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No. 33.

“ee CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21,1859.

CHEBUCTO WAREHODSE.

3 iber has, in connection with his business in 0 aad a WHOLESALE WAREHOUSE and

GENERAL COMMISSION AGENCY, Had of Queen’s Wharf, and next door to J. & T. Morris, Advances made on consignments. Produce, Fish, &e., for- warde!. Insurance effected, &e.

Just received per “Ocean Bride,” 100 barrels extra-Southern FLOUR, 100 do Canada do 50 do fresh-ground CORNMEAL, 50 boxes RAISINS, 20 do Pipes, 10 chests TEA, 250 gallons BRANDY, 10 boxes Havana Cigars, xes Cavendish TOBACCO, ‘Yhds Porto Rico SUGAR, Punzheons MOLASSES, Tierces Treacle, ieces SATINETTE (consignment), Patent and vommon Windlass Gear, 50 barrels prime Labrador HERRINGS, 6 dv Pilot BREAD. For sale cheap by Pp. W. HYNDMAN.

Ubetiottetown, Nouv. 22, 1858.

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NEW STORE! British Warehouse Queen’s Square.

—_ subscriber, having re-commenced buiness in the pre- & mises furmerly occupied by Mr. Janpins McLean, takes the earliest opportunity to inform his friends and the public generally, that he has just received per ship IJsadel, from Liverpool, his FALL SU PPLY of

BRITISH DRY GOODS,

suited to the season.

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—~aLso— 72 Chests TEA, 60 Lalf chests do., 100 Boxes SOAP,

10 Bags RICE, Porto Rico and Crushed SUGAR, Currants, Raivins, Pickles, And superior Salad Oi],

which will bs suld at the lowest prices for Cash. WILLIAM BROWN.

Charlottetown, October 21, 1858.

Carpotting & Rugs. Ol SALE at cost and charges at the Subscriber’s Room, (Jueen’s Square— A large assortment of — in WOOL and HEMP. —A.tso— A quantity of Handsome HEARTH RUGS, Persons in want will find it to their advantage to call and urchase. WILLIAM DODD, Auctioneer. Charlottetogm, Pecember 20. Chebucto Warehouse. S7* RECEIVED, per schr. “* ROMP”’— 2 hhds. strictly prime Porto Rico SUGAR, 3 puns. Porto RicoMOLASSUS. For sale b 22, 1858. Pb. W. HYNDMAN.

Brey QBossay, NORTH SIDE OF QUEEN-SQUARE.

Fall, 1838. UST RECEIVED per ~ Vicronta”’ from Hanmax, and for sale by the subscriber:—-

Nov.

ilhds Sagar Tea in variety Blacking

Puns b't Molasses Superior Coffee Tobaecy Jamaica Ruin Biseuit in variety Cigars

strony Spirits Annapolis Cheese Digby Merrings tihds Holland Gin Raisins Rice

best Cognac Brandy Currants Crushed Sugar Seotel: Whiskey Dyec-stu fis Sweet Oil

Pale Seal Oil Salad Oil

P.E.[. Malt do Pranes Common Whiskey Earthen Jars

Symond’s best Port Piekies Spices

Wine Sauces Soap Sherry Wine Table Salt Candles Madeira do Nuts Washing Powders Cham pagre Shelled Almonds Baking do Fiinburgh Ate Confectionar Patent Medicines Pale Ale > Burning Flaid Londow Porter Brushes

And s great variety of other small aud useful articles too nu-

meryus to mention. Cash paid for good clean Timothy Sced. HUGIL FRASER.

Noteraber 29, 1358. ly a" .

~ NEW AND IMPROVED NOVA SCOTIA

CJOKING AND OTHER STOVES.

y ST ALRIVED, aw assortment of New and Improved

vireng and eubstaatial COOKING and other STOVES, warranted Nova Scotia castings—and not Yankee—with large Metal Boilere, to suit Farmers, and made to save wood and Will be sold at the manu- facturer’s prices this season, in order to establish the quality and advantages ef these Valuable Stoves—these being among the frst importation te this Island. Can now be seen in operation at the Store ef the Agent for this Island, at Orwell. Orwell, December 13. PATRICK STEPHENS. MOLASSES, SUGAR, TEA, &c. ‘a SUBSCRIBER OFFERS FOR SALE at smai advance on cost— 18 Puncheons choiee Purte Rico MOLASSBS, 2uHhdt. do de SUGAR, 2 de floliand’s GENEVA, 20 Chests Congeu THA, 30 Boxes Liv LSOAP, 2 Cases on LES, seat : Aiso—A lot of Carpetting and He ugs, very eheap. WILLIAM DODD. Queen Square, January 10, 1859. lm ARCHIBALD WHITE, Blacksmith, Machinist, &c- R ETURNS thanks to the Inhabitants of Charlottetown and ® the Island generally for the liberal custom he has re- ceived for the last six years, and begs to acquaint them that he has removed his Workshop to King’s Square, opposite the Store of Messrs. Berr & Son, where he respectfully solicits a continuance of their patronage. Ue is prepared to execute—on liberal terms and ‘at the shortect noticc—

Forging and Turning for Machinery of all descriptions. CAST-STEEL AXES WARRANTED OF THE BEST,QUALITY; Carriage, Sleigh and Ship Work always on Hand.

Charlottetown. Nov. 29, 1858. 3m

NV ESSRS. STANFIELD & LORD beg to inform the Farmers of Prince Edward Island, that after this date their NEW MILLat PRYON will be ready for Dyeing, Pulling and Dressing Cloth, baving spared no expense in fitting up. The services of Mr. Lippincott, of Pietou, being secured as manager, they guarantve to finish work in the best possible manner, on the usual terms. bhee Mr. H. Catuweg, of Sydney Street, Charlottetown, will receive Cloth, and attend to its being forwarded with despatch. Vryon, July 27. an

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THE POWER OF THE DEAD.

BY MARY ANNE BROWNE.

Say not their power is o’er,

Although their lips be mute, their limbs be still ; With might, unknown before,

Those silent forms the living heart may thrill.

Who stands beside the bed,

Where rests the icy corpse within its shroud, Nor feels a secret dread,

With which its soul ne’er to the living bow’d?

The lowliest son of earth, The veriest babe that death hath smitten down Hath to a realm gone forth, . To those who gaze upon them all unknown.

An awfal mystery, sealed From their sad eyes that weep beside their bier, To them have been revealed,

To their uaprisoned souls mate plain and elear.

They are the constant sign

Of God's great truth—the dead, both great and small, Confirm his word divine,

That all have sinned, and death hath passed on all.

They are the seed from whence The harvest of the Lord shall £1] the carth, W hen his omnipotence Shall bring the myriads from her bosom forth.

Say not their power is o'er :

Even when mingling in the lowly dust For them our spirits pour

An offering forth, in holy hope and trust.

Where is the place of graves

We deem not hallowed? There is sanctity In every wind that waves

lts grasses tall, or stirs its{willow-tree.

Where’er some Ioneiy mound

Tells of the spot where murtal relics rest, At once that epot of ground

Our hearts with unseen holiness invest.

Say not they have no power!

Perhaps they were our enemies in life, But now hath come an hour

When endeth all the tumult and the strife.

Another mightier hand

Hath stili'd the opposer —anger now may cease ; Who ean the truth withstand,

‘hat with the dead our hearts should be at peace?

And for the loved and lost,

Their memories move us as naught else may move ; When wildly tempest-tost

They to the soul as guiding stars may prove.

And many a gentle word Of precicus counsels, all too long despised, By memory may be stirr’d, Now to be thought upon, and weigh’d and prized.

And when the wayward heart

halftopened door, Ashe took the jewel-case and watch from the table, and demanded her purse, she asked him if he intended to go in her father’s room. She received a surly affirmative: “ He wasn’t going to run a risk an leave half the tin behind !” She proposed iustantly that she should go herself, saying: “T will bring you whatever you wish, and you may guard me thither, and kill me if I play false to you.” The fellow consulted bis comrades, and after a short parley, they agreed to the proposal ; and with a pistol pointed at her head, the dauntless girl crossed the passage and entered the old rector’s room. Very gently she stole across the chamber and removing his purse, watch, keys, and desk, gave them up to the robbers who stood at the door. The old man slept peacefully and calmly; thus guarded by his child, who softly shut the door, and demanded if the robbers were yet satisfied.

The leader replied that they should be when they had got the show of plate spread out below, but that they couidn’t let her out of sight, and that she must go with them. In com- pliance with this mandate, she followed them down stairs to the dining-room, where a splendid wedding breakfast had been laid out to save trouble and hurry on the morrow. To her surprise the fellows—eight in number when assembled, seated themselves and prepared to make a good meal. They ordered her to get them out wine, and to cut her own weddin cake for them; and then seated at the head of the table, she was compelled to preside at this extraordinary revel.

They ate, drank, laughed, and joked ; and Adelaide, quick of ear and eye, had thus time to study, in her quiet way, the figures and voices of the whole set.

When the repast was ended, and the plate transferred to a sack, they prepared to depart, whispering together, and glancing at the young lady. Tor the first time Adelaide's courage gave way, and she trembled; but it was not a con- sultation against her, as it proved. The leader, approaching her, told her that they did not wish to harm—that she was ‘‘a jolly wench, reg’lar game,” and they wouldn’t hurt her, but that she must swear not to give an alarm till nine or ten the next day, when they would be off all safe. To this she was of course obliged to assent, and then they all insisted on shaking hands with her. She noticed during this ceremony, that one of the ruffians had only three fingers un the lefi hand.

Aloue, in the despoiled room, Adelaide, faint and exhaust- ed, awaited the first gleam of daylight ; then, as the robbers did not return, she stole up to her room, undressed and fell into a disturbed slumber.

The consternation of the family next morning may be imagined ; and Adelaide’s story was still more astounding than the fact of the robbery itself. Police were sent for from London,and they, guided by Adclaide’s lucid deseription of her midnight guesis, actually succeeded in capturing cvery one of the gang, whom the young lady had no difficulty in identifying, and swearing to, the “three fingered Jack” being the guiding clue to the discovery. The stulen property was nearly all recovered, and the old rector always declared, and with truth, that he owed his life to the self-possession and judgment uf bis eldest daughter.

The only ill effect of the great trial to her nerves, was a disposiiion, on the part of the young heroine, to listen for midnight sounds, and start uneasily from troubled dreams ; but time aud change of residence soon eliected its cure,

Ixprcations AND Preaturnt.—A. M. Feuillet was travelling

Doubts how it shall some dark temptation shun ; They may decide its part— “So will-be do, for so would they have done.”’ i ' Say not they are no more, Those who the heart with reverence thus can fill; Say not their pewer is o’er,

When thus its traces are around us still!

A MIDNIGHT ADVENTURE.

Females often possess presence of mind and power of self-control under cireamstances of imminent peril, which almost seem foreign to their nature, and beyond the endur- ance of a delicate physical organization. A striking instance of self-command, by a lady whose fears must have been powei fully excited, aud whose life of affluence had probably never before given her nerves any severer test than is inci- dent t» the vexations of domestic cares, is ziven in Chambers's Journal of last month. We copy the adventure, premising by way of explanation, that the lady was the daughter of a rector residing in a quict English couutry village, sud was upon the eve of marriage —

The wedding-day was to be on the morrow of that on which our adventure happened. Grand preparations were made for the wedding ; and the reetor's fine old plate, and the costly gifis of the bride, were discussed with pride and pleasure at the Hare atel Hounds, in the pre-ence of some strangers who had come down to a prize-fight, which had just taken place in the neighbourhood.

That night Adelaide, who occupied a separate room from her sister, sat up late—long after the household had retired to rect. She had bad a long interview with her father, and had been reading a chapter to which he had directed her attention, and since had paeked up her jewels, &c. She was consequently still dressed when the church clock tolled mid- night. As it ecased, she fancied she heard a low noise like that of a file; she listened, but could distinguish nothing clearly. It might have been made by some of the servants still about, or perhaps it was only the creaking of the old trees. She heard nothing but the sighing of the winter winds for many minutes afterwards. House-breakers were mere myths in primitive Thyndon, and the bride elect, with- out a thought of fear, resumed ker occupation. She sat gazing on a glittering set of diamonds, destined to be worn at the wedding, when her bedroom door softly opened. She turned, looked up, and beheld a man with a black mask, holding a pistol in his hand, standing before her.

She did not seream, for her first thought was for her father, who slept in the next room, and to whom any sudden alarm might be death, for he was old, feeble, and suffering from heart complaint. She confronted the robber boldly, and addressed him in a whisper— You are ‘come;” said she, “to rob us. Spare your soul the awful guilt of murder. My father sleeps next to my room, and to be startled from

F. was transfixed by an iron spit seven feet long. went in at th@ abdomen and passed out at the back, so that there was three feet of the spit in front and three feet of the spit behind. M. F. was conveyed to the nearest hotel. His position demanded all the resources of art. A surgeon was accordingly sent for, who on arriving fclt the patient's pulse, and asked bim where he was suffering. ‘In the abdowen,”’ replied the wounded man.’’ ‘Indeed! Wow did it happen

‘to you?’? The patient thereupon detailed the sad incident of The surgeon shook his head, and re-}

his being transfixed. sumed: ‘Are they subject to this incident, sir, in your family ?’’ ‘No,’ replied the patient, ‘* not that I know. My father and mother are very old, and have never been spitted. So with regard to my brothers ond sisters, and my uncles and aunts.’’ ‘ Very well, sir. I required that in- formation in order to give acorrect prognosis. You experi- ence, [suppose, considerable difficulty in lying on your back ?”’ ‘* Yes, sir; it is indeed impossible.’’ ‘* lt is not any easier fur you to lie on your stomach !’’ ‘I experience precisely the same dificulty.”’ ‘It must, therefore, be mach easier for you to lie on your side?”’ ** That is the only position I ean lie in.’ ** That will suffice, sir. It only remains to de- termine upon the treatment. Here the indications are very

recise : either we can leave the spit, but then you will most likely die of inflammation ; or we can extract it, bat then it is not probable that you will survive the operation. Science, sir, has its limits; your fate is in your own hands; you must decide for either one treatment or the other.”’—* The Wiis of Paris,” Bentley's Miscellany.

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Tue Irauraxn Mytu.—There exists in the popular mind a floating myth of a handsome, whiskered Italian who sings charmingly, plays en the guitar, and has done nothing else from time immemorial. ‘ Art,’ we are told, * has all along been Italy’s morbid and self-deceiving substitate for virtue and industry,’ which means that Italy became a great com- mercial nation, carried on vast trade, and amassed immense wealth, by writing sonnets and painting pictures. ‘This does not seem yery likely, and it is not requisite to refer to history in order to know that Italy took the usual mcans to make money ; she worked hard for it, and made art as much a sub- stitute for industry as England and America do just now. She was indeed singular in this: that, great in commerce, she was also great in every art and science ; but the fertility of her genius cannot detract from the gravity of her history ; her arts were the reward of her toil and the fruit of her luxury. The Sonnets ef Petrarch, the ‘ Commedia’ of Dante, the ‘ Gerusalemme’ of ‘Tasso, no more acted as substitutes for in- dustry in Italy than the dreams of Shakspeare and Milton’s ‘ Paradise Lost’ in England. The merchant sent for his ships, or counted his gold in his marble palace, and the poct sang in the valley of Vaucluse, in tho exile of Ravenna, or in the dungeon of Ferrara ; but what had one to do with the other, save that commerce throve best, and that poctry was sweetest, when the country was prosperous and free.*’

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THE MONROE BPOCTRINE. From the London Times, Jan. 13.

* %* * The standing policy of ie United States is presumed to be enshrined in the principles of James Munrce, who, from 1817 to 1825 was President of the great Trans-

,atlantic Confederacy. The “ Morroe doctrine” fortiiz a stap'c

of American Diplomacy, and ia produced on all fitting ae- casions as a solemn text for the summary determiaation of argument. For all this, we doubt very much whether one person in a thousand knows what the Monroe Doctrine means, and this lack of information indeed is perfectly natural, for the Doctrine says one thing and means another. * * * [Tn the riouth of Young America the “ Monroe Doctrine” implies that no European Power has sny reat business on the American Continent, or ag any rage on its northern portion. The suflerence extended by Mr. Monroe to existing institutions is by them applied to existing in- terests. They abstain from any proposal of actual ejectment, but they Jook upon “ Aimerica” as pertuining to “ Americans,” invest thennenteed with a reversionary interést in all the States, to be realized sooner or iater by “ manifest destiny,” and protest with the utmost vebemence against any act cal- culatad to extend, enforce, or confirm theinterest still retain d Such as cxist may be allowed to die out without violent extinction, but nothing must be done to invi- gorate or renew them, and nothing suffered which may resemble an admission that any Muropean Government has any title to tnterfere with affairs on the other side of the Atlantic. For this new doctrine it is plain, from what we- have said, that President Monroe’s authority cannot truly bo- pleaded, and the extravagance of its pretensions, all authority apart, is ecrtainly cocoate What is North America, and bow is it divided? The area of that enormous conti- nent embraces about 8,000,000 square miles. Of that territory we are the actual and lawful possessors of more than a thid. The dominions of the British Government cover about three millions of square miles: those of the United S:ates about the same, or a little more. Of the rest Russia has about balfa million, Denmark rather less, and France just a footing on sowe fihery islands. -Deducting the occupied tads of the Arctic Regions, wé find more thay one-half of all North America in the possession and occupation of Kuropean States—a possession ubcontested in its legality, and traceable, in fact, to exactly the saime title as that of the Americans themselves. With what justice, then, can it be pretended, in the face of such notorious facts, that American matters are beyond the sphere of our iegiti- mite interference? Does the ownership of a Province like Cavada carry with it no interest in the uffaips of the North American Continent? If the Awesicans have a California, have not“we a British Columbia? We say nothing of British Honduras, British islands in the Gulf, cs British Guiana on the Southern We take North America alone 23 usually understood, and, as ulmest half its territories are our undisputed property, tt is surely u somewhat arbitrary doctrine which would cxelude us fom! its polities as an ahen cr intruding Vower. We are, how. ever, perfectly aware of what miglt be alleged cn bchail of American pretensions. We haoow that the citizens of the Union represent néarly five-sixibs of a!! Asevicans, though they may not bold five-sisths of al! America, We know that the populatian of one of their great cities excecds that We know thas they have raised their State to au cquality with the greatest Powers of the Old World, dod we do vot quarrel with the “ destiny” which may be predicted as the patural sequel of such astonishing progress. But it is rather too uruch to ssy thet we, with hal North America in cur lawful possession, mu-t ubstain from meddling ia North Aweriecan vffairs, and it is a still stranger measure to fonnd such a doctrine on the simple principles of political fraternity propounded by Presideut Monroe. What Mr. Monroe said was, that the political system of the theuAtlied Powers—such a system, im fact, as we now sce illustrated in Italy,—should never be extended to the American Continent if the Uasited States Could prevent it. To that doctrine Kog'and assented at the time, and would ‘give her hearty support vow; but such a policy contains noting to deprive us of a vice in allans where our interest might be almost as great as those of the Union itself. Wappily beth would be ideuticul wherever they were rightly understood.

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Try Sy. Lawrence axp tue ©asans or Canapa.~-The enormous increase of wealth and population, having its basis on the ample resourees and natural richness of te fertile region of the St. Lawrence and the great American lakes, evinecs a rapidity and steadiness of growth in every department of material prosperity belonging to no other Country of the same extent in the world. The trade of tho Western lakes, which in 1841 was valued at £13,600,000, in 185] had rieen to £60,000,000, and in 1856 was valued at £122,000,000, exclusive of the cost of vessels and profits of the pomengcs trade. The surplus waters of these lakes are all tributary to the River of St. Lawrence. Canada porsesses this great natural highway between the interfor of the American Continent and the Atlantic, and holds the ocean key to lakes and rivers on which is carricd a connnerce amounting already to the enormous aggregate sum of £130,000,600. From tio earliest settlement of Upper Canada in 1790 until the opening of the Erie Canal, almost every article cousumed or produced, as far to the eastward as Utica, was conveyed to and from the ocean by the natural outlet of the St. Lawrence. In 1825 the Erie Canal, connecting Lake Erie with the Hudson River, was constructed by the Am- ricans, and the entire trade of the West was diverted to New York. An carly movement was made in Canada to regain this trade, bat many years elapsed before the Welland Canal, connecting Lake Eric and Ontario, was opened. But its traffic has continued to increase from year to year, until it has far outstripped that of the Erie Canal. “The Canadian Government has up to this time com-

leted five canals, with a uniform depth of 16 feet, and locks 200 by 45 feet. By means of these internal improvements o vessel drawing ten feet can be taken from Fond du Lic, on Lake Superior, to the Gulf of St. Lawrence—a distance of nearly 2200 miles. The principal American Lake cities that supply this great canal commerce have tisen from 42,000 population in 1840 to 170,009 in 1850, and 350,000 at the present time. The commerce of the United States is necce- sarily tributary to the Welland Canal, which is one of the The Rideau Canzt,

thousand rupees for a pair of those shawls, the patterns of | which has its mouth at Kingston, unites Ontario, and con-

which represented his victories. The animals from which

his sleep would kill him. Make no noise, I beg of you.” The fellow was astonished and cowed.

quietly.” Adelaide drew back and let him take ber jewels—not ithout pang, for they were precious love-gifts, remarking at the same time, that two wore masked rufians stood at the

no noise,” he replied, sullenly, “If you give us everything | impart to the skin a down more or less thick, as if to guard | ana : the other coarse, lank and giving tible resources of the West within the reach of the Montreal

lit against cold and damp ;

eequently the St. Lawrence, to Ottawa. In going down, the largest steam-boats boldly shoot the rapids ; but the dangerous.

os . ° “ . . eZ 3 i : ’ = material . . telnet ore eovaned by peneon wate: ence ‘channel docs not require to be taken by the merchant vessels, “We won't make | of coat for clothing ; the one fine, curly, generally grey, and for which the canals suit well enough for descending as well

las going up. ‘The Canadian canals haye placed the inexthaus-

ia general color to the animal; and as it is only the inner) traders, ang they are nearer to the lakes, and can carry

‘and fiae coating which is used for the fine shawls, the quantity)

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‘tween them and tide-water cheaper and quicker than ary other city in Ame: ica.— Shipping and Meroantize Gazetie.

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