1823. snnnni EAEMEM” JCUMIAL, AME 6./‘ilblfilmmllddi Alwlbflhhlibhh. , ; Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Wednesday, March 2, 1853. New Series. No. 12. 8essiard’s Gale - ' _ 63039: 1'. iuszian. ProF'l_0ter and Publisher- ii. ii. IRVING. rains. , Published es; Wednesday and Sun-rd-y -or--ism ’l‘e'sns—A.nuiml Subs: ptiolia 150- Dl'°°'"" 5" “'5 inadvnecs. ‘ , an Ii , ...,i...i..¢- P°‘“u::.:"ei;..:°a:'di‘:euL;i°..—isii:-I. . 4.. . ' mil 'Uric1.r -rou’s CABIN. (Chop. ix. concluded.) Mrs. Bird and her husband re-entered _thc parlour. She sat down in her little rockmg- chair before the are, swaying thou tfully to and fro. Mr. Bird strode up and own the room, grumblin to himself. “ Plsh! plhaw ! confounded a ward business!" At snggli striding up to his wife, he said,- “ I as , she’ have to get away from here this vs ni ht. That ibllow will be down on the scent rig t and early to-morrow mor- ning. If ‘twee only the woman, she could lie quite till it was over; but that little chap can't be kept still by a troop of horse and foot, I'_ll warrant ins ; he’ll brin it all out, popping his head out of some win ow or door. pretty kettle of fish it would be for me, too, to be caught with them both here 'ust now ! No ; they'll have to be get of to-ni t." “ To-ui ht! How is it possi lel Where to?_” “ Well, know pretty well where to," said the senator, beginning to put on his boots, with a reflective air; and, etc ing when his leg was half in, he embraced his ee with both hands, and seemed to go of in deep meditation. “ It‘s a confounded awkward, ugly busines,” said he at last, he 'nning to tug at his boot- straps again, “ so that's a fact.” boot was thirl on, the senator sat with ' nd, profoundly studyien . “ It'll have to c, it all I" And he drew the other boot anxious y on, and looked out of the window. Now, little Mrs. Bird was a discreet woman omen who never in her life said, “ I told you so!" and, on the resent occasion, thou h pretty well aware of shape her husban s meditations were tekin , she very prudently forehorc to meddle wi them, only mt very quietly in her chair, and looked quite ready to hear her liege lord's intentions, when he should think ropcr to utter m. _ “ on see,” he said, “ there's I? old client, Van Trouipe, has come over from entucky,and setall his vss free;and hehas bou - place seven miles up the creek, here back in the woods, where nobody goes, uulem they on rpose ; and it's a place that isn't foun in a hhrry. ‘T'lihereths_ho'd be fie enoln but the e o e i is, no cou no a car- riptguthere to-uinht but “ Why not? djce is an excellent driver.” “ y, ey, but here it is. The cree has not been crossed twice ; end the second crossing is ' rons, unless one knows itasl do. have crossed it a hundred times on horseback, the the n (6 I and know exactly the turns to take. And so, you see, there's no help for it. Cufii: must put in the horses, as quiet] as may , about twelve o'clock, end l’ll tn.ke er over; end then, to give colour to the matter, he must carry me on to the next tavern, to take the stage for Co- lum t comes by about three or four, end so it will look, as if I had the carriage only for that. I shell put into business bright end earl in the mornin . But I'm thinkin , I shall fee rather chcs ere, after all that's u said end done‘; but, u it! I can't help it.” ‘I heart better then your head, in this case, John," aid the wife, laying her little white heed in his. " Could I ever have loved you, had I not known youbctter than u know y<-i:'rself!" dsonie, with the tears sparkl' in her eyes, tint the senator thought he must, a decidedly clever fellow to get such aflppletty creature into such a m admire 0 him; and so what ainldhe do, but welk olsoberly to see about the on At the does, however, he etc a moment, and than, coming back, he sai , with some 'tetion—- " , I don't know how you'd feel ahout—- there‘s t drawer full of things—of—of—_poor 's.’' So In ii , he turned quickly , end shut e oor after . openingofwhiohhesbenb lik is ingofsllttls vei Ahl h.,;y pzflgeg mi youare ifit notbesnsol O Ihd ttern, fiat: ; even a pair 0 e shoes, worn and ru at the toes. were peeping from the Ioldsofa‘p- There was a toy horse end weggon, a top, , ' bored with many a tear in: iaenye heart-brcali! She sat down by the om"i£“' .h;n roimi‘:pu;ii_ her hailed." liihfi‘ "ii .°.'.'mm"" i...i.T‘Ji"" tll ‘tip: th:h ‘-IIIOOG substantial erticl::: to a bundle. b “fisinme." mid one of the boys. gmtly hepnarm. “are you going to give away ‘C? s"* “lint “disk: '. d , heaven, be irthim IcosldeotiladiAlsn:|:e.:tio “vi 1 O wax?! L the heart-broken end sorrowful then 1 am ; and I hope God will send Ills blessing with them!” here are in this world blessed souls whose sorrows all s u up into earthly he s, laid in the tears, are e seed from whic _ flowers and helm for the desolate an distress- Among such was the delicate women who ' slow tears, while she prepares the memoriafs of her own lost one for the outcast wanderer. After a while Mrs. Bird opened a wardrobe, end, taking from thencea plain, serviceable dress or two, she sat down busily to her work- table, and, with needle, scissors, end thimble at process which her husband had recommended, end continued busily at it, till the old clock in the corner struck twelve, end she heard the low rattling of wheels at the door. . _ “ Mary," said her husband, coming in, with his overcoat in his hand, “you must wake her up now : we must be of.” I _ Mrs. Bird hastily deposited the various arti- cles she had collected in a small plain trunk,and looking it, desired her husband to see it in the carriage, and then cesded to ithe woman. Soon arrayed in e c oak, bonnet, and shawl that had belonged to her boncfactress, she appeared at the door with her child in her arms. Mr. Bird hurried her into the carriage, and Mrs. Bird pressed on after her to the carriage steps. Elisa loaned out of the carriage, and put out her hand, a hand as soil: and beautiful as was 'ven in return. She fixed hor large dark eyes, ll of earnest meaniri , on Mrs. Bird's face ,and seemed going to speak. Her lips moved, she tried once or twice, but there was no sound, an pointing upward, with a look never to be for- mten, she fell back in the seat, and covered face. The door was shut, and the carriage rovs on. What a situation now, for a triotic sena- tor, that had been all the week fore spurring up the legislature of his native State to pass more stringent resolutions agiinst escaping fu- gitives, their harbourers and abettors! r senator in his native State had not been exceeded by an of his brethren at Wash- ington in the sort 0 eloquence which has won for them immortal renown! How sublimely he had set with his hands in his pockets, and soon all sentimental weakness of those who would put the. welfare of a few miserable fugi- tives before tstete interests! He wasas d as a lion about it, and “might- ily convinced " not on] himself, but everybody tht heard him ; but on his idea of a fu itive was orgy an idea of the letters that spe the word ; Or, at the most, the ime of a little newsdpaperflpicture of a man wit a stick and bun e, wi “ Ran away from the subscriber ” under it. 'I.'he magic of the real presence of distress, the implorin human eye, the frail, trembling human hen , the despairing a peal of helpless agony, these he had never tried? He had never thought, that a fugitive mi ht be a hapless mother, a defenceless child, l e that one which was now wearing his lost boy's littb well-known cap : and so, as our poor senator was not stone or steel, as he was a men, and a down- right noble-hearted one, too, he was, as every- body must see, in a sad case for his triotism. An you need not sxult over him, brother of the Southern States, for we have some inklings that many of you, under similar circumshnoes, wou not do much better. We have reason to know, in Kentucky, as in Mississippi, are noble and generous hearts, to whom never was tale of sulering told in vain. , rother! is it fair for you to expectof us services, which ur own brave, honourable heart would not a low you to render were you in our place? Be that as it may, if our good senator was a political sinner, he was in a fair wa to explore it by his night's penance. There (I been a long continuous rlod of rainy weather, and the soft, rich ea of Ohio, as every one knows, is admirably suited to the menuihcture of mud, and the road was an Ohio railroad of the good old times. “ And prey what sort ofa road may thatbe?” says some eastern traveller, who has been so- customed to connect no ideas with a railroad, but those of smoothness or s . Know, then, innocent eastern friend, that in be ' hted ' the west, where the mod is e unfathomable and sublime depth, roads are made of round rough logs, arranged trans- versely side by side, and coated over in their pristine freshness with earth, turf, and what- soever me come to hand, and then the rejoicing native cal th it a road, and straightway essa - _eth to ride thsreu n. In process of time, tge reins wash of all e turf and pass aforesaid, move the logs hither and thither, in picturesque positions, up, down, and crosswise, with divers shame and ruts of black mud intervening. Over such a road as this our senator went stumbling along, making moral redections as continuously as under the circumstances could be ex , the carriage proceeding along much esfo ws: bum lbumplbuinpl slush. down in the mud i-- e snator, woman, and child, reversing Iieir positions co suddenly as to couie, without any secure stmueut, against the windows of the down-hll side. Carriage sticks lhst, while (ladies on the on tside is heard making a gt muster among the horses. Aflar various ine tual pullin and twitching. just as the senator is al tisncs, the in suddenly rightsi wit a bounce, two front Ina horses, who are kickin Ind floll sail straining under repeated cracks of the- , . Qrrla s u with suotlier ‘ b—‘ nd both h f t ghlch flies?! tlbmd"cng.n.d. her child, and they brace themselves firmly for what is t to coiue. For a while only the continuous bum ! bump! intermingled, jus by way of variety, w th divers side-plun s and compoun shakes; and they be ' to fitter themselves that they are not so I after all. At last, witha square plunge, whic puts all on to.their feet on down into their seats with incredible quickness, the carria stops, and, after much outside commo- tion, udjoe appears at the door. _ “ Please, sir, it's powerful bad spot this yer. I don't know how we’s to get clar out. I'm a thiukiu’ we'll have to be a gettin’ rails." _ _ The senator despairingly steps out, picking 'ngerly for some firm foothold. Down goes one got an immeasurable do th, he tries to pull it up, loses his balance, and) tumbles over into the mud, and is fished out in a very despairing con- dition by Cudjoe. But we forbear, out of s pathy to our road- er’s bones. Western trnve re, who have beguil- ed the midnight hour in the interesting process of pulling down rail fences to pry their carriages out of mud holes, will have a respectful and mournful sympathy with our unfortunate hero. We beg them to drop a silent tear and pess_cu. It was full late in the night when the carria emerged, dri ping and bespattered, out of e creek, and s at the door of a large farm- house. It took no inconsiderable erserversnce to arouse the inmates ; but at last t e respectable proprietor appeared, and undid the door. He was a great, tell, bristlin 0rsou.of a fellow, full six feet and some inc es in his stockings, and arrayed in a red ilanncl hun_ting-shii_-t. A ' very heavy mat of sandy hair, in a decidedly tousled condition, and a beard of some days’ growth, vs the worthy men an appearance, to say the goat, not particularl prepossessin . He stood for a few minutes he ding the can 0 aloft, and blinkin on our travellers with a dis- ‘ expression that was ludicrous. It cost some edort of our senator to induce him to comprehend the case full ;and while he is c oing his best at that, we give him a little nntroduction to our readers. _ Honest Old John Van mpe was once quite a considerable landholder and slave-ow_ner in the State 0 ' Kentucky. Having “ nothing_ of the hear about him but the skin," pod being gifted by nature with a great, honest, yust heart, uite equal to his gigantic frame, he had been or some years witnessing with repressed uneasi- ness the workings of a s stem equally bad for o ressor and opp . At last, one day Jg ’s greet heart had swelled altogether too big to wear his bonds any longer; so he just took his ket-book out of his desk, and went over into mo, and bought a quarterof a town- ship of , rich land, made out free papers ibr all is people. men, women, and chi dren, packed them up in wagons, and sent them off to settle down; and then honest John turned his ?|l‘ll0kly down on a ‘s conscience and '4 face up thecreek, and sat snug, retired farm, to enjoy his reflections. “Are you the man that will shelter a‘poor woman and child from slave-catchers l” sai the senstorex icitly. “ I rather think I am,” said honest John, with some considerable emphasis. “ I thought so," sa d the senator. “ If there's anyboc comes," said the good nian,stretchin his tal , muscular form u ward, “why, here m reaty for liim;snd Ive Q: seven sons, each six loot high, and they'll ready for ‘em. Give our respectsto ’em,” said John; “ tell ‘em it’s no matter how soon the call, make no kinder difierence to us," sai John, running his lingers throu h the shock of hair that thatched his head, an bursting out into a great laugh. Weary, jaded, and spiritless, Elise dragged herself up to the door, with her child lying, in a heavy sleep, on her arm. be h men held the candle to her face, nnd, uttering a kind of corn iohets grunt, opened the door of a small bedroom adjoining to the large kitchen where they were standing, and motioned her to go in. He took down a candle, and, lighting it, set it u _n the table, and then addressed himself to its. “ Now, I say, gal. you needn’t be a bit nfeerd, is: who is‘ come be I’m up in all that sort o‘ thing.” said he. pointing to two or three goodly rifles over the mentelpisee : " and most people that know me know that ’iweu|dn’t be. healthy to try to get anybody out o’ my house when I'm sgin ' . So now you jist go to sleep now, as quiet as if yer mother was a rookie’ ye, ' said he, as he shot the door. " Why, this is an uncommon handsome on,” he said to the senator.’ " Ah well; handsome uns hes the greatest cause to run sometimes, if they has so kind 0’ feeling, suchas decent women shoul . Iknow all about that.” The senator, is a few words, briefly explained Eliss’s history. “ Oi osi swl new. Iwent to know i” said the good men, piiifhlly; " she! now, she! 'l‘list's netsr' now, poor crittur! hunted down, now. like deer-—hu own jesi for hevin' nstursl fes|ln’e, and doin‘ what so kind o’ mother could hel e doin’! 1 tell ye what, these yer things me e meooine the uighesi to sweeriu‘, now,o' most snythis ," said honest .lulin,ss be wiped his e U wit the back of s great, freokled, yel- low and. ‘'1 tell ye wbsi, stranger, it was years and years before l’d jlus the cherub. ’esuse the niiifnters round in our parts used to preach that the Bible west in for these ‘are cuttings up: and I souldn’t be up to ‘em with their Greek and Ileepw, and as I leek up egin ‘sin Bible and all. I never jised the church iill I losnd e minister at was u to ‘sin sll in Greek and an that, and be said rig the contrary; and than I took right held, and lead the chureli—l did now,fect," said John. w lied been all this time iiuesrking some ' very frisky bottled cider, which stihie juncture presented. e “ Ys'd better jest ut up here, now, till de - light," said he. hmnily, " and I'll call up the o w_ems’e, and have a bed got ready for you in no ime. ’ " Thank yeu,ny good friend,” said the senator, "c.I|nisst I: along, to take the night stage for sites. hashes , "Ab,esI.ttss,lfyes nsst,l'll gesplses with you, and show you across road that will take you there better than the read you came on. Thet rced‘s mighty had." _ John equipped himself, and, with s lantern in band, was soon seen guiding the senator’: oer- risge towards a road that ran down in s hollow. back of his dwelling. When they psrted, the senator put into his hand a ten-dollar bill. “ it's for her," he said briefly. _ ' “ Ay, ey," said John, with equal ceusiseuses. They shook hands and parted. House of Assembly, Feb. 16, 1858. HIS Excellency the Lieutenant Governor having, by Message, transmitted to th House a Copy ofe Memorial of certain landed Proprietors and [and Agents in Prince Edward Island to Her Majesty's Princi al Secretary of State for the Colonies, y raying t t Her Majesty may be advised to disa low the Act for the en- couragement of Education, and the Act relating to the recovery of Small Debts, both passed by the Legislature of this Colony, last Session, and the same having been read, it was Ordered, That the said Memorial be published once in each of the Newspapers printed in Charlottetown. JOHN M‘NEILL, C.H.A. To -run Rrcirr Hon. Jcux PAKINGTON. The Humble Memorial of the undersigned re- sident Proprietors and Agents of absent Pro- prietors of Iand, in Prince Edward Island, Sheweth, That the Local Ls slature, during the last Session, passed a Bi for the purpose of esta- blishin a system of Free Fducation throughout the Co ony, whereby it is intended to im an additional tax of four shillings and two pence per hundred acres annually on all Town- ship lands in this Island, whether the same be “ wilderness or cultivated, improved or unim- proved," and the Bill provides, that payment thereof shall be enforced under the provisions of the Colonial Statute, of the 11th Vic. cap. 7, by which Statute Wilderness land is already essc at the annual rate of live shillin per hundred acres, and cultivated or improve land at half that amount; so that, if e Education Bill goes into 0 ration, the tax on wilderness and un roductive property will be increased to 9s. 2d. or every hundred acres, and on impro- ved land to 6s. and 8d. for every like quantity. That the first Innd Asse out which came into operation in 1832 was equal on all lands, bein two shillings on every hundred acres; but in 1 7 a Bill was carried, which was limited to ten years duration, whereby the tax on wilder- ness land was doubled, and that on improved land sufiired to continue as fixed by the - vious Bill; and they so remained until 1&8, when the existing Land Asseument Act came into operation, which is stated in the title to have been ssed “ for the encouragement of Education.’ That by a reference to the several Acts re- ferred to, as well as by the correspondence of diflerent Secretaries of State on the subject, it ap rs that these taxes were imposed “ in lieu 0 wit Rents,” the claim to which the Crown was pleased to forego, during the continuace of ts, each of which contains a clause to that shot; but the tax has been of late years so gradually augmented, as now to form a very dis roportionate substitute for the claim relin- quished by the Crown, to give place to what seemed a milder measure than that of enforcing payment of the Quit Rents—for b the Procla- mation of Lieutenant Governor ith, dated 28th Jul , 1818, it is announced that His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been bountifull and graciously pleased to alter the rate of uit Rent heretofore payable by the Landed Proprietors of this Island, to two shil- lin per hundred acres, as relates to Townships an parts of Townshi .” That b the orighinllzvlrants and Mandamussos under w ich the ands are held, there is upon each of the 67 Townships into which the Island is divided, a reservation of 130 acres for Globe and School lands, which said reservations in the year 1835, were sold under an Act of the Local Le 'slature and the interest of ten-thir- teenths 0 the whole fund arising from such sales, is now applied oxclusivel to the purposes of Education, in connexion wi the Established Church of En nd. That admittin such a system as is contain- pelatod by the ucation Bill, be desired in certain Districts of the Island, yet that such a desire is not general, would appear b various titions being sented, as well against as in vour of the i 1, during its progress through the Legislature; and your Memorialists deciu that it would be more in accordance with the principles of liiir mxation, ifin Districts where the In sbitants are dis sed to try the working of a new system, they s ould be empowe assess themselves for that put so; and that the chief burden incurred by the measure should not beer 0 ressively on.any particular class of indivdua who cannot derive any direct ad- vents fiom its operaticu—-end that upon no plea uld the fee simple of landed pro rty be made liable for the payment of a tax, mposed for the immediate and exclusive benefit of the actual occn nts holding such lands under leases, nsus yet the very moderate rent of from one to two sh Ilings an acre in most cases, do- rinlguterms varying from 100 to 999 years. t with not more than one exception, all the Townships in the Island are settled in a plpzportion to the number of acres than the condition of the original the last Census, and statistical 1848, the whole Colony would appear _fisn to have eolibined 62,700 inlmln'- tants, being at rate of one race: for every I ¢ returns. ‘Bic Island is thus pla‘c’od in a much more edvaiihgeous light as mrds cultivation bm, than enynp OfB‘0l::dlll:ll:lfll|8 ; r one u ‘ u re- uuetdidreie gm 22 acres. csthnalng the super-llcial extent of the Island 1,368,000 acres, e which 215,898 are i sad tuiynoductivs, 1 son‘ lso tel and dimdvnntsgeousl 't - died, thh°tl::i)nsidereble number 0 ysarsyiiilulslt elapse before their settlemait can be eficted by 0 mar course of colonisataonund your Memorialists beg leave to observe, mat the ob- mfiou vanced by the lhrl of Derby, then . Secretary Smnley, to the pro ition of the Assembly, relative a on apply with equal, if not still _ t_e present state ofthe Colony; conidsirin the indeed, settlers cfan _ No. 7 to Sir A. . Young, Wmug Street, 28th May, 1834, the Bightflon. Elecretar is pleased to say, “ Independently of the diflcu - ties and expense of collection, avewsd inten- tion and ex cted elect is to bring large masses of land un er escheat for non~ yment: but although provision is made for so ling so much of the land as may be u _ to cover the assessment, the afiect of pouring so large a pa - tion of land into a market already overstoc ed, may be so far to reduce the price as to render it impossible to find urohasers willing to take it Etc any price, subyect to the amount of duty, &c.’ I t Assess- That in many instances, the greatl deteriorated in value, are at length forced into tlie market in consequence of an op ssive and unéqual burdcn. For in the men nuar last, no less than 66,528 acres of Town- ' ropert were proclaimed bythcTrusurer as iable to sold for non-payment of the tax for the past year; and with those before you, your Memorialists beg leave to II! regs upon your consideration that die real as pri- mur object of the land Assessment, as stated in tge despatch already referred to, is to force land into the market, and thereby create a vir- tual confiscation of property. That the qualification for a Member of the General Asseinbl of Prince Edward Ishnd is freclioid or leasehold plfipfllty to the v_alI1_0 of £34 Sterling; and your emorielits desire it to be clearly understood, that the value implied. does not refer to the annual rental (whether real or estimated), derivable from such reper- ty ; but by the Colonial Statute of 11th ictcria, cap. 21, the seisen of a freehold or leasehold estate, within this Island, of the value of £50, that is, currency, which at the present rate of Excha as by law eetalbished, is something under 34 Sterling, forms the sole legal quali- fication for members entrusted legislate for this Colon . But your Memor sh rely much ence on the detsrniiutton so deci- dedly manifested by the Home Government, a_nd re tedly guaranteed by successive Secremries oflghhte, not to tolerate or sanction an asset- ment of the Local Legislature which she trench on the sacred rights of property. And your Memorialists beg res ctfuily to call our atten- tion to Farl Grey's espatch, No. , to&r A. Bannerman, dated Downin street, 1 Feb- ruary, l85l, wherein His rdship is pleased to say, “ Prince Edward Island, possessed as it is of great natural advantages, which are be- coming better known in this country than for- merly, is likely at no distant time to attract both emigrants and capital, if the policy “capt- ed by the Legislature is not we as to is- courage them. But nothin would tend more to this unfortunate result n the sense of in- security which must infallibly be created by any attempt of the Legislature to pass laws bearing unjustly on the owners of landed. Pro- perty ;even if the attempt were frustrated by the refusal of Her Majesty's allowance of it, which it would be the duty of the Government to advise Her to withold in such a case." , hat the increased tax contemplated by the Education Bill would “ bear unjustly on the owners of landed property," must also appear from the consideration, that an unequal tax on wilderness or un roducfive land does not exist in an of the neighbouring Provinces, nor, as our emorialists believe, any other part of or Ma,iesty’s dcminions. t in all countries there are large trac which can never be brought into cultintion, an it was not many yearsago asserted , upon good authcri , thatGreat Brihin alone contains upwards o twenty millions of acres, which were not cultiva , upw of nine millions of which were esteemed capable of im rovement; and yet, no person ever pro se to ny a direct tax on land of this description in Great Britian, although much of it might be made of infinitely more value, than the best land in Prince Edward Islan . That the Local Legislature have also passed “An Act relating to the recoveix of Small Debts," repealing various former cts hereto- fore in operation, and extending the 'urisdiction of the courts to gums not exceed ng tweiity pounds. That the restrictions under which rent me be _sued for by the said Act are so vari eflect to the exclusion of your Memorielists from the said Courts, in most cases where rent rni ht be recovered, as will appear by the following extract from the eighth section of the Act :- “ That no action or suit, except the seine oom- mcnces by cspias as hereinafter mentioned, for any sum for rent due upon any lease or demise, or agreement for a lease or demise of any lands, houses, tenements, hereditaments in this Island, whereof the area shall exceed one acre of d, whether in writing or by parol, or for rent e as between landlord en Quest, in respect to the occupation of any such lands,'houses, tene- ments or herediteruents, shall be commenced in any Court to be constituted under this Act, un. less the sum or amount demanded cannot in any way be made the subyect of distress, or is reco- verable thereby, or unless at the time of the commencement of such action, or at aqua E3 within seven days previous din-sec, mg. 11 not be or have ii upon‘ the egg, in respect of which the rent or sum s o haseecvued due, ‘suflclent dieaesuo veil the rent or sum so elahd ti-iflaw, be [aimed in ‘is fit cw" the nor unlss, me out ii of Jay