A WEEKLY JOURNAL OF POLITICS, LITERATURE AND

VOL. XVIIL. 1 “NEW GOODS! NEW GOODS!

MEE Subscriber would inform the Inhabi- J tante of P. E. Ealand, that, on the arrival « the Brig ANN, trom Liverpool, G. B., he will otter. Wholesale and Retail, For Cash or good Jomet Notes of Hand, Nee. 1,2&3 WHITE LEAD, in 56, 28, & 14 Ibe. ; Black, Red, & Yellow PAINTS, in 28 & 14 lbs. ; Rovled and raw LINSEED OILS; Chance’s Swethwick GLASS; PUTTY, Black and White, in Bladders 28 and 14 ibs.; CUT NAILS, and CUT SPIKES; Diamond Head DECK SPIKES; Bare Refined and Common IRON, assorted sizes Barrels and Kegs COAL TAR; i Barrels Black and Bright VARN ISHES; Coils HEMP and WIRE CORD AGE; Boits Extra and Navy a ‘ ANV AS; Bare YELLOW METAL. ff as YELLOW METAL Bl r = mene a g; CLINCH RINGS, Iron aad Pelluw Seta, Crates and Casks GLASS, CLUES A,and EARTH- EN WARE,—Crates assorted for country

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ANEW MIXTURE for Bottoms of FISHING SOATS, much approved of by English fishermen.

Pa:ues wanting any of the above articles will do weliby calling and inspecting them, at the OLD STAND, formerly occupied by W. W Lown & Co., HEAD of LORD'S WHARF,

Water Street. ARTEMAS LORD. Oct. 29, 1866.

WEST INDIA HOUSE, Upper Groat George Street.

HE Subseriber offers for Sale, at his

Store, the following, via: ll Hbds. Strong Demrara SPIRITS, Hbds. Hell und GIN, Casks Port and Sherry WINE,

Cusks Hennessey's Dark & Pale Brandy,

Cusks Scotch Whiskey Casks Irish WHISKEY 59 Doz. Edinbargh ALE, 6 Cases CHAM PAGNE, 40 “ Blood’s xxx PORTER, Cases CLARET, 3 Bois CUKRRANTS,

Prime),

40 Boxes RAISINS, ; 24de RAISINS, Bags RICE. 60 Boxes FIGS, Lage PEPPER, Chests Superior PEA, Role Crushed SUGAR, Carks Washing Sopa, Hide and Bilis. P. RK. Hbds and Bbis. P R. MOLASSES, SUGAR, 6 Bhls. Kerosene OIL, 6 Bhls. Ked ONIONS, 20 Doz. Am. BROOMS, 20 Doz. Am. BUCKETS, —Also— A large atock of Spices, Pickles, Fruit, &c., &c., suttable for the seaso The above artictes are of the very best descrip- tioc, and will be sold cheap for Casi LEMUEL McKAY. Charlottetown, Dee 17. 1866

STOVES.

NOR SALE No 1 aod No. 2 MODEL PARLOR STOVES, cheap for Cash or appreved Credit A. McNEILL. Reading Koew Building, 2 Vet. J8, 1867. 5

2 ERSKIN’S BRAHEESUGAR POWDERS,

A Tonite aud Uniailing Rewedy tor . | . . Rheumatism of ail kinds, Veuralgia, Lumbazo, Sciat.ca, As ales for FACE-ACILE, TUUTH-ACHE, EAR-ACHE, COUGHS. «ud all affections from Colds Ce” See Lancet, ander Menicat Parronace Ww. R. WATSON. City Drug Store, Victoria Bnilding, Queen Street. Sepe. 16, 1567

A CARD. ERS. co BS desires ¢t

+ the ladies of Charlottetown that she has opened a class to teach Wax Work i) Flowers, and Baskets. Groaps of Flowers made to order. . E. COMBS. Residence opposite the Catholic Cathedral. Cv" Also. part of a honse te rent. ELEANOR COOMBS

FRANCIS 8. LONGWORTH, —

intimate to

Barrister and Attorney-at-Law, _‘

Orrwwe— PAVILLION HOTEL, (next door to Hon. Joseph Hensley's) Charlottetown, - - - P. E. Island.

em ge A. McNELLL, Auctioneer and Commission Merchant, MASON’'S THREE-STOREY BUILDING, Dorchester Street.

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‘This is true Liberty, when Freeborn Men, having to advise CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, The Centre of Attraction

IS STILL AT

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SALE OF FREEHOLD LAND,

Situated at Stanley Bridge, New London rgxO be Sold by PUBLIC AUCTION, on FRIDAY, the Twenty-first day of FEBRUARY next, (1868,) at the hour of 12 o'clock, noon, at the Colonial Bailding, in Charlottetown, under and by virtue of a power of sale contained in a certain Indenture of Mortgage, bearing date the 3rd day of July, A. D. 1856, and made between David Bell, of Township Number ‘Twenty-one, in Queen's County, and Jane M. Bell, his wife, of the one part, and the Honorable William Warren Lord, of Charlottetown, of the other part: All that tract, piece or parcel of Land, situate, lying and being on Township Number lwenty-one, bounded as follows, that is to say: on the South by land now in the occu- / pation of Thomas Bigger, on the East by the shore of Stanley River, on the North by the road from Fyfe's Ferry, and on the West by i purchased by James McKay, containing TOUNG’S for LACES & RIBBONS. orty-eight (48) acres, a little more or less, Y together with all and singular the houses, buildings and erections thereon, with the ap- purtenances to the said piece of land belong- ing oF appertaining

For further particulars and conditions of sale apply at the office of the Honorable eee BREAKFAST Joseph Hensley, Charlottetown, or to the SHAWLS. —— sudscriber. ave ’S for WINTER CLOAKINGS.

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JACK BAILEY’S STORY. |

Jack Bailey was a seaman, or perhaps boy rather, who was rescued from the wreck of '

Robert Young's.

the Rhone and the Wye, destroyed during ‘the late cyclone ia the Vest [ndies. His story is given in the London Siar, by a gen- oC for GREY & WHITE COT- tleman who received it trom Jack himself,

TONS. : = te ee fie dined with the writer. He had brought) _—" NG'S for PRINTED COTTONS. his precious life-buoy with him; and with

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FOUNG'S for WARPS. it resting against his chair, so as to be handy | Y for reference, he told bis story as follows :—

‘All [ koow about it, sir,’ began little Jack Bailey, ‘is that we were steaming full head on, and that all of a sudden she went stern on to a rock just close to Salt Island, and sort of canted over, and fairly broke in two. It wasouly then about two o'clock, but it was dark as any night, and the wind was blowing the waddest that ever I see, and the hailstones came pelting down quite as big as a marbles. 1 was below just when she struck, but | ran up quick, and soon as I got on deck | was carried off my legs and dashed against the rails at the side, and held there by the wind so tight that I eouldn’t break away. At last | mandgéd it, and then | tound that everybody wasdoing the best be could to save bimseif. When L eay that | |* found it oat,’ that isa quite right; it | wasn’t a time to find things out. Along /with the hail the splinters and spars were whirling about and knocking together about

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W. W. LORD. Chitown, Nov. 4th, 1867. ial \ yooses for HOOP SKIRTS.

| were men of the Rhone both.

‘how gota finger smashed.

;some more of our fellows.

| Samuel | M*Cane’s clothes had been washed off of him

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the Public, may speak tree.**---Euripides.

MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1868.

a little lighter, and presently [ spied two did not for a moment suspect that such a step men looking about ‘em, and limping too, as the present would be resorted to to liber- and | pretty quick made up to’em. They ate the prisoners.

yeoman, and Fred Pearse, engineer's servant. | to four @’clock, and the coacussion was 80 | ‘Ther had been on the island about a couple | terrific that there is not a whole pane of glass |

Pearse had some-|in any house for at least a radius of a quar- Brewer bad no) ter of a mile. The explosion took place on) shoes on, and Fred Pearse had one boot on. | the northern side of the prison, immediately | They had both got to the shore on one plank. /under the northern wall, levelling at least We were very glad to meet, and thought forty feet to the ground, and blowing in the that now there would be a chance to meet | upper part of several of the houses facing. | |The moment the report,, which was distinetly ‘We made the best way we could over the heard for miles round, took place, hundreds

of hours, they told me.

prickles till daybreak, when we came ona of women, inhabitants of the neighbouring |

black and two bogs. They bad seen some- bouses, rushed about in a half-frantic state, thing of the wrecks, and were going down to | followed by their young children, screaming, the beach to see what they could pick up./and calling for help, while men, pale with They had nothing to give us, nor could they | alarm, left their work and intermingled with | tell us where we could get a drink of water. | the dreadful scene of confasion that prevail. The black told as that he bad passed and spoke; ed. Hundreds of persons were rushing about to two other white men on the road, and that from one quarter to another, but for a time they were not far ahead. We burried after| no one knew or could ascertain the actual them and overtook them. They were both | seat of the explosion. Now there was a tre- able seamen of the Rhone, John Palmer and! mendous shouting and screaming, now a rush, M’Cane. Neither had shoes, and / but the prevailing cries in this pell-mell hub- bub were, ** What is it, where isit?” After all but hissmock. They bad both made for a lapse of some minutes, however, the still in- | the shore by means of life buoys. They creasing multitude made for the narrow) grumbled about the life buoys, and said that street, running by the side of the northern after a few hours’ soaking in the water they | wall of the prison, here to find a most heart- became soddened and like to weigh them /rending scene. The street on the one side is! down rather than bear them up. But they lined by a row of four-storied houses, inhabit- were better than nothing, I should think. | ed by very poor people, and on the other ran | lt would have been happy for some of the the sombre lofty prison wall, About midway | poor fellows if there had been a few more of in the street the explosion would seem to}

King Square House.

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| ange aga for PAPER COLLARS.

| your ears, and the wind was roaring and

‘em on board. Seven warn’t wany for such, have taken place, and that, too, from the) a number as their crew. Four out of the outside of the wall, At least 40 feet of the |

NEWS.

and x = = oe nee

_ None of the prisoners have escaped from the House of detention. Upwards of sixty

The explosion, as already | innocent people—men. woemen and children Brewer, the | stated, took place at exactly twenty minutes | of all ages. were injured more of less severe-

ily by this modern Ganpowder plot, of whom one was killed on the spot, and three have since died, Thirty-six of the sofferers wera removed to St. Burtholomew's Hospital, where two died in the course of the evening, and six to the Royul Free Hospital in Gray’s- inn-road. Three and four of the wounded were members of the same family, some were mere infaots, and the husband of @ woman who has since died of injuries she sustained lies in St. Bartholomew's shocking- ly bruised and prostrated. Others are miss- ing. The explosion, which sounded like a discharge of artillery, occurred at a quarter to 4 o’elock in the afternoon, when there is still daylight even in these short days, and was beard for miles round. In the iw- mediate neighborhood it produced the great- est consternation, for i¢ blew down houses and shattered the windows of othere in all directions. The wall surrounding the prieon is about 25ft. high and 2fc. 3m. thick at the bottom, and about l4im. thick at the top. The following is an accurate account of what took place before and after the explo- sion :—It is now clear that the explosion did not take its rise im the house im Bowling- green-lane which was totally destroyed by it, and which had previvusiy been a place of meeting for certain well-known Fenian lead- ers. In all probability that house was se- leeted as a convenent place from which the yard in which Burke and Casey were in the hahit of taking exercise could be over-looked,

people shouting and shrieking, and tie surf | banging againsé the rocks and throwing upa great sheet all white as snow and bigh as

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fright to let me have the buoy. I don’t sup- pose that he even heard what 1 said. He touk no notice.

‘1 scrambled away to the stern that was ar istuck up high on the rocks, and 1 looked HARVIE'S BOOKSTORE }down and thought I mightjump it. It wasn’t

y so very deep, and anyhow it was something 3 | to stand on, and it dida't so very much mat- QUEEN STREET. lier if | got no worse than a sprain; so | (chaneed it. I had no shoes on nor any eap. | | made the jump, but somehow I missed. | can’t tell you how or why I missed, but I ‘fell half into the sea, and the surf came in a minute and licked me off and earried me out, * There was plenty to lay hold of to keep | you afloat—plenty on the water pitching aod | tossing and picnty more climbing down from | the ship that was being blown to bits. I don’t know exactly what it was that 1 got Webster's, Johnson's and Walker's Dictionaries, nae ae wae woud, dad large enough to : | keep me floating anyhow. But it was all a Copy Booka, Slates, Pens, Pencils, &c. &e. job to keep bold of it, sir, I can tell you—the gay Remember the Cheapest School Books| wind was snatching and whirling things in itis ites Giaithiaon |such a — ee stuck to my stick, and

vai tial | was Washed out and in, every time thinkin SKATES! HARVIE’S BOOKSTORE. j when L was washing in that sou I should be atin a eatin September 2, ISC7. | able to reach the rock again and scramble up and each time be swept back when it

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seven were the means of saving men’s lives. | wall is blown into the prison-yard. Tie three | and from which, most likely, signals could be * Now there was five of us, and we walked houses directly facing the gap in the wall, made to them as they walked to and fro. jalong until we saw a smoke, and presently were fearfully shaken. Thefronts, from the) But there dose not seem the slightest reason leame on another black who had made a fire! first floor windows to the roofs, were blown to supppose that gunpowder was atored in it, ‘inthe bush. He told us what be was doing, | into ruins, and the inhabitants of the rooms and the police may therefore ‘be exon - but | forget. Lt was something that requir-| fright(ully mutilated. It would be a matter erated from the blame of carelessness in ‘ed a heat, and his boat had been smashed up| of impossibility to describe the awful scene | allowing a gunpowder plot to be mavated in the hurricane, and he had been cast ashore, that prevailed in the street. Mothers, fathers, | under their eyes. The house in question land didn’t know what to be at any more | and. children were being rescued by stout- suffered more severely than those on either ithan we did He knew whereabouts the| hearted fellows who rushed to their assist- | side, simply because it happened to be direct- /governor’s bouse was, though, and we per- | ance, fearless of falling debris, and conveyed, | ly opposite the point at which the explosion suaded him to take a message there, while) im most instances literaliy covered with! took place. The sole seat of the explosion we minded his fire. We should have gone! blood, through the excited multitude, to the | was evidently the barrel of powder, which, as jvurselves only that the way was all across | nearest doctor’s in the neighborhood. The | stated, was placed against the wall of the ithe prickles, and our feet were in a bad/ poor persons, who were to all uppearance | prison immediately before the occurrence in \state with the walking we bad already done dead, were literally blown out of one of the question. This barrel is said to bave been (It was two miles to the goveraor’s house. houses into the street. They were dreadful-| a thirty-six gallon beer cask ; of course it 16 | *7t wasn’t far down to the beach from | ly cut, and seemed blackeued with the ex-| nog matter of any wonder thet, that being |where we were, 80 while the black was gone | plosive matter, whatever it was, It is sup-| the case, it should have excited no suspicion |up to the house we went down there. on the | posed to have been gunpowder, as several a8 it was wheeled up the street, accompanied ‘chance of picking up something to eat. We small explosions succeeded the first. by two men and a woman. In epite of the jwere lucky. Some of the ship’s wrecked | Several of the fire brigade came up imme-| warning they had received, the acute de- ‘had pine apples and oranges amongst their | diately, and succeeded in getting off the ruins | tectives who were lounging about in the cargoes, and a goodish many of these was 20 bodies. Inspector Potter and the police | neighborhood of the prison may be excused strewed about. They were none the better | of the G division were on the spot, and put/| for seeing no barm and imagining no’mischief | for bemg soaked in the sea; but we were not| the unfortunate creatures in cabs and hur-|in a barrel of the national beverage. They | very particular, and made a grand breakfast | ried them to the Gray’s-inn Hospital. Three | naturally enough saw no harm’ in it, and off ’em. Likewise we found two hammock persons have been apprehended by Police-| therefore allowed it to pass on antil the cloths, which we wrung out and spread to constable Ranger and other constables, on| truck reached the north-east angle of the ‘dry in the sun to make a sort of thing to charge of complicity in the outrage. Inspec-| wali of the House of Detention. Arrived at keep the sun from scorching. It wouldn’t! tor Potter tells us that “itisa Fenian out- | that point, the men were seen to have care- have felt so hot yet awhile, only we had rage and an attempt to blow up the House of | fully taken the eask from the truck, to have been so long soaking in the salt water that | Detention with a view to reseue Colonel | deposited it against a portion of the wall our flesh was tender. If ever you have to Richard Burke.’’ He says a barrel of gun-| which they carefully selected, and then, ac. try it, sir, you'll fiad out what a difference it; powder was placed against the wall of the! companied by the woman, to have made off. makes. | House of Detention in Corporation-row, | The police knowing the woman, who had ‘Well, by the time we got back to the which runs from north to south. The scene frequently called on Casey since his confine- place where the black’s fire was, we met the | of the explosion was of the most fearful des-| ment in the House of Detention, appear to governor the black had been to fetch, with al cription, the maimed and wounded being have suspected, from this singular behaviour, | big jug of coffee and some bread. The coffee | carried out, mothers carrying, children bleed-| that some mischief was on foot. Unfor- ‘wasn’t cold, but we made it hotter on the, mg, covered with dirt and blood. The| tunately, although for this we cast no blame fire, and very much we enjoyed it, though | chemists’ shops in the neighborhood were| upon them, they jumped at the idea that the hot 80 much earing for the bread, because of | filled with the sufferers from this direful | best thing, under the circumstances, was to the pine + pples and oranges we had been eat-j event, including persons of all clagsee, even | arrest the fugitives. Thinking no harm of ing. Well, just in the midst of it up comes, policemen who were on their beats in the | the mnocent-looking barrel, as it stood lean- sir, more of our crew, all of a bateh. There! acighborhood. It need scarcely be said that | ing against the wall, they rushed after the 'was Mr. Holdeman, the captain of the bold, | the concussion which took place brought forth | three persons, whom they soon overtook, and Mr. Moody, the bo’son’s mate, and Henry the inhabitants, many of them partially an- and who are now in custody. It is vot im- Buckle, a fireman; and John Jones and dressed, and the shops in which the wounded | probable that the flight of these pereons was Thomas Ingram, coal trimmers; and Hangs-| were being attended to were completely be- | intended to draw off attention. At any rate ford, aseaman. They bad had a hard time Sieged by anxious friends wishing to know | it had that effect, for while the police were of it, a8 they told us as we sat round the fire | the fate of their relatives. The cry was rais-| after them a man came out of the house in together. jed of another expected explosion, which | which the Fenians had aseembled, crossed to ‘I can’t say how all of them except Moody awed the energies of the firemen and others, | the barrel, inserted in it something like a ‘escaped from the wreck, but somehow they lengaged in the extrication of the supposed | long strip of paper, set fire to the latter, and all got to a hammock bin that was washing dead, but, notwithstanding, with right good | then made off as fast as be.could go. The about A hammock bin, sir, is nothing! will, they pursued their work. The police explosion immediately followed, and in the more than a box like an egg chest, only taut came in shoals, and owing to the large num-/ confusion which took place the man who imade, and bigger. All five, Mr. Holdeman, | ber of persons present, great difficulty was fired the fuse easiiy made good his escape. ‘and Buckle, and Jones, and Ingram, and | experienced in reaching the scene of devas- | More than one person, however, seems to Hansford, got into the bin, but they could tation and sudden death. Many persons, it have had a good view of his features, and make nothing of it, it tossed and spun about | !s said, were trampled down, and were in there is therefore every reason to hope that so. Every moment they thought it would danger of being killed, but the immediate he may yet be arrested, identified and capsize, and they were seven miles from bystanders raised the fallen, and they were | brought to justice. shore. and not all swimmers Somehow or immedtately conveyed away from the Spot | Burke and Casey, the men who it is sup- other, too, a hole got stove in the side of the of danger. Telegrams were sent to the vari- posed this outrage was projected to liberate, ibn, and it isn’t unlikely that they would us fire-engine establishment, sad most speed- | were examined on the 14th, and were again have perished if it hadn't been for the bo’son’s ily engines arrived from the Metropolitan remanded. Burke’s counsel, Dr. Kinealey mate. Mr. Moody. Fire Brigade, and others from the Salvage) withdrew from the defence. He apologized | +L don't quite know the rights of it, Corps. Mr. Superintendent Garnon, of the for thie siep, but justified it on the ground

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G division of police, was soon On the spot,

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(From Telegraph, Wth July, 1866.)

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abcut to extend their Bonded Warehouses to more than double the size of their present very extensive

| bold of it, and yotit oer my head and should. ers and under my aros. Bat though [I was | easier 10D my mind a bit then and more com- | fortable like, L didn’t seem any better off, | tor the surf seemed to have more of me. to get hold of, and carried me out to sea farther | and farther. It carried me out quite, as | could tell because the mise of the sea break- Ing against the rocks grew fainter and fainter Lladn’t it been for tht Lb shouldn't have |

Premises, in order to mature more extensively fur known, for it was as nigh like night as could el

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their English, American and Colosial trade (From Times, 2\st August, 1867 )

“Monster Waresouses.—The Bonded Ware- houses recently erected by Messrs. Dunvitie & Co.,

Belfast, will contain about Two millions seventy-

be, and the hail was peppering down.

‘Now, sir, 1 wasn’t so much afraid as you. might think. LIthink [get a sort of used | to the patching about, md got at into my! head that alter being tept up so long it

‘and so brought them nigh to lend.

| Insurance! Insurance!

nine thousand gallons of Whiskey.” ows | wasn't likely that I shoud sink, and that it

; | was only a matter of ketping up wy spirits

FIRE & LIFE rE OFFI (LIGHT, R95 CASI jas well as my body was jing kept i and ' TE fFER FOR SALE, 25 CASKS | then by-and-by I might te all ri :

‘ sr: 2 r p : hts 7 : g all right. I be-

Royal Insurance Company ’ Vi * Standard’ KEROSENE OIL warranted) lreve that it was lucky tt | was drifted out

o stand a test of L10 deyrees uch of the } nae — .

LIVERPOOL, G. B. we a Oi ee to hia Maen ma sold _ 59 “ts because it pul me «ut of the vy of

woe Auction, will explode at about 80 degrees of the bits of the wreck that closer in shore

Capital slid 000 000 heat, toa king it dangerous and unsafe for family , were smashing and grinding about. The 77 " 9 ” use. The above OLL we can confidently recom-| wind took the lighter hite of timber and

Annual Income exceeds $5,000 .000, and mend as being perfectly sate, and giving a ciear,) drove them againse the heavy bits uli it

‘ . « | General Commission Merchant | rapidiy increasing. Aygregate losses — strong light would have been awkward to have got he- AND ~ in Psi of Nova Seotia WE ALSO HAVE IN STOCK: tween the two. It made great splinters fly { 4 E 75 x sene L 8. 0 descriptions ¢ . ie * AUCTIONEER, i a pn ne a nam aa += Ke " a =n o ws a , "7 as big as plates and dishes 5 70 gross do WICKS ; do ; de ; I dian’t much love my pluck till the wind |

Charlottetown, ..... P. &. Island.

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THOMAS W. MAY,

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Surveyor and Conveyancer, Glenste wart - Southport.

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REFERENCE: | The Surveyor-General, Charlottetown. June 10, 1567. ly

CHARLES QUIRK, | MANUFACTURER |

Square Rod, Gents’ Bright

Natural Leaf Good Smoking | TOBACCO. | Queen Street, Charlottetown, - - - _Janaary 21. 1867. Iw

F. P. NORTON, Commission Merchant

AKD j Auctioneer. GEORGETOWN - - - P. E. ISLAND

October 24. 1864 ly ns 7

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R, REDDIN,

Attoruen and Barrister -at-Law, CONVEYANCER, Xe. Office: -- Great George Street,

Pp. E. I.

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arlottetown. (Near the Catholic Cathedral.) mber 3, 1866, af

General Agent for Nova Scotia and Prince Edward j

on application.

/“EXEHE Subseriber has Jusr Kecuiven, ex

Glass SILADES, Globe and Harp patterns, went down and it yegan to grow towards Paper do in great variety, night. I did feel dil) then, thinking about . iti el, Mie : all manner of things: and I tried ¢ i myvoE @ a A sds Gas Shades, extra Rurners, Collara, Heads, | * gs. Oo swim 1 HE aan having a ung 1 Founts, Shade Rinys and Cl isp, for the alteration towards what I thought must be the shore Lo accept jaks for this Oiice, in all parts of or repair of Lamps of all kiuds. ‘ : a Prince Edward Island. respectfully intimate: that ' L tmed, and [ tried, bat it was precious hard he is prepared to receive proposals in both branches ALSO, work, with that great buoy on me, till atlast from parties desiring Policies A new description of LUCINE OIL BURNER, I left off trying without knowing it, and fell With attaciiment for raisiug and lowering the wick asleep. —the NKATKST and BesT article for a Haud Lamp ‘Fell asleep. sir. I had my arms through to carry about the house yet introdazed. With a) the eurds of the | Wi } a full supply of LUCINE O1L and WICKS. Seer _ a 9 with my hands : ; rasping the ath ps i a All at the Lowest CASH pr ces, Wholesale and B oe et ” underneath part of it L droppe 4 Retail. off just as thongh L was in my hammock, It + OPAPPIP oa was quite dark when 8 H. E. STARBIRD & CO. q . en I Jost mysell, so of course | can’t say about what time it was.

Dee. 2, 1867. Di ’ ‘ — —~ | lost myseif quite, didn’t dream, oranything.

ALTERATION IN BUSINESS, {vote scsi, fsing 6 racing’ asus

[ my leg, and there and then the thought of Notice to Debtors. sharks came into my head, and [ roused up

or, Taa, 8 ‘j ag, \'FYHE Subscriber hereby notifies that a. pretty quick. geet oe ae aon i silliplate Chugh tideee beta Yc be m : is ‘Bat it wasn’t a shark. T had drifted to In an um> we-

the Business carried on at Orvvell, heretofore, by | the shore, and was stranded on a sand bank. ¢ ; , : the late Patrick Stepleus, deceased, and sabse- ; ’ ‘ , 0 TT E Subseriber baz iv Store and for quently by the sulluatlated : , se’ T wasn’t hurt a bit, and aut even braised to Sale— aid

spgak of, but I was very cold and empty iI Hids. Bright Porto Rico SUGAR, to Mary Stephens, Executrix, und to the under- feeling, and my teeth all of a chatter, As: 26 Puns. Bright Retailing MOLASSES, che Se aierss Motes oF Ei , sok far as | may reckon, keeping account of the p a RE Bake me Ptah signed, by gments, Notes of Hand, and Baok , ping 4 Chee pomemes se ule & Volored, Accounts, that unless they pay their respective hours atterwards, it was about ohe o'clock = Hhde Hollend | IN BA, ) accounts in full this Fall, they shall be sned with- im the moroing when | found myself stranded, 500 Bbis. Seaedee Exirs FLOUR out further notice on the closiug of the Navigation. and now it wasn’t so dark but that I could « 18. - rie UXtira 4 ) ‘ " ‘

80 Boxes Liverpool SOAP, E All kinds of merchantable prodace taken it make out the shore, 140 Bandles White Cotton WARP, payment. Pe a kK. J. CLARKE.

Hhds. aud Qtr. Casks Pale BRANDY, ae tf

Hhds. Port aud Sherry WINE. Sept. 30, 1867 QWEN CONNOLLY. Ch'town, 25th Feb., 1867.

Island—HUGU HARTSHORNE, Esq, Halifax.

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The well-known character for promptness and liberality possessed by this Office is the best yuar- antee to Inearers

Rates moderate, and every information furnished The Company's bianks will be transmitted on request ; aud proposals may be sent, post paid, to

JOS. F. ELLIS, General Com. Merchant aud Lasurance Agent, Picton, N.S. Senremher 16. 1867.

And this is to vive notice to those parties indebted

Between the shore and |

the sand bank was about three quarters of a

mile of water, and knowing that it was no

pretence a use staving where 1 was, | went in, with my | HAY AND TURNIPS! life-buoy still on, and swum it.

ry Oran FEW thousand bushels of TURNIPS ‘I was awful thirsty when T got to the

Yarmouth Stoves. - for sule on the Sabscriber’s Farm. Also, a shore, which was beef Island. I didn't

quantity of the best of HAY. know it then; I foand it out afterwards

GEORGE COLES. It is a very wild sort of place, covered all

towards the sea with a therny sort of grass

that pricks like pins, I didn’t bave any

; ; shoes on, so that I couldu’t walk about wery

Court for Lots 48, 49 & 50, have re appointed . c _—

whish will be seid cheap for Cash or approved Mr. James H Bourke Clerk of said iinet ed the 'ast. besides, 1 didn’t know where I was

cae Court to be held at Mrs. McDenald’s, Second Creek, W#!king to. : deien Boter. R. J. CLARKE. ‘I limped about for something like an Orwell, October 14, 1867. at

Schooner ‘M. LE. Baxks,’ direct from YAR- MOUTH, bis USUAL SUPPLY of those wh

rey . ’ : ; fi r a s » Celebrated Cook and Box Stoves, HE Commissioners of the Small Debt

22th Oetober, 1367.

| Pownal, Lot 49.

| December 28b, 1867. hour and a half, wll it seemed to grow 4,

jagain?

whether the bo'son's mate had kept up with the bin, holding on to a spar, or whether he happened to come up with it. Anyway, he did come up with it, and seeing how likely they were to be capsized he poked one end of the spar he was floating on in at tle hole! stove in the side of their bin, and holding it on to it with one arm, swan with the other,

and marshalled apd placed bis men in such | positions, by the aid of his inspectors, that | further injury to the accumulated persons | should not occur. Atthe time of the explosion the concussion | was so great that many persons who were | drinking in the neighboring pablie-houses had their glasses and other drinking vessels thrown * Bat be couldn't bring them all the way from their hands. Many of the people thus so. When they got within half a mile of engaged were cast to the ground, and eus- the shore the bin came against a little bit tained serious injuries. ‘ of a bank and went all to pieces. Then the [t is believed that this ic a Fenian outrage, ‘ bo'son’s mate towed them ashore one at 48 Colune! Richard Burke is a prisoner in the a time til! four were landed, and it was now House of Detention, and exercised in the | dark. There was another somewhere, but yard on Friday afternoon. they could’t tell where. This was Ingram. The Globe says:—The cause of the explosion Some thought he was spilt out of the bin is now ascertained beyond a doubt. lt adds before she struck, and some he was still on another to the eatalogue of atrocities com- the bank balf a mile out. So they halloed mitted by the Fenians. Before the catas- and kept itup for some time, but nobody trophe attention had been excited by the answered, and they thought to be sure that Suspicious appearance of several roughis, the Ingram was lost. But be wasn't. He was types 0! the class which represent the dreaded out on the bank all the time, and he couldn’t | Eenianism, loitering on the outskirts of the swim. tie heard them holloa, but he prison. The detectives who have been en- wouldn't answer, knowing that if he did the gaged to watch the precincts of the prison bo’son’s mate would come after him, and / since Burke's incarceration, and who tor not wishing that, because he knew what «| some hours on Friday watched tho mayemente lot Moody had done already, and how knock. | of the suspicious parties, did not fail to ed up he must be. Come daylight they | acquaint the officers in charge of Burke and heard him holloa, and then they’ went ana the prison authorities of the occurrence took him off the ban, where he had sat al! | Sven after three o’clock one of the police night. | officers went to the prison with a witness to ‘We were all right after that. Shortiy identify Burke, and on his attention being the Tortola mail-boat came and took us off drawn to the suspicious aspect of affairs, Beef Island, and we were put aboard the though no dangers were at buat time appre- Tyne. hended, he at once despatched an officer for + [his is the lifehuoy T went to sleep in. | @ body of constables to resist any possible I must have jaid my head on it, for here, | attempt to rescue the Fenian Burke, us that you see sir, is the dent and the stamp of my | Was ab once presumed to be the object in hair made on the painted canvas when it was View. Before, however, t! e staff of oon- soaked in the sea. I havn't got any clothes | stables had arrived, the explosion to sk place. only what I ve got on. I don't know what | It is aaid that three persons were seen to the kit that I lost on the Rhone was worth, | pass Up the lane carrying a barrel, the ap- Not £2 Isbould think. But that is nothing pearance, of which, hb pwever, created no ao thatany life is saved. I've been two trips Suspicion as to its contents, The men were | before in the Company's boats, and [ve got Seen to place bho barrel down apparentiy for a brotherin the Conway. Shall I go to sea | rest against the newly-built piece of wall 1 hope so, sir. It's no use unless Where an entrance had lately been used you follow it up, if you make a calling of for the purpose of enlarging the prison. it.’ , : One of the men went away, leaving the other in possession of the barrel. No one seems to have seen what took place for a few moments, ie when tbe very violent aoe tee felt. A eee s eat portion of the north wall was blownup, THE EXPLOSION AT CLERKENWELL. aah block of poor dwellings counting trdes A PORTION OF THE HOUSE OF DETENTION BLOWS UP.,q dozen tu fitteen houses instantly became a At twenty minutes to four o'clock on Fri- heap of ruins. Fortunately the prison was