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that his provence caused no ceration of the |
work, @estrored the stockade Iw cannon shot |
fed Hired grape into the buwu le t ‘orps dearmee, |
with wok ght in cvory direction, Dur Me |
Rhis Bhort engagement, i eee remarked that!
Corean troops mar ied be voted, nnd that
the greater part of the soldiors whre arined
with bows and arrows and carve’ pikes, The |
admiral, who only intended t) make a hedro- |
Kraphical reconnoissance, Yo facilitate ulterior |
‘operations, has left there inhoxpitable shores

‘to join his main squo-ron inthe Chinese seas.” |

Aa hoclacticise tin |
CANSE OF FAILURE.

panic i

We yery seldom look clear throngh a
man’s career. We seldom commence at|
the point where he began to let dowu con-
acience, and trace his decline through its|
various stages till the character $s unde-
termined. Why, two-thirds of the meu,
that breaks down are not crushed by pres- |
sure. There is a pressure that will break,
almostany timber. Oak will bear somany
tons, ash 60 many, and hickory so many; |
but.take a piece of timber that is eaten out
by ret, or by worms, and put a pressure
on.it, and the moment it is called upon to
hear a weight ot twenty-five ponnis, it
gsnaps, Andin many cases where men
‘break down the reason why they break
down is that they are worm-eaten. ‘There |
*9re thousands of men who are deceived in |
bargains. who would not be,if they bad the |
head that honesty and morality give.
There are thousands of men that place
their trust in things which are not to be!
relied upon and that are continually stum- |
bling, who would do well enough if they
Were consciencious and upright. Some
are weak-minded, some are short-sighted ;
frome undertake more than they have the
eapacity to do, and there are tuilures from
these causes; but T declare to you that,!
among the men that fail, the greatest num-
ber are men that fail from moral delinqnen- |
cies; from ten thousand little flaws that!
take away the stamina, the robustness of!
eharacter, and the soundness of judgement |
which are indispensable to snecess. And!
itis very desirable that young men should,
know these things. |

EO abso ONCE

Tho young Duke of Hamilton, the pre-!
mier nobleman of ** the kingdom ot Scot- |
dand,” and the 1%
family, three yer
title andl estate, whic d
per annuin. Ile took the hor
and other means of lavish expenr
and now he i4 a pensioner of his ered
with every acre of his Jands, his pal
and town resideneess in the fiands ot Jew
lenders, wheve they will probably remain |

till the next heir of entail succeeds to the | Pa

title,

It{sa nice thing to goto war, i
torious, and bring your enemy to t
assessing upon him all the expen
Amargin ty spare, ‘The late Prassian eam-
paign against Austria cost $42,000,000,
which the Emperor has Jevied upon his
enemies, thus: Austria, $28,000,000;

) particulars of quick veyages made by a

1 4
vetely.
Nace, which arrived in England on!

| was safely docked in Liverpool in filteen

} formed in Paris, with a capital of 3:

*presentatives of the Stuart)" e

SUMMERSIDE JOURNAL, '

BETENR THAN YACUT TINE,

new

poor servant girls and laborers, The
sna sataseae Chief Organizer, Gleason, calle himeelf a
A vorrespondent to the St. Joba Morning) General, lat it is said that bis only warrant

for so styling himself is the fact that he held
the position of lieucenant ie the Federal army
until cashiered by sentence of court martial)
for cowardice inthe field, Tle douliless be- |
lieves—

He who fights and rune away

Will live to fight another day,
The Fenian Generale, however, so far have |
been simply potable for the running away. |

fapraph gives the following interesting

P, E. Island vessel, viich also eclipse the
doings of the Yachts. Le says :—

* Tthink T can tell you ofa passage made |
from this port [Buctouche] a few days be-' ,
tere them [the Yachts] which, taking all
things into consideration, beats them com-

The bark Lille of P. EB. 1, Capt.

The Mormons threaten to invade Lowell.
Brigham Young said, in a late discourse at
Salt Lake ;—*+ I'he last time I wag in the city

He HE ey eee eas ne ae ag Ae) Lowell there were fourteen thousand more
Coast in twelve days from Buctouche Bar, | Perialed than Malce i Guat ane Eire TDWAL ti

and after lying too for filteen hours ina many years ago, ‘They all ve aud die in a
gale, and having to beat up afterwards, single state, and are turgotten. Mave they
| filled the measure of their creation, and ac-
and a halt days trom Buctouche, | complished the design of Heaven in bringing
“When you consider that the Yachts them upon the earth? No; they have not.
were built expressly for fast sailing, were | Two thousand good, God-fearing men should
in their best sailing trim no doubt, and/ go there, and tike to themselves seven wives
manned and equipped with ever appliance | #plece.
which they required, and the Lilie was) Openixe or tig Antizon To GENERAL
deeply laden with timber, having a large}Communce.—Tho bill passed at tho Jast
deck load, every stick of which she carried | session of the Brazilian Parliament to open
home safely, and not being in’ very good! certain ports on the river Amazon to all
trim, I think this furnishes one more in- | nations had become a law, and henceforth
stance in which the Yankees have been! the largest river of the world, the P. nl, OF
outstripped. And this is no chance trip|** King of Waters,” in the language of the
for the Lillie, as she has made several fast| Brazilian aborigines, isto be a highway
ones under her enterprising commander, | for internal navigation from the Atlantic
Capt. Samuel Nicholson—a young man,;to the Andes, The importance of this
fast rising in his profession, He is anative/ measure cannot be overestimated. One-
P. KE, 1., and is quite young, about 24 years| half of Bolivia, two-thirds of Peru, one-
old, halt of New Graneda, three-fourths of
“This is his fourth passage across the| Ecuador, anid a portion of Venezuela are
Atlantic this#tason in the Lillie, and allof| drained by the Amazon and its tributaries.
her trips haye been fast. Last spring he| Looxs Susptcrous.— came out to Charlottetown deep loaded in! possession of a canal-boat lying direetly
eighteen days; he went hone agai under the bows of the Cunard steamship
days. ‘This fall he came oyt in 22 days, | Svotia, lying at her pier in Jersey city,
and now he has gone across in 15, He} near New York, recently discovered stow-
writes that he could have been docked at) ed away in the hole of the boat one hun-
Liverpool in 12 days trom Buetouche, had | dred and twenty-tive kegs of gunpowder,
a gale not caught him in the Channel,” enough to blow up the steamer and all the
ayes Sen | buildings in theneighborhood. ‘The own-
Tue *Girar Baste ‘ited Ma- | ership of the powder and what particular}
bility company, called the ‘Socicty of thelit was designed to subserve, remain a
charterers of the Great astern,” has been mystery, though persons of Fenian procli-
a lie einammaliin rede Mas ana Ne vities are quite certain that it was intend-
CIATIOE (NG AOAMVBIND tgeet Nageris | AO Oh) ed to dastioy tle GMtel etaningl:
fective board, including seven Aimer My ;
he management. A contract tor! The remarkable properties of Brown's
ws has been taken hya Liver-, Bronchial ‘T'roches have been thoroughly test-
- have the, ¢d since first introduced. The demand for
Great, them has steadily increased, and parely upon
nd is! their own merits, they have found favor wits
irect, those who, trom Pulmonary, Bronchial, or
Phe great ship -\sthmatie complaints, require them. , For
ns for ahont twent ; Coughs and Colds they are efficacious. 4. °
sand will atturd a good |
23€ wio intend to visit the
Ivis the intention of the

done by ¢
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port for B di

‘Latest from Europe,

The Queen has taken a deep interest in
the late yacht race across the Atlantic.—
At her request, the yachts crufeed on
turday off Osborne, and so pleased wy
esty with the sight that she subse-
qnently sent for Commodore MYi
the New York Yacht Club, and expressed

op

on or Lany is Avstrania.—£7i0
afoot is not a bad price for land, yet that is
about the sum paid lately by Messrs. Buckley
und Nunn for a sinall portion of Bourke strect
on which part of their business premises is
erected. For 27 feet trontage they paid no
less a sum than £20,900, ‘The land is about

PHURSDAY, FEBR
Summerside Journal, |
‘TRURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1857.

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communications, We must know the games)

and addresses of onr correspondents as a gua: |

take to return communications that are not used |

semen are Re a

UNITED STATES TRADE
AND FINANCE, |

ae

Tuc public men of the United States |
are beginning to find that the abrogation
of the Reciprocity Treaty was a great)
mistake. ‘They now see that in their
haste to be revenged upon the British)
Provinces for their sympathy with the)
South in the late Rebellion, they have}
done themselves serious injury. ‘To their |
surprise, no doubt, those Provinces ap-
pear to get along much as usual, while
they themselves are suifering very con-
siderable loss and inconyenience from
the partial stoppage of the British Am-
erican ‘Trade. American financiers are
now learning at a very expensive school |
that the protectionist policy is not alte-
gether faultless. It is at last dawning
on the minds of the most eminent among
them that the Commercial policy of
Great Britain is almost as enlightened as
that of China or Japan. Even the sover-
eign people themselves have a few mis-
givings as to the wisdom of keeping
foreign manufactures and products out of
their country, and of paying through the |
nose for inferior articles, because they
happen to be the produce of Yankee in-
dustry. Eyen they begin to guess that
prohibitive tariffs are not what they are
cracked up tg be in Congress, on the
stump, andin sundry other places. They
are beginning to mutter that their trade
would be much more healthy if it were a
good deal less doctored. What with
high protective duties, an intolerable
weight of internal taxation, and inflated
paper ourrency, the necessaries of life
have been raised to an enormous price.

tlte products gf the nations industry are
actually diminished, The weight of tax-
ation is greatly complained of. The
money that used formerly to go into the
merehants’ and manufacturers’ pockets
in the form of profit, is now swallowed

{up by the state in the shape of taxes.

It appears now that the noble resolution
to which the people of the neighboring
Republic came some time ago, of sub-
mitting to war taxes in time of peace in

The cost of living is more than double of |
what it was previous to the war, while! cultural produce, are how exported to Eng-

UARY!ia,

ture for ourselves. The value of the ex

| port of these in 1960 was 62,703,000 ; Tpilly inereasing.

it fell to BF 20,000 in 1866, ;

Mr. Wells laments over the decline of!
the foreign commerce of the United |
Siates, Ne declares that it is being
“swept from the ocean” and that no

‘ranty of their good faith. We cannot under- | voyage with an American vessel can be

planned at the present time from the
‘nited States to any forcign port with a
reasonable expectation of profit. The
amount of American registered tonnage

jengaged in foreign trade in 1860 was 2,-

546,287 tons, while thatin 1865-06 was
only 1,492,914 tons. He complains
that the shipbuilding for the warld is

| transferred from the United States to the

British Provinces, One of the most re-
markable effects of the high price of
labor and heavy taxation in the United
States is that books are now sent from
that country to be published in England.
We think that we have given our
readers facts and figures enough for one
week, and we do not sce that we can
conclude more appropriately than by
treating them to a rather lengthy extract
from the Report itsclf, which shows
pretty clearly from an American point
of view, the imtpolicy of abrogating the
Reciprocity ‘Treaty :—

* Furthermore the renewing of high or pro-
hibitory rates of duty on the pork, beef, lum-
ber, wool and vegetables of the British Pro-
yinees, conscquent upon the terminatian of
the Reciprocity ‘Treaty, has injured and not
benefitted the Anterican agriculturist. Cana-
dian lumber we must have, and have taken it
us before, paying our.telves the duty of twenty
yer cent., and some per centage additional.
‘The oxclusion of Canadian ** combing wools”
has rendered unproductive capital and ma-
chinery invested in the worsted manufactures
to the extent of some eight millions of dollars,
depriying the American wool-grower on the
one hand of a market for a certain proportion
of his product of ** clothing wool” to be mixed
with the Canada worsted wools, and the Am-
erican grain-grower on the other hand, of a
market tor the agricultural produce reqnired
to feed the operatives of the now idle and
silent worsted factories, The oats of Prince
Bdward Island, which formerly found a mar-
ket in New England and New York, and were
paid for in domestic manufactures produced
by operatives whg consumed Western agri-

land, and are paid forin British manufactures
produced >y operatiyes who consume British
or Continental produce. No less beet and
pork are now produced, or will be produced
in the British Provinces by reason of this ex-
clusion from American inarkets, but every
barrel thus excluded will tend to supplant an
equal quantity of the American produce ina
foreign market, and at the saine time deprive
ithe American shipowner of any profit that
jmay be likely to accrue to him from the pos-
| session of the carrying trade, And, finally.
ifany benefit can be imparted ty any agri-

t, $12,999,000 5 Saxony, 87,000,099; | 209 toot deep, and in 1820 was purchased trom
Wortemdyrs, 33,200,000; Baden, $2,400, - | the Goverment at the original land sale in
009; Prankfort, 83, 400,00); Messe Darms-| sydney for about £10.—Meloourne Age

to him not only the delight with which she
had witnessed the boats, but also her sin-
cere regret for the sul disaster to the

cultural interest by the impasjtion of a duty
of twenty cents per bushel on Indian corn,
as provided for in House Bill No. 748, when
the United States, in the year 1866, exported

order to pay off their National Debt, in a
few years must be abandoned. We are

tadt, 21,200,000, ‘Total, $58,200,010.
Boeing the wh sun, anda round $14,-
QU0,000 of profit beside, Nota bad sum-
mer’s work.

Tre Barters on tan Prrawips.—Profos
sor Unger, the celebrated Vienese botanist
antl paleontologist, has recently published
rome qirks on the bricks of the ancient
Egyptians, especially those of the pyramid
ot Dashour, which was built about 3,400

yours before our eva, Qne of them being | : i
exunined through the microseope by the) between the sutferers by the late fire in Que-
» red through the mud | bee and the Relief Cominitioe, Among other

Protessor, he discove
of the Nile, out of which it was made, con-
tained not only a quantity of animal
vegetable matter, but also fragments oF
mitny manufactured substances; whence
wo may couelude that Eyvpt must have
enjoyed a high degree of Civilization pp-
avards of 5.090 years ago, Professor Ua-
get hasbeen enabled by the aid of the
microscope to discover in these bricks a
vast number of plants which at that time
awin Egypt. Lhe chopped straio clearly
discernable in the body of the bricks, confirms
the description of the manner of making
the latter, such as we find it jn Jlerodutus
and in the beok of Exodous.—Lnyincer.

A Monet Vintage Axp Mint is New!
ENGtanp,—-Dr. MeCosh, in his Belfast lec- |
ture ott America, described a visit which
he paid to the Pacific Mills, at Lawrence,
Massachusetts :—There are four the
workpeople, anc a beautiful si
sec them so neatly dressed as ther
and issue from the mills, The
one departinent receive a de
cents a day, and in anothe
forty-five cents. Lhe
in Doarding-houses, w!
have a common sitting-room
furnished ; they havea ~
where I saw them seat
fa meal as the middle classes 1
country ; while every two persons hy
neatly-furnished bedroom. Lhe siiiled
workinen get towards 1,000 dollursa year, |
and the foremen (section men) towards)
1,609 dollars. These foremen have houses
provided for them—houses for which they
pry 175 dollars a-year, und these houses
are each three stories high, with a front
door aact eleven apartinents. Connected
with the mills is areading-room and a large
library.

Epvcationar Diericerfirg iN TNpra.—
Indian philanthropists haye difficulties o/
their own. An enthusiastic schoolmaster
in Caleutta began tuking the young Brah-
mums of his upper form through a course
of experimental ehemistry; but he was
stopped by the father of one of the lacs
calling the day after the first lecture, and
gravely informing him that he did not send
his child to school to be a bottle-washer,
The youthful ** twice-born” had been told
to rinse out a test tbe, that was all,

1817 anp 1867.—Mesars. Mucmillan & Co,,
in announcing the *! Statesmen’s Year Book”
for 1867, draw an interesting tabular com-
parison between the state of Kurope in 1817
and 1867. The half century hus extinguished
three kingdoms, one grand duchy, eight duch-
fex, four principalitics, one electorate and four
republics. ‘Three new kingdoms have arisen,
and one kingdom has been transformed into
anempire. There ure 41 States in Europe,
ogainst 59 which existed in 1817, Jt may be
remarked that the 19 Grand Dukes and Prince
of 1867 will he much less ducal and princely
(thanks to one Bismarck) than the 32 who
ruled in 1817. Not Jess remarkable jn the
territorial extension of the superior States of
tie world. Russia fas annexed 667,364
aquare miles; the United States, 1,968,000;
France, 4629; Prnssia 29,78). Sardina, ex-
panding into Italy, has increnred by 83.041.
Our Indian Empire has been agamented by
451,616. The principal States that have lost
territory are Turkey, Mexico, Austria, Den-
mark, the Netherlands, Such are the changes
of liif'a centary; how will Europe and the
world look half a century hence ?—London
Globe.

The U. 8. Government has decided to send
to the Paris Exhibition a large delegation of
the Northwestern Indians, They will take
with them their wigwame, war und agricultur-
al lmplemenis and every variety of costume.

A correspondent of a Western paper tells a

tory about a German Jew who after three
days wandering in the sewers of New York,
cked up $27,000 worth of jewelry, precious

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and?

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tet

to}

ithe ship Merevry at New York.
) North and South, is represented in the cargo,
ji) and ne

Flectwing. Her Majesty hoped that the
yachting party would return home with
pleasurable recollections of their visit to
and reception in England.

The Cabinet Couneil will, it is under-
stoad be resumed on the Sth of January,
so that Lord Darby and hisicolleagues will
have four weeks for deliberating upon
the programme to be submitted to Parlia-
reent.

During the year just ended 125,333 emi-
grants sailed from Liverpool, the majority
Neing Irish, and their destination the
United States,

The rinderpest has again appeared in
North Staffordshive, though it is as yet
confined fo a solitary case.

The Halifax Mepress that infermation
has been received from lind to the effect
that the Confederation Delegates have agreed
that the sum of $400,000, due by the City of
Halifax tor the railways, will be borne by the
General Government.

Tt is stated that the Postal Department of
Canada have made arrangements with the
Poslal Departments of the Lower Provinces
jup to £20,

| Itappears that a quarrel has broken out

things, itis said that the splendid warm blan-
kets sent out from England, have been ex-
changed for horse blankets, before being
served out to the poor destitute creatures.

Why do ‘ birds in their little nests agree?”

Peary

During the!

much grieved to see alluirs tending to
this result. It was a grand determi-
nation of the American people to hand
down the Republic to their children
intact and unembarrassed by debt ;
but this like many of youth's glorious
dreams must be abandoned for the pre-
sent. After all, we do not know but what
it is fair enough for posterity, who will
reap the advantages of the late struggle

indeed it be really preserved—to pay
part of the cost of that struggle. Mr.
David Wells, Special Revenue Commis-
sioner of the United States, has drawn
up a very long, and a very elaborate re-

Because they'd fall out if they didn’t. year ending 29th December, nine attacks

Ms are reported to haye occurred in Creat
Britain, being an increase of three on the
previous week, ‘Three fresh outbreaks ot
the disease took place, the number in the
week preceding being also three. Kight-
een healthy cattle were slaughtered from
having heen in contact with intected ani-
mals. The attacks reported occurred in
Yorkshire Riding.

The reform agitation, suspended duving
Christmastide, has been resumed. Mcet-
ings have been held at Torquay, Black-
burn, Rochdale, and other places.

France has officially announced its de-
termination to complete the withdrawal of
: contributions are models of svhool-| the French Army from Mexico by the 1st
n Tilinois and from Boston, and) of March, whatever course may be resoly-
: y from our city; a farm! eq upon by the Emperor Maximillian,
hvuse trom Chicago: paintings by the more Trade fod mlinine to revive?

lof our American artists; a great TOE DORE COTeVLV G1 BOING of
of looks: specimens of our natural) the famine-stricken districts of Bengal,and
grand pianos of the most costly de- the rice crops are reported to beabundant,
artistic completeness; car-| Four Europeans are in custody in Bombay
fit for te Emperor to ride in; a loco-{ for murdering three native money lenders
; a street ear; tobacco eutting ma-|and wounding a fourth.
*; mowing machines; argans; wines} Ata cock-fight in Neyada, one of the fowls
rom domestic grapes; raw and cured tobacco: | was named Andy Johnson and the other Thad
raw cotton and sugar; pine from the Caro-| Stevens, and very heavy betting took place
linas: all sorts of domestic dry goods; crock- according to the poli cul partialities of the
ery: Jersey porcelain and earthenware, and spectators." Thad killed Andy at the first
hundreds of other articles, The mingral re-| onset, ae t
sources of the country are largely Tapered The King of Dahomey has lately inaugurat-
etl! ed a war against the Ashantees by a sacrifice
of two hundred victims to the Genii. This is

‘There is gold from Colorado and other 4
tories, aff from Uie States, while silver, cop-

the third time only, says a cotemporary, dyr-
ing the year. Horrible,

per, iron and lead, in fact the entire American
! Tondon, 29th.

mineralogical kingdom, are not overlooked.
J. Gordon Bennet Offered yacht Lenrietta

A planing machine. weighing forty tons, is
sent from Philadelphia. The Gattling Bat-

as a present to Priace Alfred, Prince. replied
as follows:

tery, which is capable of killing two hundred
Cranenen Worse. 22nd Jan, 1867.

and fifty of the enemy a minute, is also on
board the ship, which will sail on Thursday,
Tear Mr. Bennet—I find it difficult to ex-
press how gratefully I appreciate the kindly

An effort is being made in the United States
to deal vigoronsly with that disgraceful blot
on American e¢ ation, Mormonism. A bill
has heen introduced into Congress, intended
to force the “Saints” and their followers to
henceforth content themselves with one wife.
Many persons believe that even one wife is at
all times burthen enough.

The Boston Journal says that over one
thousand packages of goods de:
Paris Exhibition, have been 1

Every State

arly every branch of trade and manu-
es hias samples of its productions.

factur
Among tl

and no other ship will be sent by Mr. Beck-
with, the United States Commissioner, after
the departure of the Mercury.

-) at her desk,

appearance of the other before the Superior
Court in the sum of 500 each.

Stephens is invisible, doubtless enjoying him-
self on the fruite of the plunder taken from

A large manufacturing company jn Chicago
employs a young lady only thirteen years of
age as pay-miuster. She has paid out since
last May a quarter of a million of dollars,
keeping thé time-sheets, pny roll, and a
private account-book with aud for each pf the
three gr four hundred men employed. She
receives the teoney weekly from the bank to
the amount of 4.090 dollars, to 6,009 dollars,
carries the transaction of paying all the men
throngh. and settles and makes her balances
with the cushier.« She knows every manin
the establishment, the foree being divided
into eleven departments, each haying its re-
sponsible foreman. She commands a salary
of GZ6 dollars per annum, takes two music
lessons cach week, and attends an evening
course at a commercial college, where she
has agcholarship. Nor «does this produce any
overstrain of her intellect. She is in the
most robust and vigorous health, never has a

days sickness, and stapde ten hours each day

The proprietors of the largest and most
popular hoteles in Boston were before the
Muncipal Conrt on the 26th ult., to answer to
complaints alleging that they individually
majntain liqnor nuisances, which {js contrary
to the laws of the State, The Parker House
was represented by Harvey D.Parker, Young's
Hotel by Geo. Young, und the Revere and
Tremont Houses by William Brigham. They
plesded guilty, and were each fined $60 and
costs, sentenced to suffer three months’ jm-
prisonment in the House of Correction and
ordered to give bonds in the sum of $1,000
not to violate the Liquor Jaw for the period of
twelve months. ‘They appealed as is usual in
auch causes, and each went security for the

The Fenian swindle is nearly exploded.

» SHver spoons, &e.

feeling which dictated your letter of 81st ult.,
as well as the splendid present which you of-
fer to my acecptance, but most of all the
delicacy with which you seek to diminish the
personal obligation under which you would
lay me by giving to your generous offer an
international character. Jt is indeed this last
consideration only which has led ne to he
tate replying to your letter, for personally. it
would be impgssible for me to accept so costly
a present, but felt bound fully to consider
the question in the Jight in which you were
good enough to place it, and if on full convie-
tion, J feel compelled to decline your generous
offer, { trust that neither yqu nor your gallant
competitors nor your countrymen at large
will believe that the yachtsmen of England
less appreciate or less reciprocate the feeling
of good fellowship which prompted the offer.”
London, Jan, 29.

Tt is considered certain at Constantino-

ple that the Eustern complications will re-

sult in war.

‘Turkey has called out 150,000 reseryes

and the Government of Prussia has order-
ed that all military furloughs shall end the
first of March.

Paria, Jan. 29,
It is said that Maximillian has issued a

manifesto against the arrangement made
between France and the United States in
regard to Mexico.

New York, 80th.
A despatch from Ottawa, C. W., says

official information hag been received to
the effect that Confederation on the con-
ditions agreed on in Quebev is sanctioned
by the Imperial Government,

It is also said that Prince Alfred will be

the first Governor of the Coufederated
Provinces,

Gold 1954

port of the commercial and financial con-
dition of the United States, which report
contains a great deal of wholesome, but
to many,no doubt, very unpalatable truth.
Mr. Wells shows that the increase in the
price of the staple articles of food, and
of domestic consumption has averaged
since the beginning of the war nearly 90
percent, ‘ihe increase on breadstuifs
has been 70 pércent. ; on salt fish 75 per
cent. ; on pork and beef 120 per cent. ;
on rice 100 per ccut.; on salt 120 per
cent. ; soap 90 per sent.; brown sugar
90 per cent.; coffee $0 per cent.; and
teas 150 percent. Coal has increased
70 per cent., and house rent 90. In the
price of manufactured goods the advance
has been even greater, averaging not less
than 172 per cent, We will here give
the rise in the prices of some of the arti-
cles used by the laboring classes, and
our readers will sce that the difference
between prices before the war, and
prices since the war is really astonishing.
Shirtings were in 1860 from 84 cents’ to
12 cents per yard; in 1866 they were
from 838 cents to 45 cents. Printed cali-
coes were in 1860 from 8 cents to 11
cents per yard; in 1866 they ranged
from 184 to 22 cents. In woollen goods
the advance has not been $0 great, show-
ing an increase of about 63 per cent.
‘To make up fgr this excessive increase
in the price of the necessaries of life,
there has been hardly a corresponding
increase in wages. The rates of wages
in many branches of industry show an
increase of from 50 to 100 per cept., but
the ayerage of increage for the whole
country has been about 40 per cent,
From the ab6ve it is very plain that the
amount of food and clothes which the
workmen in the United States now re-
ceives fora given quantity of labor is
much less than they would reecive for
the same quantity bofore the war began.
The effects of the dearness gf Jabor, Mr.
Wells very properly declares to be a de-
crease of production and coysumption,
and the partial suspension of national
development. To prove this he states
that the great manufacturing state of
Massachusetts employed in 1865, a
smaller number of men than in 1855,
and that the gold value of the industrial
products of that state was three and a
half per cent. less in 1865 than the gold
value of the products in 1855, There
has, too, been a remarkable falling off in
the exports of the United States since
1860, The yalue of the apples exported
in 1864 was $733,000; in 1866 it fell
to $197,000, The value of the boots and
shoes exported from the States in 1865
was $2,628,000; in 1866 it fell to
$590,000, $905,000 worth of clocks
was gent away, a good many of them to
the B. A. Provinces no doubt, while the
export of those uscful articJes in 1866
amounted to but $334,000, The export
of flour fell from $27,222,000 in 1865,
to $18,396,000 in 1866. There was too, a
very groat falling off in the export of
woodenwares—Yankee notions—which

for the preservation of the Union—if

to Canada a million and sixty-two thousand
bushels, and imported less than four thou-
sgnd bushels, mainly fram Western France
andthe Sandwich Fslands—the Conjinissioner
is entirely unable to perceive it.”
ee
From a copy of the Yarmouth N. S.

Shipping in that Port ig much larger and
more important than it is generally con-
sidered in the other Prayjnees, The total
Mnount of Shipping consists of 261 vessels,
amounting to 77,003 tons. It appears
that no less than nearly 11,000 tons of the
Shipping of the County hasbeen lost
during the year 1866, among which was
the tt Fanny Fern,” 622 tons, which was
wrecked off Miminigash, Lot 4, last fall.
Vilteen new vessels are now on the stocks
amounting to 8650 tons,

The following is an abstract of the ton-
age owned in the County of Yarmouth,

1 Steamer 450 tons,
26 Ships PAuyabu 0
82 Barks COREY Ati
17 Brigs 4,816

15 Brigt.
121 Schvoners

261 Vessels mea.

Qivy

6,396 **

77,003 tons,

Next season the intensely restrictive
tariff of the United States will in all pro-
bability be considerably modified in re-
gard to imports from the British Provinces.
The proposed duty on the following articles

we provineials are learning te manufac- |

are:

TRESENT DUTY. PROPOSED DUTY.

Fish per bbl. = $2.00. $1.00.
Horses $20 p. c. $10.00,
Cattle do. $5.00,
Sheep do. 80,50,
Potatoes per bu. $0.25, #010,
‘Timber, spruce,

Deals &e. 20percent. Free.
Oats, &e per bu, $0.10 Free.

Public Meeting at Port Hill.

A Meeting of the Conservative Electors
of the 2nd District of Prince County, was
held in the Port Hill school house, on
Monday evening last, the 4th inst., at
which about 150 persons were present.
On motion of John Ramsay, Captain W.
Richards was called to the chair, and ina
brief speech stated the purport of calling
the meeting, viz: tor the purpose of
chogsing two persons as representatives
in the Honse of Assembly for this District.

Joseph Murphy then addressed the
meeting. Ie said he wished, il possible,
that matters could be so arranged as to
have John Yeo, Esq., offer himself in the
Third District, as he was sure that if he
did he would be elected,

John’ Yeo, sq., then addressed the
meeting, and stated that if.it was the wish
of the olectors presentthat he should leave
them, he had no objection to try the
third District, provided they thonght by
his doing so it would strengthen the Con-
servative party.

Ifon. James Yeo and several other per-
sons made some remarks, most of whom
were in favor of Mr, John Yeo remaining
in his old District. The question was then
put from the Chair, whether John Yeo,
sq., shonjd remain in the second district
or not, when it was unanimously agreed
by the meeting that he should.

David Ramsay, Esq.—who was not pte-
sent on account pf severe illness-—was
then proposed as Repu r Candidate for
the above district, wWiich was uhanimous-
ly agreed to, es

The following Resolution “was then

moved by Joseph Murphy and ’econded
by Lawrence Yeo :— .

Resolved, That this meeting teg) antisfied
with the conduct of their Ro resentatives,
John Yeo and David Ramsay, Eequires, dar-
ing the period they have sorved in the Logis.
lature of this Colony ‘

—Gom.

‘
TF Ove trade with Montreal is very
Notwithstanding a
hostile tariff, the imports into Sanmacrsida
from that place in tobacco, leather, four,
vila, havdwore, ageicaltaral implementa,
and a number of other articles ot general
consumpiioa, vow succeed all the imports
to this in Canada competes admirably
with the Vaited States, and by way of
contrast we ny mention that only one
schooner, the *t Annie Laurie,” catered
this port last summer with goods trom the
States, whilst the cargoes of some four er
five brigis, from Montreal were landed
here, besides what came down ih the steam-
ers, via Shediac,

In another Column will be found tho
Card of Messrs, Kirkwood, Livingstone
& Co., of Montreal, The merchants of
that city are becoming aware of the im-
portance of the trade between that Provin-
ce and P. E. Island,

ta Titose who would make 4 good in-
vestment should take shares in the new
Steamboat Line, to be opened up between
Montreal and Pictou, touching at interme-
diate ports, She will beyond a doubt call
at Summerside,

ty Trin Revenue of this Island fir tha
past year amounts (a nearly £95,500 cur-
reney, ‘The expenditure amounts to about
£160,000,

A poriodical is aboutto be established
by the Presbytery of P. E, Island, devoted
to the advocacy of Presbyterian interests,
A military School has been instituted in
the Drill Shed, Summerside. ‘The Drill
Instructor is in attendance every night
and the School is well attended. At pre-
sent the exercises are continued to the big
Guns,

SEyreraL attempts at burglary hare
been made during the past week, ‘The
store of Messrs. R. [Lunt and L. Vickerson
had violence done to the fastenings of the
doors. ‘Police! Police!! ,

BE sure and buy a Valentine at Bertram,
& Barnard’s Bookstore.

cer Ar the annual meeting of the share-.
helders of the Summerside Bank, held: in,
their Banking House, on Tuesday last, the
Sth inst., the following gentlemen were
chosen Directors for the ensuing year:—

John Lefurgy, James Muirhead, John
Iaszard, Angus MeMillan, Jas, L, Hol-
man, Jobn R, Gardiner, and Jaines Camp-
ball, Esquires,

Mr. Gardiner has been again chosen as:
President.

THE FIRST SEAM ENGINE EVER
MANUFACLURED IN P. E, I.

Wr had the plesswe last week ot visiting:
the Furniture Mstablishinent of Ma, George
Douglass, Charlottetown, ‘The appearance
ot the establishinent indicates Mr. Doug-.
lass’ enterprising and progressive spirit.
Me has lately very mueh extended his
business, so as to meet the demands of the
Island with yery litle importation, [le has
now fitted up in his place of business a
steam engine, of cight horse power, which
supplies tie motive power lov the whole
establishment, We have much pleasure
in saying that the engine has been entirely
manulactured (except the boiler) in Char-
lottetown, The maker is Mr. Archibald,
White, who is pretty well known already as
askilful machinistand engineer, So much,
for the encouragement ot Home ‘Talent,
about which we will have much more to
say in the future,

We understand from the Commissioner of
Crown Lands, that he has received, within
the past few months, upwards of £14,000 from
the tenantry of this Island, in part payment
of their Lands, under the Land Purchase and
Fifteen Years Act Bills. This sum will swell
outthe Revenue forthe past year, we are
informed, to nearly £90,000. ‘The ordinary
Revenye will be in excess of the previous
yeay sue seven or eight thousand pounds. —
dsl,

We understand that tho Mechanic's Fishing
Company will increase their stock by a tew
additional shares, which affords a favorable
opportunity for parties wishing to invest
money proititably.—10,

Perfectly safu in allcases.—Mrs, Winslow's,
Soothing Syrup, sor all diseases of children,
such as tecthing, wind colic, &c., is a sate,
reliable and harmless remedy.
relieves the child from pain, but regulates the
stomach and bowels, corrects acidity, and gives
rest to the mother and health to the child.

PRESBYTERY OF P. BE. ISLAND,

The Presbytery met, pursuant to adjourn.
nent, in Queen Square Church, Charlotte-
town, on the 30th ult. ‘Phere were present
the Revds. If. Crawford, Moderator; 1, Mur-
ray, R. Laird. W. Ross, A. Falconer. and D.
W. Cameron, Ministers, and Mr. Donald Me-
Nevin, Elder. ‘The Key. G. Sutherland being
present, was invited to a seat as a corres-
ponding member,

Mr, Falconer reported that he had, accord-
ing to appointment, moderated in a call in the
congregation of ‘Tryon and Bonshaw, and that
the call had come out unanimously in. favor
of John G, Cameron, Probationer. This call
with an accompanying adherence paper, nu-
meronsly signed, were laid upon the table.
The report was received, and the diligence of
Mr. Falconer approved. After a full discus-
sion as to the prospects of the congregation,
it was agreed to sustain the call as a regular
gospel call, and as the remuneration ottered
is inadequate, that the Presbytery apply to
the Home Mission Board for a supplement of
£30 for one year. Mr. Cameron being pre-
sent, the call was placed in his hands, when
he signified his acceptance of the same, and
received his trials for ordination.

Mr. Laird presented a brief statement of the
working of the Colportage scheme specially
under his management, showing that it ix
being conducted with commendable vigor and
success. ‘I'he Prestytery were much please
with Mr. Laird’s diligence in the matter, and
encouraged him to prosecute the work. Aa
certain liwbilities have been contracted from
an endearor to cheapen the literature provi-.
ded by the colporteur; the Presbytery enjoin
the several congregations within their bounds
to aid this important undertaking,

Mr. Murray having stated that there were
indications in many quarters, of'a strong de-
sire to support the Key, Mr. Chiniquy in his
evangelistic labors, it was agreed to recom-
mend that a collection be made in each con-
gregation in behalf ofhis mission. Mr. David
Laird was appointed agent for the reception
and transmission of such amounts as may be
collected.

Tho Presbytery next entered upon the con-
sideration of the propriety of endeavoring to
establish a religions periodical, specially de-
signed for the advocacy of Presbyterian inter-
ests, The desirability of such a periodical
was unanimously conceded, and in order to
ascertain whether or not it could be support:
ed, the Clerk was authorized to issue a Pros-
pectus, to be addressed to the several mem-
bers of Preshytery with the request that they
interest themselves in their respective con-
gregations in procuring subscribers, and re-
port at next meeting.

The Committee to visit Souris is asked to

be relieved from their appointinent, which
was granted,

Several othor mattérs of roflmine charac.
ter, euch as the reading offfrobationcra
reports, &c., werg attended to r whichthe

jueen Square

Presbytery bal pte to meet
Church. Charlottetown, on

dueaday, the
27th February, at 11 o'cloc :

Auex. ON AR, Clerk.

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