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NO 196.

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PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND RAILWAY.

TIME TABLE NO. 8.

WINTER ARRANGEMERT,

Te come into force MONDAY, DEC. 24, 1877

‘RAINS GOING WEST.

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Smoked Halibut, &e.

40 boxes SMOKED HALIBUT,

20 bundles DRIED POLLOCK. For sale by HASZARD BROS.

W HILE taking this opportunity of thank

{ug our numerous customers for the iiberal manner in which they have patron- zed

OUR NEW STUDIO,

we would inform them that we have now increased facilities for the production of first-class work, and are prepared to make PuoToGcraPHs of @ Style and Qualily thal has never been before ailempled in this City.

We have on exhibition, at our Rooms, a large number of Photograps «f every variety, including the

BEAUTIFUL PHOTO:- ENAMEL

he most beautiful style of Photograph known, possessing a sofiness and delicacy of coloring that has never been equalled. This elegant picture has become deservedly popu'ar elsewhere, and cannot fail to be- come so here,

Though the finish of our Photographs cannot be excelled, we would direct atten- tion to the beautiful

Glace Pictures

which we make. They possess a highly enamelled surface, and are practically indes- tructible, und will retain their freshness and beauty for any length of time. If they become soiled they can easily be cleaned, as they will not lose any of their beauty by being wet, ‘This valuable quality, com- bined with their remarkable elegance, make them very suitable for presents; while the difficulty of their production will prevent them ever becoming so common as to lessen their value. Our patrons can have one or all of their Photos finished in this style—an advantage which cannot be obtaiued elsewhere.

We give special attention to making Groups of Families, Societies, Schools, &c

Our pictures of children are sufficient evidence of our success in this difficult branch of our art.

Our ¥NLARGEMENTS, finished in India Ink, Pastel, Crayon, Oil and Water Colors, have made a tavorable reputation for them selves throughout the Lower Provinces.

Parties intending to have Photographs made will find it to their advantage to sit early, as the number of our cu;tomers makes soine delay in the delivery of the Photos unavoidable. We prefer to have our sitters come by appointment.

Photographs can be obtained for less money elsewhere ; but in this case we ask that quality be given the preference; as- suring the public that they will tind our charges very moderate.

ROSS BROS,, Cor. Queen and Dorchester Streets, opposite Connolly s Bank. Sept. 19, 1877—3m eod

Coarse Salt for Packing.

ua TON$ Coarse Salt, three hundre Bags do. For sale by

HASZARD BROS.

Dec. 8, 1877—1m eod HERRING! HERRING!

FoR SALE AT

W. W. CLARKE’S. Water St., Ch’town, Dec, 1—eod tf

P. B Island Railway,

In connection with the Winter Steamship

NORTHERN LIGHT!

A Special Train will Connect Closely.

RAIN will leave Charlottetown at 6 a. m., on the mornings of the day on which the Steamer will leave Georgetown, arriving at the latter place at9a.m. ‘The Boat will leave immediately after the arrival of the Train. The Train will be ready immediately on the arrival of the Boat from Pictou and will start at once for Charlottetown. This arrangement will continue during the winter, and until thé ‘“‘ Northern Light” ceases to run.

WM. McKECHNIE, Sup’t. Ch’town, Dec. 17th, 1877—6in

oA. WICNEILL. Auctioneer and Commission Merchant

NO. 11 QUEEN STRET.,

CHARLOTTETOWN, P. B. ISLAND

Ra AUCTION SALES, of all descrip- tions, attended to in city and country at moderate rates.

May 21, 1877.

QUEEN INSURANCE CO,

OF ENGLAND.

Capital - - [wo Millions Stering,

NSURANCE effected on all kinds o Buildings, Merchandise, and Produce

Also, on Vessels on the stocks.

Special rates for isolated residences.

Losses settled promptly.

GEORGE MACLEOD (Union®Bank), Agent for Prince Edward Islana”

Dyoomber 14, 1877.

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CHEAPEST YET!

“N_ order to reduce our Large Stock, we will Sell, at a great reduction on for- mer prices,

We will Sell—- Good Gray Cotton, from 4 1-2 cts, Good White Cotton, from 6 cts. Good Print Cotton, from 6 cts. Good Heavy Winceys, from 6 1-2 cts. Good Tweed Dregs Goods, 7 1-2 cts, Boy’s Winter Tweed, 25 cts, Heavy Winter Shawls, $1.25. All Wool Flannel, 20 cts.

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SCARFS, CLOUDS, GLOVES

VERY CHEAP. All other goods at proportionately low prices. Buying our — for Cash, we are ip a position to sell all goods at ow bottem prices.

J. B. MACDONALD,

QUEEN STREET, CHARLOTTETOWN, Dec. 7—ne pat

To Trustees of Country Schools

HE Trustees of several Districts have been applying for school furniture, and in every instance consider the American and Canadian Combination Seat and Desk too ex- pensive. I have just got up a Combination that is stronger, neater, and one-third cheaper than those that have been imported. Call and see samples of the different sizes. City School Trustees fully approve of them. MARK BUTCHER Dec. 18, 1877—-ex 1m ne a pat pres 4i

SWEET ORANCES,

PPLES, Lemons, Grapes, Figs, Nuts,

Onions, Raisins, Currants, Spices. All

kinds Crackers, Preserves, and the largest as-

sortment of Confectionery to be had on the

Island. Fancy Toys, Flour (by the bbl. or

lb.), Tea, Sugar, Soap, Candles, Pepper, Mus- tard, Vinegar, and a variety of Groceries,

ALEX. McKENZIE, Queen Street. Ch'town, Dec. 27, 1877.—-tu&fr3w ‘

GENERAL AGENCY NOTICE

I BEG to announce to the Traape of this

City, and the Island generally, that on the 14th of JANUARY I will have a com- plete

ASSORTMENT OF SAMPLES,

of the following lines of Goods for Spring and Summer:

English & Canadian

TWEEDS & WOOLLENS,

BOOTS & SHOES, AMERICAN COTTONS,

Readymade Clothing

AMERICAN

RUBBER Q00DS,

IN GREAT VARIETY.

Tobacco & Cigars, Confectionery,

Coffee & Spices, Naval Stores, Teas, Sugars.

I am also Sove Aqent for the Lower Provinces for Wyatt & Co’s (London) CELEBRATED

Pickles, Sauces, Jellies, Ete,,

—aND— E. James & Son’s (Plymouth) celebrated

STARCH, BLUE & DOME LEAD.

This Notice is only to the Trade—no Ree tail orders being solicited or accepted, Sample Rooms at No. 9 Queen St., over the Office of Messrs. Hyndman Brothers.

JOHN H, CATHRAE,

Ch’town, Nov. 23, L8377—w & lew o

H. VINNICOMBE,

PIANO FORTE REGULATOR

Aa™ parties leaving their orders for Tuning at Bremner Bros. will receive the best attention.

Ailwho have Pianos in Charlottetown would do wellto have them tuned by the year, keeping their instruments in perfect order all the time.

A visit once a year at ieast will be madet all parts of the Island, or oftner if required

Ch'town, duly 18, 1877.

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[Hxtract from N. O. Willis’ account of his Travels. |

SACKING THE WOMEN.

A Turkish woman was sacked and thrown into the Bosphorus this morning. I was idling away the day in the bazaar, and did not see Ler. The ward-room steward of the ‘‘United States,” a very intelligent man, who was at the pier, when she was brought down to the caique, describes her as a young woman of twenty-two or twenty-three years of age, stri- kingly beautiful; and with the exception of a short, = sobin her throat, asif she had wearied herself out with weeping, she was quite calm, and submitted composedly to her fate. She was led down by two soldiers, in her usual dress, her yasmack only torn from her face, and rowed off to the mouth of the bay, where the sack was drawn over her with- out resistance. The splash of her body in the sea was distinctly seen by the crowd who had followed her to the water.

It is horrible to reflect on the summary exe- cutions, knowing as we do, that the poor vic- tim is taken before the judge upon the least jealous whim of her husband or master, con- demned often upon bare suspicion, and hurried instontly from the tribunal to this violent and revolting death. Any suspicion of commerce with a Christian, particularly, is with or with- out evidence, instant ruin.

THE MAD-HOUSE IN CONSTANTINOPLE.

We passed the porter at the gate without question, and entered a large quadrangle; sur- rounded with the grated windows of cells on the ground flour. In every window was a chained maniac. The doors of the cells were all open, and, descending by a step upon the low stone floor of the first, we found ourselves in the presence of four men chained to rings, in the four corners, by massy iron collars. The man in the window sat crouched together, like a person benumbed (the day was raw and cold as December) the heavy chain of his collar hanging on his naked breast, and his shoulders imperfectly covered with a narrow blanket. His éyes were large and fierce, and his mouth was fixed in an expression of indignant sul- lenness. My eompanion asked him if he were ill. He said he should be well if he were out— that he was brought there in a fit of intoxica- tion two ycars ago, and was no more crazy than his keepers. Poor fellow! It might easily be true. “Fie lifted his heavy collar from his neck as he spoke, and it was not ditticult to believe that misery, like this, for two long years, would, of itselt, destroy reason. There was a better dressed man in the opposite corner, who informed us, ina gentlemanly voice, that he had been a captain in the Sultan’s army, and .was brought there in the delerium of a fever. He was at a loss to know, he said, why he was imprisoned stil).

We font on to a poor, half-naked wretch in the last stage of illness and idiocy, who sat chattering ‘o himself, and, though trembling with the cold, interrupted his monologue con- tinually with fits of the wildest laughter. Fur- ther on sat a young man of a face so full of in- tellectual beauty, an eye so large and mild, a mouth of such mingled sadness and sweetness, and a forehead so broad and marked so nobly, that we stood, all of us, struck with a simul- taneous feeling of pity and surprise. A coun

tenance more beaming with all that is admirable in human nature, I have never seen even in_ painting.

He might have sat to De Vinci for the ‘ be- loved disctple.” He had tied the heavy chain by a shred to a round of thé grating to keep its weight from his neck, and seemed calm and resigned, with all his sadness. My friend spoke to him, but he answered obscurely ; and seeing that our gaze disturbed him, we passed unwillingly on. O what room there is in this world for pity! If that poor prisoner be not a maniac (as he may not be), aud if nature has falsified, in the structure of his mind, the su- perior impress on his features, what Prome- theus-like has he suffered! The guiltiest felon is better cared for. And, sllowing his mind to be a wreck, and allowing the hundred human minds in the same cheerless prison to be cer- tainly in ruins. O what have they done to be weighed down with iron on their necks, and exposed like caged beasts, shivering and naked to the eye of pitiless curiosity? I have visited lunatic asylums in France, Italy, Sicily and Germany ; but, culpably neglected as most of them are, I have seen nothing comparable to this in horror.

‘Is he never unchained?” we asked, ‘“‘Never.” And yet, from the ring of the iron collar, there was just chain enough to permit him to stand upright! There were no vessels near him, not even a pitcher of water. Their dens were cleansed, and the poor sufferers fed at.appointed hours, and, come wind or rain, there was neither shutter nor glass to defend them from the inclemency of the weather.

We entered most of the rooms, and found in all the same dampness, filth and misery. One poor wretch hai been chained to the same post fortwenty years. The keeper said he never slept. He Stalked all the night long. Sometimes at mid-day his voice would cease, and his head nod for gn instant, and then wifh a start, asif he feared to be silent, he raved on with the same incoherent rapidity. He had been a dervish. His collar and chain were bound with rags, and a tattered coat was fast- ened up on the inside of the window, formin a small recess, in which he sat, between the room and the grating. He was emaciated to the last degree.. His beard was tangled and filthy, his nails curled over the ends of his fingers, aud his appearance, save only an eye of the keenest lustre, that of a wild beast-

In the last room we entered, we found a good-looking young man, well-dressed, healthy, composed, and having every appearance of a

erson in the soundest state of mind and beay: He saluted us courteously and told my friend he was a_ renegade Greek. He had turned Mussulman a year or two ago, had lost his reason, and so was brought here. He talked of it quite as a thing, of course, and seemed to be entirely satisfied that the best had been done for him. One of the party took hold of his chain. He winced as the collar stirred on his neck, and said the lock

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bm by pulling it sometimes. ‘There they they are,” he said, pointing to two or three | children who had just entered the court, and were running round from one prisoner to an- , other. We bade him morning, and he | laid his hand to his breast and bowed with a sinile. As we passed toward the gate, the chattering lunatic on the opposite side screamc& after us, the old dervish laid his skinny hands on the bars of his window and talked lounder and faster, and the children approaching close t. the poor creatures, laughed with delight at their excitement.

THE SLAVE-MARKBT OF CONSTANTINOPLE.

We found slaves of almost every Eastern nation, who looked at us with an ‘““Oh! I wish that somebody would buy us” sort of an ex- pression. * * * In a low cellar, beneath one of the apartments, lay twenty or thirty white men chained together by the legs, and with scarce the covering required by decency, A small featured Arab stood at the door, wrapped in a purple-hooded cloak, and Mr. H—— addressing him in Arabic inquired the'g nations. He was not their master ; but the stout fellow in the corner he said was a Greek by his regular features, and the boy chained to him was a Circassian by his rosy cheek and curly hair, and the black lipped villian with the scar over his forehead was an Egyptian, doubt- less, and the two that looked like brothers were Georgians or Persians, or perhaps Bul- garians. Poor wretches! they lay on the cold tloor with cold easterly wind blowing in upon them, dispirited and chilled, with the prospect of being sold to a taskmaster for their best hope of relief.

A shout of African laughter drew us to the other side of the bazaar. A dozen Nubian damsels, flat-nosed and curly-headed, but as straight and fined limbed as species of black statuary, lay around on a platform in front of their apartment, while one sat upright in the middle, and amused her companions by some narration, accompanied by grimaces irresistably ludicrous. Each had a somewhat scant blanket, black with dirt, and worn as carelessly as a lady carries her shawl. Their black polished frames were disposed about in postures a paint- er would scarcely call ungraceful, and no start or change of attitude when we approached be- trayed the innate coyness of the sex. After watching the improvisatrice a while, we were about passing on when a man came out from the inner apartment, and beckoning to one of them to follow him, walked into the middle of the bazaar. She was a tall, arrow-straight lass of about eighteen, with the form of a bymph and the head of a baboon. He commenced by crying in a voice that must have been educated in a rainaret, setting forth the qualities of the animal at his back, who was to be sold at pub. lic auction forthwith. As he closed his har- “—e he slipped his pipe back into his mouth, and lifting the scrimped blanket of the ebon Venus, turned her twice round, and walked to the other side of the bazaar, where his ery and the exposure of the submissive young woman were repeated. We left him to finish his cir- cuit, and walked on in search of the Circassian beauties of the market. Several turbaned slave-merchants wtre sitting round a manghal or brass vessels of coals, smoking and making their coffee, in one of the porticoes, and my friend addressed ore of them with an enquiry on the sulf ject. “There were Circassians in the bazaar,” he said; ‘but there was an ex press firman prohibiting the exposing or sell- ing of them to Franks, under heavy penalties.” We tried to bribe him. It was of nouse. He pointed to the apartment in which they were ; and as it was upon the ground floor, I took ad- vice of modest assurance, and, a proachi the window, sheltered my eyes with my han and looked in. A great fat girl, with a pair of saucer-like black eyes, and cheeks as red and round as a cabbage-rose, sat facing the window, devouring a pie most voraciously. She had a small carpet beneath her, and sat on one of her heels, with arow of fat red toes, whose nails were tinged with henna, just protruc:nz on the other side from the folds of her ample trousera. The light was so dim that I could not see the features of the others, of whom there were six or seven, in groups in the cor- ners. And so faded the bright colors of a cer- tain boyish dream of Circassian beauty! A fat girl eating a pie !

As we were leaving the bazaar, the door of a small apartment near the gate opened and disclosed- the common cheerless interior of a chamber ina khan. In the centre burned the almost extinguished embers of a Turkish manghal, and at the moment of my passing, a figure rose from a prostrate position, and ex- posed, as ashawl dropped from her face in rising, the exquisitely small features and bright olive skin of an Arab girl. Her hair was black as night, and the bright braid of it across her forehead seemed but another shade of the warm, dark eye that lifted its heavy and sleepy lids, and looked out of the accidentally opened door as if she were trying to remember how she had dropped out of ‘* Araby the blest” upon so cheerless a spot. She was very beau- tiful. I should have taken her for a child from her diminutive size, but for a certain fui- ness i the limbs and a womanly ripeness to the bust and features, The same dusky lips which give the males of her race a look of ghastliness, either by contrast with a row of dazzling white teeth or from their round and perfect chiseling, seemed in her almost a beauty. I had looked at her several minutes before she chose to consider it am impertinence. At last she slowly raised her little symmetrical oets talk of) and slipping forward to reach the latch, I observed that she was chained by one of her ankles to a ring in the floor. To think that only a ‘‘malignant and turbaned Turk” may possess such a Hebe! Beautiful crea- tuae! Your lot

‘* By some o’er-hasty angel was misplaced

In Fate’s eternal volume.’

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Yes; buying too many steel rails from Cooper, Fairman & Co., and lending too many to Senator Foster; buying up too much land at Kaministiquia and giving too much -for Neebing Hotels—these strokes of business in- dicate that the thing is being considerably overdone, we admit.— Hz; Herald.

Ur to the 27th of November exports of wheat, corn, oats, barley and rye, from New

York, were 44,718,428 bushels as o% 40, year,

175,863 Wilsels for the same period

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