4

y 3 og ie ‘thy, a & a ‘

ne

"his is t

Ts |

ee

TAN

WHEKLY JOURNAL OF

rune Liberty, when Freeh

orn Men,

CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE |

having to advis

3DWARD I

Ki

e the Public, in

SLAND, MONDAY, DECEM2

POLITICS, LITERATURE

lny speak fre

205” nis Euripides.

AND

ER. 25, 1865.

*

MTeIsES

Petes

NEWS.

es ow 2S

{ NO.’7.

E ‘ ‘le. holesale Change ! ae SUBSCRIBER, in announcing the

ZETION OF HIS

’ IMPORTATIONS,

acer bis gratefal acknowledgements tx mds and public generally who so kindly zed hia in business during the past thirty- years. And being desirous to change the

siness. after the Ist of May next, TO THAT OF

VHOLESALE ONLY,

offers all his present

ell assorted Stock in Trade,

ich em races nearly every variety of goods imported here,

»At Reduced Prices, ; during the next four montha, by MIOLUSALE and RETAIL,

Erder to clear off the whole preparatory to the con temfifuated new arrangement

ME

J ‘

is Square Fig Tobacco, mavut jmmediate , can be conf e

And as a Whol sarily involve ala solicits an earl standing Debts

wspection, of the very best materials, ewtjally recommended

le Eatablishment must neces. Ke outlay of capital, he earnest ly

‘\ DANIEL BRENAN.

Ch’town, December 4. 1865 om

KEROSENE OIL! rgvO ARRIVE— 100 Caskes KEROSENE OIL.

For sale by Dec. 4.1 5 J S. CARVELL.

“SUGAR! SUGAR! OURLY EXPECTED— 20 lihds. Bright Porto Rice SUGAR. For exe low, to arrive. ~

J. 8. CARVELL.

December 4 1RA5

~ LEATHER! rex) ARKIVE—

LEATHER!

100 sides No. | SOLE LEATHER. Dec. 4, (865 J 8. CARVELL.

Ee : 7s i ‘OUR! FLOUR! Y expected to arrive per Steamer merce, and Schooners Arctic, Ocean Belle, | Wontez—

1890 Barrels FLOUR,

ore—650 do Do ; For sale by

4, |885. J. 8. CARVELL.

RAISINS! FIGS! rgxO ARRIVE, ex Sehr. Brave, from HALIPAX, Nova Seotta— 50 Boxes RAISINS, 50 half boxes Do 25 Drums Smyrna FIGS,

Dee.

50 smail buxes Do De Fo- sale by MOS

Dee J.S. CARVELL

Tee 4. J ae SHEEPSKIN COATS. R ji Pale Sheepskin OVE RCOATS, Just the thing for the edason. APPLES! Agv PLES! fg'O ARRIVE. ex Sehr. Spray, frow 56 Bols. RUSSET faPPLES.

For «ale low from the Wharf, by TOBACCO! TOBACCO! "PO \ARRIVE*we Abe. Lola Moxtez,

20 Boxes TOLACCO.

Dee. 4.1865. __TSeseaRVEET.. WOODEN WARE! RECELVED, ov Cousigament— 10 Nests TUSS,

10 Boxes CLOTHES PINS, Provincial Manufacture. For sale low, by Water Crackers! ECELVED. ex Princess of Wales from the well-known Steain Bakery of Tos. Raskin & Sons, St. Jubu. N. B. Dee 4, 1865. Queen Street. Blankets! Blankets! 2D 15 Coils MANILLA ROPE, LP Oered at a low figure by the Bail or Coil

ECEIVED on Consignment — Tee. 4 1865. J CARVELL HALIFAX, Nova Scotiad— Dec. 4, $865. J. 8 CARVELL. tron BUSTON— jus! 20 Dez. BUCKETS, 10 Dez. WASH BOARDs, \, 1845 20 Boxes WATER CRACKERS, NEIL RANKIN, = BALES BLANKES, blockade runners. N. RANKIN, Queen Street.

Dee 4, 1965.

Ex ‘‘ Commerce.’’ U-T arrived, per Steamer Commerce from Hacursx— 50 Half Boxes RAISINS, 25 Quar. do Deo 50 Druma TURKEY FIGS, 5 half Barrela CURRANTS, 6 Bags FILBERTS.

For sale by N. RANKIN, Dec. 4, 1805 Queen Street.

New Grocery Store,

JUST OPENED,

At Smardon’s Corner,

by LEMUEL McKAY.

co" The best of GROCERIES

and LLQUORS at the Cheapest Cash Price: s.

FRESH JERSEY PEACHES, IN TINS,

W akean TED to be a superior article. For S::le by Wa. R. WATSON. Cite Drng Store, Ch’town, Dee. tt, 1865.

"Tea! ‘Tea! UST RKEVELVED, ex URANIA, irom LONDON — 117 Chests Very Superior 20 Half Chests} CONGO TEA Alzo, by Ariadne, from Leith, 57 Cases Glenury WHISKEY, 30 de GINGERETTE, 300 GRAIN SACKS.

th” All at the lowest prices. WILLIAM DODD, Nov. 6, 1865.

Queen Square. yd’s Register of British and ¥- Sign Shipping. Tt Ocroser, 1865. ttee have recently had under LAeration the Standing of Sprace in

~ached to the Rules, aud have deter- OW the use of this material in Ships of

for all . except Stem, Stern- eeeeee SS omtne a

awse-timbers,

’ = > ~

wood. GEORGE B. SEYFANG, OGGET, DSecretary.

ov, Prince Edward Island.

Pp and Spy.’

.

.

tae thia Island

tw Liv

sared on the preaises, ander his own |

payment of al! his ont.)

- | are daily increasing with the guests of our house,

| menced with a small wine-glassful after dinner.

_ re SAF

The New York Ti:bune says: “ The reason why | Drake’s Plantation Bitters are so universally used and bave such an immense sale is, that they are | always made up to the original Standard, of highly |

invigorating materia! and of pure quality, although | the prices have so largely advanced,’ £e,

The Ty:bune just hits the nail on the head. The | Plantation Bitters are not only made of pure mate- :

| rial, but the people are told what it is. The Recipe ) is published around each Bottle, and the bottles are | not reduced in size. At least twenty imitations /and sounterfeits have sprang up. They impose | upon the people once, and that’s the

' last of them,

The Plantation Bitters are now used in all the | Groverument Hospitals, are recommended by the | best physicians, and are warranted to proc immediate beneficial ¢tfect. | things.

“*

luce an | Facts are stubborn

>

I owe much to you, for T verily be- | tativn Bitters have saved my life, * Rev. W. H. Waggoner, Madrid, N.Y ”

lieve the Plan

“—* * *

Thou wilt send me two bottles more of thy Plantation Bitters. My wife has been greatly | benefitted by their use. Thy friend,

* ASa CurRIN, Philadelphia, Pa,”

ae £2

I have been & great sufferer from | | Dyspepsia, und had te abandon Preaching. * * #| | The Plantation Bitters have cured me. ; * Rev, J. S. Oarnory, Rochester, N Y.””

“* *

* Send us twenty-four dozen more of | your Plantation Bitters, tbe popularity of which

i “Sykes, Cnapwick & Co., | * Proprietors Willards’s Hotel, Washingtoa, D C.”

“oe * €

[have given the Plantation Bitters | to hundreds ef our disabled soldiers with the most | astonishing effect. G. W. D, Anprews,

** Superintendent Soldiers’ Home, Cincinnati, 0.” } “* * * The Plantation Bitters bave cured me of liver complaint, with which I was laid up | prostrate and had to abandon my business, “ H. 1. Kexesvey, Cleveland, 0.”

“* *

* The Plantation Bitters have cured me of a derangement of the kidneys and the urinary organs that has distressed me for years. It acts like a charm. C C. Moone, 254 Broadway.”

“New Beprorp, Mass., Nov. 24, 1863. “Dear Sin:—I have been afflicted many years with severe prostrating cramps in my limbs, evld feet and bands, and a general disordered system. Physicians and wedivines failed torelieve me. Sume triends in New York, who were using Plantation Bitters, prevailed upon me to try them. I com-

Feeling better by degrees, in a few days I was as- tunished to find the coldness and crainps had en- tirely left me, and I could sleep the night through, whieh I bad not done for years. I feel like another veing. My appetite and strength have also greatly improved by the use of the Plantation Bitters.

“ Respectfully, Juorra Russev.”’

If the ladies but knew what thousands of them | are constantly relating to us, we caudidly believe one half of the weakness, prostration aud distress experienced by them would vanish. James Marsh, E-q , of 159 West Iith St., N. Y., says, * he bas three children, the first two are weak and puny, bis wife having been unable to nurse or attend them, but that she has taken Plantation Bitters for the last two years, and has a child now eighteen weaths old whith

invaluable to muthers,’’ &c,

Such evidence might be continued for a volume. The best evidence is to try them. They speak for thewselves. Persons cf sedentary habits, truubled with weakness, lassitude, palpitation of the heart lack of appetite, distress a(ter eating, torpid liver, constipation, diabetes, &c., will find speedy relief through these bitters.

Every bottle for exportation and sale out of the United States bas a metal cap and green label around the neck.

Beware of re-filled bottles. See that the cap has not been mutilated. Any person pretending to sell Plantation Bitters in bulk or by the guilon is aa imposter. We sell it only in bottles.

Seld by principal dealers throughout the habit.

ble globe. per P. H. DRAKE & vO., New York.

Deo. 18, 1865. 610

Bannewell’s Eclectic Pills. THE TRUB CATHARTIC AND FAMILY PILL.

The importance of this development of the true and Natural Cathartic cannot be over estimated. To have a Pill which never requires over (w, and eeldom but one for a dose, acting on the Bowels without the sightest Grping, or irritation, can be used with the greatest freedom by all who have suffered the trouble of long constipated tendency, and to check which has oftentimes ended in the opposite extieme of bowel weakness, will be found the true feature of the Eclectic Pills. Their true character creates the expression of experienced A es, that long experience has never found their equal; from Physicians who have used Thou- sands im their practice, that the true idea of a Perfect Cathartic bas never before been realized, and by thousands whe have used thew in their tamilies, that they are the ovly true Fumily Pili they have ever seen.

Without descending to the clap-trap form of un- meaning puffs, or false testimonials, confidence is asked to test them iu Bilousness, Indigestion, Dys- pepsia, Worms, Loss of Appetite, as a Spirng Medicine, ull derangements of the system caused by a disor- dered stowach, and a general Family Pill,

Ea Price 25 cents per Bottle. For sale by deaicrs in every City and Town. To be sent by mail, are put im boxes at 25 cents, 50 cents, aud one dollar, which will. be sent, post paid, on receipt of the amount. Also in packages of 1900 to Physicians.

JOHN L HUNNEWELL, Proprietor, Practical Chemist, Boston, Mass.

W. R. Watson, T. DesBrisay, and M. W. Skinner, Agents iu Charlottetown, P E. I. a hits hated lai

He Smelleth the Battle Afar.

All have read the sublime deseription of the forse, in the book of Job. Traly there is one thing he smelleth farther, and that is

** Carlton's Condition Powders.” And if he says ** Ha, ha,’’ in the smoke of battle, how much more does he ery * Ha, ha,” when ‘is werciful master vives him some of these powders, | which will regniate his system, sharpen his uppe- | tite, and strengthen him for his daily toil.

A merciful man is merciful to his beast.

These Powders are just the thing for all Stock ; | they loosen the skin, make the hair softaud glossy ; iu short, a8 their nawe imports, bring the Aniwal into * tip-top” condition and vigorous health. A ckaye will more than puy its cost in the Outs it will save you, for it is not necessery to feed as high when you use these Powders as you do without them. Use Cantron’s Conpition Powpens.

Get “* Rescue of Tula Almanac.” So'd by Dealers every where.

Health and Beauty. CHAPMAN'S ILLUSTRATED GUIDE,

utiful little work of 50 pages, teaches you how Ome Tau, Freckles, Pimples Blotches, Erup- tions, and all impurities of the Skin — how to pro- dace a full growth of Whiskers—how to produce a luxuriant growth of Mair on a Bald Head—cure Ca- tarrh Parity the Blood, Purify the Breath—to Curl and Beautify the Hair, Remove Superfuous Hair, sure Drankenvess,cure Nervous Debility &c. &c.— new your Age, aud orber useful and

we.will be mailed free of on. Adwe THOS. F. CITA AN,

Chemist and Pertur, BSsl Geastwapit York:

; j*

tiie bdo ‘nasved ena ; But the door was fastened tight ; tien sud silent both aré " and well. The article is : “

of murder.

POETRY,

TUE WILLOW,

O willow, why forever Weep.

As ons whe mourns in endless wrong? What hidden woe can lie go deep?

What utter grief can last so long ?

The Spring makes haste with step eluate, Your life and beauty to renew ;

She even bids the roses wuit, And gives her first sweet care to you.

The welcome red-breast folds his wing, To pour for you his freshest strain ; To you the earliest blue-birds sing. Till all your light stems thrill aguin,

The sparvow trills his wedding song, Aud trusts his tender brood to you; Fair flowering vines, the Summer long, With clasp and kiss your beauty woo

The sunshine drapes your limbs with light, The rain braids diamonds in your bair,

The breeze wakes love to you at night— Yet still you droop, and still despair.

Beneath your boughs, at fall of dew, By lovers’ lips is softly told The tale that all the ages through Has kept the world from growing old.

But still, though April's bids unfold, Or summer sets the earth aleaf,

Or autumn pranks your robes with gold, You sway and sigh in graceful grief.

Mouru on forever, unconsoled, And keep your secret, faithfal tree! No iveart in all the world can bold

A sweeter grace than constancy. sere

EDDY.

I had told him, Christwas morning, As he sat upon my knee, Holding fast his little stockings Stulfed as full as full could be, And attentive listening to me, Witk a fuce demure and mild, That good Santa Claus, who filled them, Does not love a naughty child.

* Bat we'll be good, won't we moder !”” And from my lap he shd, Digging deep among the goodies In his eriiason stockings hid, While [ tarned me to my table, Where a tempting goblet stood, Brimming high with dainty egy-nogg Seut me by a neighbor good.

But the kitten there before me, With his white paws nothing loth, Sat, by way of entertainment, Slapping off the shining froth ; And iu not the gentlest humor At the loss of such a treat, I confess I rather rudely Thrust him out into the street.

Then how Eddy’s black eves kindled, Gathering up the precious sture He bad been basily poring Tut bis tiny pinafore ; With a gsverous look that shamed me, Sprang be from the carpet bright, Showing by bis mein indignant, All a baby 5 sense of right.

* Come back, Harney !"" culled he loudly, As he held his apron white, * You shall hab my candy rabbit!”

hotel to another, under a fictitious hame. How- ever, it was found impossible to arzeat him, until she herself mvoluntarily betrayed hu by a letter ,she wrote from the prison, addressed to Don | Thaddeo Santia, Madrid. At this period it was | the custom in Spain to hang out a list of letters | brought by the post, addresses of which were not | sufficiently explicit. Santiago threw hinself into | the coils that were spread for him Soon after | the two were brought to trial. She was one of the most beautiful women of Madrid, and belonged to one of its mest ancient families; but the judges were inflexible. Both the lady and her paramour were sentenced to death, and they were accord- ingly exequted. Until the Jast moment they sv- lemnly protested that they were innocent; but, just as the fatal cord was adjusted about their necks, they made a full eonfeasion of their guilt, and acknowledged the justice of their seatence.

the interest of the sex to see the Jaws thus vindi- ' cated, than it would have been te turn the trial | into a farce and allow the guilty to escape ?

Oue ot the most remarkable cases in criminal | dnuals is that of Madame Gottfreid. In 1825 a | gentleman named Rumpff established himself in a house in Bremen, which belonged to and was also inhabited by a widow lady of the above name, who, by common consent, was a charming wo- man, and who was as much celebrated for her kindness and gentleness of manner as she was for her beauty. But all regarded her as unfortu- nate, and they sympathized with her accordingly ; they thought it a great pity that such a good wo- man should have lost two husbands, her father. mother, brother, and several children, all in the course of a féw brief yeara. She used tu lament herself, with tears in ber eves, that she had to perform the painful duty of ordering thirteen coffins of the undertaker; but she added that she had the consolation ot knowing that she bad ten- derly nursed all her lost friends, never leaving their bedside until they were beyoud the reach of all earthly aid.

Although now forty years of age, she had still claimants for ier baud, fer the worst thought entertained about her was that she had a poison- ous breath, which was fatal to all who inbaled it at certain times or under certain circumstances. Partly for this reasun, and partly for ill luck, the friends of Mr. R. tried to dissuade him from es- tablishing himselfin the house. In many features of his character this gentleman was like Dr. Bur- dell, the victim 6f a woman whose character is still more like Madame Gottfreid, Rumpff had no faith in the reasons assigned by his friends, and he had uo idea of resigning a residence thut suited, on absurd grounds. Unhke Dr. Bardell, Mr. Rumpff had a wife and family. For some time, however, the latter seemed te have great reason to congratulate himself, and his wife was if pessible still better pleased with the change than himneell, for Madawe Gottfreid seewed to have no other care but to render herself agree- able to both, aud to dv all iu her power for the ebildren.

Such were the relations, for eight weeks, when the general joy was interrupted by the sudden death of Madame Rumpff, who was seized with a v oleut vomitting two or three days after her con- finewent. Nothing could exceed che attention of Madame Gottfreid, aud so well did she play her part, that the chief conselation of the dying wo- man in ber last moments, while writhing in agony, Was, that she left behind her a kind friend

In the centre Athe tloor, With defeated look aiternate Bent on me and ov tie door.

Then, as from a sudden impulse, Quickly ran he to the fire, And while eagerly his bright eyes Watched the tlames go higher aud higher ; In a brave clear tone he shouted Like sume lordly little elf, **Sauta Claus come down the chimney, Make my moder ‘have herself!"

“ I will be a good yirl, Eddy,” Said I, feeling the reproof,

And straightway recalled poor Harney, Mewing on the gallery roof ;

Soon the anger was forgotten, Laughter chased away the frown,

Aud they played beneath the live ouke Till the dusky night came down.

In my dim, fire-lighted chamber Harney purred beneath my chair.

And my play wore boy beside me Kuelt to say his evening prayer,

* God bless fader—God bless moder, God bless sister’’—then a pause,

Aud the sweet young lips devoutly Murmured—* God blees Santa Claus !"’

He is sleeping; brown and silken Lie ti:2 lashes long and meek,

Like caressing, clinging shadows On his plump and peachy cheek !

And [ bend above him weeping Thankful tears—oh ! undefiled ;

For a woman's crown of glory, For the blessing of a child.

MISCELLANEOUS,

INTERESTING CHAPTER.

REMARKARLE FEMALE CRIMINALS.

AN

(From the Quarterly Review.)

Until the “ Don Quixote’? of Cervantes gave false gallantry its death blow in Spain, nothing was more common than the murder of busbands by their wives, But that justly celebrated work opened the eyes of all classes to the injurious tendency of the oetiens then prevalent as to the manner in which a woman ought te be encouraged, even in her crimes. Ever since, women have been held responsible for their conduet quite as wuch as men; the former as well as the latter have been inexorably executed when found guilty We will quote ene case as an illus- tration of that of Doana Maria Modivis, of Ma- drid, whe, toward the close of the last century, excited horrer and amazement throughout Spain by the assassinatiun of her husband. It was found, on investigation, that her paramour, Don Santiago San Juan, committed the deed at ber instigation while her husband was lying sick and helpless in bed.

She had made such arrangements as enabled the assassin to escape after the commission of the crime, without being discovered by the servants. That she had not committed the murder with her own band was evident to all, but she was imme- diately arrested, nevertheless, and safely lodged in prison. It was supposed that Santiago was absent from Madrid at the timeof the oecurreace.

Now, need we ask how much better it wae for | Was too conclusive tu be set aside, she persistently

| by Nannette.

who knew her—would be guilty of poisoning her own friends? A fady, too, coniiuued another, who could see no one in pain or misery without shedding tears? Nor was this any misrepresen- ‘ tation, for she wept while her victims writhed in | the agonies of death, and called on God to pity them and release them from their sufferings. The fact shows, however, that she could shed | tears when she wished, and assume any charaeter | Which she thought was most suitable to ber pre- | sent circumstaoces.

; }

/

So numerous. were her. } crimes and sc lung did it require, in consequence, _ to collect evidence against her, that three years bad elapsed from the time of her arrest till she | was brought to the scaffuid. It was clearly es- | tablished on her trial that she had murdered | fifteen persons, and that she had destroyed the | health of an incredible number. | Until she saw that the evidence against her | insisted that she was an innocent women whom unprincipled enemies bad eouspired with each other tu ruin; then, however, she coufessed all, aud wrote a history of her life, the details of which are still more revolting than those given The account she gives of the poisoning of her own mother would show by it- self that she was a woman in nothing save the terni, but the worst of fiends, Tad her trial been one of those farces that have disgraced the crimi- nal jurisprudence of this country during the past ten years, the world would never have known how one may seem. kind, pious, charitable, in short, in every respect exemplary, and still be at heart a bloud-thirsty demon, capable of murder- ing her own innocent children. It ie oly when criminals are brought to con 4igt punishinent that they reveal these “sets which prove tne most valuable lessons tu the private citizen as well as to the legislator, the christian miuister, aud the inoralist, — 4.

THE FENIAN GOVERNMENT.

(From the Torouto Leader, Dec. 5.)

Such is the name which the New York Herald gives to men who, if the Moffat Mansion, Union Square, New York, are exchanging their worth- less bonds for United States greenbacks at the rate of $20,000 a week. If this were kept up it would place about $1,040,000 a year at the dis- posal of King O'Mahoney and his asaoeiates. But out of it, the expenses of the “Government,” which are apparently not on a very frugal seale, the rent paid for their headquarters being $12,- 000 a year, has to be paid. As the Fenian Go- vernwent is fashioned after that of the United States, President O’Maboney ought to get as large a salary as President Johnson. This is the more reasonable since he is described as an “incessant worker,” “ ecustantly on duty,” pule of face as it bore duwn by the weight of bis offivial duties. But this we are assured is an error; for, accord- ing to the Herald, “ his head and brain are fresh and clear; aud withal he is such a master uf the Fenian situation that he dues his work with com- parative ease.” We surely do aot over-estimate ‘he value of the services of such a man in putting it duwn at $25,000 a year. The President is surrounded by a crowd of private secre- taries, “assiduously employed during many hours of the day ;” a coufidential sort of labour must be highly paid, or the secrets of the brother- hood would be in danger of being sold. There ia, besides, a host of other officials on the civil Jist of Mr. G’Mahuney, and they must, of course, be paid

‘9 protect her ornhaps and comfort ber bereaved husband; and to all appearances her hopes ana wishes were fulfilled tu the letter. So friendly aud affectionate was she to the childrev: that they called her no other uname than Aunt Gottfreid. The infant was dving quite well, but the nurse who had charge of it became sv extremely ji!) that she had to leave, declaring that whatever was the reason, she felt she could never be well as Jong as she remained in the house.

Nor did Mr. Rumpff's apprentices fare better ; they, too, were seized-in turn with vivlent fits of vowitting, and some three months after his wife’s death, he became il] himself in a similar manner. Being a strong, robust man, he struggled reso- lutely te overcome the supposed malady, but in vain; he could keep nothing on the stomach; everything he ate caused him the most excruciat- ing agouies, and bis health declined from day to day. In about two weeks he lost the use of his fingers and tues, and became as weak aa an iu- fant. In the midst of all his suffering, the idea of poison never occurred to him; but be thought there might be sume decaying substance about tke house which exhaled it. He made a close search fur the supposed substance, causing the boards of the floor to be lifted, the walls to be opened, &c., but with no result. It is not strange that in time his mind began to doubt whether, after all, there might not really be some evil spirits that pursue wankind to their destruction, wasting their bodies and withering their miuds.

These doubts he first expressed to Aunt Gott- freid, but she teld him tv trust in God, that she would watch over him like a mother, and when he deseribed tu her his sleepless nights of anguish, she earnestly wished him such sweet rest as blessed her own pillow. This state of things went on for ayear, the patient growing weaker and weaker from day to day, until fivally all re- garded him as near his end. As usual with him in the spring, he ordered a pig to be killed for his family, and his butcher seut him a small choice bit of the animal totaste. Finding that it agreed with bis stemaeb, unlike anythiog be bad recently taken, he deposited the remains in a closet for his next day’s luncheon; but when he came to tuke it at the proper time, he found iL was not as he had left it; and looking more closely, he was startled by perceiving sume grains vf white powder spriukled over it.

This attracted his attentioa all the more readily because he remembered to have remarked the sauie appearance vu some salad breth, aud ciher articles which he had received frem the hands of Aunt Gottfried. The suspicion of poison now occurred to him for the first time ; he said nothing, however, but privately sent fur his physician. A | chemical examination soon revealed the mystery ; the white powder proved to be arsenic.

The diseovery was made on the Sth of March,

police found her in bed. She protested that she was unable to leave, no matter what was their business with her, for this she pretended to have no suspicion of. It will be remembered that Mrs. Cunningham affected to be very iil also, and that it was deemed very improper to shock her feelings in such state. It was otherwise, however, in the case of Madame Gottfried, for she was forcibly

and the day following she was arrested. The |

according te the importance of the situations they \ trong: the quality of the men themselves. The Treasury fareactfpploys a Treasurer; and as this is an office of peculiar™st, $10,000 a

| O'Mahoney.

Naval Department is not fully organized; and | our reticent informant does not think it proper, at this time, to state what is being dune with re- gard to it. The Herald advises the Federal Go-

vernment to sell the Fevians the Shenandoah. If, the United States Government wich to seize the arms, and thus prevent a threatened breach of |

neutrality, they will find them on the fourth : choice dairy land, and being bounded’ on three

storey.

Ii is useless to go. into any nice caleulationa of : the expense of keeping up so anaguificent and efficient an establishment as this. But we think | the public as well in Ireland as the States will | agree with us that President O'Mahoney dues | well to keep a Government of the first class as | this is on the petty sum of $1,040,000 a year. | But it is quite probable that they are duing it on | lese—and thet would make the miracle of eco- | nomy all the wore startling—for it must be _re-} membered that we have only the authority of the Herald for putting the weekly receipts at $20,. 000. And then, such ia the degeneracy of Suman | nature, it is possible that the patriotism even of | Fenian nature may not continue thia rate of ¢on- tribution fur a rouwd year. The trusting serving maids add confiding emigrant Lrish labourers to the States, who have assisted the Treasury, may begin to desire to see some result of their contri- butions befure that time. This would no doubt be very unreasunable, The task they have un- dertaken—the freeing of the Emerald Isle from the hated yoke of the Saxon stranger—is not a light matter aud will take time to accomplish. The constituents of Feniandom should therefore be patient, trustful, unsuapicious, aud pay their present taxes of $20,000 a week with the cheer- *! alacrity of unconquerable patriots.

The Hervéid —-** as showman for any one who desires to know about Fenianism as much as it is “proper” to disclose. We have by its aid already had a look at the lubor-worn fuce of Prerideut

Let us now see bow he and his advisers con- duct the administration, A Cabinet Counc, we are given to understand, is held every day. “At appointed hours the President has interviews with the beads of departmenis, or cabinet ses- sieus, at which a bedy of executive couneiliors, representing the Fenian Senate, are sometiines present, giving adviee and evnisel on matters affecting the interest of the Fenian Government.” Chat is the way to conquer Canada and liberate frelaud; at least it is the Fenian way of daing them.

A word about the alleged doings of the Order near hume. The New York Herald's correspon- dent, in this city, insists on the bona fide state- went of the strength of the Order in Canada, sv far as he is cuncerned. He atteinpes to get over the difficulty which we puinied out in the figures by saying that a great many others than Irish Cathulies sy wpathige with or are members of the order. This makes the matter worse than be- fore. Nubody has ever seen vue of thuse strange Fenians or Fenian sywpathizers; and if they had existed iv the numbers stated, some of them would have revealed themselves lung ago.

are -----

Mvtrxy on Boarp a Britisn Price. — Fort- ress Munroe, Nov. 26, 1865.— The United States revenue cutter Kankakee, Capt. Slicer, brought in tow to-day the Euglish barque Copsie, the second mate and crew of which had mutinied. The Copsie was on her way from Liverpool] to Baltimore. Between Wolftrap and the Capes the mutiny first de- veloped itself, and it is not unlikely thata fear- ful and bloody tragedy would have been enact- ed had not the Kankakee, while ou a cruising tour, happened in the vicinity. The captain and his mate were the only ones to oppose the mutineers. Seeing the signal of distress the

year would hardly be tio much for Mr. hone. ; for that is the name of this functionary. Then there are his “chiet clerk, subordinate clerks, &c., the same as ove would find in any well regulated establishipent anywhere,’ All these functionaries wust get the average pay of their class, in Europe or Aimerica. The “ Fesian Movernment,” whieb begins by selecting a sump'ucus residence, cannot be niggard)y in the salaries it pzys its function- aries. That would be a piece of allabbyness ot which it would never be guilty. Presidént O’Ma- honey’s government must be princely in the salaries paid ga well as in the taste it diepleys in the selee- tiun of a Goveremental building. The War De- partinent is one of the most important under the Feuian Goveroment ; for without loud threate and apparently great preparatious for war, the bonds could aot be expected to go off, at anytiing like a satisfactory rate, and without funds this “ mag- nificeut and political wovement,”’ would necessa- rily collapse.

There is one arrangement of this Government which, we thiuk, might be made the subject of grievance ; and the director of the War Depart- ment would probably rebel, if the treasury were not master of the situation, as being of more real importance than the War Office. We allude td the circumstance of the Treasury Department being on the first fluor, and that of the War Ot- fice aloft to the third floor, The head of this department is no novice; bet on the contrary, if we accept the authority of the Herald, one of the most distinguished military heroes that this or avy other age has produced, He is described as “one of the most gallant and distinguished officers of the late war. His reputation as a heroic sol. dier began in the Mexican war—he having lost his right arm at the battle of Cherubusco—and bas been enhanced by his services in Missouri, under the lamented Lyons, and other bloody battle-fields of the rebellion. He holdaa com- mission as colonel in the regular United States service.” Why thia veteran asked the reporter to suppress bia name we cunnot say; but this imust be the case as it is wet given, Ot his Adju- tant we are peraitted to kuuw the naiawe. “He is Genery! C. Carroll Tevis, alev distinguished for several g:llant exploits during the rebellion, and fur a short period commander of the post at Bal- timere, of which city be is a native. He isa young aud accouiplished military officer, thoroughly con- versant with bis duties as Adjutant<General— a knowledge of which, as well as of other military matters, he obtained from French instructions of the Napoleonic school, during a residence for some time in Paris.” Sueh distinguished services as these ought to commend their price, and, nv doupt, they will do so. Then there are, as of nec>ssity, | attached two the War Departwent, “* Bureaus of

Ordnance and corpe of Engineers, with clerks | and draughtsmen basily engaged. The bead of ‘the Ordnance Bureau is a thoroughly military | officer, who served ander Sherman as Chief of Ordnance, and won considerable distinction in that capacity. “ Proposals for ordnauce projec- approved and effvetive kind are

| tiles uf the suet

Ic order that this might be urged in bis favor in taken from ber bed and carried off to prison. | submitted and approved of; in short, the usual the event of suspicion falling upon bim, he took | ry. news of ao unexpected a catastrophe spread | business of the war arm of an established Govern-

formal leave of his mittress, in presence of seve-

| dismay all over the city.

‘ment is transacted with fidelity and decieion.”

ral of the servants, about ten days before the) First scarcely any one believed that she could Altogether thr Feoian war department is a mira-

murder, taking care to notify her that she need not expect him back before at least a month. But the police soon found out that be was ali the

_be guilty. The general impressivn was that

‘there must be some mistake. Who cauld believe,

; }

amiable { they said, that one so , 80 friendly and so time lurking about in the metropolis, from one pious--one 40 much esteewed and respected by all been Jc

j cle of exact'wss and ‘ pever fuils t» 2:92 at tke right

that are ne sary: and not @ ~ Seeet of soy tault of te

‘akee went to the aid of the barque, and on learnintreeag, Of facts at onee placed Lieu- : tenant smith and in charge of ed, | mutineers, all of whont were prompt. ned. The Kankakee accompanied the barque to the Capes, to let her proceed to sea without further trouble, and was about to part company with her when the mutineers broke their irons, threatened anew the life of the captain, and de. clared they would not go to sea by compulsion or otherwise. Seeing this spirit of determined mutiny on the part of the erew, at the request of the captain of the barque the Kankakee took the latter in tow and brought her into Hampton roads, as stated, where she now lies anchored, under custody of the Kankakee. The crew was shipped in Baltimore, and are altogether a dan- gerous and desperate set of men. There was no lezitimate cause for the revolt, as the barque is staunch and sea-worthy, and the men had re- eegived the usual advance, and had no reason to complain of the treatment ofithe captain, The Copsie is loaded with corn. a.--sleomnellgilateltilinaoanmes Tue Fisnertes or Tae GULF.—Commodore Fortin has made his anaual report of the fisheries in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which has been printed for distribution. Frou its pages we cull the following statistics of the catch of 1864:—-