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‘*This is true Liberty, when Mreeborn Men, having to advise the Public, may speak Desc. *caatipates. custinie egies ceeat hea ee Vol. ALY. Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Monday, November 7, 1864. New Series.---No. 49. iaaiahtaieeal ORT TED, RNR

NEW GoonbDs, JUST ABRIVED AT i Square House. WM. HEARD.

acaney fora etitable young man, of t i ollelowh

Queen

, Tesi

Mantles, | Sharels, Dresses,

Dress Meterial,

Gala Plaids,

Plain Fancy Whincies, Woollen Scarfs,

ur Boas, &c.

OUR NEW STOCK

Kor the Season

Whincies,

i

NOW READY,

To which we invite the attention)

of purchasers. DAVIES & WEEKS.

Get. 24. mr w is) p i: din

JUST RECEIVED, STEAMER FRANCONIA,

‘500 airs Ladies’, Gears’, Boys’, Nisses’ and Cuildren’s |

PER

} of produce are annually

linany Grist, Saw and Cloth Mills

- Peart a } te ; : oe See sae = Cy — -; Ga’ CA ms eh ~w aa’ . to a L my oo 1 . = ph tdi stom = > a iy A ot ; Ne elas Ss wa i Best 30 of ay 2 =. @ C2 & S. oe OQ _ Bo EE eginre A wl e S ve _ ee 5 | ~ eo e...23 ’ | —) } —_— ose 1 aS | eS ae | 5 o C= wz! iF ag eee =~ > = — 2 -~ ra om - 2 G3) 2 = am * sn py 4) a ao alle lige = paw a SS — S$ -™ et ow fi “ — - No a. 3

A FINE

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several VALUABLE FREEHOLD and I

CHANCE FOR SPECULA

ENTERPRISING MEN.

Wholesale and Retail |. 222eHarure.

399k A S93 MANUFACTORY! We are now "preparing our

FALL STOCK

OF

BOOTS & SHOES,

in every variety,

SUITABLE FOR THIS MARKET,

Wholesale & Retail Dealers

are invited to call before purchasing elsewhere,

as we will supply upon as Reasonable Terms

us may be desired. GEO. NICOLL,

Queen Square, immediately opposite the Post Office. Ang, 29, 1864. if

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maker, who understands the business. Liberal wages will be given A.tso—An Apprentice to the above business.

JOUN COSTIN.

Summerside, Oct 24, 1864. 3m

Kerosene! Kerosene ! STOCK, and FOR SALE--

25 ensks KEROSENE OIL. J.8. CARVELL.

ys June 13. tt

TORS

(Puke UNDERSIGNED has been instructed by the owners to offer FOR SALE, or RENT,

JEASEHOLD PROPERTIES and FARMS in

| BELFAST and other parts of the Island, in good cultivation, well wooded, and possessing other

advantages; and fer which goed and valid titles a Atso—FOUR LOTS, being the residue of tl

sold the present seaso

| adjuining MONTAGUE BRIDGE, ten wiles fron

shipped, and nearly all paid for in cash.

nd immediate possession can be given, iirteen Building Lots (the other nine having been

n) in that most advantageous mercantile situation known as SUMMER HILL,

where close on to 150,000 bushels Americans and other speculators

» Georgetown,

purebase here, and ship fur Great Britain, the United States, Me. A number of Stores, Wharts, a

in the vicinity ; van be had in trade at low rates). SUMMER Hil in the place, which renders it most desirable for a rising town.

| Meeting House, Post Office, and Temperance Society have been established for some time, with

where also any quantity of all kinds of Lumber aL, property is the ouly Frechgld Property tor sale ll classes of artizans, now so much wanted in this

A STORE, and Dwelling iv it, capable of Kolding 15,000 bushels of produce, with a

B 0 0 : S an d S H 0 E 8, | double Wharf and site tor Lime Kiln, will be sold cheap or ladsoll'udi treasbunbiy tee

Plans, particulars, or any ether information can be obtained by calling at the office of Messrs.

IN GREA? VARIETY,

v4 ‘ ’ ‘ which may be had veay « tear from the eubseriber

, r |

Hl. (ASZARD. |

Charlottetown, Angnet 2, !84 is} i

a ACARD. |

VEXEE Subscriber bi ving, for the last four!

moutha, been engsnaed m ouking large and important. additious to bis Fuctory, the CLT \ i TaNNE RY and Whi ure 1 w on the eve ofi eonwletion. he decme 1 * eceasion to be one on] which i meet certamnly tchoves hia w imke some} ' fesfation of t grateful estimation in “ bh he hella the liberi parrouave whe h, for af ; Loft six veura—t time which has elapsed 2 ' i « ; ; in 4 hie 2 frends in “Town aud Comuisy , at Which het on vy ingiied tim to the extension wud MBprOs sisal & premixnes for j Dantfectering purpeses but also enulled bim to§ uieet the verv Leevy ont). thereby incurred. Toe those friewds, theret ore, he now beus leave to

te Suer his ane m and > Jeo the very lLirwe amen Get petro neces fer vabict | he ia already indebted te them; wot doulting that} fia futdre endéavotrs, ox A MORE EXTENDED SC4t8, to suppiy them, om the mest reasonable

it e we his line, will, }

terms, With tue verv

t tul acknow redyments }

; Heel a&rticies iii

their part, be th eorresy

‘ et tien and #:.‘omprgme melt «

of bis emerprise } The additions whicl he bas made to his Factory, } und the improvements w he hus effectett there- |

iu, are socks will enal leslurcye abost

Eight Thousand Sides of

” }

SFE S68 ALS BY ALO LS6I ee i

SOS WMA evel sie,

a year, besides his former istia!l quantity of UPPER |

¢ bim in futare to mauu- |

LEATHER; dad havin.4 bedides, succeeded in | ‘

ouumining the services of un experienced First Clase Sole Leather Tanner, from tlre United States, he confidently trasis that; he shall have it in lis power to offer to am appre- | ¢iative public an article of SOLE LEATHER superior to auy previously manufactared in the | country, and fully equal to any imported. } Vv. B. DAWSON, |

Charlottetown, Sept.1/th, i864. alipaw

—— |

Furniture Warerooms. GEORGE DOUGLASS,

Manufacturer and I:aporter of Furniture

and Upholstery Goods, RR ESPECTFULL) solici's the attention | of such as are in wawtof Furniture, to call } at bis new and spacions Warerooms on the corner | of Kent Street aud King Sqmare, and examine his ta . TT" T x STOCK OF FURNITURE, of the very latest designs condisting of : Drawing- Room SETS,-in green rep, shady and hair clot ; and Dining-Room, in eat and Walnut ; CHAMBEK FURITURE, ia oak, maple, wal- nut and rosewood. 00 Wood and Cane-seat CHALRS, Office STOOLS, Office und Rocking CHAIRS: Window Polls and Cornices, Shades and Vessels; Walnut and Guilt Mouldings for Picture Frames. Lovking Glasses and Plates Cheap LOUNGES, 45a each; one sujerior PLANO ; two SERAP HINES. ——A LSO——

Every article iv the trade required for Honse- keeping supplied at the cheapest rate and shortest

notice. GEORGE DOUGLASS, Corner of Keit Street and King Square, Churlovtetowu, P. E. Ishand. aun

Oct. 24, 1804. . Square Rod Tobacco.

ISLAND MANUFACTURE. (UE Subscribers having purchased the

Tobacce Stock of ti¢ late Geo. . C. Lowder, Feq , have entered ints a ¢6-partnership for the purpose of marufactar og Tobacco, and ane now prepared to olfer for sal, under the style and firm of LOWDEN & RICH ARDSON, at their Store in Queen's Street, next door to the Bauk of P. E. Is- land, the best quality of Square Rod—Island Manu- facture. Strifieatienti u paid to orders from the country.

MORIN LOWDEN. DD. J. RICHARDSON. Oet. 10, S64.

EN SEASON! WINTER |S COMING!

mye subscriber bas on hand a supply of STRONG AND SUBSTANTIAL

READY-MADE CLOTHING,

evitable for Fall and Winter wear, consisting of OVER-COATS, in Pilot and Seal Clothe,

) S 1 ANTS, in Bick and Faney, Doeskins, VESTS, i® Homer) an, Blac Cloth and Fancy

’ * Doeskins. :

The above haviny been manufactured nnder the subscriber's own super. utendence, he can with con- fidence recommend them to the pablic for their DURABILITY and CHE \PNess. ‘Tlie inspection of | Farmers, Meehauics wad Laborers ig particularly | invited before purchasing elsewhere.

Also, on band, Beaver, Pilot and Seal’ CLOTHS, which wil! be made up to order on the | nost reasonable ternit

tw Call aud judge for yourselves.

P. REILLY. 2m

Ch'town, October 17, 1864.

2.)} i gau &

| Norten, Thomas Annear, Georgetown; Jas Broyavick, Canipbeltown, Lot 4; F.

nding wpprecia- | rt pat T

& Sen, Land Surveyors, Charlottetown. Re

Examiner Office, Charlottetown; and to the subse Manny's Mowing Machine,

i a id alee tor the Falling Mills of Messrs Bourke,

ference can also be had from W. Sanderson, F. P. W. Hughes, riber at Orwell, who 1s also Agent for the sale of the celebrated Yarmouth COOKING STOVE, Mill View, the How. Jas. McLaren, New Perth,

Finlay W. McDonald, Pivette; where Cloth is received and return a with despateh.

Orwell Stere, August 15, 1864.

2s a

Queen Insurance Company OF LIVERFOOL. | PIRE..AND,..LLEE! |. |

Capiial - - - £1,000,000 Sterling. |

: ‘ |

FEXNLIE Subscriber, buging been appointed | agent for the above tirst class Insurance Con pany, is prepared to uke risks onal) descripdons ol

‘ §. 8. CARVELL. | [Exrracts From Newspafens.] |

On refcrence to a return made to Parliament. ana ordered. by the Llouse of Commons to be pried 7th | Jane, 1861, it will be seen that the increase of Duty or the year, paid by the **QUBEN,” was £2567, | being apwards,of £1000 mere than paid by any | other otiice ever yet established in this City. ' {¥rom Gore’s General Advertiser, Oct. 24, 1861.) | “Indeed, we believe that we are perfectly jnsti- |

property Ohurloitetown, Feb. 10. ti

tied in dayimg tha: ne other Company, within the |

tt ; | ’ +7 | aliained sO large an Income in |

Same pr riod , ever either the Fire or Life Departments as the Queen [usurance Company. In making this statement, we make no exception even in faver of our older local | ompanies, namely, the Liverpool and London, tlre | Royal, and the Laueashire busurance Companies.” } atte. Nov. 2, 1861.] tutions stands enil- | as for its success, “the

jkrom the, Civil Service Gas “ Among there impo nent fut its solidity, ¢ Queen Insurance Couipany,’’ which last week, held its annual meeting of proprietors in Liverpool. A | reference to the aniple report in another page will | fully satisfy every reader of the signal progress + made by this association since its foundation. Such | sncéess is, indeed, rarely uttamed ; ‘and it attests at | once the excellence of its management, aud the pub- | lic coutidence iu its constitution.” {From the Liverpool Mercury, Nov. 2, 1861 i } “Tt must be gratifying to the public genera ly, | and ——— to the proprietors, to find that its im

come daring the past three years bas increased at |

ithe rate of £20,000 per aunnum. We believe that

no other Company, within the same short perio 7 ever attained so large an increase either in the Fire | or Life Department. ‘This speaks highly for the

activity and zeal of the management, whiie the | prompiness with whieh all the claime, arising eut | of the late disastrous fire in London were met. tes

tifies to their financial ability and the care and prn- ,

denee which marked the investment of these furds.”’ |

Life Assurance Company of Glasgow. ESTABLISHED IN 1838. Incorporated by Act of Parliament. GOVERNOR:

The Right Honorable The Earl of Giasgow.

|

Subscribed Capital, - - - (£600,000 Accumulated Funds, - - - 420,000 Annual Revenue, - + - 95,000 Subsistivg Assurances, - - - 2,500,000

Henxay Dunxcoe, Lsqr, Chairman. W. F. BinkMyke, Esqr, Manager.

Distinctive Features in the Company's Business System— Annual Division ef Profits,

Pulicy- Holders Participate in Profits from First Year of Entry,

Bonus A<surance at the Sinallest Outlay,

Seven Years’ Half Credit Assurance.

Exemptions — Foreign Travel and Foreign Residence.

Rates of Assurance, and all other information, way be dearned from the Agent for this Island, at GEORGETOWN. WM. SANDERSON.

Georgetown, June 27, 1864. ly

The Liverpool and London FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.

vu E Agent for the gbove first class

English Fire Insurance Company begs to call the attention of the public te the advantages offered by this Company, in respect. to the security tothe assured, and promptnessto pay losses. which, with- ont disparaging other Companies, may be safely asser to be ruuperior to those afforded by any other Company in the Island. The Liverpool and London F. & L. Inserance Company bas been in successful operation since I8386, with agencies all over the world, and has paid in losses about two inilfiona and a qiirter sterling. Its subscribed ca- pitalis £ 2,000,000 sterling, and its invested fands alone amount to £1,312,00@ stg. ; and the fire pre- miums for [86 amount to £360,130 19s 9d ; and in uddition to this very large capital, the Company, having Leen established before the recent Limited Liability Aet, the individual fortunes of each of the shareholders, comprising some of the weultbiest merebunts in Liverpool and London, are liable for the losses, should the whole of the capital be swept away. °Lo this respect it differs, it is believed, from any other Company established bere.

And lastly, the Agedt being appointed by Power of Attorney directly from England, is authorized to draw Bills the moment a loss occurs, and without referring to the Home Company, the extent of

{ ©loth Wactory!

mur SUBSORL VER begs respecttully to | inform the Le that be will continue to | manafacture CLOTH, &c., at his establishment in|

Tryon. Wool will be received in Charlottetown by H. J. Cultbeek, Ageat, or at the Mill. ba Cloth received Jor Dyeing aud Dressing as

rejofore.

May 23, 1866.

CHARLES E.

a STANFIELD.

1

1m consort w [ae ee

ove th d poauds sterling. y With these superior advantages, the Hompen? is not disposed (though it might be well justified) to ask a higher rate of premium than other English Cowpanies, which do not present the saine advan: | tageons features, and the Agent has been advised that an aviform rate bas been upon by the Diengons of thin Company ane Re. 4 Qreen.; fet that the Awents bere should, in this rect, q A JOHNSTORE, 299%

RICHARD J. CLARKE.

THE IMPORTATIONS |

FOR SPRING 186-4 ARE NOW COMPLETED

AT THE

URIS, WAREUOUS

WHERE YOU WILL FIND

I xtensive and General Supply of

BRITISH and FOREIGN

MERCHANDIZA#, ——— CUMPRISING———

All the requisite Articles in Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, — incliding ——

The leading novelties for the Season, Superior ‘Lea, and other GROCERIES, Gents’ General Outfits, HARDWARE and CUTLERY, Iron Bedsteads,

AND FURNISHING GOODS, Purchased on the Best Terms, and selected with the greatest care, and Sold at the Lowest remunerating Prices.

W. & A. BROWN.

Ch'town, June 20, 1864.

An

: t a To Shipbuilders, HE Subseriber HAS RECEIVED on CONSIGNMENT, from ARBROATH, Seat

land, a large quantity of SAIL TWINE and CANVAS in assorted nuribers from 1 to 8, which

will be sold at emall advance.

ALSO, ON HAND:

PITCH, IRON, PAINTS, ~ PITCH OIL, SPIKES, PAINT TL. Purafline Varnish, NAILS, Do BRUSILES,

H. HASZAKD. Upper Qneen Street, Charlottetown, May 30, 1864.

CART! FYXUE Subscriber de-ires ) express his

sincere thanks for the very extensive cus@m given to the late firm of ** Detaxyy & Wixson,” and begs to announce to his friends and the public that he has taken the Store ov the corner of Great George and Kent Streets, known as ‘‘ DAWSON’S BUILDING.” near the old stand, where he intends to open, aboat the Lith OCTOBER,

A large and Fashionable

STOCK OF GOODS,

urchased at some of the. best Houses in GREAT RITAIN, und trusts that by strict attention to bu-iness he will continue to merit and receive

public patronage. W. H. WILSON. Charlottetown, Oct 3, 1864.

CARD. CHARLES L. HAWBOLT,

Commisssion Merchant and Auctioneer, No, 259 HOLLIS STREET, HALIFAX, N.S., I ESPECTEFULBY annonices to his ac-

quaintances and others it P. E> Island, thet

he has commenced business as above, and is pre- red te receive consignments to dispose at Auction or otherwise. He is of opinion, from his long ae- tacwien with the trade cf P. B. Island, New

unswick avd Nova Scotia, be will be able to do justice to those who patronize him. REFERENCES? James Purdie, | Charlottetown, Jawes Muirhead, Esq, Snmmerside, Donald Morrison, Esy, New London.

September 26, 1864. 3m

Marine Insurance Company

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. incorporated i4th April, 1863.

PRESIDENT: WILLIAM HEARD, Esquire.

DIRECTORS : HON. DANL. DAVIES, | HON. JOS. HENSLEY, HON. W. W. LORD, | HON GEO. BEER, JAMES DUNCAN, Esg. | HENRY HASZARD,Ese

SECRETARY:

DANIEL J. ROBERTS Te Risks taken daily at the Offices in Water-street. 4.

May avs OH 29g CARD. M*. BOSWELL is prepared to ac-

commodate BOARDERS, at her residence, fa

(West), near the Bridge. Se BE, 86H.” rey 1 fade t A

TANTED —A Journeyman Block. |

iby me, was really uty cowiposition,

@aaed b

| worst danger we have to encounter. We oe this morning from the carters who

| bring the sick, that there is a belief spread-

‘ing among the peftsants that we are poison: ! | [bad my band on Dr. Tillmann’s door, | ing the paltdunse and that they ehrokeel to

jand yet I hesitated to knock. I was house- attack the hospital. On my own responsi-

|Surgeon of the great Petro-Paulovsky Hos-/ bility L have written to the citadel to ask | pital at St. Petersburg, of which that testy ‘for a guard of soldiers. Olga, if danger | and punetilious old German was principal comes :

physician, avd I carried with me my daily} * Hush, Andrew,’ cried Olga, ‘ kere ig my

report of the cholera patients. who had died father!’ And shé turned to talk to the

during the night. | parrot,

A moment ago I had been talking brisk-) In the evening of the same day, entering ly enough to a group of students, and now! the room occupied by the students, I was | L was standing like a timid boy ata school- hailed with a eheer as I arrived, and the | master’s door, The fact was, 1 knew the porter of the hospital, Alexis, a good-natur- old automaton was jealous of me, aud dis-/ ed thickset fellow, with an enormous bydro- liked me, and I detested bim, and [ tried | cephalic sku!l, ran to place me a seat in the as much as possible 10 avoid coming into! centre of the assembly. The students ga- contact with him. I had determined to|thered round me. The seapegrace of the resist and resent any indignity offered me,| hospital, Ivan Pellican, was addressing the and yet [ wished to avoid a quarrel, be-| rest. It was be, [ was sure, who had been cause I Joved his dear, pretty litle daughter | rash enough to send this letter about the Olga. 1 was, moreover, on the morning of | new drug to the Journal de St. Petersburg, which I speak, tired out both in mind and) 1 advanced and seized him laughingly by body; for L bad been up the greater part| the arm. ‘ Why, yeu rascal,’ said I, *it of the night attending patients in a state of | was you, then, who sent this letter to the ‘collopse fiom the terrible epidemic which! Journal. It'll be my ruin!’ | was devastating the Russian capital. On| Ivan, not the least disturbed, went on |my Way to my OWn room {o snatch an hour! with a bantering speech about me and the /or two of sleep, 1 had stopped at Dr. Till-) new remedy. He was « little bright-eyed ‘mann’s door to deliver my cfficial report.’ man, with pearl-buttoned gaiters and a white /Ac that moment [ would rather have been | paletot.

‘digging graves, tired as | was, than bave| At the end of Pellican’s burlesque, the ‘controuted that intolerable old martinet, drug, resembling a greenish red brunsed to- whom nothing could propitiate, aud from | gether, was passed round among tke stu- }whom no exertion Of wine coud extort a) dens. Kvery one pinched a bit off and |word of praise. tasted it. At last, I knocked in a quick business- | The noise of the door opening startled us. |like way. ‘There was a muttering, but no| We looked round ; it was Dr, Tillman, ‘one answered. 1 knoekedaguin. ‘Come| ‘So this is how my students spend their jin? svapped out the doctor, in his dry | time,’ said the stern old man, * plotting mu- | mechauical voice, I entered. There he| tiny and proposing schemes that subvert all ‘sat, as he had sat every morning for seven-| discipline. Away with this trumpery weed. ‘aud-twenty years at.the same hour, the} Mr. Campbell, after your denial of this 'great brass tower of a samovar boiling be-| morning, L am surprised at your want of jtore bim, aud the teapot mounted aliove the ingenucusness, ‘There, no outharst! [am accustomed to the violent self-assertions of youth,’

‘burning charcoal on the Jittle brazier stand. Before him lay the Journad de St. Peters-

The doctor swept out of the room and slammed the door.

‘éurg, which be, a little nankeen-coloured 'man in a blue offieial coat and brass butons,

|was conning with a contemptuousair. Op- Nex day the symptoms of effervescence | posite sat Olga at the open window, for it | among the serfs beeawe alarming. Several! _was April ome, teasing and feeding an old) ¢ iolera Carts were stopped ou their way to green and crimson parrot. It was a scene | the hospital, the patients were taken out, the |just such as De Loogetoved to paint. The | vehicles were brokea up and thrown into i sunshine fell in blanched light on one side the Fontanka canal, and the horses turned | of the suowy tablecloth, and in slant golden loose. Ln the great hay-market outside the isquares upou the marqueterie of the floor. hospital, immeuse crowds assembled, sheur-

A RUSSIAN ROMANCE.

}

L bowed to her and to the implacable doctor. ing at the great entrance, * Let us kill the-e ‘Weil, sir,’ said he, ‘your report.’ the doctors!" The hay and I was about to hand it, when be said:

| Read it.’ | Lreadit. ‘April 14, 1832... Number of | putients received since yesterday: In the | Peter ward, eighty-three; in the Catherine | ward, seventy-five; in the Romanoff ward, juivety-two. Died during the night, forty- three.’

‘Oh, father, father, how terrible,’ cried ihe doctor’s daughter ; * Heaven bus, indeed, sent the destroyjugaugl mong us, Do the poor people suffer much, ».7. Campbell ? Ob, can L be of any use? Do you think il 1 went to the wards 1 could enerurge the uurses 2

Kven T had never before seen Olga look so beautiful as she 4id then, when a high an J generous impulse was stirriug ber beart to good.

* Miss Tillmann,’ [ replied, ‘ you must no! expose yourself to danger. The ourses are walous. They understand the peopie, and can bear these scenes of borror better than you could.’

‘Olya. attend to your parrot,’ said the old pedant, harshly ; ‘practise your wusic; your master comes at, eleven.’

‘I am afraidys'r,’ I said, ‘the opium and calomel treatment does not save more than a third of our patients. Those who have been. brought in this morning have beer nearly all in a state of collapse, from which it has been, ia migst cases, impossible to re- cover them.’

‘A mere phase of the disease,’ said Dr. Tilmana ; ‘that will soon pa-saway. Con- tinue the opium avd the calomel. We must have no absurd innova’ious in the Petro- Paulovsky Hospital. By-the-by,’ said be, (a mischievous malice twinkling ia bis little beady eyes.) ‘here is a letter io the Jowrna? to-day puffiog up some new Persian anti- cholera drug—the Sumbai, or jumble,or some such absurd namie; a tmusk-root, that brings the dead to life, accoreing to an Knglish- man’s account. [ really think these foreign quacks are getting more impudent than ever.’ (Here he suddenly twisted round in his chair, and fixed bis weascl eyes on me.) * Mr, Campbell, did you insert that letter 2?’

The blood rose to my face, and my cheek was turned red, as L replied, indignantly :

‘No, Sir, L did not insert that Jeter ; nor will [ endure, evea from you, the name of foreign quack.”

I am sure the angey tone in which I re- plied must have given pain to Miss Tillman, for she bent down to'the parrot, and I could | distilled the stuff as you wissed me, and see the cvlour rise to, ber cheek. bere it is, Reinsch aod L have been at it

Nothing could the doctor. * Oh, I ‘ever since the last case of collapse was put ouly asked,’ he aif

} | murderers,

quass and ber stalls were unfrequented, even the tea stalls had, I observed, but few customers, None of the richer classes were seen 5 the people gathered into danger- ous whispering koots. That these groups were talking about the hospital ‘there could be no doubt, for every third speaker had his hand stretched out and pointing at it.

Once, and once only, as we passed one of the large windows in the first ward I could not help directing Dr. Tillmann’s attention to those ominous symptoms; but all the an- swer the doctor would deign to give was:

‘Qur peasants are stupid pigs, bat they wil! pot dare to lift a fiiger against the kc‘ro-Paulovsky. Hospital. No! They woulu .¢ Boon set fire to the eathedral. This fire will soon burn itself out.’ Ue woul! not discuss tu? matter with me, and we went round the beds with the students,

Having ap hour or two to myself before the night patients arn, 7d, and there being vow bo signs of any mo.¢ dangerous con- course in the hay-market, | stole to my own quiet room at the left wiog of the hospital, uear the anatomical museum, to complete my chemical experiments on the musk-root, befure communicating my discovery to the chief physigians in Londoa and J’aria.

It was a beautifal April evening; the | fall moon shining through my window upon my retort, and my glass phisls and scales gave the room the look of am alchemist’s chamber, for its beams fell in squares, and lines, and wavering glimmers, on my open books, and my sauccrs of tesis aud acids. ‘The white wall of the hospital gardeu below gleamed as if it were solid silver. 1 was absorbed in the ardour of discovery. 1 treated a part of the membrane of the root with sulphuric acid, and it turned an intense purple. I was more and more certain now that my discovery wus one of importance to the scieutific worid—oue that would bring we fame and fortune. But bow was I, an uuvknown wan, kept in obseurity by a jea- lous superior, to make the discovery public ? iy proofs would have no weight in the eyes of prejudiced men disliking a novelty which superseded the old remedies of their youth. { was not enthusiast evough to believe | had found a panacea, but L was sure I had found | a reliable aid to the cholera doctor.

Peilican burst into the room wi b some- thing in a teacup.

‘Murrah, Campbell!’ he cried; ‘ I've

‘No offéace; bat 1 | into bis bath.’ : know young men take up these pew-fangled| 10 rushed Reinsch (an enthusiastic flaxen fancies. The third house-surgeon before you haired German) in raptures. He had | was mad about mesmerisw, and was angry | ‘treated bis solution with lime and muriate with me for ridiculing it. We had high | of soda, acd the result had been a sediment words ; a word of mine to the government, | Comsisting of guin, starch, and saline mat- aud bis name was struck off the saff. Take|'et- lo a moment we were seated, our a seat while I yo ittothe pext room and pat | ‘bree heads together, examining the precipi- on my coat. 1 will then go rcund.the wards|tate with the true ardour of philauthropic with you.’ discoverers,

All this time the insolent’ old disciplin-| We all liked Reinsch, who was one of arian bad kept me standing, as if I had been | those quiet, amiable dreamers, too negative | a servant. _ in quality fcr any one to dislike. But)

I bowed, and took a seat. I was too Pelleun was my great crony. He was a proud to plead fatigue aud so escipe the | Dative of L tile Russia, an impulsive, warm- odious duty imposed upon me by this nar-| hearted fellow, as eager at study as at row-minded fossil of a bygone regime. I bad pleasure, our best surgeon, our best billiard- not dared to tell him that the letter he had player. Que moment you found him ab-'|

questioned me about,* though not.inserted sorbed in the luboratory, and the next add had moment you would find bim shouting and |

some | Singing among a party of .card-players, and | imprudent and officious friend. Lt recorded !oouing out of clouds of circling smoke, | some convincing proofs of the efficacy of the) We were well into the work, when, to| mysterious Persian musk-root. ‘my infinite chagrin, the door flew opea, and

As the inner door closed on the doctor, in burst eight or ten medical stadeuts. Olga’s pale avxious face turned round to- They were Hungarians, Dunes, Prussians, wards we with a half-sorrowful recognition Awericans — noisy, reckless, good-natured | that she bad not dared hitherto to accord me. | fellows—in mavy varieties of costume. One [ advanced towards ber and raised her hand of them, who had, perhaps, taken a little too’ to my tips. , wuch wive (in his laudable anxiety to es.

* Dear Mr. Campbell,’ she said, ‘I thank ‘cape infection), was playing on a covcertina you from my heart for bearing with my fa- a fanciful selection of airs from the reper. \ther’s harsh caprices. “I know how hard it toire of the solitary Russian composer, is for your bigh spirit to endure these indig- Glinka, | nities. I hear there is danger ; do tell me ‘Here they are, grubbing away as usual!’ if it is true, I know you would not tell my cried Kalthofer, a Livonian.

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lican, make a second table at whist; here's they faced an old porter and Dr. Tillmana Maslovitch and Hoffman been cleaving us With drawn swords. oll oat! . meets ners, pigs!’ cried sheceneniaies Up leaped Pellican, all his good resolu. !9°¢ Sonkey 3. Avance one step furter i tions forgotten in a moment. He drew a Save Back yoo hank founded, and pack of cards from his pocket, flapped them |" As he spoke, be advanced and struck at with a practised band, threw them in an the leading insurgents. Tho leaders, fell arch over his head, and caught them as) back before the feeble blows of. his eword, cleverly as a clever juggler. _buta rough butcher’s man behind, his.banda ‘ Not quite so much. noise, old fellows,’ jeu red trom the. slaughter-bouse, struck suid [; ‘remember this is a terrible time, Rin are ass nay mh orang and we have - hands full. Besides, I} Pelican were surrounded by some twenty have an hour's —s to do before L g°| or thirty students, perters, and assistants, round the wards. Come; troop!” And [/all armed with bludgeons and sword-sticks. rose from my seat with the gestures of a| We bore down to the rescue, and driving the drover collecting his flock, poor wretches back over the door, cleared I was driving them out at the door, when the hallina minate. We instantly carried two fresh studeats arrived, leading Alexis of. phates, Aish opened te ore = between them; he was pale, his coat was : : r : , ’ , hall ; and as the chief entrance te the main torn, he had a black eye, and his mouth! wards and to the doctor's apartments lay was bleeding. ' through that room, we agreed te make that. _ ‘Hallo, young Hydrocephalus,’ said Pel-| place our citadel ; barricading the door wish lican, what’s this? Look at him.’ chairs, forms, stovis and deske. ‘Tell them all about it, Alexis,’ said his|, Fvrtunately, our assailants, being chiefly conductors, thumping him oo the baek, for thet pretouk wuoh cthck tte eh themealves ; . a: : ith attacking this entrance, a — i rt oi groaned Alexis. | 414 did not proceed, as they might have : - lads said i. : done, to sack the hospital, and ¢arry.off the ‘Who ? why the black prople in the mar-| patients. Every minute's respite we ot- ket place. They took away the cholera | tamed, gave us hope of the arrival of the cart from me, carried off the sick men, and Seldiers. It was a dark night, but by the would have thrown me into the canal, if) st of the torches that some of the pea- one of them, s coachman, hado’tiasid kindly, | °°" carried, we couid see the seething m \ hanes de , ¥+ | of greasy black-bearded faces rolling an set the beast go ; he sold bis head to the billowing under the windows, poisoning doctors years age, and they’iloaly! Our scheme of defence was soon carried thank us for killing him. ; out. The doctor, who had received a dam *And so we should,’ cried Pellican, | gerous wound, was placed on a bed in a side~ laughing unfeelingly till he grew quite red. |r00m, under the care of Masloviteh, who was ‘Come along, Alexis, and have a schnapps, |9% of 4 combative nature. When I went to and teil us the whole story! Mr. Camp- Smale. eae b idenet : ; ; ide. She gave mea ee toi bape com along, mes gar-| jogk of unspeakable grattude, and held ber cons 3; L say you pen ve got Some DEWs | hand owt for me to kiss. for you. luook at Campbell! * Are we in dupger?’ sae asked, in a low The students already in the passage hud- | voice. dled buck into the doorway, their faces| ‘ We areinsomedanger, Olga, but Heaven looming through blue rings of smoke. will protestue-~prag fer uaz! « Campbell's in love!’ Wea L returned, € found that Petlican ‘InJove?’ they all broke out, like the | bad arranged bis furce with great strategic tele shores: skill up in the two iton galleries un either * Yes; in love—in love with old Tillman's side ol the barricaded door of the museum. daughter — but he has no chance. . She We resolved to defend the door by shower- smiles at me whenever I meet her.’ ing jars of spirits and the -heavy bones of I rushed at.my tormentor ina pretended |SKeletons upon every awailant that dared rage, therc was a shout of laughter, and the to ehow hig ave oe the threshold. Alas! door closed on Pellican and his royetering |" Poot Dr. Tiliman’s specimens—the pride flenda. of his Jife, the treasures amassed during long » | An hour afterwards I entered Dr. Till-/¥e#?s of patienteollecting—down they were mann’s rom, Olga was not there, but|% 6%» splintering missiles to check the fury |there was her book with a flower in it to nf am daraged mab. : : }mark the place. The doctor was at his: ,- Nota wT must throws bottle till 1 give desk, the paper on which was strongly illu- the signal,’ cried -Peili¢an; fromthe -escond mivated by the yellow light throwa upon it balcony, bees > buge glass jar. * Wheod by..the glow of an Argand lamp, over .the | °° Anafemat Uarniseh throws, then the glass of which was placed a cireular green | TS* !® turns. We must bs cool, or we'shall shade. Half in light and half in shadow, be ali dead meu” before the morning. All ¥ just beyond the lamp, stood three glass jars te %, oe overs’ glad was SEW et vise’; containing specimens of enormous tarantulas when we'd! mark a“ raccals. “Never mind and centipedes. what wounds you infliet, for if we can only The doctor looked up as I entered, and in | Kee? ® whole skin till’ the soldiers come, the the coldest manner possible acknowledged | !/ows will return to us to be cured.“ Now, my presence. to your posts, for they aré coming'én, with 1 wentioned the report of Alexis, and the|* vengeance? Look oat, ‘Campbell * mind, possibility of the hospital being attacked | ¥° bight PRR ee a ee during the night. I requested to be allowed dried up, and not of much uss.’ Now then, ah citi sien and Goi help ne!” to send to the citadel for a company of the Piero th ty exatndt the tienided Preobrajensky regiment. Se eee Poeiinie wy, > Mow ae ae am to bertroubled with |* erash of axes, and with shouts of * Give us these absurd fears?’ demanded the doctor, | @P OUT children, * Give us Speer brothers,” suddenly. ‘1s i¢ not eneugh that you de- + Loar the poisotiers' to’ pieces Was" crows ceive me, mock me, encourage your fellow- hewed down the door and rushed, Clauber- students to mutiny and insubordination ? | ‘74 OVeF the sbattored defences.” No, sit, L will bave no soldiers to guard the Pour or five of the more dating” broke in Petro-Paulovsky Hospital. I have seca, too | Péll-mell, and, astonished to see no enemy much of our peasamtry to fear them.’ Gruwn upito receive them, they paused “for ‘You do me # grest injustice, Dr. Til-|*" instant to wait for their companions. mann,’ I replied; *and but for one reason| , ?’¢!lican gave the word, and down came a that I have, J, would not remain eavther day shower of glass jars; thigh-bones, pestles, and under your direction.’ Se other Pere he fe les. The doctor's eyes turned red as he took bheeati se alieaiens Pr te mo cae Par eae aia aera ic one ee oe ee é e ls said, *80} "Three ti full of poison as thou aré. Do you think | ok tan _— a ae have not discovered that you have dared to| pivkies drove Ps eerfe > Iaren sagen administer to the patients of the emperor's ieaeal and wounded a "Bs bospital your infamous drag? No wonder} + Never mind,’ they eried from ‘the hall; the en ge accuse us Of poisen~)+ wyit cill the morning, then we’ will kill ing the sick. understand, sir, aleo.“your acter } ; insolent allusion to my daughtor; bat be ee eee a ee te ae sure, sir, she shall never beeome the wile ot} » » ; : a beggarly adventurer! You see this letter’ Mapedineate! regi ncgp s (here he pointed to a letter on the table) ; | hundreds a madaened én eeedab m4 ‘it vontains an order for your instant dis. peasants crowded in sind pentdbs, so miss] from the staff of this hospital. No} braving all our miseiles, threatened to storm words, eir. Good night. We shall see to- | che calioebed leaditie te the‘saller in spite morrow who is master in this place.’ _ bof all wé could Py But ea Cen 1 bowed and retired. 1 was paralysed by | discharge of musketry was beard, and a mere Dr. Tillmann’s threats. © A cruel hand] pandsful ef soldiers pourmg in 4 Vollew 4s seemed snatehing me from Olga, and hurling! the mob, advanced throu : the hail Sth me into an abyss of obscurity, penury, and | fixed bayonets and were soot masters of the Seepaie.s "Whee E Wal oly Ulie Witgs, Oot, SE gene. darts ‘winutes more, there was nut ame, happiness, und a great discovery ! an i i ‘ding suit enrsyooag, Cae porary? "|e seca tee Sune eases might still set myself right with the minister, > guurd there. fA was Alexis who had obtain fresh appointments, become rich und | brought in the euldiers by a back garden en- oe ow rn — One thing I deter-| trance, of which the mob was ignorant. ~ mined. wou sent on Dy Own responsi- ‘Ss ’ ‘ y > bility) for soldiers, sv fadih oar pecimbd to siainagabaee ae ee Saieetent me ™ — in which we stood at the hos- Hydrocephalus! bat it sill still go hard mith pital, wrote a hasty note. to Genral aghr ad ie ;