The Herald -- 1870-12-21 -- Page 2

ee ny ea Ay

which is 5
pid will

met accept as
the issue. Russia has taken
@ at ‘of Buropean complicatione:
press her right Uf eutry to the Black
ee oe. e Pa
a the fishevies it says :—
Moar oent hs his ee pn on this
au , . Grant goes at ldngth. into
ho fishety question on the Newinand.
and Yanks and the adjacent waters, Le
substantially admits that no violation.of
sur treaty has yet been committed, but
je threatens that if there, ia an open,
palpable infringement of it at some
_ Jakure day, he will send the American
age into those misty Jétitades to: seize
yur share of the codfish in his talons.
‘This is buncombe hardly worthy of Mr.
Valeb Cushing, who doubtless wrote so
anuch of the message as relates to foreign

aifaire, and whict, ‘bythe by, constitutes |

the greater part of it) «:

The World Writes thus :—

On the fisheries difficulty, Gen, Grant
asks for yr gathority which, in prudent
hands, aright peniaps have a salutary
effect. “If the illiberal iaterfererce with
sur fishermen is renewed noxt season,
jie wants power to suspen by procla-
ination, the laws permitting the transit
ot Canadian goods through our territory
and even to torbid the entrance of Gan-
dian vessels into our waters. The ob-
jection to these modes of retaliation is
that the damage we inflet would recoil
upon'our own citizens. It would be
py cc Petor to pay Paul. The Can-
aidian ‘prodicts and imported goods
‘vhich pass'in bond over our railroads
lind ‘through our canals are an ‘impor-
‘tant addition to their business and their
veceipts. The pecuniary losses to our
Jines -of transportation, would, many
times; exceed the injuries suffered by
our fishermen. In efleet; Peter would
not be robbed to pay.Jaul, but Poter
avould be robbed by ourselves, because
Pan! had been robbed by the Canadians.

BRE HER

ta Grate ebing' Serp
Brunow, dated Thorakee, Nov. 20%,
“ Monsieur le ¢ bassador of

me a copy of
pl pacer pe:
» Whigh I submitted to
¥ ane mas-
pointout it contained,
place, an expre of earuest,
desire of the Cabinet of to presery:
gordial between England and Rus-,
sia; and diy, an assurance that the
English Cabinet would not have refused to
enter into an examination of the treaty of
1856, so far as they have been modified py
circt mstanzes. As forthe question of strict
right, stated by Lord Granville, wé haveno
wish to enter into any discussion, to recal
any precedent, or to cite any example. Such
& controversy would in no way promote the
good understanding which we desire. Our
august master had to dischaege imperious
duty to his own country, without wishing to
injure, in any way, the governments which
were signatories of the treaty of ‘56. On
the contrary, his Imperial Majesty appeals
to their sense of justice and to thoir regard
for their own dignity.
“We regret tasee that Earl Granville ad-
dresses himseif-prinei pally to the form of our
communication, ‘The form was not our
choice. We would have asked for nothing:
better surely than to obtain our end by an,
agy#ément with the signatories of the treaty
36, but the principal Secretaries of State
ef her Britannic Majesty well know that the
attempts made at different times to assemble
the powers in a general conference, with a
view to remove the causes of clifliculty which
disturb the general peace, have universally
failed. ‘The prolongation of the present crisis
and the absence of a regular‘government in
France postpone still further the ibility
of such an agreement. Meanwhile, the
sition in which the treaty left Russia has a
come more and more intolerable, Earl
Granville will agree that the Europe of to-
day is far fyom being the Europe which
signed the treaty of 185@, -
_ It was impossible that Russia should
agree to remain the only power bound in-
definitely to an agreement which, onerous
as it was at the time when it was concluded,
becomes daily weaker in itg guarantees. Our
august master has too eng | a sense of what
he owes-to his country to force it to submit
any longer to an obligation against which
the national sentiment protests; «We cannot
admit that the abrogation of a purely theor-
etical principle, not followed by its immedi-
ate application, atid which visibly restores
to Russia a right, of which no great power
would consent to be deprived, ought to be
considered as a menso to ¢, nor that io

to

J

Of course Joss, .and ‘inconvenience
»would be also inflicted on WYanada; but!
18 there no,.way to bring ‘her to her |
senses withont. punishing ourselves?
‘To we want to inerease the trade, com-
merce and, shipping of Quebec and Mon-
treal, and ¢éntribute to-bnild up thdge
sities af the..expense of our own for-
avardera ? +; Would it be for our interest
to perees Canadian merchants coming |
to New Yoyk and buying of ‘our impor-|
ters, goads stored in the bonded ware-
houses ? dt would be cheaper and more
wmaywly to apply the plaster directly to
the sore by seuding a part of: our: idle

vavy inta the Canadian waters next

spring, with. orders to proteet our fisher-
spen. Claiming nothing but our rights,
‘our goverument should bave no hesi-
tation in enforcing them withoat a resort
ta circuitons, circumventing :methods
which would bring upon our eitizens,
wKreater. injuries than we undertake to
yedress,

.

The remarks of the Canadian Press
may be summarized thus :—

Tn'referénce to the enforcement of the
Canadian rights in the Gulf of St.. Law-
reice, that the President aves not found
his objection against the action..of our
Goveinment upon tho sejaure of vessels
actually engaged in fishing within for-
Liddet boundaries, but on the seizures
‘and. examinations of vessels suspected

avoiding one point of the treaty of 1856, the
abrogation of all is implied. The Imperial
Cabinet never had any such intention. On
the contrary, our communication of October
19, declared in the most explicit terms that
his Majesty the Emperor maintains his ad-
hesion to Fog principle of the treaty
of 1856, and that he is ready to come to an
agreement, with signatory powers of the
treaty, either to cohfirm jts general stipula-
tions or to renew them, or to substitute for
them any other equitable arrangement which
may be thotght suitable to secure the repose
of the East or the equilibrium of Europe.
There seems, then, to be no reason why the
Cabinet of London should not, if it please,
enter into an explanation with the signator-
ies of the treaty of 1856. For our part, we
are ready in any deliberation having for its
object the settlement of guarantees, for the
consolidation of peace in the East.

* We are persuaded that fresh guarantees
would be found in the removal of the pro-
minent cause of the irritation existlug be-
tween the two powers, which are most di-
rectly interested. Their mutual relations
would be more firmly established on a base
of good and solid understanding.

“You are desired Monsieur LeBaron to read
this despatch, and to leavu # copy of it with
him. ‘The Principal Secretary of State of
her British Majesty has expressed to us the
regret he would feel if this discussion should
disturb the harmony which the Government
of her Majesty the Queen has striven to main-
tain between the two countries.

“Be good enough to express to his Excel-
lency how entirely this regret would be
shared by the Imperial Cabinet. We believe
that friendship between the two governments
is essentially useful to the two countries, as

of.a design to violate the regulations of
the Canadian Government. Ile states
that while the Canadian act permits. of
such seizures and examinations, the law
haa not yet been put in force, aud he. is
resolved to postponé action until an
actual offénce.h ngiven. ¥
euch, seigurea and examinations ‘form ao
necessary part of the police duty of our
navy, is a qnestion to be considered.
‘We. need hardly, say, however, that if
these | proceedings are necessary to
driving out of the intruders upou our
waters, the law ought to be eufurced
whatever objectious may be made by the
sunerican Government. 4
‘Phe thrente‘of retaliation which the
President holds out, will not have the
slightest effect in ae the asser-
tion of the jaet rights of Capada in the
watersofthe gull bis iss
‘President Grant may, try these meas-
urea of coerciun whenever he likes. Le
will not canse thie people of Canada to
es Pet tt one jotor title, The
resident asserts the right of the United
tutes to the free navigation of the St.
sawrence. It is hardly worth while to
flispute thisclaim, = 6

- Whatever rights the American people
may to the’ navigation of the

possoss
viver, they gertginly have none to the
Bi Monk tm bats.

Whenever are-
quest las been mado to permit the pas-
wage of an American vessel down the
river, it-haw always been granted, and

errant eae oe te wlege therefore,
vat eigbt States on a Lakes, of which
he do. much, Ava been so- sori-

injured by the denial of his claims.

t is in coming up the river, wo beg to
inform bie excellency, that the trouble
arises. he bas never nade «
trip from ton to Montreal, We
pssure without the use of our
Se se meme would et wonder-
fully. advantage tron: ree navi-
yatlomof tie St. Lgrrence. {5°

“Phe President's message and General
Butler's apcech read very much alike, on
the Fishery and Alabama questions. We

‘however, say with the St.. Juin
vere a. * PT Bt is

i .% ident’s Mes ja not
MY abosines

Whether | than ev

1 namel w
lof Ro in Florence; and
the on man plebiscitum in ce

well as to the peace of the world,

‘With lively satisfaction we have seen
this friendship during late years grow more
and more-close and cordial, and the grave
circumstances in which we find ourselves at
this moment seem to make it more durable

ever.
(Signed,) | Gorrscuaxorr.”

THE SPANISH THRONE. .

Tho following is the official report of the
voting on the election of the Duke of Aosta
to the Spanish throne :—Tbree hundred and
eleven members took part in the voting, the
number of members entitled to vote being
$45, For the Duke d'Aosta 191 voted, in
addition to which two members who would
have voted for him were detained at home
through illness; for a Fedral Republic, 60;
for . age i for the oy = = oma
pensier, <7; for Espartero, 8; for the Prince
Alphonse, 2; for the Duchess de Montpen-
sier, 1; blank tickets, 19, of which 12 were
given by the Carlist members,. majo-
rity required by the law for the election of a
monarch was 173. ‘The Dake d'Aosta hav-
ing obtained 191, and two adhesions more,
have been proclaimed King ” the President
of the Cortes. Salvos of artillery announc-
ed this event to the town, where perfect
tranquility prevails.

The Unita Cattolica gives its opinion of the
election as follows :— a

- We may be allowed to write a word ¥
condolence on the very grave danger whi
our Pfince Amadee, Duke d'Aosta, runs of
being elected King of Spain, or of the Span-
iards. If we pitied Queen Isabella when
she was driven from her throne, we feel
much more pity for the Duke d'Aosta, who
is about to ascend it. Nowadays fallen
kings are better off than those elected in
stead, We have seen how the former
fell; but how and when the latter will fall,
God only knows! The Duchess of Genoa,

with that exquisite political sentiment which | the pavement ” are the very nation
naturally flourishes in a mother’s heart, op-|of a Voltarian Government. And to sup-
posed her’ son's candidature with all her! port this Government, there arrives that

cg: ae and her 0) tion prevailed. If
the Duke d’Aosta's = were still alive,

we are sure that she would throw her bod

across the path to aw him from ascend-
ing the throne of Spain. As for us, we can
do no more than bewnil the matter in the
columns of our journal. ‘The Duke d'Aosta
has many virtues, and is, acquainted with
the affairs and the men of the time. |
he did not appear to deserve the fate which
is reserved for him. But, as he is determin-
ed to sacrifice himself, we may be allowed
to express our pity, and let him acvept our

ty as. the of our pn erm affeo-
bes. ‘When the fatal day of undeceiving
arvives, det the Prince recollect two

things;

wi the proweatation
défenders of the Pope-King

to warn in time that the to
was not the -road tq happiness or

Wt e Mees

earth to men of good will” ig this year heard
in Europe by the nations, some of which are
engaged in mortal strife, and’ others are
busy preparing huge armaments which may,
‘at any moment, be let joose to iherease the
tarnage and desolation.
vinces, trampled harvests, smoking villages
and towns, ruined homesteads, countless
widows, beleagured cities, disease, starva-
tiop, and probable pestilence,—amid such
things the celestial augury sounds almost
like a mockery; and the deep-dug trenches
of the battle-field, wherein sleep the unnum-
bered dead, the only objects with which it
seems to harmonize. Yet it is not the mis-
ery entailed by a terrific war which jars the
rudest with this peaceful Christmas time.
There is another anda more dreadful ¢on-.
flict going on at this momen: in Europe—a
contlict against that very! Christianity which
was heralded by’‘notes of peace to men.
Any one’ who has watched the movements
of European soviety; since, or even before,
the outbreak of the present war, must have
observed how. sttong were the indications
of a’reversion to the principles'of the first
French Revolution, These principles were
névér’ Wholly eradicated from society.
Their growth, though unseen, has been
nevertheless going on,
before us in almost every European Govern-
ment, not as brittle saplings, but as growths
of strength, spreading, and striving to over-
shadow.
red flag havea well defined meaning. . They
mean the complete overthrow of Christian-
ity; the abnegation ef all restraint, whether
imposed by Divine, Ecclesiastical or Natural
laws; and the establishment of confusion,
anarchy and tyranny. When Louls Napo-
leon was a wanderer throughout Europe, he
became an associate of the secret brother-
hoods which had, for their objects, the above
grand consnmmation,
perial Throne as Napoleon IIT,, he seemed
for a time to forget his allegiance to the
secret socities.
title of Vanquisher of the Revolution, and
he appears to have thought the title no vain
compliment; for in speaking to his Senators
and Deputies, at the opening of the session
of 1857, shortly after the disastrous inunda-
tions, he said, “I hold for certain that the
waters like the Revolution, have re-entered
their channels, and that they will not again
he able to’ break forth.”
security was rudely broken by the bursting
of Orsini’s bombs.
volution, but the Revolution was resolved
not to forget him. For ten years he strove
“to reconcile the irreconcilable.” He co-
quetted between Christianity and the Revo-
lution. At the commencement of the Ger-
man war,his resolution was fixed to identify
himself with the power he once boasted of
having overthrown.
io the French people, announcing the war,
on the 22d of July, he used these words :—
“ The glorious flag which we once more un-
furl before those who have provoked us, is
the same which bore over Europe the civil-

presents the same principles, it inspires the
same devotion,”
the Great Revolution were,need not be told.
France, by a decree of her Legislative As-
sembly, pronounced that there was no God,
and Paris received the announcement with
rapture.
inscribed upon her banner that Franoe threw
down the gage of battle. At all events,how
readily they were acceyted by Paris, was
made evident on Sunday, the lith August.
On that day,the Germans were winning the
battle of Courcelles, and Paris, with the for-
mal consent of the new Minister of the In-
terior, was setting up a statue to Voltaire in
the Square Mouge, while disaster after dis-
aster followed the banner of the Revolution,
and the man who went forth to do battle for
its principles, the precursor of that Revo-
lution, and the apostle of its principles, was
receiving high honors at the hands of his ad-
miring countrymen. When it is remem-
bered that no man despised, or affected to de-
spise the French people more than Voltaire,
and that no man ever played the sycophant
more servilely than he to the Prussian King
Frederick—the enemy of France—,the erec-
tion of that statue at such a moment,appears
most inexplicahle.
gotten that it was not to Voltaire, the habi-
tual contemner of his countrymen,or to Vol-
taire, the abject flatterer of Prussia, that
honor was paid on that occasion, but to
Voltaire the enemy of Christianity and
scoffer at God’s worship. These were traits
in his character to be admired in France,
now that the principles of the Great Revo-
lution were emblazoned on her flag, The man
who ‘emblazoned them was suddenly hurled
from power, and the Government that suc-
ceeded him ‘was composed of ministers
eminently qualified to be called the disciples
of Voltaire, Excepting General Trochu—a
pions Breton, who believes in God and wor-
ships him by aetg of Religion—your Gam-
bettas and your Rocheforts, ‘gentlemen of

mixture of stupidity and impiety known as
Garibaldi. He comes,not tosupport Christian
France, sinking under great disasters, but to
aid ii the propagation ofthe Universa] Repub-
lic. It igno wonder that Christian men fee] 4l-
armed at such indications of a defiance of
High Heaven; no wonder if they rash into
voluntary exile over every frontier, They
flee not so mach from an invading and vic-
torious enemy, as from the provoked judg-
ment of an insulted
moment,throughout France, ‘* wherever the
officials and supporters of the Government
are not actually obliged to take the field
against the Prussians, they proceed as at
Lyons, to impress or imprison Priests and
to hant Nuns.” Prussia, ambitious and
grasping, might be successfully resisted by
France, but Prussia, the avenger of Heaven,
is a very different thing. We care not to
bring the state of Italy forward, a8 corrob-
throne | orative of our opinion, regarding the duel
now going on in Europe, between Infidelity
and Christianity. The
already ripe, and living witnesses will be

Wednesday, December 21, 1870.

Tne Christmas salutation of “peace on

Devastated pro-

‘Po-day they rise

The Universal Republic and its

Seated on the Im-

He was greeted with the

This dream of

He might forget the re-

In his proclamation

izing ideas of our Great Revolution. It re-

What the principles ot

Was it with principles like these

But it should not be for-

At the present

is there

here amongst us, the earthquake which is
‘Earope to ber centro, is unfelt.

r pone ‘hich ° of stats
not the | ms by . of atate
is stared. We ure, to at tena a pur-
poses, an eminently Christian people. We
plume ourselves upon our Religious senti-|
ments, There are many churches through-
out our lund, and worshippers ay¢ nuimerous.
Public sympathy with’ the doctriyes of Vol-
taire is antong’ us ithpossible—his followers,
if any,must be so in secret,for fear of public
indignation. “The great thinker, and the
grand ‘phifosopher,”’ hay no statue erected to
hiiy ini our public squared, and his :eachings
will never close our church doors. Yet, by
an Act of our Legislature, we have given
him'the control ef our Schools,and appoint-
ed him the guardian of the children whom
the State uudortakes to educate, Let us not
deceive ourselves, our school system ts emi-
nently Voltarian. Continue it and you will
breed up a race of men who will adopt the
principles of the Great Revolution, and scoff
at the Christianity which their forefathers
professed; Figs will not grow from thistles,
nor Christian men grow up in Godless
schools, :

ai.

Tue Patriot of the 15th inst. contains a
leading article under the heading of ‘ Self-
Vindieation,” in which David Laird’s un-
selfishnesa and. patriotism are painted! in
characteristic style. Ofcourse, everybody
knows that Mr. Laird is one of the most un-
selfish creatures in existence, and deserves,
at the hands of the people, a monument, in
honor of his special virtues. Nor do we re-
quire to be told that he never quarrelled
with the late Government, to obtain the
whole of the-Queen's Printing. Neither did
he scorn the pickings which his friends gave
him, even after his failure to oust Mr. Ings,
until. the people turned the whole lot about
their business. When a change of Govern-
ment occurred, he did not fawn upon and
bully,by tarns,the new Administration to ob-
tain a share of the public printing, and to
turn Mr. Reilly out of office. With evidences
such as these, of Mr, Laird’s self-abnoga-
tion, before the public, they will be prepared
to accept his pronunctamento that he ‘would
not have accepted the Queen's Printing from
the Pope-Howlan-Brecken-Reilly combina-
tion.” Of course not ! The only little doubt
about the matter, in our mind, is, that the
offer was never made him; for if it had, we
feel morally certain that he would have been
the mouth-piece of that howling No-Popery
Party, which he strove so zealously to con-
struct, before the formation of the present
“combination.” This hint will serve for
the edification of his Catholic” and ‘*Liber-
al” contributors, After assuring us of his
utter unselfishness, Mr. Laird proceeds to
iy us a public profession of his faith upon

e School Question. Toassert thathe ever
was in favor of sectarian grants, ‘‘is a base
and malicious untruth, manufactured out of
whole cloth.” Yet, in the same paper from
which this extract. is made, he has the hardi-
hood to taunt Catholics, because they refuse
to follow the leadership of a party whose
mouth-piece is the puritanical spectre of the
seventeenth century who now publishes the
Patriot. We agree with the Hon. Mr, Hay-
thorne, that it was to the utter stupidity of
the politicians of Mr. Laird's way of thinking,
who failed to see the settlement of the School
question, for some years to come, at least,
in the giving of a grant to St. Dunstan's
College, that we owe the breaking-up of the
late Government. Their statesmanship will
never again be tested with a settlement of
that or any other question. Confederation
and a Pope government, with all their evils,
were before them on one side, and on the
other, was the simple matter of giving jus-
tice to Catholics, by placing St. Dunstan's
on a level with the Prince of Wales College,
in a pecuniary pointof view. The statesmen
of a few months ago, with Mr. Laird at their
head, accepted the former on their own con-
fession, and rejected the latter. Messrs.
Pope and Haviland risked, at all events,
their elections and political existence, upon
the School question, and as one Member of
the Legislature, we would rather serve un-
der them without office, for eternity, than to
ocoupy the first place in the synagogue,
with the heterogeneous set of bigots and im-
beciles who really broke-up the late Govern-
ment. Mr. Laird is at liberty to accept
what consolation he likes from his soi-disant
“Catholic” and “Liberal” friends, but he can
mark down these as some of the reasons
which cause us, though no “slave,” but as
free and independent as any of the Patriot
clique to use our judgment in political mat-
ters, to accept the present combination.
With respect to the personal attack made
upon us by the Patriot, we have simply to
remind our contemporary of his habitual
failing—that he does not tell the trath when
he asserts that Mr. Reilly ‘signed the bond
of submission to the Popes and the Confed-
erates, under the impression that he would
holdhis office.” The question of the Queen's
Printing was fully settled before the “bond”
was signed, and Mr. Reilly was fully pre-
pared for the loss of his office when he se-
ceded from the late party. We leave Mr.
Laird with his lies crammed down his throat.
He cannot make a scapegoat of us, nor of
any sensible portion of the Catholic com-
munity of this Island. He has made his
bed; let him He upon it. When our “axe”
is as dull and worthless as his,we shall have
the decency to hide our disappointment, and
throw a veil over our chagrin.

Tue Patriot's opinion of the people of a
portion of King’s County, may be gathered
from the following sentence, which we clip
frond its issue of the 17th inst.: “The Jerald
talks of smuggling and robbery, of which
we know nothing. Some localities in the
neighborhood of Mr. Reilly's district, in
former years, enjoyed an unenviable repu-
tation for iMicit trading.” We might. par-
don Mr. Laird for his misreprosentation of
what we said respecting American poachers
upon the fishing grounds, bat the people of
the First and Second Districts of King's
County, will not be so ready to forgive the
gratuitous insult offered to them.

A& this will be our last issue before Christ
mas, we take the opportunity of cordially

offering to otr friends ahd patrons, all the

kindest wishes of the season.

friend Cornelius" j'and Count Me-

Caskey, is, peraps, # ‘trifle Mubre amusing
than Cornelius. “The and h of
‘the Scotish Language,” contains

new. It seems to have been compiled very
much from Jamieson’s. Dictionary. “New
Books” is a current review of late

tions, and furnishes a fair digest of the
latest contributions to English Literature.
By fur the most interesting article of the
numbe¥,; ig the ‘Great Collapse.” It is
thoughtful and well written. ‘Earl's Dene”
drags along‘dully enough.

Messrs. Mann & Co., 37 Park Row, New
York, have forwarded to us a copy “of the
Uniped States Patett Laws. It is illustrated
“with » great number of diagrams, contains
a variety of useful information, and can be
had free by any one, on application to the
above address, tt ee

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Last week, Ilis Lordship Bishop McIntyre,
in company with the Rector of St. Dunstan's
College, visited several of the Western parts
of his diocese.. We are informed that the
Bishop hasWonsented, at:the solicitation of
the people of Grand River and Summerside,
to give in the course of'the winter, extem-
pore addresses on his récent tour through
Europe and Palestine. An interesting in-
tellectual treat‘may be looked for, *”

We also learn that His Lordship, before
his return from PrinceCounty, had the satis-
faction of seeing contracts entered into for
the completion, next summer, of the greater
portion of the work on the new Catholic
Church at Summerside, and for the building
of a first-class Parochial residence at the
same place. - ou

The Catholics of that rapidly growing
town are entitled to great praise for the
generous manner in which they have second-
ed their Bishop's efforts in behalf of those
important undertakings. As aninstanco of
this, we may state that two young men be-
longing to Summerside, each subscribed
fifty pounds towards the building fund.

>) a +

-

Tue proceeds of the entertainment of the
Charlottetown Amateur Dramatic Club, in
the Market Hall, on Thurday night last, un-
der the distinguished patronage of His Honor
the Lieutenant Governor, are as follows :—

EXPENDITURE,

£edeund
Major Pollard, forlamps, 0 16 0
Advertizing and tickets, 2.17 0
Programmes and hand-
bills, 210 0
Hennessy, stage work, 210 0
Music, 140 8
Painting, 614 4
Act drop, and cottton
for 1 scene, 8 8 4
Powders and dyes, 010 6
Strain, for services, eo 30
19 16 23
RECEIPTS.
Amount received at door
per J. Hatch, 1219 6
Amount received from
W. R. Watson, Esq. 410 0
7 96
Balance against the Club, 2 6 8

W. W. McIntyre,
Sec’y and Treas.

THe entertainment by the Amateur Dra-
matic Club, under the patronage of His
Honor W. C. F. Robinson, Esqnire, Lieut.
Governor, for the benefit of the sufferers by
the Saguenay fire, came off as announced
on Thursday evening last. Owing to the
fearful state of the streets, the affair was
not largely attended, and the consequence
was that the receipts did not cover expen-
ses.

The Club have at last made a respectable
appearance, and though the acting was not
of the first water, yet we would wish to see

during the winter season; studying their
parts will give the young folks a literary
taste, as well as keep them from standing
around street corners.—Com.

Mr. Dona.p Currie opened a discussion
at the Charlottetown Debating Club, on
Friday last, on the Fishery Question. The
nature of his remarks can be learned from
an editorial article in the Patriot, of the 17th
inst., directed against our observations on the
Clara F. Friend case. He was supported in
his views by Mr. Roche, of the Normal
School, and others, with the result, that
when the question was put to the vote, they
were outnumbered by two to one. Annex-
ation and the surrender of the fisheries,do not
find much favor with the members of the
Debating Club.

Tae Christmas services at 8S. Peter's will
be as follows :—

First Evensong of the Festival, 11.15 p. m;
a Solemn Celebration of the Blessed rA-
ment at midnight; second Celebration of
Holy Communion, 8 a. m.; mattins at 11;
third Celebration of Holy Communion at
12; second Evensong, 3.30.

On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday,
being respectively the Feasts of S. Stephen,
S. John and of the Holy Innocents, there
will be the usual Saints Day services, viz:

evensong with sermon at 7.30 p. m.; with
the exception of the latter festival, when
évensong will be at the usual hour of 4.30.

Tue schr. St. Cecile, belonging to Capt.
John McIntyre, of East Point, and Mr. Peter
Stewart, of Souris, and which cleared from
St. Peter's Harbor with a cargo of produce
for Newfoundland, this fall, was wrecked on
the Newfoundland shore, on the 20th of
November. Both vessel and oargo are a
total loss, as it is su that no Insurance
had been effected on either. The crew had
much difficulty in saving themselves, We
sympathize with the owners in their loss.

Tut Musical Times for December has
come to hand. It contains a ‘Festival
Hymn,” com by C. P. Morrison. The
musical intel «© contained in this num-

ber is varied and entertaining. Any one
wishing to subscribe for it, address G.
W., Stratton, 375 Washington Street, Bos-
9 oe

Tue Wesleyan Bazaar yeasterda
in Market . with success. It fe

being continued to-day with equal satisfac-
tion. ‘The funds are to be ap to-
wards the support of the new 8c be-
longing to denomination, which are
about to be opened in this city.

Tits Excellency the Lieut. Governor, will
hold a Levee at Government House, at 12

o'gleck, on Monday, the 2d January next.

them give an entertainment once a month | guage

Holy Communion, 7.30; mattins, 9.80; and |®

NOTICE TQ CORRESPONDENTS.

We canyot ondertake to return rejected
communications.In all cases in which mat-
ters of fact are involved, Correspondents must
furnish us with their names and addresses —
not for publication, butas a guarantee of au-
thenticky
me 4

To cue Eptror or tue Henao.

As the question of a Trunkline of Railway
from ‘Tignish to Georgetown, is now engag-

ing"the attention of the ‘public throughout | P

the Island, it may’ not Me out of place to
publish the following letter, which I receiv-|
ed in answer to one addressed to Mr. Boyd,
requesting some information respecting
narrow-guage roads, which I knew he had
made the study of a lifetime.

Mr. Boyd has travelled East and West of
the Island, and also examined carefully our

| late consua returns, together with our ex-

ports and imports, for some years past. 1
may also add, that as he is a member of the
Institute of Civil Engineers, of London, and
has had considerable experience, both as
Engineer and General Superintendent of the
E. & N. A. Railway, from Shediac to St.
John, his statements on’ railway matters
may be'considered Yellable. °°

lam aware that with some people the
mention of a railroad is synovimous with
Confederation; but in my humble judgment,
we are quite able to build the road from our
own resources, without seriously interfering
with the monetary or commercial: affairs of
the Colony. A Colony unoppressed by a
greater public debt than it has lands to pay
for, cannot be a bad security to offer to any
company, who might be willing to take the

| contract to build the road.

Vety respectfully yours,
' George W. How ay.
28th, 1870.

Sr. Joun, N. B.
Hon. George W. Howlan, Cascumpec, P. B. I.

Sin;—I have the honor to acknowled,
the receipt of your letter of 15th inst., ask-
ing for some information respecting narrow-

uage mp 5 of 3ft. Gin. guage. I-pub-
fished a pamphlet in 1865 on the subject, A
letter written by me to the Directors of the

ro; N.Y. Railways, out of ‘Toronto,
n July, 1867, was also published in pamph-
let form, with letters from M. Cart Pi nil,
Chief Engineer of Norwegian Railways,
Mr. Fitzgibbon, Chief Engineer of the
Queensland Government Railways, Major
Adelshold, Swedish Royal Engineers, and
others. The latter had reference to many
merely local mattters,"and the former was
based on a much more limited knowledge of
the system than I now have. Instead of
sending you either of these; I think. it will
be better to compile from various sources
such information on the subject as will be
interesting to you.

The chief points in question are the cost of
construction, the cost of maintenance and
the working expenses, the traflic’ capacity,
the speed attainable, and the safety of the
8ft. Gin. lines, as compared with those of
the ordinary English guage of 4ft. 8hin.,
or the Canadian guage of Sft. gin.

Cost or Constuction.—It is a well
established fact that the resistance due
to curves diminishes as the width be-
tween the rails is reduced, and it is
by taking advantage of this ability,
which the narrow guage lines possess of
adapting themselves to the natural surface
of the country, by sharper or more frequent
curves without meeting corresponding loss of
power, from increased resistance that a great

rt of the saving in earthwork is effected.
The proportion of this saving is, hawever,
entirely dependent on the state of the coun-
try, and is necesarily less in a level country
than in a hilly and difficult one. The Nor-
wegian Government has now in operation
182 miles of N. Y. Railway. M. Carl Pihil
the Chief Engiveer says: ‘The formation
width for the line of 4ft. 84in. guage is gen-
erally from 15 to 18ft., say 164ft. on an aver-

, and for the 3ft Gin. guage it is here 12ft.
Gin, The average height of the banks and
cuttings on the narrower guage is less than
on the broad, owing to the greater facility of
adaptation to the country. With us the
height is 10f., whereas the broader
been adopted, it would have been
from 12ft. to 14ft., say 13. This would
make the proportion of quantities nearly as
4 to 7.” The saving in earthwork leads
naturally to a saving in masonry. If the
embankments are lower and narrower, the
culverts are shorter and the bridge abut-
ments of less height and width. As the
engine and trains are lighter the bri
superstructures are much less costly. The
cost of permanent way is about 66 per cent.
of that of the broader guage. Major Adels-
kold, Swedish Royal Engineer, who has
constructed several of these railways says:
“Their principal advantage is their original
cost, which is so considerably below that of
the broader (4ft. ayn guage both here and
in Norway.” In Queensland 200 miles of
3ft. Gin. lines are now in operation, and
some 250 miles more are in progress. Mr,
Fitzgibbon, the Chief Engineer to the Gov-
ernment says in his report: ‘It was found
on calculation of the booger ge of work that
the cost of the line with 4ft. 84in. guage,
would exceed that of the $f. Gin. guage by
more than threefold.” This is of course an
extremo case, as the country was exceeding-
ly difficult, but the estimate was fully borne
out by the result, The New South Wales
Railways of 4ft. 84in, guage cost very much
more than those of Queensland. The item
of permanent way alone exceeding by £834

r mile. The Victorian Railways of 4ft.
iin. guage cost £28,000 per mile more than
those o) iaeend, or in other words the
cost of one exceeded the cost of the other
sixfold on the lighter section and threefold
on the mountain inclines. Owing to the
skill and energetic management of Mr. Fita-
ibbon who ©: ized and constructed the
whole of the lines, and his success in the
hattle against the broad guage advocates,
Queensland, above all the Australian Colo-
nies, has a system of Railways adapted to the
wants of the country, and constructed at a
cost which a the resources of the Co-
lony comparatively unburdened, places it in
a position to extend the lines when neces-
sary for the further developement of the
*°T wish particnlarty to |

w ticularly to impress upon you
that neat of the sdroonben ‘ot the Page
system, to arrive atthe sav-
re fi first cout hy interior construction or
the use of inferior material. The —. is
to construct lines, which though their first
cost be low, will not be extensive to work
and maintain, And in order to meet these
two important requirements, it is nécessary
that the materials and workmanship should
be of the very best deseription, and all parts
Fra gi A proportioned to the services oe |
ve to perform. Of the Queensland kind,
Mr. Fitagibbon says: ‘‘As regards the =
ity and durability of the works, of the rolling
stock and the equipment of the line, nothing
is left to be 3” and again: “the con-
struction of the road and the various appli-
ances employed, are in all respects equal to
any railway in the world, excepting only
that they are limited in power to the wants
of the case.” Mr. Chas. He Fox says
of the Norwegian lines, of wh
tes-
the

Alberton, Noy.

examination: “I would
ty tot a gen of all
works on es; permanent way,
somnerad a/tich has obbed ths Yost Of one Wer:

we; winters, is without ex the
catethen reed I have been my oy

D, CHARLUTTETOMWR ot eer ec «=~ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1870.
eee { = — eames = <= ee es emer te
REPLY TO. . . ' able to testify, in a short space, tothescenes| Litera ture.—Blackwood, for November, rrespondence i Cost or MAINTENANCE AND Woitkine
; tO =~ ch c Ki rr wld. ‘I that most n y be enacted. - fis,’as a whole, dull beyond ordinary. “The Co ergata da toy acme of ie
peci al correspon s P ‘We, muthrally enough, focl grateful, that) very Strange ndent,” is our old| ~~ ™ broad, if only for the reason that the perish.
&, Wele- | -~ ¥ “~ “

able are expensive to replave.

Maher Adslokeld gaye of the lines :
“The working expenses have also beén Gyn:
siderably lower, partly becanse the resist:
ance on the curves, with the same speed
diminishes in proportion with the guage;
partly also, because the dead weight of the
carriages eta diminishes with
the guage; finally, because the light
locomotives on the narrow guage line, do
not wear out the rails so easily as a heavier
engine on a broad guage.” My own im-
ression, in the absence of any reliable sta-
tistics, is that while the cost of repairs would
be less per mile, the expense of moving a
passenger or ton of goods, would be about
the same on either guage.

tw remaining part of Mr. ig 7h letter
will appear in our nextissue.—Ep. Henap.]

To rue Epiron or tug Herarp.

Dear Sin:-—Knowing that your readers are
always interested in hearing from * P. KB. Is-
lander abroad,”’ 1 thought a few jottings from
one six years in this * Hub of the Untverse’’
would not be unacceptable at the present time.
First let me congratulate you on the continued
success which has followed yout efforts In the
years past, and the prospeet widened, by your
eularged and improved paper, of still greater
results in the favure. em 4

You will readily believe that here, ay well as

elsewhere, European affaire berdmappoibed
the largest share of public attention. Tndeed,
so rapid and astounding have beew he: polltic-
al changes, embracing in months, events
which might fill centurles of bistory, ‘tha,
men's minds seemed for a time to looge sight
of all other concerns. But as natious, ike
Individuals, must occasionally vary the diree-
tion and — of their thoughts and energies,
the popular interest here bas, within a short.
time, been alternating between the oecurrep-
ces transpiring abroad, and the less-import-
ant, but more closely interesting local issues
pending at home. ‘The smoke of the politicak
contests, incident on the late elections in
these States, having entirely cleared away,
we are now enabled to judge with aceuracy
what are the’results. and what the position
and prospects of the various contending par-
ties. . The fate of many an aspirant for public
honors has been decided, ‘and innumerable
pet schemes have received their sentence at
the hands of the great American system of all-
ruling majorities, I would not attempt to
lead your not over curious fellow-colonists into
the inextricable labrynth of Yankee politics,
even if | wereeapable of thregdingits intermin-
able maze myself, for I am cofivinced that they
are occupied In a far more dicerning and pro-
fitable manner—-attenaing to their own inter-
ests in the Gulfof St: Lawrence. Let me sim-
ply take a broad view of the field as {t appears
to the eye of a uca-combatant, and 1 observe
twu great dominant parties throughout the
land; otie the steady Conservative but some-
what backward Democracy, and the other the
present trigmphdat ‘Republican party’ with its
bold though often doubtful ideas ‘o. progres.
sion. Between, and in the very rapksof these
would-be ruling’ powers,'I see ‘slowly but
grandly rising the young Labor Reform Party,
headed by its architect and builder, Wendell
Phillips, the brave and lite-long friend of ha-
manity, wijh the ever-spreading ideas of ele-
vating the workingman and helping to up
the lowly. It would seem evident to any dis-
interested pévson, that the policy of the be
eign-born citizens, especially the Irish ele t.
should be not to ally themselves wholly to
any one of those ‘opposing parties, bat to
watch whgt Indacements each has to’ bdffer,
aud be always ready to throw their Influence,
on the most favorable side. How to account,
for thelr tenacious and, vntil lately,’ atmo:
unanimous adheavance to the Democrats Is a
mystery to me. “hose time-worn ind oft-de-
feated a ote 9 Tag hardly claim to have any
particular benefits to afford our people, while
they have several planks in their platform de-
cided)y abjectionablé. But, of course, T ana
only giving my own Impressions, er
they are founded on What TI consider good au-
thority, A very important fact that concerns
the adopted citizens has recently come to light
here. Itis the genuine active existence of a
secret organization ealled the Amcrican Order
of Phognix, which Is little more or less than a
revival of the old Know-nothing clique, whose
avowed object was the exclusion of all but
native-born Americans from offices of honor
and trust under the Government. The par-
ticulars of this powerful and dangerous organ-
ization became known by the energy aud saga-
elty of the Editor of the Pilot, who exposed
the whole machinery of narrow malignity, so
that the cabalistic letters, «A, O. P.,” on the
street wa!ls no longer stave at us with thelr
unreadable mockery. and this relic of past
meanness and stupidity bids fair to meet the
iznominious fate of its predecessor, which
was effectually stamped out under the iron
heel of true America’s spirit of honor. The
erisis in this affair is approaching, and {t will,
no doubt, play an important partin the city
elections next week, Whatever efforts fana-
ties may put forth, I can say with confidence,
that our people are progressing here in every
sense of the word, and the grand old Church,
of which they are the pioneers, is spreading
with wonderful strides.

last Thursday was Thanksgiving Day.
Have your readers any idea of what an Ameri-
ean Thanksgiving consists of? If not, it
would be impossible for me to convey it to
them. The day here is Inseparably connected
with visions of roast turkeys, happy reuntons
and crowded theatres I can assure you that
whatever may have been the prevailing notions
on the pr t Turko-R difflculues, New
England, last week, went in strong for Turkey.

But I must leave off for the present, I hope
to have the pleasure of imparting some more
interesting things at a more favorable oppor-
tunity. Yours sincerely

If, O'M.

Boston, November 28.

To tae Epviror or tae Herarp.

Sin;—In glancing over your issue of the 7th
inst., | was much pleased to know that you have:
not forgotten us with regard to the necessar:
public wants of thie part of the Island, It is
evident, Mr. Editor, that the want of justice In
giving us an equal share of the public money to
expend in the improvements of our harbor, re
vents this locality from Bap hod ee
Tignish Kun been nted an are? a
place that never will oeate east During the
reign of cats, is this justice? The small amount,
that has been granted towards this harbor, shows
the great improvement it has done. Vessels
drawing from 12 to 13 feet water, could go out
this fall, And for the purpose of having the
channel to run in same dirvetion, we require
some few hundred pounds granted us to batid o
breastwork on the weat side, and to extend the
present one on the east side. This would cause
the channel to run in one direction at all times,
instead of shifting.

Thore ie another matter I would remind the
Government of-—the want of having sailing eom-
munication from Charlottetown to this port, I
would therefore suggest the propriety of giving &
grant toa Packet to run between this port and
Charlottetown, touching at wn and
Souris, Cept. levine, of the sehr, Charles,
can justify me in saying that, a Packet would
have more than she could doin freights to or
from Charlottetown during the season. Weare,
Mr. Editor, as you ave aware, next to being out
of the world, So situated as we are, neither
steam or sailing communication to | parts—
only left to paddle our own canoe, We cannot
thrive where justice is not given in the distribu-
tion of public money. Sufficient money granted
to us, and judiciously ex led, would make St.
Peter's Bay one of the settlements on the
Island, Trusting you, Mr. Editor, will be one
of the main epokes in the wheel, on the meet-
ing of the , in obtaining our neéoes-
sary wants. And thanking you for

have taken in the welfare of this place, I

servant, g
BONA FIDE,
St. Peter's Bay, Deo. 16, 1876.

9 |

Go to Smith's, if you want Comfortable
si ak ea eo pan
all id
very low rates and free moths,