AND SEMI-W THis IS PRUE LIBERTY WHEN FREE-BORN MEN—HAVING TO ae eee -———<—~— --- — - New Series- de oe inti mene pee eee LA bt he — og eo paid POATRY. cree AOA ep — TO MR. AND MRS. Dy, yey, LITTLE RIVER. Life is a varied scene, we know : The sunshine and the cloud of woe Succeed in fitful turn: Young Joy smiles sweetly ona while ; But, ag it glows, that infant smile Is sear’d by cares that burn. So Fate erdain’d, or Nature’s God, Who robes the wilds and decks the sod, And form’d the mighty plan Of earth, and air, and sea, and all That fills this fair terrestrial ball, Up to immortal man. All, all who tread this toilsome earth Have found, from date of Reason’s birth, This truth upen my pen: The fatal cause has follow’d on, As wave succeeding wave, upon The doomed sons of men. But the Uaseen, with potent charm, Still buoys us up amid the storm Of Evils peiting drear ; And Friendship cheers on hallow’d ground, And gentle Love outshines around, And foils the fang of care. So, a3 my steps did varied go To fair-vorn weal or sullen wee, As Destiny might tend, Along the way { gathered flowers W hose sweetness banish’d weary hours, And always had a friend. When rangieg D,,,,,.i’s wilds away, All o'er the blooming fields to stray, I was full free to roam, And in your homestead, on the lea, Great fount of hospitality, { found a perfect home. That home—these souls of generous deeds Deserve a higher muse and meed, W ith venius’ gift imbued, To lyre their praise in as pure stream As ever swelled the human vein, And told of gratitude. {n honest phrase, sti! far or near Accept, through vital life’s career, These fervent words and true: Inever met with friends more kind Of warmer hearts, more single minds, Than Lhave found in you. Around your hearth may joy preside, The frown of chilling care to chide, And plenty be your store: May sovereign peace which virtues give, Unblemished in your bosoms live! I scarce can wish you more. And now, awhile I pledge good bye :— Again, wits glowing heart and eye, In feelings fond array, ot + rs ' : We'll meet, delighting to impart The social beauties of the heart, Some early, happy day. WERAND. a Charlottetown, 17th July, 1850. ey ? ¥ We G> 3 aed FN Oe en BELECT TAR. From Blackwood’s Magazine for February, 1950. The Si f Dunber he Strat: e Siege of Dundes; or, the stratagems of War. (Continued.)} 9 “So, by St. George! I am here in a pleasant case! exclaimed the astonished and indignant governor; “stripped of my garrison, ‘et the very moment I want themmmost! Left with my cook and my butler to de- ‘end hie Majesty’s castle, be like a drivping-pan and ladle.mgainst twenty miles of a country Swarming with revels !—denrived of my command when another hour would awake me master of the two first fortresses in uPix' Js iz not to be endured: i will bring Lord Or- ncn tinct seen cpa ay tanita ~ awed —— -- a ee ~ ———— CHARLOTTETOWN, JULY 20, 1850. at a in ~ a EEK ~~ Che Examiner. mond to an account for this injurious conduct—L_ will, by heaven!—and you, sir, whom he takes it upen him to commend to me,” turning angrily to the new-comer, “ what counsel aave you for me? What do you pro- pose to do, tosave his Majesty’s castle from the dangers thet you see surround it on every side ?” “Tet me counsel you to keep your temper, Sir Simon,” said Lady Brabazon’s voice from the window above. “ Madam, mind. your own affairs,” replied the angry governor, and gruffly shifted his position. “ Any poor assistance [ can render, Sir Simon Bra- bazon, is heartily at your service,” said the bearer of the despatches, not seeming to notice this disagreeable interlude; “and if a sentry or two more than are usua!- lyon guard in Dunbeg be.any object, I shall not boggle at stretching my authority a little in leaving them behind.” “Sir, you speak reasonably and tothe purpose, and I will be happy to make your acquaintance; but you will acknowledye, sir, that it is an unexampled hardship for a governor of one of his Majesty’s castles to be left, as 1 said before, to defend his garrison with no better garrison.than a corps of cooks and kitchen wenches ; and if my Lord of Ormond deprive me thus of my forces, how, I pray you, am 4 to execute the commands of the Lords of the Council? Think you, Sir,” (hand- ing him the open lJetter,) * that I can both defend Dun- beg and take Dunmore at the point of the dripping- an 2” “ Take Dunmore, Sir Simon !” repeated the stranger in a tone of surprise; “I thought Dunmore was also a royal garrison.” ‘‘ Neither roya} nor Joyal, sir, l can assure you ; and if you would assure yourself, read that letter of the Lords Justices,” “Why, how is this!” exclaimed the stranger as he ran his eye along the paper; “ here is some mistake, Sir Simeon. [lieve reason to know—that is, I have heard and believe—that Sir Theobald Verdon is in arms for the King. ‘You have been misinformed, then, sir, I can avouch it to yon. His conduct has for a length of time been very suspicions: the motions of his garrison throuchout the last week, in particular, have been alarming to well-di-posed persons. Look. yonder, sir: you can see, even al ‘his early hour, a party of his savage reparees reinrning, doubtless, from some marauding excursion against the peaceful subjects of the country. How am I to deal with these pestilent neighbours, [ pray you. if I be left without. means offensive or defensive ? Why, sie, for aught ! know, this Teague of a warden may take it into his cracked pate to march his savage crew against Dunbeg itself, before sunset!” “Tush, Sir Simon! Captain Dempsey is better in- structed: if jour only apprehensions be, from that quarter, I can guarantee you a sound sleep to-night.” « But, sir, T will not sleep upon any man’s guarantee, See you what a stir there is in the nest of hornets! I tel; yon, sir, Were it not that a good half-mile of the bog of Tullymore lies between me and those heavy sakers that you see bristling on the rascal’s rampart, I would rather give you the right hand off my body than a single man out of my garrison.” ‘¢ You may be easy on that score also, Sir Simon: you know the. bog is totally impassable for cannon, as the woods for this season are, for either man or horse.” * Are you from this part of the country. sir?” de- manded Sir Simon, looking at the stranger sharply. “From within a mile of Maryborough,” was the reply. in « careless tone. “You know the country well, sir,” persisted the governor, “1 have often hunted through it with old Sir Hugh Verdon, when he kept house in Dunmore.” ‘You might have hunted in better company, sir,” gruffly replied the governor; half soliloquising, “he was iny bitter enemy.” ‘You do him wrong, Sir Simon; on my honour, yon do!”. exclaimed the stranger, with greater animetion than he had yet exhibited. “I have often heard him savy—” “ No matter whet. you have heard him savy, sir,” in- terrupted Sir Simon, as he twitched himself round, to cast another suspicious glance on the walls of Dun- more, “Look yonder, eir, and tell me what you think of that.” “ The knaves do seem to be gent on some mischief,” said the stranger, thoughtfully, as he surveyed the opposite fortress, for some* minutes in silence. At length he took gown his hand. with which he had shad- ed the rising sunlight from his eyes, and said, “it is | secearenmmmastensecertaassts sty ttt ADVISE THE PUBLIC—MAY SPEAK FREK’—Muttox’s Evripipss,- LY INTELLIGENCER. gape g=> <epengipaine i> Vol. 1: No, 49 ee a ~~ ~y pt a nnn oe only the morning parade ; you need be under no appre- hension from your neighbours of Dunmore to-day ; their warden is absent.” “How do you know that?” sharply demanded th governor. “Captain Dempsey never'permits the parade on the esplanade before his windows,” * You seem well acquainted with their discipline, sir,” said Sir Simon, agaih eyeing the stranger with considerable earnestness. “1 recollect the routine of garrison in old Sir Hugh’s time,” replied the stranger, apparently unconscious of the pointed manner of the governor. “We have no time to lose, however, Sir Simon,” he added: “we should have been upon our march ere now. I[ see’ you mount one sentry on your drawbridge, and another on the turret, with two on guard in the barbican, which makes on duty four in all. I shal! leave you half-a« dozen men, which will, [ think, be a sufficient force for the security of the place, till the return of your garrison, as that will certainly be before sunset to-morrow. Should you think it necessary to make the usual show of a force within your walls, 1 will be glad to instruct your people how to turn their resources to the best ad- vantage.” “ How do you mean, Sir? What more'can we do, if we be attacked, than stand at our posis, till we are shot or cut down ?” “To tell you the truth, Sir Simon, from what you mention to me,'and from the aspect of things in this neighbouring fortress, [ think it would be advisable to hang apa few red jackets here and there about your embrasures: a dozen of military caps set upon poles behind the parapet, and shifted occasionally along the platform, would at all events do no harm, and might perhaps deter ill disposed persons from looking too lightly on your defences. If you wil! instruct your storekeeper to show me your stock of military clothing and accoutrements, while the men prepare for their march, I doubt not but I could give some of the kitchen wenches you mention, and hour or two’s profitable em- ployment in putting together a tolerable corps of steady men for your battlements, fellows who fall, but who will never run away.” ‘“ Ha, ha, ha!—ho, ho, ho!” cried Sir Simon—* ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!—Send Lady Brabazon here-—send here Miss Lucy Brabazon, and all her maids, with all their needles and thimbles. Lady Brabazon! here is valieny gentleman who is going to run away with yout garrison, but before he leaves you to the tender mercies of Master Teague, who I think is about to pay you a visit, he will teach you the secret of manufacturing as pretty a family of tall fellows for his Majesty’s service, as the heart of a loyal lady could desire! ha, ha, ha! Come on, ye hussies; follow him to the storehouse, ye jades, and let me find that you profit by his instructions, while I seé¢ to the’ proper equipment of these poor fellows of my own, for their approaching journey.” And he left the stranger surrounded by a group of wondering and tittering females. The stranger, with a better grace than might have been expected, followed his conductresses to the depo- sitory of the military stores, and gravely selected the necessary uniforms, and pointed out the method of stuffing them so as to resemble human figures. - ‘The merriment of the assistants very soon subsided, when they became more fully aware of the purpose to which these )ndicrous images were to be turned; and when Lady Brabezon entered, and, in an alarmed voice, asked ifshe and her companions were to be left “to the pretection of men of straw,” a clamorous burst, not of jaughter, but of expostulation, rose from all present. (To be Continued.) ~ The man with the wheelbarrow, who is emigrating aji alone overland to California, appears to be. getting along finely. A letier from fort Laramie, says :—‘*,The most distineviched character who has yet made his ap- pearence in these parts this Spring is the “ wheelbarrow man,” who dropped in uponus yesterday, He left St. Joseph abontt» enty-five days ago, carrying his all ina light wheelbarrow, and outstripped aknost everything ontheroad. We appeared in high spirits, and felt con- fident that he would be the first man in the “ diggings” by this route. He inquired how the grass was ahead, but reckoned his animals would’nt want much, and th@n pushed on the tune of Yankee Doodle towards the set- ting sun. Sucha man must succeed.” A Boston barber advertises to shave anything—even the “face of nature.” Ar rem me aa PRE hes a nee owns ee = eon UO IT a ee AT sian oie! 7 ~ SS . dee: rs os ey ny SK SEES me Sine Sat toa.