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Pricey 125 cfu, 5 cts, cts, and $1.00 per Batéle PERRY DAVIS & SON,

MANUFACTURERS AND PROPRIETORS, PROVIDENCE, K. I. Sold by dealers every whera Agent, T. DtSBRISAY, Apothecaries’ Hall, Charlottetown, P. E. f, January 28, 1su!. iem

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Cheap Tra velling?!

GREATLY REDUCED FARES!!

From Charloticiown to Boston for s7! ‘T" E Subseriher haeeng been instructed to «ell THROCGH CICKELS wo BOSTON and fntervening Ponts, viz., Weer- merland t» Stediae, Baropean North American Ratlway. to mM. dumm, and Lnieristions! Steamship Co's. steamers to Bors.

- Se ere ase TR Or real yee! prices as urder + Shediac, $2.59 St. Jon, $4.50 Boston, $6.00

Preigin’ y this reute forwarded with despatch, and at rates Sa L861. tt + ae ‘City of Charloticiown.

IONE Y WAN EED,

N CITY DEBENTURES.

es CITY COUNCIL having. pursuant to the Act of In corperatio’, passed a resolution for effecting a LUAN OF FIVE HUNDRED PUUNDS, for the purpose of better en- abling the Fire Department to provide = suitable Fire Engine or Five Engines, a supply of [ose and other necessary articles. for the wore effvetualiy preserving the City from the ravages of Fire—

TENDERS will be received by the City Clerk, at his office, frem persons willing to lend the said eum of £500, or any part thereof, noc iess than £50, to the City of Charlottetown. |

Tue Lenders to express the amoant of the sum proposed to be lent, with the lowest rate of Interest the person tendering is willing to receive for the: same.

The Interest payable half yearly from the general funds of |

the Corperatien, and the payment of the priacipal in Five Years, will be secured to the lender hy Debentures (transfer- rable by endorsement), under tle seai of the City, pursuant Ww the Statute. bby order et Co incil, PE: ER MaCGOW AN, City Clerk. Council Office, August 23, 1861. {Sept. 2.

(JOHN T. LONGARD, Sailmaker,

H* VING located bh mself at Charlottetown, begs to inform the Shipbuilders and Traders of P. EB. [sland that be bas opened

SAIL LOFT on Peake’s Wharf,

Where he will be happy to receive orders in his line of Business.

gd work; and is tobroaghly acquainted with the making of COTLON BAILS oa the American prin -iple. ‘hese who may favour Lim with their patronage.

REFERENCES: Walifax—T. C. Kinnear & Co, McLean & Campbel!, Thomas Bolton, P. Power & Co , Jonathan C Allison. August 26th, 1861 3a.

TESTIMONIAL.

Halifax, 27th July, 5861. Mr. JOUN T LONGARD, Sailmaker, of this City, having informed ts of bis intention to move to P. EF. Isiand for the purpose of carrying on Business there, we have mw uch pleasure in recommending bim to the trade of Charlottetown, and in stating that during the period of twenty- two years in which we have used his professioual service, we have a!- Weys had the greatest satisfaction in the work which bas passed througi: bis hands, and bave no doubt that he will give equal sutisfaciion wo avy why way require bis services T. OC. KINNEAR & CO., Merchants, Halifax, N.S.

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Notice. HE Tenants on Townships Nos 35 and 36 in this Island, ate hereby cautioned against paying any person whom- Sever any Rent or arrears of Rent due to the Subseriber, as one of the Heirs of tne late Hon. Donald McDonald, no person being authorised to receive the same.

MARY MARGARET McDONALD. |

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_ Charlottetown, P. E. Island, October 7, 1861.

Notice.

W HERZAS by order made in the Court of Chancery by fis Llonor she Master of the Rolls, dated the 10th day |

of August instant, the manageinent of the Estate of Paul

y. of Charlottetown, Exquire, has been committed to and | eae ‘ Vested in me the aadenioned. Now, therefore, all tenante of | Hypogeum Polishing POWDERS, only 6d cach the lands of the said Paul Mabey, and other parties indebted |

', are required henceforth to pay the amgunts due and |

due frum them respectively to me at my Office, in |

Charlotteiowan.

Ch JOSEPH NENSLEY. —Lbarlottetown, August 26, 1861. LI : NOTICE. f th ae indebted tu the Subscriber for the service of re. atid RSE *MURGAN TELEGRAPH,’ last year, are im pay the same to Mr Davin Stewart, Charlutte- ae betore the 20th of OUTUBER next, to «ave trouble

wun JOUN SUTHERLAND.

St. Peter's, September 2, 1861.

Notice. Railway. operated by steam, ia now! & Up vessels of any cluss under cight |

HE Pictou Marine ready for heulj hundred tung bertaig

Por terme nnd all oth i h James Primrose & ao guatigaiads apply at the office om

. HOWARD PRIMROSE, Agent. Pictou, September 9, 1861, 10w. .

oe A : = Lie ia ———_ A —_— aa -_—— —+-- l Eligible and Desirable Building Lots. Krown us the Property of the Misses Stewart. T° BE SOL? BY PRIVATE’ SALE, those heantifully

situated LOTS frou ag on QUEEN STREET and imme- | ‘diately opposite the Police Office, and where the new Market House 1s intended to be erected, which must ultimately en | | hunce the value of the Property. | Lot No 1, 23 x SI feet,

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Aiscellaucons, DRINKING GOOT OLD RYE,

A DUTEH SONG, If a pody dreats a pody,

Corner Lot. | Mit sume goot old rye,

. 2. 24x81 ° Unil a pody dakes his texldy

‘ 3,24 x 1035 Seon Lots. Zometimes on der shly ;

. 4 24x 103° Or if zome vellow, rader mellow,

. 5. 24x Lid * Trinks dill he gets high,

‘ 6,2) = 60 *« } | *Gainst der liquor should he pellow? ‘ 7,21 2:60 ' Rear Lots. j No such vool am [.

‘ Sts 50 +

[Gorus all zing.]

Etery pody loves his toddy, Prandy, chin, or yine,

Every von has got his hobby, Govt old rye ish mine,

The House will be soll in part. or the whole, as it can be | easily separeted. For further particulars apply te the Sub- scriber, where every information can be obtamed. j JOHN R. BOURKE. | Mili View, Lot 49, Sept. 9, 1861. 3m. }

ON CONSIGNMENT, "|

| And now for Sale,

Down der shdreet I ovden meet Zome Deutschmen on der ephree ; Ua if von of dem shoult shdand dreat, It’s good old rye for me,

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| had been almost forgotten. But withina few weeks his strange, ecceninic conduct had awakened the fears of as frends. tt was possible his present conditiun was not caused by the fear- | ful malady they dreaded, but the frightful form which his deli- | rium had now taken, prepsred them for the worst results. We watched them as they bore him away, while tears of piry j and regret for te ultimate Sate filled every eve. It wes here | ;met my dear Lozzette and her noble companion, and partied wiih ‘the frend who had accompanied me from Newport. He had }explained my agitation to them by relating the scene of the af- (1erneon. Inexpressib y shocked by the recital, they gave me ithe most tender sympathy, and endeavored by every kindly ; means to divert and cheer me. We reached my friend’s resi- dence just.as the sammer twilight was deepening over the land- i scape. | She lived in the family mansion of her husband, an odd, }rambling house, built nearly two ceniuries ago, and exiending jover an area of ground which would have sufficed for three mo- idera houses. ‘The bulding was of granite, and wings and pro- | jections jutted out here and there, in the most unexpected places, auded apparently as supplemenis to the original design. ;A wide piezza was built round three sides of the house, and ,and into leafy nooks, that inthe brightest of eunshiny days must | have been dark and shadowy. Tall trees, with massive trunks

[peer short flights of etone steps led from it to the garden, |

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used, wud so long a time had passed without alarm, the wffsir

©, the agony of vhat hoor of suspense! J have happy years, since then that seemed fer shorter, jay Pe ly the moments crazed awey, whilel waited for deleemner, | waited and hoped for safety, though | could not foresee the ; manner of its coming, [knew not how soon one of those horrible apaeme might | seize my dread compamon, and! felt that once more possessed by that wild frenzy escape, was hopeless, | marked with terrne his music become more fiiful and wild, while the gleam of the flishing eyes grew more bright. But help was near, though my eare hed listened en long in Warr, they a moat refused to bear me the blessed truth. Bat { | was not deceived ; inthe pauses of the music, now harsh end loud end broken by incoherent mutterings and wild lnvohter, I heard the opening and shutting of doore, the eounde of L-rae's | clear voice, and the heavy tread of her husband, as they came _Hearer and nearerto my door. But the prosgect of deliverance near at hand was clouded by the fear lest dreadful evil should fall on those | loved sa well. I would have cried cut te warn them of their danger, but my parched fips on'y moved without

asound. They were at the threshold, and the maniac etl play- - on, Uheard Mr. Cameron calling to me through the closed (door ;

‘Myra. Myra, let us in, Are you crezed. that you pl*y such

| music at this tine of mght? For feaven’ | playing, ond open the door!” Tine te Tate Me?

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previews a rangement J.S.CARVELL. Agent. |

After | aa eXpertence of 17 yeurs, he flatters bimself he is capable of executing |

Every attention will be paid to

| Charlottetown, September 30, J361.

| Charlottetown, October 21. 1861.

> Boxes Cavendish TOBACCO 5 cases BOOTS & SHOES O 50 bexes Digby HERRINGS 4 boxes Maevaroni 100 bbis. Labrador Herrings 5 lron Bedsteads 15 dozen Cora Brooms } A lot of Cooking and Franklin Stoves, for wood dnd coal. Some smali Cook Stoves for vessels. Ali the above at low prices.

Oct. 14, 1861

‘ARIEL AND “ CARRIE M. RICH.” FROMM BOSTON.

10 Doz. Steel Skirts,

a 2500 Setts Skirt Canes, cheaper than ever,

3 Bales Batting,

3 Bales Waddings,

1 Case Sattinetts,

[ 1 Case Rubber Coats,

! 5 Bales Candlewick,

1 Case Gents Seamless Caps,

White, Searlet and Random Yarn, &e. ke. &c.

c. C. VAUX.

i Glasgow House, bueer Street, Oct. 21,2861. 28 inch Milled Sacking,

TO SHIPPERS OF GRAIN. 6 1-4 inch Striped do.

and 4 Bushel OAT BAGS, by the dugen, | Can be had cheap at the Auction Room of N. RANKIN, 12 Queen Street, Oct. 21, 1861. (Isl;

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Summer Shawls and Mantles, (Q@NYELLING AT HALF PRICE AT WF ity, Oct. 21, 1361.

J. H. TURNER'S.

Molasses, Leather, Tobacco, Anples. Cheese, &e. &e. 7 arrive per Brigantine ++ Ariel’? from Boston— 100 sides Sole Leather io puneleons Molasses 20 boxes Tobaceo

72 d» Mould Candles 25 do Soup 20 do Kaisins

6 kegs do., 100 1bhs. each 25 boxes mixed Confectionary 50 doe Lozenges

> sa bey Ae. Fre pound pepere ow a 6 kege carb. Soda 5 easks Washing Soda 32 boxes Biscuit and Crackers, assorted 4 caske Kerosene O17} on hoxes Tohaceo Pipes 30 diez. Broome, 25 doz Backets, 3 doz. Barrel Covers 25 bees fine Havered Cheese 40 bbls. Apples, 10 do. Onions 1 bhi. Lard Oui 1 bhi. trish Moss, 2 tubs Tapioca 2 esses Matches, 50 bags fine Salt, 10 boxes extract Logwood 125 boxes Smoked Herring Boxes Pepper, Mustard, Ginger, Corn Starch, &c. For sale low by P. W. UYNDMAN. Uetoder 7, L361. (Isl & R W)

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Turnips! Turnips! Turnips! FEW THUUSAND BUSHELS of superior TURNIPS

4% tur Sale. Apply to GEORGE COLES. Charlottetown, l4th October, 1861.

Stoves, Stoves, Stoves. J UST arrived from Albany, five hundred STOVES, compri- sing Cooking. Parlor, and Air-tight Stoves, in variety, and for sale at Dodd's Brick Store.

Oct. 7. 4w DODD & ROGERS.

"TO FARMERS. UST RECEIVED at Dold’s Brick Store, a lot ef FARM ERS’ BULLERS, 30, 50, and 70 gallons. Oct. 7. 4w

Vessels Wanted. *HPUIE Sabseibers will CLILARTER British Vessels for the season, as Packets from New York to British Provinces, at fair rates. Apply to FOWLE, HEWELT & CO. 97, Pearl-street, New York. New York, July 25, 18051.

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ue great Sale of Dry Goods, commencing every morning at nine o'clock, at J. H. TUKNER’S.

| City, October 21, 1861.

Stoves! Stoves! Phd ARRIVED FROM YARMOUTH, N.S., a large Stock of those celebrated COOKING, PARLOUR and BOX STOVES, for wood and coal, that have given such uni- versal satisfaction ever since their first arrival in this Island in 185%. Atso—Spare Stove Pots, Kettles, Tew Kettles, and Metal Boilers. Persons wishing any of the above will please call and see before purchasing elsewhere. Terms—3 to 12 months, on

approved Notes of land. H. J. P. TERLIZZICK, Agent. Charlottetown, Oct. 21, i861. lin

EG to intimate to their country friends that their Aeconnts to October first are now ready for delivery, and wouid be obli-ed by their calling for the same. Sept 30th, 1861. All papers. ow

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On Commission. MERICAN WAGGONS, Silver Plated HARNESS, MUVELAGE., in quart bottles, each 3s. 9d.

Bottles INK, in pints, half-pints, and smaller, for the | Card MATCHES, very cheap

Prepared GLUE and CEMENT, warranted

them. P.S. Yarmouth STOVES hourly expected. Please call and sve them. HEYMAN J. P. TERLIZZICK, Agent lm

"MR, W. A. JOHNSTON, |

OF HALIFAX, N.S. ATTORNEY AND BARRISTER AT LAW, NOTARY PUBLIC, &ec. &c.

ray For the present enquire at the ** Pavitiow Horer.’’

ALFRED PURCHASE, Watch and Clock-maker. Smardon’s Corner.

Horizontal Watches in Silver cases,........-.+--+- £4 0 Beating. 60 6 dO. 6 cence rGO.vevecccererescrceces 4 10 0 Lever Escapement ........- én ey denen’ ae ae 3 10 Nanting..do. ... Sain dahon.

Charlottetown, Sept. 23,1861. ly

WILLIAM DODD, Queen Square. |

DODD & ROGERS. |

Of all der trinks, dere’s néne, I dinks, So goot ven you ish dry ; ' Dere’s noding, ven your shbirits zinks,

Can raise dem like old rye. i

Kfery pody loves his teddy, Prandy, chin, or vine,

Un efery von has got his hobby,

Govt old rye ish tine.

Ven vunds ish vlush den off I rush | To Shon Horn’s lager shdore, Put dere I never trioks too mush— A quart shoast, un no more.

Ven on der shbree I happy be, Dougn in der shtreets | lie, Un all der vorld is nix to me, | Ven trinking goot old rye.

Efery pody loves his toddy,

Ven vhy shouldn t L?

Un elery von has got his hobby— Mine ish goot old rye.

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A NIGHT WITH A MADMAN,

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For three yearsT had been an invalid —not wholly prostrated

Sy disease, nor suffering actuate pain, yet constantly denied by

| feeble health the pleasures and employments pursued by others

lof my age and sex Three summers | had spent roaming abou from one crowded busting watering place to another, seeking

| im vain the healih end strength so long'the object of my alimosi

| hopeless search.

| We were at Newport when the letter of Lizzette Cameron,

| the one dear friend of my girihood, reached me. She had been ful convenience that could tempt a whimsical scribbler, while | [a beauty, an heiress. anda belle—to these had, three months | opposite an alcove, whose flowing curtains half drawn aside re- | Bridal journeys were | vealed the spotless drapery 0’ the low couch, stood 4 cottage

Invitation te piano, susall im seze, bat elegantly furnished, and possessing ex- | of “ Blue Laws,” once enforced by Connecticut.

| before, been added to the uile, bride, over now, and her letter broughi mean urvent

jand wide spreading limbs, towered above the dweiling, wmie a There was a shriek, « dreadful shriv k, which haunts ta this

perfect wilderness of shrubbery surrounded it on every side. paay my troubled dreams, aud then | know no more, A blark Restless with excitement, and sustained by unnatural strength, ne

: long and dark, followed my eecond umely resene from danger I feli no fatigue or weariness, and together we wandered over { woke from the deathicke ewoon into which | had fallen an , the quaint old mansion—traversing long galleries, where dark | my friend’s entrance, ouly to greet them with the incoherent ) shadows gathered thick atenher end, snd whoee polished doors | ravings of delirium, At first the story of my pight’s horror, to /shone like mirrors bereath our feet; imo rooms whose tapes- | which my mivd constantly turned, wae deemed but the frenzied | tried walls, aad furnivure dark and grim with age, seemed | dream of fever, bat the bloody drops staining the keys of the | fraught with stores of the buried past, wating only the dark-| piano, the mark of a bloody hand uson the snowy window tess and s:lence of mid-right’s hour to whisper in spectral tones | drapery, the open casement rushed aside by fingers benring the ‘heir wierd tales ; -cokiny at picrure-portraits of those whose same Crimson hue, told them the dreadful foundation of my re- | bodies had long since crumbled back to dust, whose eyes seem-|vings. If that had not been enough, the story of the madman’s jed to my excited fancy to glower indignantly, while the long | eecepe from his sleeping keepers, which came ere the morving | fingers trembled and waved upon the Ume sained canvass, as | #9+ past, would have confirmed it. | though to warn back our intruding footsteps. Days passed ere further trace of him was gained. But one | It was Inte when we retarned to the more modern part of the | evening, just as twilight fell hie lifelesa body was found ‘ying | house, and our little circle soon separated fur the night. ‘The | on the edge of a marshy pool searco a mile distant from Forest /room | was to occupy had been assigned me, so my dear gir! Hil. What wanderings had been his, what straggies and agr- told me, eince the first day of her installment as mistress of the nies, none may kovw. The poor, worn and mutileted hody mansion, She had selecred u chiefly that the view, which from | resteth now in dreamless quiet, while the immortal soul, freed | (he front windows was particularly Gine, might cheer the days from its bonds of clay, tastes the realities of the eternal world when my ill health should confine me in doors, aud another rea-| We found afterwards on searching the room which had been son for us selection was its distance from the other occupied mine, the place of his conceaiment. Finding entrance to the parts of the house, and its consequent freedom from annoying | roem by a casement carelessly left ejar, he tad crept with busile and noise, , mented cunning benesth a lounge so low I had not

| The room iteelf was a gem of convenience, and perfect taste | looking beneath it during my search,

had selected and arranged every article of the pretty furnivare.| ‘ Many years have passed. The arm that interpesed eo [could but smile as | glanced round the apartment to see how | bravely for my first rescue from the :nadamn’s violence hae jcomplete had been my friend's remembrance ofall my tastesand been my support and trust through many years, and it often holde jhabits. The flowers [ loved best were scattered here and there me with a closer clasp, as, sitting by our quite hearth, I reiate yin heautiful profusion. My favorite books simied a welcome to to our rosy-cheeked children the story of ‘A night with a mad- ine from their litle bookcase. By the pieasantest of the three | man.’ ‘low windows stood a writing-table furnisned with every taste-

BLUE LAWS, Our readers have beard more or less about the famous code We print

-pend the autumn mouths at Forest Hdl, her new home among | treme richness of tone. The place seemed the very abode of | the following important provisions which will be eonrcnient

ihe mountains of northera New England. Joyfully | aceepted her invitation, though my lady mother gemonstrated almest with tears in her eyes, and sister Nell va and prophesied terr- ble evils to fall upon my obstmate fh petted and taken care of, that my resglve to try my success at | taking care of myself fairly overwhelmed them with astonish- ment. They yielded at length, however; and mskine, at my re- ; quem. Ipquines among (he homeward Feund gests at our hotel, | seon found an escan for mean elde pen. whe had been a

_college friend of any father, HH. amps oa kexnd atten- ley . Aa ©

i rible scene which, ere my jour y cinged, met my shrinking leves,

li was the inet day of onr ride; the ears wero erowded, and the dusty, heated atmosphere almost unbearable. Two <eate in front of as there sat a man apparently on the prrme and vw gor

of manhood, aod bearing that indescribable air which betokens jarquammrance withthe word tits best and most refined phases

‘Thee forin was a model of grace and strengt , and he face,

jata first glance, etrciagly handseme. A first giemce, | say, for a second, showed me that the features, perf ctin themselves, } vet lacked something, almost ur definabie, but not the less real It was an eqnipaise, an evenness.an'o apenk, of expre- sion, por- aessing which they must hyve been peculiarly dignified and in- tellecrual. | felt my gaze drawn constantly towards bm. There | was a fascination for me m the piercing eyes that fished with } such burning brillianey, in the beautituliy cluselle | lips thar |trembled sow with passiunate emotion, and anon preased them- 'selves together with unearthly calmness; inthe broad, com- ;manding brow, as whiie and scemingly 80 cold as aculp: ured

| marble, above which the hair, black as a raven’s wing, lay in |

heavy, dishevelled masses, swept back ever and anon by u hand small and delicate as a woman’s.

| Many eves besides mine were beat npon him—his eccentric |

_m tions «rd unceasing restlessness had drawn the attention of ail in hos vicinity—but though so closely observed, no sign showed |him to be aware of tis fellow trave'lers’ nottce. We were (nearing the Hariford siation—so my friend informed me as he

left my side a moment to speak with » person in another part

of the car—and wishing to obtain a first view of my temporary

home, I turned to the open window at my side. try ecenes through which we were passing, when suppressed screams and hurried exclamations of terror made me turn qnick- ly within, A scene of dre confusion met my eye; men, wo- and crowding together, a terror-stricken group, in the furthes ‘corners ofthe car Tawus centre stood the traveller | have men- tioned. O, that terrible sight! lL scem to see it, as | write, daguerreo'yped upon my memory by that rapt geze of herror. | tHe had rsen from his sear, but tes tall form bent, ecnvulsed }and crouching, towards the fuor, his arma wildly extended, the delicate hands 8» drawn and distorted they seemed unlike any thing human, smote the air in the frenzy of madness, the lips | torn and bieed:ng, curled back from the strong white teeth, thet

gnashed in furious rage, while mingled blood and foam dropped |

from the swollen, protrading tongue; tie long black hair was | flung in wild disorder over the livid trow, and beneath shone those eyes, those horrible eyes, like coals of living fire! Stamp- ing furivusty, wrihing like one in terrible agony, those hideous hands reaching and grasping as if for prey, he turned hither

and thither with fiery glances, spreading terror wherever they

fell.

They rested on me, at length. my fears swalowed up in horror at a sight so terribly etrange. ' For the first time | thought of my deager ; for the first time | realized the import of the words passing bere and there among the crowd, whispered by pallid lips. *‘ Hydrophobia!l’ ‘Dread- itul spasm! * The bite is death—certain death!’

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half bark, he came, still writhing and crouching, towards me.

[tried to move, but in vain, to cry out, but terror made me)

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dumb. Afar off [saw my guardian straggling desperately to | force his way through the panic-stricken crowd. | knew his | efforts were in vain; he coyld pot reach me, while creeping | nearer and nearer came that horrible soul-forsaken form. O, | the anguish of that moment—io think, to realize, yet lack the | power to act!

| Nearer and nearer--the pallid face close to mine--those eyes ‘of fire scorching my very flesh, those foam-wreathed lips, tiose

[trade | gnashing teeth near, very near, the hot breath even on my |

lcheek! My eyes closed, there was a moment of fearful sus- ‘pense, of dreadful silence, then ca ue the sound of swift-bound-

Topham’s Patent Oil or Tallow LAMPS, none to exceed ing footsteps, a struggle, a fierce grow), like that of a wild | reigned in every look and gesture of the unhappy man, Such

| beast robbed of his prey, aud | opened my eyes to see the ob- | ject of terror struggling in the arma of a man spall] in stature land frail of limb, yer seeming endowed with superhuman lstrengih. | was eaved, but trembling still with fear lest my

safety should cost a too dreadful price. But ihe strong, brave | aout whieh gave such vigorous power bo the frame of my pre- jeerver found an echo in the hearts of some who tn the first mo- j ment of terror had thought only of escape for themselves | shouldered, strvng-armed men came forward new with pale i feces and hands that trembled still and joined him tn his dan-

gerous task. The unforiunate sufferer was secured at length, |

and a8 tne tran stopped at the Llartford station, friendly hands bore hin away

We ‘earned that [artford had been his home from boyhood.

| [le was the son of a wealihy and distingued man, who bad be-

stowed upou him every advantage of education, which the son

had uoproved to the ulmnost, ana manhood founod him Jearned

i knew hrm

\the hand of his young master.

d. | had se long been |

My glance had rested scarce a moment on the sweet zoun-.

, men, and children were springing precipitately from their seats |

i bad etood till now alone, |

} had litte tune for thought ; witha savage yell, half screann, |

Broad |

peace and quietness, and { little thoug-t, ws L glanced around for reference. with such perfect satisfaction, what hours of terror | was des-| The proscription and tyranny of the i

- resent time are not tuned to pass within it, unlike that which produced the Oeenatbias code:

All inclination for sleep seemed to have deserted me with z . . . the sense ot fatigue, for | felt neither, through the day, for ene | No Quaker or dissenter from the wearin ae alee g:ve 2 vcte eleetion

of my quiet babits, had been a trymy one, Determined not to | the dominion shall be allowed to retire unt! this fever of excitement bad abated, T drew the car- | Of magistrates, or any officer.

tnirs aside avd looked out apon the beauty of the moonlit sum- No food or lodging shall be afforded toa Quaker, Adamite ner night. Far away ina distant part of the honee | saw the | or Heretic. q.°

lights from my friends’ aparunent as they shone out upon the | if any person turus

shrubbery prs ihe windows. _Situng shee in the stulluess. not suffered to return

|

Quaker, be shill be i vpon the pain of ee =

Priests may be se'zed by

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\cnetiness creeping over me as they vanished, leaving the pale | . ; :

moonl ght to reign alone. [ was Seed now | had aien’ 8» ed, and suffer death on his return.

'resuluteay the offered company of my maid. Resolved, how- 29Y_0be without a warrant,

ever, to refuse the slightest indulgence to any feeling of ner-| No man to cross @ rivet but with an authorized ferry ‘

veusness or Limidity, F betook myself tothe writing-table, and No man shall rua on the Sabbath day, or walk in his

rat Sos nto write to sister Neli the story of my day’s adventure. ‘garden or elsewhere, except reverently to and from mectiny. Pondering over the strange scene [ had witnessed, and trem-'~ No one shall travel, cook victuals, mak be

bling with new terror as each thrilling detail rose before ™Y | houses. cul heir or dace on the Sabb th d e beds, sweep

imiad, my theughts and eyes both engaged dy the rapidly filling | N . hall kiss ber child ath day. .

~heet before me, 1 wes suddenly started by a sigh, a long, | trig: | sade on a Sabbath or feasting

deep drawn sigh, so real, so distinct, that I sprang to my feet | To pick an earof corn in a neighbor's garden shall

in tremor of fearful expectation. For some moments 1 stood _ deemed theft.

lig ening, every nerve quivering, every sense quickened, wat'-| Men-stealers shell soffer death,

ing for a repetition of the mysterious sound. Butail wae alent) Whoever woars clothes trimmed with gold, or bone lace

as the grave, my ears, strained though they were to the utmost, | above two shillings by the yard, shali be presented b i.

detecied not the sightest sound. Gathering courage, | search | rand jurors, and the onidateans hall Pp yt

edevery nook and corner of the apartment. It was in vain, I F300 J ; a2 tax the offenders at

tourd nothing that could in eny degree account for the sound | parerhe, ; ‘

Lhd heard. Was the room heunted? Beliefin ghosts and, 4 debtor in prison, swearing he has no estate, shall be let

supernatural sppearances formed no part of my creed, and Out and sold to make satisfaction.

even with the inxeplicable sigh still ringing in my ears, 1, Whoever sets a fire in the woods and burns a konse, shall

found my incredulity as firm as ever. | suffer death ; and persons suspected of this crime shall be lene ey he to a Past prratied al ; van Deane ene risoned without benefit of bail.

optical tiusions, the eye coulk e the su ject of such iu | y 7 . ° ° **

eae way notthe ears also? [sata long time reasoning and Dal meet brings cards or dice into this dominion shall pay

listening, but no new cause for alarm occuring [ resumed my ;® ee shall a j

pen. Tne old clock from its niche ir the distant hail tolled a No one read Common Prayer, keep Christmas or

three as i folded my letter and prepared to seek the rest, of | Saint days, make pies, play cards, or play on any insiramens which, complete'y worn-out and exhausted, | now felt the need. of music except the dium, trumpet and jews-harp,

| Bar the calm, undistarbed slumber for which L had waited | No gospel minister shall join people in marriage ; the magis- was not to be found, Searcely bad sleep closed my eyes ere trates only shail join in marriage, as they only may doit with strange weird visions resem Tie rere, eee omer ‘much less scandal to Christ’s church.

as of one struggling in distress half woke me, the room seened | ’ 4 i 3 tenanted by OF likes besid's myerif, and thet orher, ah me! Wheo parents refuse their children coavenient marriages,

the magistrates shall determine the point.

wae a horrid ghastly shape, which flitted with noiseless step up| : ; : and down the epxcious room, and wrung ite pallid hands, and The eelectmen, on fi:. ding children ‘gnoran‘, may take them

‘tore the lank black hair that fell in angled masses around a away from their parents, amd put them in betier banJe, at livid brow and a face blackened, swolen, di-torted, in the | the expense of their parents. No one shall buy or sei] lands without the permisson of the

i hideousness of a demon’s. Here and there it gitded, now | standing plain and distinct in the brillant moonligh!, now lest | selectmen.

from my eight in some shadowy recess, now grovelling upon | .

the floor, writhing as in deadly pain, now springing with man- | A ereabars anol Sage cemestes sarees by Sawin inc lightness to some dark shade, and listening with head erect , ME8,WA0 ar +i i . ‘he y of buying or ng. as if for some pur-uer’s footsteps. W hosoever publishes a he to t prejudice of hie neighbor

As for me, @ horrible stopor seemed to possess all my powers, shall sit in the stocks and be whipped fiftesp stripes.

a strong lethargy was upon ine from which | could net escape. No minister shall keep a school,

[knew in my troubled dreamthat perl wae wigh me, thatoo’ A man that stiikes his wife shall be punished as the coert human arm was nigh to save, but all else was ewallowed in a ' directs.

nameless horror and dread. . . .

How long 1 Jay thus, Struggling between dreamland and | 2 wine walt hase good seen = her bustand. reality, L cannot tel.. A strain of music awoke me at Ins’. | arnies peren ao er, or imprisoned, For a long time it seemed a part of my dreem, but gradually, | No man shail court a maid in person, or by letter, with- ‘as my scattered senses returned, | knew the eounds | heard out first obtaining the consent of her parents; £0 penalty

‘were the offspring of imagination. ‘The moon shone brightly for the first offence—-£10 for the second—and the third, im- ‘ym at the curtained windows, and eterting up with the influence prisonment during ihe pleasure of the court. of that fearful dream still upon me, { looked through the open | Every male shall have his hair eut according to his cap,

curtains into the room heyond. sie | Me ciful tleaven! bending over the piano, the moonlight | jl .

falling npon bm, his fkce turned to meet its brightest rays, | aaa ene pj pimmape highly recommended by him-

‘giood the maniac passenger. No longer raving and furious | 8°" ve lived jong enough ; wast somebody to talk at

with madness, his face wore an expression of stony despair vand quarrel with—then kies and make up again. Therefore,

hardly less awful to contemplate than the frenzied distortion 1 am open for proposals from young ladies and fresh widows had ast seen ypon it, A dark strain showed itself upon his | of more than average respectability ; tolerably tame in dis- forehead, beneath the mated hair, and when the moon, obecur- | position, and hair of any sther gtler than sel. As neasly a

‘ed for a moment, shone forth again, clear and unclouded, [saw | oan judge of myself, I am not over ei ty nor under twenty-

| that from hideous, gaping wounds upon his brows and cheek. | . * ithe fresh, orenenn. heart-tide had flowed unstaunched, and even | Gve years of age. In height E om either five feet eight or

r dewn fro black criep beard u his eight feet five, forget which. Weight 135, or 315, or 531 ea ted \aticted pena “ aay par |one of the three; recollect each figure perfectly well, but as

But the hands that wandered with a master’s touch over the | to their true arrangement, am somewhat puzzled. Ilave a whole suit of hair, dyed by nature and free from dandruff. Kyes butternut brindle, tinged with pea green. Nose blunt according to the Lovie order of architecture, with a toach of 1 could not think, even in my extreme fear and peril, what the Composite, aed 8 b between « catfish aud am alli-