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47. Some forty years ago a party of adventurers sailed from St. John for Turks Island in the pilot schooner Rechab. It is said their object was to search for hidden treasure. Does anyone know the details of this expedition?

48. Please give names and residence of parents of Alexander Campbell, Esquire, admitted barrister-at-law in New Brunswick, 13th October, 1832, and practised in 1845 in Saint Stephen, but removed to St. John about 1848, and from thence to state of Oregon in 1850; also, if possible, give date of his birth, religious tenets, political affiliations, name of wife and children, with all other interesting facts concerning him, including name of locality in Oregon where he settled, stating whether still alive, and giving date of his death if not living. State likewise whether he was founder of the sect called "Campbellites," but now generally styled "Disciples of Christ." Where can his portrait and signature be procured?

Weymouth Bridge, N. S. Isaiah W. Wilson.

25. No defender of the Potato as the New Brunswick emblem having arisen, another claim is in order. The Spruce seems to me New Brunswick's most appropriate emblem. It is our most abundant and most characteristic forest tree, source of most of our lumber wealth (at least in late years), and the material from which our most famous ships have been built. It is a tree which figures in early pictures of places in the province, and seems to be the one shown on the first great seal of the new province. A claim has been made for the Pine, but this has become so completely associated with Maine that our adoption of it would seem but an absurd and unneighborly imitation. Our failure to protest long ago against Maine's adoption of