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such a pitch that a company of forty persons, consisting of mechanics, clerks and farmers, were formed in Charlottetown to make the venture. This Association, purchased at con- siderable expense a vessel named the Fanny, which they fitted up with great care as a passenger ship. Having on board everything necessary, the Association with a few passengers sailed from Charlottetown on the 12th of November for San Francisco, followed by the good wishes and prayers of the community. The glad tidings of the safe arrival of the Fanny at the port of her destination was received here during the summer of 1850. With the exception of one passenger, who died on the way out, the rest of the party were all well, although many of them began to realize that it was not “all gold that glittered.” While some were successful, many returned to their native land, and at the present time of writing several of the 49’rs are still living in our midst.

On the evening of the 10th of October, Sir Donald Campbell died in the fiftieth year of his age. On the clay of the funeral the remains were removed from Government House to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, to where it was escorted by a procession in the following order :—

Band of Music Troops of the Garrison Sons of Temperance Highland Society Free Masons Medical Attendants Clergy Undertakers Hearse drawn by four Horses Mourners Magistrates and Citizens following

After the burial service for the dead had been read, the body was deposited beside the remains of the late Governor Young.