a flannel shirt and trouse:s, whiist a short pea-jacket and glazed hat completed his array. His room was on the first floor, and he had intended to drop from tbe | window-sill; but the branch of an elm came so near, he| Then came the question. Who was it that swam ont to found that unnecessary, as springing to it he was on the the vessel? ‘Tyrawiey had only been at Ravelstoke a fey ground, like a cat, in an instant. He soon fouad bis way | days, and was a stranger in the neighbourhood. None of the cross country “ like a bird,” to the edge of the cliff. The Servants had reached the coast till it was all over, so there sea for miles seemed one sheet of foam. 9 been no one to recognise him.

But a flash of lightning discovered a group of figures| ‘*1 scarecly saw him,” said the captain, * but he was a about a quarter of a mile distant; and he distinguished | dark tallish man, with a great dea! of beard.” shouts in the intervals of the storm. ‘Was he a gentleman ?” asked Miss Constance Baynton,

He was soon amongst them, and he found that all eyes, who had been taking a deep interest in the whole affair. were turned on a vessel which had struck on a rock within, ‘ Well, d’ye see Miss, I can’t exactly say, for he badn’t two huudred yards of the cliff. it was evident that she would! much on; but, if he isn’t he'd make a good one, that I'll go go to pieces under their very eyes. baii for. He’s the coolest hand I ever saw. Stay, now I

“Is there no way of opening communication with her,” | think of it, L shouldu’t wonder if he was a naval! maa, for he he asked of an old coast-guard man, , | pulied his fore-lock, halflaughing, and said, ‘ Come on board,

“ Why ye see, sir, we have sent to Billford for Manby's sir,’ to me, when we pulled him up,” __ rockets ; but she must break up before they come.” | ‘Perhaps it was Rutherford,” said Mr. Ravelstoke,

‘‘ How far is it to Bilford 2” ' paming the lieutenant in the navy, “ he is tall and dark a

‘« Better than seven miles, your honour.” | « And he bas been letting his moustache grow since he

“If we could get a rope to them, we might save the crew.” | came on shore,” observed a young lady,

“ Every one of them, your honour ; but it ain’t possible.” | ‘Where is he?”

shore.

Ravelstoke Hall has been aroused by the news of the wreck, and Mr. Rayelstoke bas just arrived with brandy and blankets, Him Tyrawley avoids; and thinking that he can be of no further use, he betakes himself across the country once more, and by the aid of the friendly elm regains his chamber without observation,

The lady, whom Tyrawley had deposited in a cottage, with a strong recommendation that she should go to sleep inme- diately, was soon carried off in triumph by Mr. Ravelstoke to the Hall, and weleomed by Lady Grace at half-past three iu the morning. There were very few of the guests who slept undisturbed that night. The unusual noise in the house aroused everybody, and many excursions were made in un- finished costume to endeavour to ascertain what was going on. The excitement culminated when the miscellaneous as- semblage who had conducted the captain and some of the crew to the Hall, after being well supplied with ale and strong liquids, conceived that it would be the correct thing to give three cheers at the hour of half-past five.

It was then that Lord Todmulton, an Lrish peer, labouring under an erroneous impression that the house was attacked, was discovered on the landing place, in array consisting principally of a short dressing gown, flannel waistcoat, and a fowling-p'ece.

Breakfast that morning was a desultory meal. People finished, and talked about the wreck, and began again. It seemed quite impossible to obtain anything like an accurate account of what had taken place. At last the captain ap- peared, and though almost overwhelmed by the multiplicity of questions, neverthelese between the intervals of broiled ham and coffee, he managed to elucidate matters a little.