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THE BH

A Weekly Hournal of

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Monday, September 1, 1862.

Holitics, Literature, a

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All which will be sold at prices to suit the times N. RANKIN, Queen Street Yharlottetown, May 1%h, 1862

CAAA :

INTERNATIONAL S. S. 60'S STEAMERS.

“ New Brunswick” and “ Forest City.”

fPYUESE favorite STEAMEKS leave Sr. JOHN for EASTPORT, PORTLAND, and BOSTON, alternately, every MONDAY and THURSDAY morning, at 8 o'clock. J. 8. CARVELL, Agent. June 16,1862. 6m

Eastern and N, A. Railway.

SUMMER ABRANGEMENT. RAINS LEAVE ST. JOHN, 8 am..

arrive at Point Du Chene at 1.57 p. m.

Trains leave St. John at 2 p. m.. arrive at Point Du Chene at 9.14 p. m.

Trains leave Point Da Chene at 7.30 a. m., arrive at St. John at 3.30 p. m.

Trains leave Point Da Chene at 2.15 p. m., arrive at St. John at 8.5 p. m.

Ou TUESDAYS a train will leave St John at 5.30 p. m., to connect with steamers “ Westmorland, “Lady Head,” and “Arabian,” on Wednesday

mornings. J.8. CARVELL, Agent. To Merchants and others.

(EXUE subscriber will holdan AUCTLON

on the second THURSDAY in every month, orthe disposal of any kind of Merchandize placed in his sinatlle Goods to be sent to the AUCTION ROOM two days previous to sale. Proceeds will be handed over without delay

NEIL RANKIN, Auctioneer. Queen-street, March 31, 1862.

Flour, Tea, Leather, &. For Sale by the Subseriber

LOW FOR CASH. Gk 150 Bettina Foes

SO do. Pastry 20 chests superior TEA 50 sides New York Sole Leather _ 2000 Gunny Bags (cheap bags for grain) 25 Quintals Codfish. ALSO Just arrived per Brigt. Herowwe— 100 Bois. “‘ Southern" Superfine Flour 30 sides best New York Sole Leather. (California Hides.) M. LOWDEN, Peake’s Buildings. Queen-street, June 9, 1862.

FLOUR!

June 16, 1862.

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OR SALE, 100 bbis. CANADA SU-

PERFINE FLOUR, (warranted). Now ar

rived from Liverpool, 40chesta superior TEA. For

} b sale, wholesale, by R. W. BRECKEN.

Pownal Street, May 12, 1362.

DR. HAMMOND JOHNSON

Will VACCINATE at his Dispensary

from 11 to 1 o’clock daily. July 14, 1862.

AINTS AND PAINT OLL, BAR IRON ; also, 100 chests and half chests TEA

for sale cheap for cash by JAMES DUNCAN & CO. Charlottetown, June W, 1862.

TO EXCURSIONISTS. Round trip for $13. FEVICKETS from CHARLOTTE:OWN

So SOUN SHEDIAG. SUMMERSIDE "PVULS is to NOTIFY all persoos indebt- ed to the Subscriber, that unless their re-

| spective accounts are settled by the FIRST DAY SEPTEMBER ensuing, they against in Law, without any

i Glasgow House, Aug. 12, 1962.

SOR, St. JOHN, SHEDIAC, SUMMERSIDE and Charlottetown, or vice versa, and good for a MONTH from date of purchase, may be had

J. 8. CARVELL, Agent.

P.E. I. die daly, 162 2a

well |

NESS CARDS. |

BUSI

| Dentistry. IC FE UBERT, Dentist, | } ° ° -@ is prepared at all times to attend to the various branches of the| profession.

Teeth carefully inserted, extracted, cleans- | ed, and filled.

Office hours from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. | sidence at Mrs. Douglas’, W ater-street. Charlottetown, Jan. 20, 1862. tf

| Re- |

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LITERATURE. HYMN TO THE FLOWERS.

Day Stars! that ope your eyes with man to twinkle,

From rainbow galaxies of earth's creation,

| And dew drops on her lonely altars sprinkle,

Asa Lbation!

Ye matia worshipers! who, bending lowly, Before the uprisen sun, God's lipless eye,

| Throw from your chalices sweet and holy

Incense on high!

MR, W. A, JOHNSTON, Ye bright Mosaics! that with storied beauty

OF HALIFAX, N.S.

_Attorney and Barrister at Law, |

Notary Public. &c, &e.

te" ~Orrice—Mrs McDonald's, next door to Mrs. Forsyth’s, North side of Queen Square.

Charlottetown, October 21. 1861.

GEORGETOWN. WILLIAM SANDERSON,

NOTARY PUBLIC. | agent for Col. Life Assurance Company in Riog’s Ceunty. Agent for Pictou Iron Foundry

| Town Lots, Pasture Lots, and Farms for e Sale in King’s County,

Novy, 18.

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‘Rockwell, Higley & Garland, '

Commission Merchants,

And Wholesale Dealers in

| FLOUR, GRAIN, POTATOES, EGGS, BUTTER, CHEESE,

| Beans, Pork, and Produce generally, 44, NORTH STREET, BOSTON,

Opposite Merchants’ Row.) | References in Charlottetown— } W. CUNDALL, Esq | W. B. DEAN, Esq. | Jw 23, 13862 yr JAMES McCODIB, i IMPORTER OF |

Clocks. Watches, Jowellery, {FANCY GOODS | and Photograp!

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yf all kinds, Ambrotype rig Goods, Chemicals é&e. e and Retail Bazaar, Great George Street. Noy. 4, 1861.

| JOHN & ROBERT SCOTT,

[Coach & Sieigh Builders, Kent Street,

gSPORM the inhabit

1 ' ints of Charlotte.

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) ihd a i of new and second

CARD. JAMES COMEFEOR |

, Carriage and tleigh Builder, SITE AS HOTEL, PIE, 0. cccseesiicses P. E. ISLAND Orders the above line executed with neatness and dispatch .¢rins rerai Sulu July 14, 1862 6i

Watch and Cleck Maker. | PURCHASE, Smardon’s Corner. CHOICE ASSORTMENT OF}

ne ; ; i £R& WATCHES always on sale, and warranted | to perform well. Price £3 10s, and upwards. WEDDING RINGS, BROOCHES, &c. &e. in} yreat variety. :

Charlottetown, August 4, 1862.

|

Queen Insurance Company | OF LIVERPOOL.

FIRE AND LIFE! ‘BNHE Subscriber, having been appointed

agent for tfie above first class Insurance Com pany, is prepared to take risks on all descriptions of property. J. 8. CARVELL. Charlottetown, Feb. 10. tf

[ExTRacTs FnoM NewspaPens.]}

On reference to a return made to Parliament. and ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, 7th Juaue, 186h, it will be seen thatthe increase of Dat for the year, paid by the “ QUEEN,” was £2567, being upwards of £1000 more than paid by any uther oflice ever yet established in this City. {From Gore's General Advertiser, Oct. 24, 1861.]

“ Indeed, we believe that we are perfectly justi- fied in saying that no other Company, within the “ame period, ever attained so lurge an income in sither the Fire or Life Departments as the Queen Insurance Company. In making this staternent,we aake no exception even in favor of our older local companies, namely, the Liverpool and London, the Royal, and the Lancashire Insurance Companies.” {From the Civil Service Gazette, Nov. 2. 1861.)

“ Among there important inatitntions stands emi nent for its solidity, as well as for its success, “the Queen Insurance Company,’’ which last week held its annua! meeting of proprietors in Liverpool. A reference to the ample report in another page will fully satisfy every reader of the signal progress made by this association since its foundation. Such success ia, indeed, rarely attained ; and it attests at once the excellence of its management, and the pub- lie confidence in its constitution.”

[From the Liverpool Mercury, Nov. 2, 1861.] “Tt must be gratifying to the public generally, and especially to the proprietors, to find that ite in- come Eetine the past three years has increased at the rate of £20,000 per annum. We believe thut no other Company, within the same short period,

The floor of Nature's temple tesselate,

\ What num’rous emblems of instructive duty

Your forms create !

"Neath clustered boughs each flors! bell that awingeth And tolls its perfume on the passing air, Makes Sabbath in the fields, and ever ringeth, A call for prayer!

Not to the domes, where crumbling arch and column

Attest the feebleness of mortal Land;

Commission Merchant, Wholesale & Re- But to that fane most catholic and solemn tail General Agent, Auctioneer & Broker. |

Whieh God bath planned.

| | To that cathedral, boundlees as our wonder,

Among |

thetic remonstrances of his aged friend.

Reconciliation, even during the space of! confound the senses,

ltime, while occasional wayfarers, to avoid | equally vain were the painful and even pae|‘we were surrounded by the most profound ‘the storm, added to their numbers, f

‘these latter were two individuals, one of whom, before his entrance, was overheard, |a few hours, being thus rendered impossible, | eyes.

|darkness. It seemed for some moments to and be closed to my During the three minutes allowed

by some in the entrance, to say to his com-/ and all the already proposed modes of fight- | before the battle might begin, my principal

panioa, with a fearful oath peculiar to certaiu people in the South :—

* By ! major, [il raise a fight to- night before I go!’

‘stop a moment. you have a difieulty with ?

*‘ No— tot that 1 know of; but what does that matter ?

‘Then why go into a bar for the sake of

kill or be killed 2’

coffee on my nose! You eouldu’t do it

tell you!’ there assembled—a body commonly called,

according to this kind of classical American, ‘a tallish kind of a crowd.’

W hose quenchJess lamps the sun and moon supply ! | Its choir the winds and wave—its organ, thunder— | Its dome, the sky! | There, as im solitude and shade I wander | Through the green aisles, or stretch upon the sod, | Awed by the silence, reverently ponder The ways of God. | } Your voiceless lips, O flowers, are living preachers Euch cup a pulpit, every leaf a book,

i Supply ing to my fancy numerous teac hers,

From loneliest nook

| Floral apostles! that in dewy splendor, ‘Weep wit

|O! may I deeply learn aud ne'er surrender ;

hout woe, and blush without a crime,

} | |

[lis general insolence of demeanor soon jattracied attention, but for a while he failed ito fix upon any particular individeal as his | ietoages victim,

Meantime, his friend the major—proba- |

jbly another such major as he himself a co-

|ingly with the intention of keeping him quiet.

»| These efforts failed—and with more brandy Eventually, his |

jcae more determination. jeye fell upon two persons, one the young |mun who was to be slaughtered, and the jother an aged one — perhaps his father. /They were engaged in close private conver {sation, the younger of the two being then jspeaker. The colone! seemed to listen at- jtentively, abd having somewhat |hearer, very soon exclaimed aloud~-

| ‘It is mot the cas

| Many turned their

drawn ‘

heads

jand being uucovscious woo he was aduress-

ing; bis friend who aow stved aloof, but

k pt his ey

but in vain, while the }

individasl really most interested in this commencement ol the at- }

tack was so absorved in bis own Giscourse as

at all.

By and by, the ecolevel a ‘second time

; : : ch ‘

BPOKE, but in @ 1OuGer VOolCce— , ‘9

‘I say it’s false! | gave the signal, at the same moment all the

towards the| ispeaker, with a slight exp:e-sion of suprise,,| The time-keeper drew out his watch, and | and rushed forward,

| ‘Very sensible of you,’ said Dr. Gray, | shrugging his shoulders, ‘And now—but | what are you looking for ?”

| * My seal ring. sir: [ thought it was on |my finger but a minute ago. You have not

|ing being rejected or unattended to, a new | aim was to get away from my antagonist in+| seen it, I suppose ?”

| proposition was made.

It was distinctly—j|to another part of the room ‘without his!

‘ No, not that I know of,’ said the deetor,

(declared that in order to disarm one of the | knowledge, and to stand there by the wall | taking snuff just as briskly as he did any- |parties of a decided general advantage as a/ until, perhaps, he should make some move-

| following articles ought to be agreed to :

‘No, no, colonel!’ replied the other—| duellist—to prevent the other, as fur as pos-| ment, by the sound of which I could be di-} Iz there any man bere | sible, from beiag butchered as well as wan-/ rected in my attack. | tonly insu!ted—and in short, to place both| was as still as death,

The crowd outside I held my breath,

upon as perfect an equality as possible, the|and treading so lightly that I could not

| hear my own foot-falls, [ stole toward that

That the landlord should give up the use| side of the room on which I entered. Whe-| noon and then go and ask J picking a quarrel with a stranger, either to of a large empty room that extended over| ther he had calculated that [ should patu-| : eg dg ty te

the whole top of his house, and allow every | rally do so, and had therefore taken the

| ters or boards.

| That when this should be yourself! Let any man try, and the way done, the duellists should be divested of than I found he was somewhere about me— (il use him up shall be a caution, mind [| every particle of clothing, armed each with | I could hear his breathing.

‘Kill me! ha! ha! major, don't grind | window to be closely blocked up with afni~ | oomve direction, nobody can now tell; but

no sooner had I stood still to listen for him.

With the great-

thing else,

‘T hope it is not lost,’ said Harton. * I jValue it very highly as my father's gift. | Where can it have gone ?”

* Don’t know,’ said the doctor. * Just give _tme that list of patients we expect this ai jlook out for your trinket. That boy has | more eyes and ears than most people, I be- | lieve—I know he has more mischief | Harton Browne adopetd bis preeeptor’s | suggestion, and the old gentleman was left jalone, alternately taking snuff, rubbing his

4 “0 i Ig » bh je-knife * ; > auti i 3 aste i; j i ; a brace of pistols and s bowie-knife,* and | est caution and silence, I hastened to an- | spectacles, and cogitating whether his fair

| three rapid knocks upon the door.

And so saying, tbe colonel strode in, and} then be let into the room--three minutes other part, expecting every moment either made his way toward the bar, where he or-| being given after the closing of the door| tbat he would run against me or I against dered brandy, and while drinking it cast his| before hostiliues commenced, the expiration! him. And in this kind of manouvring, | eyes around upon a respectable body of men|ot the time being announced to them by | sometimes to get away, and sometimes to| talantly, * it takes sharper eyes than mine

| approach, as I fancied, though why I know

daughter was really deceiviag him as to ker | innocent love affairs, * Copfound it !” soliloquized the doctor, pe-

{to see through woman-kind’s manwavres.

| Will it be believed that thisarrangement not, that an advantage might be gained, the; ['ll ferret out the mystery yet, though—

} - was instantly agreed to?

And a tolerable party immediately proceed- | of was spent. ; TF » ' ° .

ed upstairs, some to make the needful ‘At length, having safely reached the, had just uttered, in a sort of sbrill treble,

arrangements, and others to listen to this| opposite side, I stood stil}, resolved not to

| unseen fight and wait its exciting result.

|move again until be either approached,

But so it was. | greatest part of the silent baif hour you speak | hanged if [ don’t ”

The brazen throat of the old kitchen clock

| the faet that it was one, post meridian, and ; dinner was nearly over at Dr, Gray's.

4 9 > > > 1 ie , > : } s 7 > } , 2 > : = : Savage as men’s spirits may be, such a| having perhaps found me out, or by some |Sowehow dinner tasted better in the song,

| | scene of _preparation as this was enough to| means or other L could discover his position | shady divitg-room of the Gray mansion | louel—was observed to address him earnest- | silence, if not to awe them, While it was|in the room, Having now got beyond his |bouse than it did any where else, for the ly, but in a low tone of voice, though seem-| passing, no man spoke, but all looked cu-| Teach, I felt that to be motionless on my climbing honeysuckles at the window stirred | riously upon the fine muscular persons that | part was the wisest step; and calculated /So pleasantly in the wind, and held back were soon, in all probability, about to cut| that his passion and fury would soon lead | their green wilderness of leaves to admit

up each other alive.

lhini on to the exhibition of less caution.

{ sas ; Such delicious scents of new mown hay and

All things being reaty, the door, which | Nothing of the kind occurred, and yet the blossomed-sprinkled woods that the most

had eautiously beea kept closed to preven

t{ first ball discharged was mine. A mouse

ihe interior of the place from being seen by | could have been heard to stir; but we were

ithe duellists, was opened, and they entered | perfectly lost to each other,

the room of death together: The old map

,| ‘*dventually, whether my eyes had become

whose friend one of them was, wept in silent ; More accommodated to the blackness,or from | bitterness, but by an invo untary action, as | whatever cause, but true enough it is, I per- | the young man pussed out of his signt, evi- | ceived a pair of eyes on the other side

dently berought heaven 1o assist the insulted | nearly opposite me, of ahyeua in the n ght.

aud the iftaocent. The door. was closed

kept bis eye steadily fixed upon it. The

They shone like those [ fired instantly, The flash showed me |} the colonel crouched down against the wall,

delicate appetite could not help bejng tempt- ew And Kitty Gray looked so preity at the head of the damask draped table, ber brown hair brushed back, and her white | throat edged with dainty laee, aud the faint | color coming aud going on ber cheek like |rosy shadows. No wonder Harton Browne | looked at her go often; we should have done | the same thing had we sat opposite her at | the table.

| ‘Ti take another piece of that apple-pie,

assembled party employed that brief period and must equally have directed him to me. | Kate,’ said the old -doctor, extending bis

es upon bim, beckoned him back, | in offering and accepting (in whispers) bets He fired as he advanced, but missed, of from one to five bundred and more do}-| were almost close together.

lars as to the result. According to sporting tols were thrown down, and the knives used. |

nhracs parase,

odds

The time-keeper closed his watch, and

On this oceasi-n, the young man almost | lights on the landing and staircase were ex-

many eyes directed. But he seemed no: | yet to comprehend that Ars, prigate convers | sation with his aged Friend way alluded te.

It was therefore immediately continued.

By this time scarcely another voice iv | no purpose, not the remotest sound, even of | My object was to keep him from closing up-

the room was heard—suspense as to the re-

Your lore sublime ! | ‘Thou wert not, Solomon, in all thy glory, Arrayed,’ the lilies ery, ‘in robes like ours ;’ How vain your grandeur! ah, how trausitory {re human flo s In the sweet scented pictures, Heaven irtis With whieh thou paintest Nature's le-spre - What a delightful lesson thou impartest Ol ve all! Not useless are ye, flowers, tho’ made 1 ul o€ i i i wave rv a and night; From every 8 1 bids me treasure Harmles: Geugnd. | é : g w! r For such a world of thought could furnish scope? | i alyx i , | , at ile ' Yet fount of hope } ’ | } | Posthumous glories! angel-like connection, } Upraised from seed or bulb interred in earth, Ye are to me a type of resurrection | a i a . j And second birth ! } Were [, O God! in churchless lands remaining, Far fr ichers idl er iy Bs 14 ” a i sail : My soul w 1 find in flowers of thy ordaining | Pri sts, sermons, shrines! i } +S

A FIGHT IN THE DARK. |

Fronkly admitting that duels of every common kind, and sume of a very uncommon description a so, have been written upon un- | til the very Dame, when seep in print. bears | very much the unsavory character of a lite. | rary nuisance, | yet veuture to add another | to the number, since it may deservedly be! considered the crowning fight, both for its| singularity and ite barbarity, of all hitherto | placed on record. Savage and deadly as is the general character of duelling in the Southern States of America—epidemical as it is decidedly stated to be in some places (Orleans for instance) increasing materia}ly in the heats of summer, and declining as the weather cools — and in the face of all we have heard concerfing Kentucky ‘gouging’ and biting off of ears and noses, this * Fight in the Dark,’ which took place in Florida, stands prominent alone. Germany canno' match it, and by its side an Naylish due! is a mere child's play! That poor humanity should ever become excited te such an act will appear marvellous — but it is no less truce. At least it is no fiction of mine—and a very sad kind of imagination must any novellist posses who could have purely in- vented it.

The parties in this affair were Colonel —— and a young man, | believe a surgeon whom he chanced accidently to meet one evening at a liquor-store. Whether the co- lonel was of the ‘regular army,’ as Webb of New York designates himself, or only one of those very numerous coloneis io America | who never either handled a sword or rode in the field, even at a review, my informant did not state; though trom hs insolent and quarrelsoine disposition, I should. as an Eng-

i |

| gonist (who probably had no idea of such a

jable conduct, having produced considerable | and yet the combatants gave no sign.

silence.

For the third time the colanel exclaimed— of half-an-hour, or thereabouts, one pistol | sometimes on the floor, and sometimes knock-

‘I say it’s a lie!’ and at the same instant | Was discharged; and although the listeners ing ourselves with violence against the wall. fixing his eyes, with an expression of per-; bad been in the continued expectation of it | | fect ferocity, on bis predetermined antago-|s0 long, yet when it did come, a sudden | strength failing, and then I fired my second Many others also looked in the same | Start of surprise ran through them, as pistol. The young man could no longer | though each man had instantly felt that he showed both men redder than the Indian in He mildly but determinedly | might have received the contents himself, | the field of battle | And then followed a hasty step across the | gered, and rushed with all my strength upon ' floor—another pistol report—the elashing him. He still fought a little, but suddenly

nist. direetion. be deceived. asked—

‘Is that addressed to me 2’

‘It is!’ roared the colonel. ‘I say again | it’s all a lie?’

A steady look of utter contempt was the) only answer he received ; and he that gave |

\it resumed his discourse as before Several now shrunk buck, confident that} ‘ Taken!’ said another ; ‘ I begin to want | cist, in that case his ouly hope is that he }

a fight would ensue, and auxious to keep out of the way. Some minutes elapsed at the intended murderer opened bis lips for |

his victim as * himself a coward and a liar !’ | The latter, thereupon, deliberately rose | from his seat, and, advancing with the at- | most apparent composure tow:rd his anta-

salutation from such a man, struck bim boldly in the face with his fist,and instantly fell back to stand upon his defnce with his knife,

The colonel rushed forwardiike a tiger, but his friend the msjor seized him, and all interfered to prevent the immediate effusion of blood. This being effected, a challenge was immediately given by the @lonel and accepted, and the morning was proposed as the period for the meeting. To tle surprise, however, of some of the bystmders, the challenged party insisted on sn immediate devision, and that the combat shiuld termi- nate only with life. ‘ To kill érbe killed,’

lishman, naturally conc'ude be was no sol-

ever attained so large an increase either in the Fire or Life Department. This speaks highly for the activity and zeal of the management, while the

of the late disastrous fire in London were met,tes- tities to their financial ability and the care aud pru dence which marked the investment of these funds.

Rocklin Pulling Mills.

‘EX\HE subscribers return thanks to friends and patrons in Prince Edward for the

wouid respectfully intimate that they are sull on hand and ready to do their work up in the BEST STYLE, and at the SHORTEST NOTICE, and expect a large increase in their business this season "he following are their prices in Prince Edwar | Island Carrency :— . Falling per yard .....-----+++--+++----- £0 Falling and Dressing. .....------2+..-+-5- 0 0 Fulling and Dyeing, and Half-Dressing,...0 0 1

0. do. Dressing all colors, ex- cept Breen .....---e--e- eee eeeeees Green a, Yard ..ceee-eeeccevenserceeeees 014 WOMEN’S WE/.R. Dying <2. nin cinco e cern ss sicdserscectecomess 605 Dyeing and Dressing......--+-+«-2-0+e0+- 0 0 6 Dyeing Scarlet, per lb. ...------+++++++0+ 03 0

The following gentlemen wil] act as Agents: Neil Rankin, Esq., Queen-street, Mr. Simon D Fraser, Kent-street, Charlottetown; Daniel Gor. don, Esq., Georgetown ; Belfast Croes Roads ; Mr. Hector Gillis, Mr. David Johnston, White Sands; John Hyde, Esq., Mur- ray Harbour; Mr. dome Bess, Mount Stewart; . David Rogers, Summerside. ane _ R. & A. FRASER. Rocklin, Middle River, Nova Scotia, July 19, 1862. 3m

Final Notice.

°s . . +i promptness with which all the claims, arising out | with in the Sou'h—a man who had acquired | se

\tor himselt a * first rate reputation as not

*\ouly a dead shot with either pistol or rifle, {hy this period highly excited. Ey st | but also as being equaily az fait and tormi-| propositions were loudly vocifersted by 48 | other. They were taken up, and something | of powdered cinnamon and nutmeg over tie}

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their |ever be might fight with was a matter of than one perfect indifference to him—as in any one appeared likely to be brought to its ‘sun |“ liberal patronaye hitherto extended to them, and} of the three cases his antagonist geverally | total’ before the morning sun. * a chances to the | gested that they should go cut on the clear right their gladnest, when an examination | contre of the white sheet of pie-crust, where-

Hence. few|ing, having two blazing fires made at proved that he was quite dead.

enjoyed sume three or four | colonel’s one of losing his life.

Both parties were. of course, |

Different |

two times.

It was sug. |

jinvoluntarily looked up, and his eyes met} Uoguished, in order that no ray might pass| knife now remained; I had a knife and a {those of the colone!, for toward him were} through the least erevice into the inside of | pistol.

the room.

Everybody expected, upon the giving of | The latter staggered me a little at the mo- |

the signal, to héar the commencement of the strife; but they listened in dead silence to

a footstep, could be heard.

And thus they

jsult, and curiosity coneerzing this unreason-| waited five minutes, and ten, and twenty, | #¢88 would permit of using my last ball to

t After

the lapse, as near as might be conjectured,

of kuives, and a brief bat seemingly despe- rate attempt to wrestle, which quickly ter- winated, and all again was quiet.

‘It’s all up!’ whispered one—‘ I'll bet drinks for the crowd !’

a julep !’ ‘Fifty to forty the colonel has killed him!’ remarked a third; ‘he was a very

the fourth time, avd then it was to denounce | nice young man, but be can’t come in this| true,

time !”

And thus would they have gone on had uot the third report been just then heard, followed by a prolonged conflict hand to band, and knife to kuife, in the course of which the fourth pistol was exploded. The strokes of the knives began to grow less frequent, and more faint ia sound; but ere they hud entirely ceased, a heavy body dropped with a dead sound upon the floor of the room. Another instant, and there followed another fall.

Some individuals present were for open- ing the door immediately; but tris propo- sition was overruled, on the ground that if the fight was not yet over, the most able might take advantage of the appearance of the light to kill the other, even lying on the boards.

About half-aa-hour was, if I recollect

said he, ‘is now my only alternatve, and the | aright, allowed to pass in close and atten- | paritioa of a young geatleman was imanifest- sooner one or the other is done ile beiter.’ | tive listening to catch tho most distant sound | jag a remarkable degree of interest in the |

On hearing this the colonel firiously de- | from within. None was heard ; and at the, pan of sliced apples and various spice boxes, manded an instantaneous settlenent of the | expiration of that period, amid a crowd of and sugar-bowls that flanked it; and yet,| affair, said his friends had no rigbt to pre- | the most horrible and anxious faces, the! now that he looked again, Kitty was trim- | dier. This, however. at least he was—one | vent it, and swore that if he did eat conclude | door mes opened and the whole party rushed | ming off the edges of ser pie-erust all alone! | ‘of those not uncommon characters to be wet | the buzivess at the first shot, he would con- | '- Teward the remotest end, and not far! He walked straight into the kitchen, where! ut to stand as a target only the following | from the wall, lay a heap like red cloth. the oven fire was glowing so hotly. that)

It was composed of the gashed and bloody

| arms ; and for an instant, being quite sepa- | rated, both stood still, listening for the place | (ef the other. I think be must have heard! me, for he fired a second time with such effeet Nothing but his

}as you all have seen.

We were so close together, that he | Was Upon Me almost as soon as his pistol-bal!

j}ment, bu: | met dim with the knife, and

| {rom that time we never separated again.

{on me, until [ could be as certain as dark-

| advantage. treated in various ways, both stil] fighting,

Tu coesequence of that, I re-| |

I found my

‘IT was growing faint.

The light instantaneously made,

[ heard that he stag-

| dropped before me, and more than that | do } not know.’ ;

| Such is the tale, as nearly ag the writer /ean remember, that was related to bim. ia . . °

| Should it bo said that he met with a roman-

;may meet with another such every day of |his life; though his firm and well-founded | belief is that all the details are perfectly

ee

| THE LOST SEAL RING. | ‘Hotter than a pepper cora!’ said Dr. Gray to himself, as he guided his shaggy | little horse round the sharp turn of the road |and checked under the spreading shadow of | the giant cherry tree, whose broad boughs | were all sparkling with raby peadants, and | then walked to the house.

‘ Hal-lo!’ said the doctor.

He shaded his eyes with his hand, and looked intently in at the kitchen window. There was the trim figure of his pretty | daughter standing at the kitchen table, her | sleeves rolled back, and a pink checked apron tied about her taper waist, apparently deep in the saccharine mysteries of pie-making. | That was nothing surprising, but Dr. Gray ,could have sworn that a minute ago the ap-

| Kitty's ebeeks were like twin carnations) as |

bodies of the duellists! One lay across the | she worked away atthe pies, sifting showers |

dermost !

But many who best knew him spoke out- |

‘Kit! where’s Hartoa Browne ?, Kitty stopped to cut a little star in the

|

Both | with she was covering her pastry, before she

‘cared to receive an insult from him, or,under | proper distance, the combatants being placec| bodies were so mangled, that it was next to} answered, in alow tone:

}alm. st any circumstances to offer him one ‘as aman can become such, in that part of men but wished him killed ofi-band, or boped

‘that at the earliest convevient opportucity (he might find his match,

ee and arrogant in the extreme. Few

field with this uncivilized fellow, bappesed,

i

Daniel Praser, Eaq., | neither by reputation nor in fact, to possess \the horrible accomplishments of the colonel, | bi | He was a quiet, unassuming citizen, with no | highly aggravated t ‘further title to the character of a duellist than | cional

0 4| He became in his neighborhood (and as far other against the light behind. —or thgt they;

should fight by the blaze of piich-pine

lacross a table.

} |

‘berween them, so that they could see each, a2 impossibility to bandie them without!

uching the wounds.

found to be still alive. He was taken dowr

The best.of it was, however, that the con-

| the world,) an object at ouce fearlul, detes-|splinter—or decide the question at once queror of this fearful white savage wes! o; whistling. ‘I supposed not!’ D |

‘1 don’t know, papa!’ ‘You don’t, eh ?’ said the doctor, quietly pursing up his mouth into a shape suggestive

i j

‘| And the doctor proceeded through the

In the midst of all this uproar, the young Stairs instantly , stimulants were given and | fal! into his little office, where sat bis hope- ‘man challenged was questioued by several he bezan to revive. His body was then con-| fyl young student; Harton Browne, deep in