me ama Be ee eee JOURNAL OF POLI LT = 10S, A A LITER TURE “This is true Liberty, when Freeborn Men, having to advise the Public, imay Speak free.”’--- Euripides. Yea 2 oer } e NEW GOODS. X Prioress from LIVERKPOOL and other recent arrivals, the Subscriber begs to j} announce the urrival of a lPablic TIuands. Townships Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, i, Further Supply of New Goods, | suitable for the season, in STL KS, DRESS 14, 15, 20. 21 and 27. GOODS, FLOWERs, + Notice to the Tenants on the above ©A!S. Kc. Ke. named Townships. and all persons de- ijrous of purehasing Wilderuess Land thereon. HE COMMISSIONER of PUBLIC Duck suitable for Bout Sails, Sail Twine, Bolt Rope, Piteh, Tar, Oakam, Clinch Kings, &e. &e Rooting Felt and Pitch, H. HASZARD. Charlottetown Sept. Mth, 1266 is LANDS having, ander the authority of the oe _— rg ——. t (0th Vie., cup. 18%, comy leted the pare hase of Q & . : state lute the property ef the Measrs New Store, Upper ueenstreet. t ip. ae Hetified in the “Reval Gazette, oat ia date Pith July. i866, hereby notifies all | STOVES : Tenants aad cccupters of Land on the above nanied Townships, that, tw accordance with the 10th ne tics af he enid Act, be is now prepared to receive PPXHE Subscriber has received, per late arrivals, a large and varied assortment of Varmouth Stoves, the dep wit of the purchase money of their several hoidings, upes producrng thea leases or agreements ‘or the sume, wud that WR WILT ATTeNO wt the fullow iow pieces, on the days hereiuatter stated, for the receipt of such payments, and for the sule of Wil dertiess L wd : Queen Street, cheap for Cush or approved Paper. H. J. P. TERLIZZICK Charlottetewn, Oct 8. Is! 4m the 3th dav of October next, at 9 Union Hutel, Centreville, Om Teesday Mr Neoowwan's Natice to Debters. a. m&., fer the Venar.te ou Lot 27 Ly D> 2 . ° in Thareday, the Iat duy of November, at ‘a LL I ER3SONS indebted to the Su! m., at Mr. Henderson's cil seriber are ret nested to pity their Accounts in | a ia” ie Se dhe of Movember, aD a fuli by the first of NOVEMBER next. otherwise | mn Saturday, tie wore ¢ of 3 e rT, ’ , - ind and Tucaday. the Sth und tth | PTorcedings will be taken to recover the same ; ‘ anhel? iv ue . « nn ‘ . ; a 7 ’ . wp aie ng Halve agent without distinetion. The Subscriber trusts that dase of MeVettoer, d dulit re ste *, igminh, his lo<ses sustained by the wrest fire in July last, , for the ‘nantes on Lots | and 2. ° . Lot |, for the Tenan will make this notice more impressive Oa Tharslay, the Sth day of November, wt a H. J.P. TEMLIZZICK. m.; aed ot Friday waned Saturday, the th and Lith Ch'town. Get. & L866 isl 2m dave of November, at Mr. John C Keefe's, Com | — —— —— - ++ a nn werial Hotel, Alberton, Lot 4, for tue Tenants om Harte’s Saponifier, Leta 4and o. i On Ou Monday, the 12th dav of November. at la m.; avd on Tuesday, the och day of November.: a.m. at Mr. MeNaught's, Western road, Lot 6, for the Tenants ou Lots 6 and 8 Tiereday, the 15th day of November, at a @ end on Vriday. the Téth dav of November. at Mr. Aflen’*. Qaaygmire, Lot 16, for the Tenants le te4 und lo. Oo Moaday, the ISth dayef November. at 9 ar sadew Tuesiay the 20th day of November, at Mr. Carruthers’, Keusington, Lot 19, for the Tenants on LX 20 and North portion of Lot 21 And on Wedueaday. the 2ist duy of November, at I2a-m ; and ou Thursday the 22d day of November, | at 9 a.m .at Mr. R. Baygoalls. Princetown Koad, Lot 22, fur the Tenauts on the Seath portion of Let | 21 | Norice.—Teuants, oecapiers of lands, or person: claiming to bold land, must produce their a 3, 4 CONCENTRATED LYE, Warrinted to make Soap without Lime and with little or no trouble. Gn 9 at the Drug aud Dispensary Stere of Dr. G. W SUTHERLAND, Corner of Kent and Grea: George Street valuable requisite. Charlottetewn, Oct. 1, 1866. tf. Discounting Again! DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY Agreements, or Titles for the same. — JOHN ALDOUS, Commissioner ot oie, DELANY & BYRNE. Fire! Fire! Fire! Messrs McKINNON & FRASER’S Carriage FEactory., PRINCE STREET, RE-OPENED. f7ENHE $ Sabscribers. in announcing the re-opening of their Factory, destroved by . bid: fire in the early part of the Summer, avail thew Skeleton Skirts, selves of the oppertunity of returning thanks for the very liberai patronage extended to them in te Etc., Etc. Etc., pest, and to respectfully request 4 continaance t Ata Discount of Twenty per Cent, the acme for the future Their new factory being | FOR CA 3H ON] Y ‘ - 5 * 4 . so lurve and ao well fitted up us to be second none mm Prinee Edward Island, and, moreover, a| E want MONEY to pay our Bills. \ and. in order to obtain it, we will, from this date, offer our entire STOCK of DRY GOODS, HARDWARE, HATS AND CAPS. BOOTS AND SHOES, o} } | is wl a : : ' lorwe Stock of the very best Materiale ased in| Ve will ave 108 worth of Goods for 8s, their trade having been lately received by thei We will give 208 worth of Goods for 16s, — . : ‘ We will give 30s worth of Goods for 248 from the United States. their facilities for carrying on Business are greatly increased, aud they are wo prepared te supply Carriages. Sleighs. &c., in as good style as can be got up iu the City, and upon as reasonable terms Job Work of ail kinds in our line strictly at- teaded to. Painting also done in the best style. McKINNON & FRASER. te Larger Sums in Proportion. 43 This is a good Gpportanity for those who have money to invest it toad vantage. DELANY & BYKNE. QUEEN STREET. Oppesite Hon. Daniel Brenan’s. Ch’town, Augnat 6, 1866 JOHN BELL, M ANUFACTURER of Clothin in all its branches, thankful to his friends and patrons for t favors, begs leave to inform them and the public generally, that be is still to be found at his Old Stand on QUEEN STREET, and is prepared to make ap all kinds of garments, entrust- ed to him in the latest style aud improvement of asbion. Terms Cash, Fatrance at the Side Door, Queen Street, July 9, 1866. London & Lancashire Office, Caarctottetows, Oct. 4, 1866. S the “QUEEN” FIRE INSUR ae ANCE COMPANY have WITHDRAWN it« AGENCY from this Island, J-8 CARVELL. Ese its obliging Representative, has kindly furnished Notice to Debtors. ALL persous indetted to the foregoing Firm are earnestly requested to make immediate payment «of tacir respective Accounts The losses sustained by the buruing of their Premises demand that these oul-staudiug debts be paid ap at once. McKINNON & FRASER. } In NOTICE. HE undersigned having fitted up, since the fire, a STORE in Dono nesteR Steerer, in the building owned by J. D. MASON, Ess adjoining the Store of Messrs Davies & Week-~. hereby respecifally intorms his naumervus cus- tomers. in Town and Country, that from and after thie date the Lasiness will be carried on »4 here- U t Prince Street, bh town, Oct 7th, L866. + RIBBONS, HATS | Atsu, 10 Bales Canvass from No 1 to 8,10 Pieces | which will be seld at nis NEW STORE, Upper | large supply of the above valuable | article has been just received from the | | Manufactarer’s, at Montreal, and is now on Sale | Housekeepers will find it a most | = ) ISLAND. M( LITERATURE, AN APPLE GATHERING. HARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARI | Sale of Land | | In Charlottetown and Royalty, ON “TUESDAY, the Gth day of NOVEMBER [ plucked pink blossoms from mine apple tree, next, 1866. And wore them all that evening in my h-ic; \"PNHE folowing valuable PROPERTIES will be submitred for Sale at Public Arction. on the 6th day of NOVEMBER next. at ELEVEN o'clock in the ferenoon, at the Colonie] Building in Charlottetown, the following properties :— 1. The Northern Moieties of Town Lots Num- bers 43 and 44 in the Third Hundred of Town Lots jin Charlottetown, fronting 35 feet and 6 inches on | the west side of Hillsborough Street, andextending back at right angles westwardly therefrom 72 feet ; there the width increases to 42 feet, and the land } runs farther back westwardly with the latterdepth | for the distance of 100 feet, and adjoins the * Ex jaminer'’ Office on the Sonth,—with the Dwelling | House and buildings thereon Then, in due season, when I went to see, I found no apples there. With dangling basket all along the erass, AsT had come I went the self same track ; So empty handed back. Lilian and Lilias smiled in trudging by, | Their heaped-up basket teased me like a jeer; | + . Sweet voiced they sang beneath the sunset sky, Their mother’s home was neur. Plump Gertrude passed me with her basket full, 2. Pasture Lots Numbers 438 and 455, in | Chariottetown Royalty, comprising together 16 jacres of Land.a little more or leas, having a foot f twelve chains on the Mount Edward Royalty | Road. A stronger hand than hers helped it along ; A voice talked with her throngh the shadows cool More sweet to we than song. Ou Sule of the above Properties, the purchaser Ah, Willie, Wilhe, was my love less worth | on paying 25 per cent of the Price will be allowed | one vear for payment of the balance, with interest on Mortyaye of the Premises Than apples with their green leaves piled abeve ? I counted rosiest apples on the earth Se ; ‘ Of far less worth than love. | For further particulars and terms of sule applica- } tion may be made to the Subscribers, Trustees for Sale under Deed, duted 7th October, 184. J. LONGWORTH. 2 JOSEPH HENSLEY. § Charlottetown, Lith October, 1806 FOR SALE. BRIG of 170 new—240 o!d—!aunched iu 1857. Please apply to CAKVELL BROTHERS. 2°. bS66 Zin So once it was with me you used to talk, | Laughing and listening in this very lane ; Trustees. To think that by this way we used to walk | We shall not walk again! 1 I let my neighbours pass me once and twice, And vroups ; the latest said the night grew chill, And hastened; but I loitered, while the dews Fell fast I loitered still. <> SELF-RELIANCE. REMOVAL. TPUE SUBSCRIBERS respectfully an- | nounce thut Whea clonds are lowering o'er thee, And in loneliness and sorrow Thou canst see no star before thee Heralding a bright. to-morrow ; Let no coward thought persuade thee THEY HAVE REMOVED | To resien a yvlorions strife ; Ask no human friend to aid the Iu the battle-field of life. to the | New “Pheaix Building” Recently Erected upon the Site of their For in the chamber of thy seal Where, perchance, they've slambered long, Thou hast still supreme control O er an army brave and strong. Former Store, Hope and energies are there, High resolve aud mighty thought, where, | Brother! why with these despair ? With Increased Facilities for carrying on their Business, A LARGER STOCK Nobler allies never fought. Ouward, then, without a fear— Rest not, faint not by the way ; God will make the star appear, And usher in a brighter day. << GHOSTS’ GARMENTS. AND **T calculate from a slight but smart glance at your physical peculiarities that you don’t Better Assortment | believe in ghosts, younyster,”’ | than ever betore, they SOLICIT A CONTINUANCE | Now, besides being called ** youngster ’’— a thing very irritating when you can cateh hold of your moustache without distiguring of the patronage of the Public. | your upper lip—there iS something very ir- ‘ | ritating to an Enylishman in being thus sum- }marily and personally addressed by an entire istranger. We, the only occupants of a first- H, E. STARBIRD & CO. | class carriage on the North-Western Rail- City Hardware Store. | | way, had only just emerged from the first |bridge after leaving Euston square station. 1, with a dignity which would convince most people of my majority, drew myself ap to my ‘tall height (and I sit high, though not at all on account of the shortness of my legs), and replied that [ was glad that 60 short an ac- /quaintance had been sufficient to assure him ‘ot my freedom from any such ridiculous su- Oct. &, 1866. Im SEWING MACHINES. OBERT YOUNG has much pleasure in announcing that he has just been appointed sole Avent for P. EK. istand, for the sale of THE WEED SEWING MACHINES, and would strongly recommend to all intending perstition. parchasers, an inspection of the sample now on| + [Ja!’? said the stranger, with a strong his premises, so confident is he that they only | nine! twang, ** 80 that’s how the land lies, 1s require to be seen in operation to be appreciated, | Wal! then l reckon that the sooner you ; at ? THE WEED MACHINES | begte to believe, the better, and if you've got ; such a thing asa cigar about you, Ill com- are better adapted than any others in the market i ve te the ae and great Variety of sewing re-|™mence your eddication at once."” : quired ina family. They will sew from one to | *¢ Thank you,’’ said |; ** here is @ cigar, twenty thicknesses of Marselles without stopping. | but I prefer iny present state of ignorance and and make every stitch perfect Phey , % - incredulity .”” from the finest gauze to the heaviest cloth, and | ¢. Very well rounded that, for a youngster,” even to stout, hard leather, without changing the | needle or waking any adjustment of the Machine retorted my tormentor, * Dr. Jolinson did Pwo different sizes of the Machine are menutie- | not make his dixionary for nothin’, lee; | My neighbours mocked me when they saw we pass | - = So NDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1866, ) for | knew it was ghosts, fast enough, being | ut that moment one rushed into my head wed ty ’em): and sure enough, whatever i | vith such an impetuosity as knocked my was left me alone for awhile; [only heard a | »rpe clean out of my mouth. * Wal, as you noise in my sleep like a mouse in the faymale | ask me,’ I said, * | have just one or two or so jtrunk. Presently, however, | come aware ot | You were speakin’ of lying up in a table. | pinebin’ going on in various portions of my-| What did you mean by that ? W oy 7 ‘self. Lam averse to pinchin , natural, and | sick?’ * No,’ she said, * that isnt the rea- |] twitehed and twitched, determined to sleep ison; we sperits are never sick. Jt was be- fitout. Bat the pinchin’ increasin’ from the jeause Lhadnt any clothes on. — | desultory to the vicious, | knew it wasn tany | spread out most uncomiortably in the wood- good, so | opened my eyes and sat up, and,| work of this kerridge, till you was asleep, | bless my soul, if there wasn’t a faymale fig-| and [ could dress myself.’ > Why didn’ tyou ger of exceeding beauty dressed complete in| get into one of the cushions?” said o.* Phere my wife’s garments. Parisian bonnet with) wasn’t room,’ she auswered ; * these cushions yaller ribbons, bright green velvet jacket | on this are all loose and I couldn't get inte trimmed with red gimp, blae slippers and 'two without solution of continuity, Which Is pink silk stockings, complete! And if L/dreadfully paintul fur a ghost. and very didn’ stare, why this cigar’s tobacco, that's) dangerous. Why, I remewber a friend of all!’’ | mine who did that, and the passengers took lie paused a moment, and looked at me) one of the cushiwns to play cards on, and) | with a most evil expression of enjoyment; | then another, each giving up his seat in turn ; | let his imy-ertinence pass without the smallest | and what with changing partners, and put-| remark, and he continued : ting down the cushions the wrong way, and | * Wal, [ wasn’t skecred a fig, but looked | one thing and auotber, one balf ol bim didn’t | at her fixed. took outa pipe (1 smoke pipes | know where tee other bad got to, and, as) usual), and asked ber if she objected to wy|they both began searching ove for the | lightin? up? *Not a bit.’ she answered,|other at the same time, they were /quite pleasant, and she smiled, opening ber|near a week before they sot together, | lips, throagh which | saw the back of the /and then he kicked himself three times in | carriage.’ | the eye before he found the join.” * Wal,’) ** The back of the carriage ?”’ jsaid 1, ready with another quesiton this time, | ‘© Yes. Ghosts 1s hollow, and got no teeth, | ‘are all ghosts equally ill-provided with clo- | no bones, no hair, nothin’ but flesh andskin, | thing?’ ‘All,’ sue replied, * except those and only the very outside o’ that; a sort of | that ure buried in clothes, and they don’t! nothing witbout innards. If she hadn’t had | last long. Ghosts used to go about in their | |my wife's bonnet on, her bead, with the | winding sheets, but it won't do now. A) compartment light over it, wonld a lookea | young ghost soon learns that. 1 had mine ‘like the globe of a paraffine lamp afore it’s) tora to rags the first night, and had to wet | lit; but when the mouth’s shat, you can‘t| into my own tumbstone—the greatest indig- | | see through ; it’s only semi-transparent, like | uity a ghost has to. suffer. And even them | iyround glass, and it it hadn't been one of | that have dresses haven't the right sort. A| those new-fangled hats, like a captain's tis-| friend of mine was buried in her bridal dress ; cuit with strings, L eould only a seen the | but she got so chaffed about it, that she left ‘cushions at the back through a ehance chink | it off alter a week.’ * | suppose you can find | inthe straw. Asit was, 1 saw three buttons | clothes generally, can’t you?’ sadl. + Yes, | and puffs com; Jete.’* if a guost is not over-particular and not lazy,’ ‘Nonsense,’ I said. I was delighted/ she answered. ‘ You see, we only want them jwhen a question sugested itself which || at night, not being visible by day, even to thought would prove a poser to the man. | one another; but it’s very awkward some- ** But,’’ said TI, + if ghosts are made of such | times when we are obliged to put on the slight material, how can you account for your | clothes you livin’ bein’s have just taken off, | friend's supporting the weight of the bonnet | tor if you want them in the nigut we have to with * yaller’ ribbons, the velvet jacket with |evacuateim a burry, and creep inte any re- the gimp trimmings, and the rest of it?’ fuge we can find, and that's the explanation ** Very clever for you, youngster, That | of many of those stories of crockery falling was what had precisely puzzled me about | down—not but what some ghosts like a bit ghosts for a long time, as it has puzzled most | of mischief sometimes, but they are the worst incred’lous writers on the subject, old and|sort. Now, | remember * * Excuse me,’ new. Ghosts of clothes, they says, air ridi-| said I, interrupting her, * but what do you euluus, and so [ thought; though, being| mean by /azy ghosts?” *Them that don’t natural of @ religious temperament, { didn’t} care about going about decent,’ said she ; say so, and if clothes ain't ghostly, they can’t | *they are the sort that mostly fills your furni- he real, ‘cause the immaterial couldn't sup-| ture. They don’t care, as long as they are port a paper bunnet, let alone crinoline. | safe ip the leg of a table, and they have no Such was the etate of my feelin’s on thesub-| sense or decency whatever; they crowd ject, when this lady figger started ’em from / together anybow, and never put on clothes their dormant apathy. * Here’s a chance o/ | from one year’s end to another. They have settling the question,’ says I to myself, + as| greatly increased of late, having got a new may never occur again. Here's a faymale| pleasure in duping the living ; but they are ghost, as I knuws a ghost, ‘canse I've seen | down upon by all respectable ghosts, and ‘the buttons of the carriage through her | they go by name of casuals’ * You are a re- bump o’ philoprogenitiveuess, and she’s|spectable ghost, I presume?’ said +o wearin’ ecrothes, as 1 know—all real and | course I’m respectable,’ she replied. *Tallus material clothes, because I've paid to the | go about at night well dressed, if Lean; but tune of five hundred dollars for ‘ew, and this|allus dressed. Not but what I am put to bere immaterial ghost is wearin’ these ma-| straits occasional. The other might I was terial clothes, as well as if she was made of | staying, on bisness, at an old castle on the Bessemer steel, Uere’san opportunity,’ paid | Rhine, and there was no faymale wardrobe [, * of asking a question ee there whatever ; but I found a chest up-stairs *» Now then, my friend,’’ said I. ** lam full of queer old dresses, and L bad to fix my- impatient to hear the answer.’”? For there | self up io them as best I could. [ met the was a want of alacrity in his tone, and aj vld baron as I was a-goin down stairs, and tailing off in his spirit, and he had taken his | nearly frightened him into fits. Il saw Le cigar from his mouth and was studying the | sent an account of it to a paper, in which he ceiling ; all of which, | thought, betokened | swears be had a visit from his great-grand- that either bis invention or his memory was| mother. How I laughed to be sure, lor my failing him. bisness had nothin’ to do with the old gentle- ** Wal,”’ he replied, * there is one lesson || man atall.’ * Eisness?’ I says, catching a have never forgot, ‘cause I had to write it) clue. * Do you have bisness 2’ | saw | had seventy-seven times i one mornin’, at the made a mistake at once as she began shakin’ age of six: it was Patience is a Virteu, and| ver head from one side tu the other hke a the suoner you lay it to heart, the better for| pendulum turned the wrong way up. * Ah,’ your wife, if you ever have one; which. | she said, * [ have ; but our bisness 18 panish- looking consumptive, you won't, perbaps, sy | went. We have to go about all over the it don’t matter much.’’ world, tracin’ the history right away threw, I again took no notice of his gross want of | of all our sins. Some of our sins die out at delicacy. once, but sume little things we never thin ‘* Wal, you're beginning to learn, I see,’’| twice of at the time of commituin’ go rolling he went on, ‘so L'il humour you. * Femi-| on like spowballis for ever. I've only two nine sperit,” said 1, ‘would you oblige me |teft now. One of them isa lie | made a child and the live world in general by imformin’ | of wine tell to get me out of a scrape with bis ine how it is you appear injelothes?* * It’s | father, which has already led to two murders, uke your impudence to ask the question,’ | asuicide, and foauds without number ; Idon't she replied, turnin’ green—which is ghost fur} kauw when that will die, but it’s not active rared fitted up. plain or ornamental, with or with-| hae sell, as long as you don’t believe in out cabinets, as may be preferred. | ghosts, your eddicativn ain't the thing quite, } These Machines have obtained the highest neither.”” blushin’; * you wouldn't dare put the ques- | at the present moment. The other, on which tion to a live lady; bat all of you on that| U’m travelling now, Is Ip consequence of the side of the dust seem to think a sperit hasn't | way [ left my property. [ leit it to a distant 1 was lying | WS. = ——————S Se { NO. 51 | port ofan aged mother, and was obliged to Gee hishome. A man, for over twenty years /in the employ of an express company, and baving the unbounded cuntidence of his em- ployers, took to gambling, and in an evil moment, to vet money to play with, robbed 18 employers, was detected, sent to the States Prison for a term of years. A young wan came into possession, on the 12th day of May last, of $56,000, and to day he tas hot got a dollar, baving lust all at the gau- ing table,’ i | The standing armies ot Europe amount to about six millions of men. Whatis it that this Statement really means? Setting aside the agonies of maiming and vi death, tue tears of forlorn women, the desolation of huuse- holds, and the hideous passions which wake up upon the battle field, what is the actual waterial loss to humanity which is involved in the fact that six mi'lions of men devute their lives to the business of war? It means that something very like the whole adult male population of Great Britain are with- drawn trom the productiva of the materials /of comlort and enjoyment, and make it the work of their lives pot merely to cease from the production of what is essential to the well- being of their fellow-creatures, but to train themselves to inflct the utmost possible des- truction of everything that may stand in the | way of conquest, ~ 2 A Nove. ILuvsraation or tae I'eceorarn. —A most ludicrous conversation tuvk place a few weeks ago in asumall village near Paris, i'wo peasants were discussing about the war between Austria and Prussia, when one of them remarked that he could not understand how messages could be sent by the electric telegraph. Lis companion, after having tried to make him comprehend the manner in which the telegraph works, at lasé, struck with a bright idea, exclaimed : ‘Imagine that the telegraph is an im- mense long dog—so long that its head is at Vienna and its tail at Paris. Well, tread on its tail, which is at Paris, and it will bark at Vienna. Do you understand now, stupid, what the telegraph is like?” **O, yes,’’ replied the other. ‘ T have an idea now what the telegraph mast be.’ — oe A Mrs. Hayes, residing at Humboldt, near Mitwaukee, was attacked by a fiend named Bere, with a scythe, and eo terribly cut that she died in a few minutes. Previous to at- tacking Mrs. Hayes he had cut a dog com- pletely in two belonging to her. ————— oe A young woman in Memphis took arsenie and died. Why, is shown in this note whick she left addressed to Oscar Willis, a minsirel ; **O, Oscar! my darling, my darling! how can I leave you ? O, Ovcar ! my heart is burst- ing, | know you do not love me any more; L thihk | am in your way, 60 | will put anead to my life by taking poison. Good by, my darling. God only knows bow I love you. May we meet in heaven, never to part, is m prayer. God bless you through life, ao may you be happy. Think of Jennie somee times, willyou, dear? Send my truck home. Good by, forever.— Jennie Wixtis.”’ Suicide IN JaPpan.—A curious iMustration of the curious fashions of Japan is furnished by the misfortuses of Kubota Sentaro, lately in command of the Japanese garrison of Yokohama, and, it would appear, a young man considerably in ad- vance of his fellows in intelligence. It seems that he had trained a body of about 1,200 troops en the European plan, first having translated the British drill book, and for this, although permie sion had been given in another instance, he wae degraded without warning, his house given up to loot, aud his property coufiseated. The unfor- tunate man attempted to commit barikari, but was prevented by his friends, and the government, indiguant that he should try to eommut suicide without permission, ordered him to be bebead A Lovey Prison —One of the boys who had been arrested for stealing, and coufined in a cell in the New York Toombs over night, came before the Criminal Court, Thursday, with his face gnawed and bitten in a dozen places by rats. He was confined in a cell with seventeen otber boys, and he said there were in the cell “ mure than a thousand rats wore than se long,” (indicat. ing about a foot aud a hail.) * and three other boys were bitten, also. The rats eat eur clothes and hands and feet and faces; we could not sleep, we had to fight the rats all ugh.” oneeepieaiaiatiil ial laced Americans are said to be disgusted at the small space allowed them at the Paris Ex- hibition, and think of gettiog up a show of their own, tofore. me with a List of the Policies about to expire, 1] preminme a —_ awe —e on By this time he had selected the bigrest | got any feelings whatever. I've heerd ques-| relation, who Was & spend thrift, and every The New vei Teitena ee » eet daseeitb an " * . : fc , , ey Machines. - - E d . » New 7 8 hereby ive notice to the wseured im the | Competition with obier © elyar from my case, bad lighted it with a | tions asked, when I've been forced to lay up| penny he spent al, 1 have had to watch the ) rb BD. REDDIN takes thie opportunity to return thanks to his customers for their past support and patronage, and to solicit a comtinnance of the same + B. D. REDDIN. Dotehester Street, Ch'town, Aug 6, 1866. MONDAY AUCTIONS! Flour, Cornmeal, &c. &e. &e. HE SUBSCRIBERS will. Goring. the Season, SELL at AUCTION. every MON-| DAY. at i! o'clock, on QUEEN'S WHAKF, Flour, Cornmeal and other Goods, artiving per Steamers from lbuston. CARVELL BROTHERS, Auctioneers. phevic acid. a new productobtained from the dis- tilation of coal, Is the most powertul disenfeetant ever discovered, and that with this aud sulpher- ous avid, cholera has been entirely coutrolled the present season in the city of New York, and with it the riuderpest has been almost subdued in Eng- land. tf effects of ; but it’s pretty well worn out, asa great deal of it has passed into charities, which relieves me. Indeed, the last evil done with the muney was by the housekeeper of that baron on the Rhine. The son of the man the property was left to, is now dying ot gout, the produce of port wine bought with part of bis father’s fortune. IT must be in at his death, and then I think there'll be only seven and sixpence-half-penny left.’ * Where are you off to now?’ I assed her. * To Ameri- cay, she answered. * Bat what brings you “QUEEN.” that upon the expiration of their Policies, upon applying to me, I will accept their risks, upon the payment of the premiums only, without any further charge CHARLES YOUNG. ’ Avent of L & L Insurance Co. October 8, 1866. iw NORTH BRITISH & MER: ANTILE FIRE AND LIFE Insurance Company. Established 1809. Capital, - - £2.000,000. G. W. DE BLOIS, Agent for P. E. Island. te RISKS TAKEN DAILY. No charge for Transfers. nor for Polt- cies where amount insured exceeds £300 Stg Sept. 24, 1864. peers: ay ie i ‘imate which he struck on his trousers, and | a while, as nade me ashamed of ever havin CARD (had bezun to smoke it, rolling it trom one | lived.” * | w sure I beg your pardon,’ said |, . side of his mouth to the other, and regarding | feelin’ very small lager indeed, ‘bat I meant 6 ee E undersigned having purchased the! ye with a cool impertinence which stifled we |no barm. P’raps TE should a said, how do STOCK IN TRADE from the surviving | with indignation. you manage to bear the weight of “ew? Trustees of the late JAMES PEAKE. bequive,| . Way!’ he continued, after a puff or two, |* Why, do you think we haven't any strength,” deceased, bave this day ENTERED INTO CO-) iis. a rank Britisher, i8 this cigar; but it| she sai; * then how do you imagine we turn PARTNERSHIP, under the name and style of | ’ ’ : : ; 5 , i | was the best you'd got, so | won't grumble. | tables?’ * Trew,’ [ answered, feeling I had PEAKE BROTHERS & COMPANY, Now stick another in your own mouth, and | met my mateh for the first time in my lite. and will continue the same Business carried on by | then Ill begin your eddication.” * but that didn’t occur to me. * Shake the late James Peake, eq. F I had intended to smoke, and I was not to! hands, if you doubt me,’ said she, he lding JAMES PEAKE, ‘be stopped by any false notion ot dignity ; 80 | outas pretty @ little gloved hand as it ever GEORGE PEAKE, it did as he requested, and resigned myself to | was tay fortune to see. Now it’s rather a RALPH BRECKEN PEAKE, | my tate. No sooner had | done so than be | ticklish crisis in a man’s existence when a THOMAS HANDRAHAN. ‘ ghost asks him to shake bands, but | wasn’t Charlottetown, July Lith, P66, [Aug. 6 going to be alraid of a human svap-bubble, chin Jiciclligsiiieedi glial, Itlis the hardest duty required of us to be pa- tient in tribulation, He who can keep just as coutented under blows as under gifts: who caa praise God in the clouds as well as in the sue- shine; who is always the same, unmoved and . calin, Come what will, se long as the message is here in this carriage ? I thought you sperits from God,—that man is very oearly, if sot hada quicker way of transit’ * By day we | quite a saint. fly through the air, being mvisible, but not by night; and the man whose death | am to be in at, will die before morning. By night we are obliged to travel dressed, and so can only go by mortal conveyances" * But how ever will you get fo Americay in that time? + Ah, I forgot to mention it, but we can go j _—- +0 by tel: graph. I should have gone the whole | way by telegraph, but the line between) The New York Round Table publishes a Dublin and Valentia i brok. Now, bow startling article upon drunkenness amung ever, | guess I cango through. Justbe good women. It says the vice is prevalent among enough to turn your face aside one moment.’ | fashionable ladies, and that some of the most “| did so, and I heard a rustle of drapery. | elegant of them will pass this summer not at After waiting a minnte, [looked ;—and darn-| Saratoga or Newport as usaal, but at an as- ed if my wife 8 togs weren't lying all in @ xvjgm for inebriates. The writer intimates that the vice of fashionable drinking is nut heap on the fluor, and pot a ghost of a ghost to be seen. | will say that lor ber, that, eX more prevalent among the gentlemen of thie . —wone By a singular coincidence the European sum- ner of 1765 exactly resembled that of the present lyear. Lord Chesterfield, writing to bia son on | the Ist August, 1766, said: * There has been ne summer so Wet within the memory of man; since Mareh we have not had one single day without rain,” _Ch'town. June 18,1966, just RECELVED by the Subscriber, per Schowuer Many, from Yarmouth, a fr!! and couplete Cargo of those celebrated STOVES, | coursistiug of Cooking, box and Franklin, the cha racter of wiich is so well known to our Island! farwers, to whom they have given such genet dy satistacion. They will be suld at the usual terius | | } ‘exelarmed, ** Now, that’s what | call com- | fort!’ smacked his legs and his fingers, an oe ; ‘ er "ile aad ' [On ‘evinced such # high state of hilarity, that [| especially being faymale, so [shook hands LO X bO ’ il rT) i & K ’ ‘began to be afraid I was locked up with a | with her, and got sucha grip as I never had, . ; lunatic. except from Heenan. * Now,’ she said, Established 1820. Hoping at least to draw off his attention | a-holding out the pretty hand again, * give a from my personal appearance, by inducing | poke at that with your finger. [ giv’ a 1866 SPRING GOODS ! 1866 ‘him to begin a story ut ounce, 1 nodded, and | poke, and the glove tumbled all of a heap on = | he commenced, the fluor, as if I'd knocked it off a peg ; and for © : mpue Subscribers h ve now completed | + Wal, I'm only a-thinkin’ which of ‘ew | there was five as pretty little bare, white, ee R. J. CLARKE their Importations for the Season, per Ships) i¢ ehall be. I’ve got one story as kills out-| semi-transparent fingers as were ever manu- cate a 7 | Undine, L. C. Owen, Lotus, on Edwin & | right ; but 1 want to cross to-mght, and being | Lizzie, Ariadne, aud Brigt. Helen Davies. found with » corpse might be inconventent, isl by factured out of opal glass. Wall | was skeered a little at that, though | might a known how it would be if I'd a reckoned; and I said, handing her the glove, which she pat on all at once without unbottonin’, * Ex- cuse me asking an impertinent question, bat Grwell Cheap Store, September 10th. 1866 5 ALW TOBACCO FACTORY, yue Salseriber begs to inform the Ci'i-| ‘so I'll let you off that. I’ve another, as ‘mostly brings on fits; but this carriage ts : i : ‘ i And I’ve another, as com- ° ieht Bales Carpe's & Woolens , narrow for fits. Hhde. and Tierces Brig I ay the breath, ‘cept th: Wholes ile and Retail at their usual low prices. g3do000WyV POST ‘LL 20q00O sens of Charlottetown, and the Conntry in| SUGAL “Striped and Check letely tukes aw r a , i ; tl . : » : eeneral, that he bus opened » NEW TOBACCO the iebenk MO. Shirtings. |e : tuld slow, which L aim’c clever at. | where on earth do you inflated ovthings get| cept the gloves were a bit cae @ evuntry ; that certa’n dresamakers make it a FACTORY. on QUEEN STREET, in the premires LASSES | ‘* Basging, mt \ iH I've anuther—well, you're a goud na- (your strength from?’ * Wall!’ she answered, | clothes weren t damaged u cent, uw, | point to furnish their cusiomets with drink, ul wa eer Crates Karthenware. |“ Suud § bushel Grain | ; d fellow, you air and [ll teli it to you; | with another smile, * will and sperit!’ + Oh, | youngster, this is my Station and if you don t while in sume stores bottles uf wine ure also siteaied opposite Mr. WM. Ssveston’s. Chests and halt-chests Sacks, | tured fellow, y ’ és indeed,’ said 1. ‘Aad’ what might you believe in ghosts by this cime, :t's my opiniun kept on hand for lady shoppers, and in others Packages assorted Paints, | it's only dangerous in heart disease. ‘ime Congou TEA, a ; a. +» My heart is perlectly sound,’’ I said, in Cases Rubber Boots and [ids Paint Oil, Shoes, Casks assorted Cutlery, | as stendy @ voice as 5 anni enue. the merchanis allow their boys to go to the Having superintended. for the last seven years, | nearest bar-room for liquor when ladies de- |mean by sperit?’ * Sperit,’slereplied, ¢ isa the Manufactaring of Tobacco, in the Firm well mean by 8p } p kinder gas, whieh blows us out to shape, like ei A 5 a ; : a | you never will. | OEE CULHSVONVE ® NOGNO'T CHL kuowh as LOW DENS, with anequalled success, | : nit Sige ; } , rn nate wa an . : he will fearlese:y warrant his Tobacco as secoud | Cases Keady-made Cloth- Gentes a | Wai, then? Llere goes. About two | balloons.’ ‘Oh, mdeed,’ says 1 * You r MISCELLANEOUS sire it. Whiskey oo aa are the a nofe iu the Colonies. and would earnestly advise | jing and Kubbeér Coats | Tens saatial Bar iron, | months ago | was travelling by express from blown out like balloons, air you?’ * Yes, ? | ite drinks of these ladies, and as sume ol ¢ Cases Millinery, ** Haberdashery, te A CauTrion.—We mention the following as caution against the bad babit which many girls | ‘and young ladies are addicted to, of placing pins | land needles in their meaths 0 hile engaged in Bew- ing. Miss Mattie J. Bigelow, dauguter ol George Bigelow, Esq, of Skowhegan, has been in poor health for two years past, and at times raising considerable blood and suffering severe pain in her lungs. Last tail she weut west, and stopping | on the way with sowe friends was so low Wn ‘health that her life was almost despaired of. She saloons they frequent du not have these fi- quors on the bill of fare, a neat lute siga— “if you do not see what you want, usk for it,” gives the hint to the initiated. In drese- wakers’ bills the significant item “ small trimmings’ often covers ap the expense of liquors which the lady bas ordered through the modiste who panders to her vitiated taste ; while at the watering places a bribe to the waiter procures a secret supply of liquors the public to call and judge for themselves before Pirchasins else where. CHAS. QUIRK son Pieces Plough Metal, | Dublin to Cork, meanin’ to cross to My Na-)| she says, ‘we air, and if you don’t break vs er . . . . ks , Silks and Ribbons, | Packages Nails & Spikes ‘tive land, mm a sudden burst of affection to- your Silm, which you can ¢ when we don $ Cinnon Drapery: . | sie Sol Vaarane: wards an old uncle o mine who | heerd was | wish, we are as strong as you felt just now, Hosiery, ‘ides Sole LI. ‘ush- about to leave this world for a better; and 1|)+Oh, indeed, said |, not understanding (sloves [sarrels Currants. Crush- ve , . . . Shawlsand Mentles| edSngar. Flour, Epsom | was a-moralising on the shortness of lite, and | quite puspicuous, * and when | knoked that Townsend's HATS) Sulis, Cudbeur, Ginger; ‘consoling mysell with reflections on the ad-! yiove off just bow, did t break the film?’ +1 and CAPS, Cache, Baking Suda: ‘mirable arrangements of Providence, which | rayther guess you did.’ she said; * its only ; ’ c " a 4 4 . . i; nD 8 , : Bal eee eee - ae ae ee ae don’t allow rich uneles to take their ile | just healed up.’ ‘Then, madam, said I, “ales Liv . e | White andColoared, ins, Soap, Lozenges, | springs with ‘erm, when [ had the most ex-| thinkin’ I'd caught her tripping, er these Cotton Warp, Glass; Bays Pepper. cragrdimary adventure with a faymale ghost | ghosts, most of ‘em, lie like everlastin’, * 1! (the lentiesd Printed, Untlench- Rice; Coils Manilla | that |] remember 10 all my experience. | our blown out like a balloon, bow is it you | ' which, by the connivance o the andiord, Tose “ 1 was all alone in the compartment with | dido’t collapse right away? [et wasn’t will.) recovered, however, and on arriving in Iowa was | charged as “ extra luncheons. It 18 ussert- was it?’ * No,’ she answered, quite ready. | very feeble for sowe time. At length a sere | od that girls of eighteen, daughters of muat ‘['d given that up, its the nature of the gathered on ber side, from which great difficulty respectable New York merchants, have bees *How 80?" said I, thinking | was experienced, until it broke, and a needle | oon gross! y intoxicated ia Broadway Stages ’ leame from it. The physician who attended her . pecr oh endir weap ‘Why,’ she) pean at it a his opinion that the needle had passed | Caan “1 ere ok “al rowdy through both luags, thas causing ihe aevere pain PUP® y social pase Ch'town, daly 30, 1866, , Gveat Bargains. | ue Subseriber intending to make an} alteration in bis business on the Ist of Uc- | tober neat, will sell the following articles at (he | Prices named below, viz:— | TEA, 2s Gd to 26 Od per lb.; warranted good. | SUGAR, 7d per |b. GIN, 6s 6d to 7s per gallon. RUM. 46 to de 3d de. BRANDY, 12a. do. SALT, Is 8d per bushel. TOBACCO, Is Bd per Ib. COTTON WARP, I6s 6d, White. Do. 194, Blue. PLOUR, 404 to 500 per barrel. MON VULISNIF d }°® SO}VY elquuosKey FV S*USIQ Jo SesSBID IF ed and White Cali- eg. & S. DAVIES. Charlottetown, June 4, 1866. my luggage. which consisted of a male por- Peecornceg a faymale (rank and a bandbox, as i [had promised my old woman to bring her | sperit not to. some finery trom Paris. The bandbox was/it rather a res se n | none of your pasteboard Gimsies, but a true | suid, ‘ sperit und air is like We ana water, : | , Parisian, wade fee ty eee ae ines like Sik edie ae Oh. i ndeod!' ‘and ill health. She is new doing weil, with a Sufficient to guard a lady against this vice. ling rug. vat it under my | you like, but they won Gimig. © Uh, indeed. | “t of regaining ber health.— Maine Farmer. a head, pe Asati Tie, Rs I'm a sound oa Lagain. pozziin’ my head for another | ST Some one makes the iollowing @ aon | sleeps Many a time have I gone to sleep question. For sind you, youngster, when- | at Phe Shasene enenaenal ete a when} : | The gambling house reporter of & NeW are over one million three bandred thousand "tuned HER GAY ‘T¥LIdVO dQ dIVd GOYVT V ONIAVH oe ‘uosy “QQQOA SHV we 7 ’ “4 ty RITAIN -fis! a and slept all night in| ever you meet with aghost, usk em questions, | Ns ee S . GLASSWARE, NAILS, PAINTS and OILS, HE MALLP fox OR RE OL awiT Oe on Laser, and a-croaking and never leave of. They're compelled to York paper gives @ faru record thus :— A brethren in the mystic tie in the world, aud tia Great Reduction in Prees. the \ notice. be made up and | P but | never bad such # restless | answer them vat of politeness, and | willsay well known newspaper publisher and poli | five thousand lodges scattered ull over the LAND, will, antil further n« all over me, “ANVANOD HUGH MONAGHAN. Bu: tician has lost over a quarter of a million o! | worid—in Europe, Asia Alriea, North and s -arded from the General Post Office, Char’ otte- . lif s in that compartment. ghosts are pretty mannered as a rule. , é ; ; Queen-street, Charlottetown, ¢ Te Fr Keb DIN, woven every ae ees re of alt bad . rickling in my ee as eet let ‘em out of harness, and they always | dollars. A pay master r¢43 saath ain =e SiG, OS Sa ee ; he ; - 4 ‘clock 83 I stones, like a horse to his taulter to the amount of $42 000, k © | Archipeimgo. Jone 18, 1566. 5 v'cloe > ‘ a drunken centipede was a-trying to open his | run to their own . tt? ' Pe ee dateil 4 *PPLEME) MAILS wil! also be made a Grut pee : ‘ , ood pe Californian has eer Attorucn and Barrister ~ at - Law,| surPLEMENTARY lowing WEDNESDAY door with a toothpick. In the ensuing irri-| stable, and there's no stopping ‘ew; and same way. A well known Califo H hp billowing orp co wteacial tidied tap up and forwarded the fo evenings, at 8 o'clock, viz: Monday, October 22, NOTICE. went of all bores, I guess a ghost’s life tops “em, | about $60.00). A well known citizen of LL PERSONS whose names are Sub ‘ity, doing a large manufacturing | pears ina Western paper: = * Lost or etraed there all so long and dreffai melaneholy. Buc | Jersey wey twas ea etch e Pee che aubsaniban, & dhady ii Goal Wedd, ‘tation I jilted my bead, when—whist! ‘my travelling rug. Stell, [didn’t rouse up CONVEYANCER, Ke. i aa ti a a i AAT i POET i Mo oh Bae a a a A Wednesday, Nov na scribed to the FUND for the KELIFF of ‘he ? eae “O24, Monday, ‘ ite. but don. Presently, the irri-| she was politeness itself, was this roung business, , - ih : Bafferers at che FIRE in July lust, are pepe Oi ce: -- Great George Street, Nostoy. T Now. 5, Weduesday, “ 2. ae I lifted my Sida again. | sperit, Seeing me a-puzzlin’ whatto say next, | short time at the faro table. A young man, | one ten = _ en ne it's to brig oe fe toes wee cosanean ote epatend ube | Charlottetown. P. DESBRISAY, Postmuster General. | whet away went bandbox and all. | said to | sne asked me with unusual delicacy whether | keeping books a > eearvnnete ou ae ies a she ote.” ime. WM. DODD. (Near the Catholic Cathedral.) | Senora! om 29, 1866 myself, * Now they'll be satisfied, 1 hope |{ had avy more questions to ask her, and just | defaulier of $1200. He was the only sup: Te . Chiome, Sop Te foal. |. | eptember 3, 1866, u eas ae aan . ee EE EEE eee