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TRMRINLE THRACEDY IN SINTH
AVES, SEW Yom

& POLEOR OFFICER pteaNeINATE® A DOE
CAPT Shab ol ol SCPTONL
Tas cares,

About 3 o'clock on Saturday eventug bret
the inmates of the house, Corner of Twentieth

ty he

street and Ninth Avenue, eccapied ty a Mrs. j Bot unlikely that ingide ot six months par-
‘chases of rails
~@ double diecherge of a pistel, imarker, for parts of the Dniter-colanial

Burke asa boarding howse fer females, were
otartied byt)
Followed hy sliricks app
inthe last agonics of

ently from sume one
ath. §=Beture the af-

drighted Inmates could rogaia their conosure |

suflcivatly to evimprehend te gause of the
terrible outeries. a thir Trepert reverborited
the bailding, quickly followed hy a

dug to the first store. Alarmed atthe stran
Bproar, the inimaies rushed to Che apartinents
from whence issned the shrick
seene of horror met the gaze of the behulders
Stretched upon the floor lay the lifvless body
of ane of the female boarders, Mrs. Frances
Willard, the gaping pistol wound in the z

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the violent ny
divath, A sh
Mrs. Will: lay the lifeless boy of he
murdorer, his head and face covered with gor
trom a bullet shot in the right temple. Brom
Infurmation clicited by a Sun reporter,
visited the scene of the melancholy
ehortly after its occurrence, it appears
for some time past Mrs, Willard have been
receiving the attention of Roundsman ‘Thomas
M. Burke, of the Seventh Precinct Police, a
# young niin of fine presence, who loved the
murdered woman with all the intensity ef his
heart, but whose affections were not recipro-
cated, Ibis stated that Mrs, Willard had on
several ocgasions been heard to remurk that
Burke had made proposals of mire to her,
bat that she had invariably seorn@® the offer,
‘The refusals, however, seem not to have dis-
fiedirtened the lover, who P d his suit with
increased ardor at each succeeding interview.
On Saturday rnoon Just, Mrs, Willard,
who was forewoman in the femate department
of the World composing room, left the office
tor the purpose of returing to her boarding
house. While on her homeward ride in the
street car, she encountered a male acquaint:

un

ance-—a rival of young Burke for the band of
the lady —who, upon reaching Twentieth

sisee

» courteously a

ted her from the car,
and passed on.

Ti is supposed that this act of

| were rece
‘is, we think, below the arerago for some

it

§ uf a heavy tall upon the stairs load-| € Bee

{nia,
and here aj years, soll ia Liverpool tor £4 per ton,—

in which she had met her}
distance from the body of

sU\

The somivercial wivdees trom Knecland
iodivate Inenssaedl dqniny for ships, thorigh «
prites hoop low. The #taek of worl in
the Kaglish gnaphets ds low, yet prices
have nol fieen propertionstely, Bar iron
ard dren by very 2} The latter
ly quoted £5 1s a £5, which

cen ae ea sma

te are Ww,

vears past, As matters now look, it is

ay be made, ina favorable |

Radlooad,

per cent,

Money is alen low, irom died)
We subjola some quotations; \

ais.—There is rather wore enquiry;
for new ships. March 1204 tons register, +
it at St, John, N. Boi
ton; Ele :
hut at Qaehe:

6 tons register, bn

Quebec, 7

Uireulur af Gibbs, Bright & Co, |

‘THomas.-Up to}
Mth ult. the cholera had not diminish- |
fed its ravages, still it had not grewn
j Wor

{ Tar Cuorena tn Sr.

lithe I

ont
of whose heart, and the bloody stains which
auurked the flow of the life current indicated

Beuveen the days 16th and 18th, |
were LOT deaths, making a total since
ithe commencement of the malady of 471,
Iwing to the intervention of the Spanish
‘onsul permission has been given by the}
Captain General of Porto Rico to) vessels}
trom St. ‘Thomas to touch at certain points |
‘tor the purpose of purchasing cattle,

Compulsory Edueation of youth will
;soon be the order ot the day in: England.
Manchester is moving camestiy in the
jmatter, and England feels that in this age
\ofintelligenee aud meedse-guns, the law
ol solf-preservation requires hep not to per-
init-an ignorant, not to say weviminal pop-
tation to grow up without praviding for
their education and votermation.

Vhe Pree Church of Scotlaud are about
to gpen a station at Veniee, which, as in
all othey parts of utside of
the Papal States, entive relis
and freedom af worship now exist,

The death of Alezandra Smith, the Scot- |
tish poct, is announced, LHe sveme.! to be
in the zenith of his power,

ont

A Stincina Rerroor.—Don Anenatine
G, Tturbide, who recently died in’ Phil:
delphia, and who was 2 son of the lw
Iturbide, had a great aversion to meddling |

) Well ae America,

impassable.

Hof the Haase of Commons, with a yie

the Bank of Rnglind of its present power of
j issue, and place it in the hands of Government,
‘This is a subject of the utmost importance to

lthe whole commercial community, and has

IMERSIDE JOURNAL,

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Latest trom: Europe.

ARRIVAL OF THE APRICA,”

cod
}
;

Snow storms abound Throaghont Purape as
very where the winter ap-
polars to be universally sever The tines of
railway inthe Sonth of Franee have been
Tu the South-Eastern districts
of Eagland the tals of snow have been hear
On the 16th the railways between Leadon ai
Dorer were quite blocked up. j

The tnowstorin in the North ef Scotland!
has dismayed even the Highlanders, as noth- |
ing like ithas been scondoriaanys years. "The!
railways have been blocked ap, and commu: |

24) nication between towns almost cut off Sove-| be loft ay free as possible,

al cases of persons being frozen to death are |
reported from various parts of the country, |

‘The near appro@trof the meeting of VP.
ment is creating some stir in the geeat world
of London. Cabinet Councils are frequent.
‘There is still the same uncertainty as to the
steps which will be taken about Reform.
Whether a bill will be introduced to getile the
question, whether the \dininstration will pre-
ter to gain time by procceding by resolution
* to is-

suing a Royal Conission to prebe
nalyse the subject in all its bearings, er
whether, in the absence of these two gourses,
the Opposition will Le lett to initiate their own
plan of proceedure, are matters gbhoyt which
the public ganas yet get no Hyht. In the
meantime, the Legders of the Liberal party,
scattered over the Continent during the recess,
are making their way to the British metropo-
lis.

Tf tho present Government are permitted to
remain in office they will deal in some way
With the Bank Charter, if one of their ofgans
in the press is entitled to belief. {tis not in-
tended, according to this authority, to repeal
the act of ISM, but to discuss certain improve
ments which are deened to be necessary.
Amang-t these will be a proposition to relieve

never received the degree of attention it de-
Burvas,

The first sound of the finpending conflict
comes, strange to say, from Florence, from
which city Mr, Gladstone has addressed a cir-
cular to the Liberal menjbers of the House of
Commons, asking them 4 be present at the

ence

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14 1867,

Sunmerside Journal.
‘THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1837.

bor No notice ean be taken of anonyinous

communications, We mast knew the naines

and addresses of our correspondents asa gua |

ranty of their good faith. We cannot wnder-

take to return conmaunicationsthat are nothsed | havo

ow Mae nent ovo ech

ON BOUNTIES.

sm aoe

Iv is now pretty gencrally acknow-
ledged by thinking men, that trade should
It has been
found impossible, by means of yover-
mental cneouragement, to cause an
branch of trade or any mode ef industey
to flourish in a country unguited to it.
Political economists assert that private
enterprise and the instinct of self interest
are, of themselves, quite suflicient to
support every kind of industrial effort
which is suited to the situation and
natural resources of a country, It has

been genevaily found that the policy of

monopolies, protective and prohibitive

duties, and bounties, have the effect pf

encouraging men to abandon occupations
which are profitable, and to embark in
those which are unprofituble, We think
that it will be admitted by every one that
that business cannot be a profitable one
which requires the uid of the state to
support it, If, foy instance, farmers
could not afford to cultivate potatoes
without Government's taxing the whole
community in order to pay them a bounty
of say, twenty shillings on every hundred
bushels of potatoes raised by them, will
any one have the hardihood to say that
the country at large is profited by the
cultivation of the potatoe under these
circumstances? Would it not be much
better for the country if the farmer eulti-
vated some crop which would pay, then
thus to tax the whole community for his
support. What do the tax payers get

ic

jarticle from the writings ‘of one of the

mete i saat

Island, ts hardly frit to expect a Tew,

vivdividuals toembark in an aneertain
jenterprise from which, if succossful, the |

whole community will reap a benefit, if!
there is to be a loss we think it bat just)
that the people in general should bear
part of Chat loss,

Lest our readers should think that we
no authority for what we have
written, we append to this article a few
short paragraphs on the subject of our |

profoundest thinkers that any age or any
country has yet produced. We mean
Adam Smith, the author of the ** Wealth
of Nations,”

“When tho undertakers of fsicries,
aiter such liberal bounties have been be-
stowed upon them, continue to sell their
comniodity at the sume, or even a higher
pie than they were accustomed to do be-
ove, it might be expected that their profits
should be yery greats and ii is not impro-
bable that (hose of some individwals may
have been so. [yn genera), however, Lhave
every reason to believe they have been
quite otherwise. ‘The usual effect af such
bounties is to encourage rash undertakers
to adventure ina business which they do
not understand; and what they lose by
their own nevligence and ignoranee, more
than compensates all that they ean gain by
the utmost liberality of government.

But though it can yery seldom bo rea-
sonable to tux the industry of the great
body of the people, in order to support that
of some particulir class of manulieturers,
yet in the wantonness of great prosperity,
when the public enjoy a greater reyenue
Unan it knows well what to do with, to giv
h bounties to favorite manufacture
vethaps, be as naturalis to ineur any
idle expense. In public, as well as
in private expenses, great wealth may,
perhaps, frequently be admitted as an
apology for great folly. But there must
surely be something anore than ordinary
absurdity in continuing such profusion in
times of general difleulty and distress,

Premiums given by the public to.
and manufacturers, who excel in their par-
ticular occupations, are not liable to the

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“MEETING IN CHARLOTTE
TOWN,

PUBLIC

Alarge and influential mecting of the
Citizens of Charlottetown, was held in the
Temperance Hall on Friday evening last,

for the purpose of discussing the propriety
ofthe Legislature passing a Loan Bill to

enable the Government to pay for the
lie hands purchased by them, aid yy 2
the drain of mowey from the Colon The
question of a bounty to encourage the fish-
eries was algo dischgsed. | The mectiay
was presided’ over by Fy Brecker, sn
who addressed it, and stated that he wou ct
most eheertity support ay medsare that
would tend to benefit his constituents ait
the Island generally, but at the same time
he wonkiujake no pledges; ithe was sent
to the Legislature he would do thie Dest ho
could for them, :

C. Palmer, Esq., Hon, Geo, Coles, PW.
Hyndajan, Esq., Hon. James Duncan, An
S. Carvell, Hsq., and) Mr, Archibald) Me-
Neill, also nddvessed the meeting,

Mr, Hyndman thought that the present
seareity of money was caused by the Gov-
ermuekt purchasing public lands, and
having to send away a lurge sum of money
to moet engagements, Ile was in
favor of a Loan being obtained from tho
Home Goyernment,-

Mr. Duncan said he thought that the
purchasing of the Iands had not so much
to do with the seareity of money and the
hard times, as was stated, Le thought
that the lange number of vessels remaining
unsold now lying in Great Britain, and the
fuct that many merchants had imported a
heavy stocks of goods, were more the cause:
of it. UY) said he, the times are hard now,
What will they be when we go into Con-
federation, and when we we heavily

j taxed?

This last remark brought My. A. Me-
Neill to his feet, who, in an’ eloquent
speech defended the Confederation Scheme
and said he would: avlyays do su even if he
stood a unit on the Island.

ce Ara recent examination.at Harvard
College, Boston, Mass., the livst: prize,
gold watch, worth cighty dollars, was
awarded to My, Ewen Craneron,of Sea

gallantry was witnessed hy Burke, who, stung | 11 Mexican politics, and but a poor opins OPER” it b ae Mirae ein important bitsi- | 1M eerie ior thee TRANS a Shey DRY sine objuchons ag bountias. by encour: | town, We as A se ill
ti madness by jealousy, followed her to] ion ot his countrys, On one occasion | 8¢%s Will be brought forward. ‘The Ministry} the farmer for raising this hundred bush-| aging extraordinary dexterity andingenu-| tion. Ve loarn that My. Cameron wi

oe Ge MUP anlar ns at aa have already named the gentlemen who are to
the ope ‘i i by eae on Heat a {move and second the Addvess in the Lower
Ol VME CILY OF NRENICO, JG iLOSC | flouse, the first task devolving pon Lord
aud adivessed them as tollows :— }Holisdale. one of the members for West
“ Mexicans, you wanta speech from me. | Kent; and the second ugon Mr. 8. R. Graves,
Ais, Willard buing hautdito oxaiulmvescitedly, vary well, you will get one, You wish (ite dues maples for Liverpool—an honor
* Tom, you aan have the rooin to yourself; 1 that t should Beets Ie tho son of the Aa ce ‘Ti rege ane ae a Melk ROT OnnE
have no thought of remaining with you.” | mortal Torrbide, the Hbarator ol Mexloo ea EE ONS ae)
While uttering this remark, she opened the} You choose him for Emperor, He was the | 28 Preud.
door of the room in a somewhat excited man- | only hone, man ia Mexico, and you shot { Phe Government has resolved not to com-
ver, leaving her rejected lover by hinsel ne fn doing this you aeted ke robbers ; bly with tha request made to it in favor of
nod proceeded to the cellar for the purpose of} und ¢ ssi s Yuu ure, as you haye al-/ouspension of the regulation. for searching the
ebtalning cou, Retuining, she had ascended | ways been, and as you always will be.” | useage of persons returning fram france
tathe top of the basement stairs, when a1) The ervow d confounded by these truths, j while he Great Exhibition in DP
_Was contronted hy Burke, who, doubtless! did not reply to the speaker, to whom no-| Tho refusal ling given great dissatis
sto frenzy by her coldness towards him, | thing Was more xerceable than to bo at a! more s0 us the memort Lin which the request
ached her, and levelling a revolver to! distanve {rom his ainiablo and his pative (Vos breferred waa signed by that influential
her breast, discharged the contents of one} jand m ,class inthe Stite whose wishes are usually
chamber, Notwithstanding the fearful charac-| ) 4" :

" { law,
tur of the wound, the terrified woman sprang Tho Globe says many of tho St. John) The Court News Mmntorms us that Prince
past hor assailant and fled ecreaming to a| Merchants taking the Montreal line of) Arthur has ‘most satistactorily” passed his
rear parlor, where lay, upon a bed of sickness, | Steamers for Europe this winter, the Ca-!examination for admission into the Royal
a daughter of the landlady. As she entered} Mard Company having raised the rates of! Military Academy at Woolwich, and that he
am on se Wie H wed ae sly be-;] assage from £22 to i stg. will enter that institution as a cadet on the
hind, aysin discharged lis pistol—this time r A fete ules february.
uLdualitiie door which the We he eloued " a pele Hie we ay Hg progene ay a Sir G M Gate: 6)
immediately as she passed In, tle ball barely Hersie HOU, ote Uy MAY PALS Ot hoi tad | j aie aiee ae iy ‘ re
imissing the body of Mrs. Leeds, who sat Hie ito yince ang still when Nyy seni bt eas iy vaie Ha we ARNG Of aD:
watching by tho bedside of her sick child, | #ot & better state of things for St. Stephen | (a as convuauderin-oliel of the North Am-
Issuing from the roomis a smaller apartinent, He Oe, Srstuitously inturieting: In omy Te as mets acu

probably be one of the cleyerest practition-
ors that have graduated in Marvard Col-
lege. We wish him success zuullook upon
this as iurther evidence of the ability and
tulent of the young nen of P, 1, Island,

hier residenee. About ten minutes after their
ival, Miss Leeds, daughter of the landlady,
on prasing the room to which the two had re-
paired upon catering, noticed that the couple
wore engaged in an animated conve jon,

when pr els of potatocs? ‘They get simply one
hundred bushels of potatoes, for which
they have to pay as high, and perhaps a
little higher price, than would be de-
manded by the merchant for imported
potatoes. ‘The pound paid the farmer
for raising them is so much money taken
out of their pockets and put into h
Besides, there are many ways in which
the farmer could employ his time, and
many uses to which he could put his
land, which would yield him a_ profit
oyer and above the capital and labor ex-
pended. ‘The country loses besides the
bounty, this profit, for we need hardly
tell our readers that every shilling’s worth
of property acquired by the farmer, the
merchant or the mechanic, is so much
added to the general wealth of the conn-
try. But objects some one, ** Nobody is
mad enough to think of paying farmers
a bounty on potatoes. ‘The idea is pre-
posterous.”” We agree with you, sir,
But is it not quite as preposterous to ask

ity, they serve to keep up the emulation of
th ‘Knen actually employed in’ those
ye occupations aud re not con-
siderable enot to turn towards any one
of them a greater share of the capital of
the country than what would go to it of its
own accord, Their tendency is not to
overturn the natural balance of employ-
ments, but to render the work whieh is
done in cach as perfect and complete as
possible, The expense of premiums, be-
siles, is very triflling, that of bounties very
great. The bounty upon gorn alone has
sometimes cost the public in once year,
more than 800,000 pounds.” :

{00 Tbs.,

ta” A large bear, weighing over
at Remont

was killed, aboutten days sinc

ay. ‘The carcase was sold in Sumnrerside
last week. ‘The tat on it measured five
inches in thickness. Good foed for bears
up there,

vor Mr. D. Crawrorp will preach in
the Christian Meeting House, on Sunday
hext, the 17th inst., at LU o'clock, a. m.,
and 64 p.m,

rpm A Granp Somer came off under the
auspices of the “ Birch Hill’ Division, on |
the evening of the t6th ult. The tex was
got up especially forthe purpose of fur-.
thering (he cause of Lemperance, and of |
i ving friendly feelings between
the Sister Divisions and ‘Temples. Alter
the company had done justice to the good
things prepared for them, the chairman,
the Rey. J.D. Murray, called upon the

to Tus Rey. Mr. Freeman will preachy
(BD. V.) in the Summerside Grammar
school, on Sunday next, at 11 ovelock, a.
m., and in the Court House at St. Elea-
hor’s at 3 o'clock, p.m.

oe Line bie thaw of Sunday last has
left the fields entirely bare of snow, which
will tend much to injure the ass. ‘The
roads are very bad, but there is. splendid

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oecupicd as x bedrooin, towards which apart- local affairs, holds out the bugbear ofdebt} The Army and Navy Gazette understands GAG Te DUCES OF 4 COUN i Pe Ke) Sareea 4s Rodepasclling onthe ice. Several persons
inent the wounded woman continued. hur | Defore our peoplo, jut as if parish muni- | that in the forthcoming pary estimates a aum | bounty to manufacturers OwAP Hidmbers Lsudviben 2] blessing on the meeting, ‘The following |came from Casctiingyvngyerside ‘

flight, and the threshold of which sho had|¢ipalities -cannot incur debt as well as/ Of £10,000 will be taken for “experimental {Ula oxo sthe same in both cases, | gentlemen then briefly addressed the meet- | this week on the ice.

principiy

$ are ag ‘ ; ARTA MA Lan tits Cli pay purposes,” with a view of testime-+h> > ptt «ting, the choir diseoursing sweet music be-

thingeeeded in reaching, when uttering, in af town corporations.—sS¢. Crotx Courier. ce si bs fos if a sn Ing, the choir discoursing swe E Se l\is ane :
5 Ling volco, 0; my Gui, Tn alot! andl tare powers of turreis. 4 esistit Men will be taken from employments LE tian! thre speeches; vizi—Mussts. Mont- ON W edness last, the fast trotting :
happy oo i 1 oxiin ie We are pleased to learn that throarh tha peg ete ot ERM ES WV eRL. a ft: which they are carning an independent mae sairbairn, of ( Banner” Diyi- | horse Sweep Stakes,” owned by Mr.
sy te Moor and expired, Fora moment} my, . ress i re RS, . e ay gomery and Fairbairn, of Banner? Divi Wtcs ee +

echo IN Cyt gas Hay alieaiinyteoin my ataris.of ted aet ) “cable or a hae marine disastora anngimeed on) jivolihood, and increasing the wealth] ion. Rey. Allan Fraser Benj. Rogers andj John Smith, of this place, trotted a mile

. hétac, Coo. = a * one | Cvs aaog., Lhe New cabielthe Lith ult. were the losses pants hi 4 ¥ EOI CALe a mane " ey yy fl Oy. i i i sere
sympathetic, 6005 Beaman eel sunken 1s e ere the losses of tho Ane of the country, to engage in a business | J, Forsyth, Esqrs., of & Pionver” Di ision; | i three minutes and three seconds, on the

‘oss the Strait of C

anso has

Tiger, wading between Liverpool and Irene

ees

* dye he = ‘ 4 earaie tile ne been sne- c Me i 3 aa Ge | vA) foo! '@ « that with practice he would
dic When aia HEE aS ‘ ai cessfully nid. Tt stretches between Auld’s | ports, with, it is feared, all hands, and the! in which they cannot make a living with-| Mr. Wim, Ills, of ** Forest” Division iB ‘i My Sie hat with pees. Wey
over NISQOO ss oa when he returned to the young lady'y | Cove and Plaister Core, and is the third| American ship Vhomas Mwaphreys, which! out drawing upon the general resources | Mr. N. Huestis, of Birch THY Diy hee ]
every faculty and again drawing his ravolver, placed cable that has been Iaid in the Strait. ef! sailed trom the Mersey for New York some} of the country. ‘There will be more Lhe inusie and the addresses jWarolyory | far Lun Patriot of the 9th inst. con-
Jaughing 11 ieee to. his own head and. discharged a | Canso, tha tive former having been des-|days before. The former was wrecked off anonnenc Tho the Gountes, bub fewer good, and Sry evening Shades tains 4 nunie rously signed sn
b--keno bullet through his right temple, When. dis-|treyed by vessels’s anchors. It is to be; He coast of Cornwall, and the latter off the Buanera, davis Inuorene) antl: moclianion: oft vory pleasantly ‘without the aid: of! yiting T. Dodd, Esq, to become caannclic ate

hoped tie one just laid will not meet with | Corstof Angles, Nine of to crew af the) AUNTS» oe Se H wine,”—Con, at the approaching election, for Charlotte-

covered, although unconscious he was not
dead, and lived to be borne by the police to
St. Luke's Hospital, where he died after the
lapse of one hour from the time he fired the
fatal shot.

SEAL FISHING OFF NEWFOUNDLAND.
A tleet of three or four hundred vessels,
chiefly brigs, go out every spring about the

fivet of March from St. John’s N. F., to on
age in the business of catching s The

tield of operation the flouting ice that comes
down from the North at thut season. ‘The
men advance upon the fiells of ice in couples
-—s30 that one may assiot the other in case of
necident.

Thoy keep to the leesrard of the ship, else
they might loose ler, as indeed sometimes
happens in the dense fogs. About the 7th of
March the young seals are found about the
size'of cats, mewing on the ice. They are
not yet fit to bo taken, but hy lying in the sun
and sucking the ice until about the middle of
March they gain three inches of fat. Then
commences the slaughter. The men walk up
to the white coats—as the young seals are
then called—and knock them over, by striking
thein on the forehead with a long pole, stick
them with a knife, cut them down the breast,
and the carcass rolls out, leaving the skin and
fat which are all the seal-catcher is after, the
earcaes being lett on the ice —Usually in
about the last week in March the seals begin
to dip, they take to the water, and are then
only to be Gaptured by shooting trom the
boats.

Old seals are invulnerable unless shot in
the forehead, and nature has provided them
with a means of defence, even here, in the
shapo of a “hood,” which they drop on
occasion—hence their name, ‘fold hoods.”
So the season of catching them ia about three
weeks duration. ‘Then men ofien go five or
tix miles fromthe ship on the floating te
They get one half they catch, sometinies mak-
ing » good trip, at other times muking nothing.
One spring « crew that were out three weeks
and three days, shared $135 apiece. A brig
oF 150 tons will take asa crew about forty
mon, who are provided by the merchant fit-
ting ont tho vessel with a full supply of pro-
visions, and all things necessary for the pro-
sccation of the voyage, in return for which
each man pays a small sum, called “berth
Tonoy;” and should the voyage prove unfor-
tunate, the merchant has to stud the loss of
tho entire outit. It is adangerous ovcuna-
tion, for the brigs are liable to he crusted in
the ice, though they are strongly built. The
fatof the seal, after being brought into port.
49 cut into small pieces, placed in large vats,
and loft to drain off to oil, which is an article
of oommerco. The skins are used for vari-
ons purposes.—Zreiange.

The total loss by fires in the United
States daring tho year 1866 is estimated
nt 866,410,000 agaiust 822,139,000 im 1864,

Sa,

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and the loss in ten years, from 1846 to 1806

43 set down at $280,988,000.

E.ection or PAntsn Orricens 1s Crat-
wam.—On New Your's day the rate-payers
of Chatham met for the purpose of clvct-
ing Parish Officers for the’ ensuing year;
but it appears from tho Gleaner's remarks,
that the first work of the meeting was to
inaugerate n row, which was carried fo
muoh a pitch thatthe Lown Clerk and a
fow of the well disposed parties vetived and
broke up the meeting, leaving the task of
appointyy the officers, ip the bands of the

‘oultg Sessions.—Globe.

American ship perished. a

Lieutenant Brand, the young fellow who
wrote Mr, Charles Buxton such ollunsive and
insulting letters from Jamuiea, has been re-
called, and is now in Bngland. When he ad-

such accidents.—“, Chronicle.

A large number af the working classes
in Liverpool, G. B., are al present in great
distress, Tha Central Relief Committee
ling veported that thera aro ut prosont mitted. tho authenticity of these rash and
Ste Wag ae Heaypenn 9 seen i foolish communi ions, Sir John Pakington
and 10,000 men implies the probably three find no alternative but to mark is sense of
times that nureber of persons are at pros the outrage which had been committed on a
sent without the ordinary means of subsis-} member of the House of Commons, Lieut,
tence. Appeals are being made to the; Brand has thus blasted, by his own act, all
publie for aid, and the local benevolent! chance of professional promotion, Ie is not
socielics ave organising means ol relief—}to be tried by court-martial, but retires feom

active serviee on a pension-of £125 — not

you ex {® harsh punishment after atl, and yet

' Wants plenge to Fe ere Cane (sutnetently strong to prevent other ineon-

DANnNih eotads Srepbny age MRTG ae Cady i Lea
Lua a ty AE ¥ Al tample.

destroyed by fire on Saturday Jast. OF 2 : ; ; ra

this sum 8360 have been paid to him, and The steamship Le Plata. just arrived if

the remainder will be handed over as soon | Ongland trom the West Indies, Ins had uA

as collected. Suveral parties in’ New Peet a ee al on it ee 1
Glasgow with whom Mr, Dunham lind | oors eae ete MOMUOE: Revers
been dealing, and to whom he was indebt- ae
ed at the time of the calamity, genorously | Its not long sinee the American war ter-
scored off the sums on their books Mr. (minated, and cotton in lirgely inercased quan-
Duncan Ross received contributions at Al; tities foundits way to Boglind; but, short as
bion Mines to the amount of $22,12§.—Jb. | the Une is, thas been sutiiciont to glut the
market with manufactured goods, which is
. At Pen meeting, held recently in| producing itsnataral consequence in the work-
New York, to denounce Stephens, thejing of short time and the reductionin the
chairman said that great Anni and yobs wapel of the operatives. ‘The eotton manu-
bery had been perpetrated upon the Irish facturers, in this condition of things, have
people for the last four or five years—frauds | found it neo 'y to reduce wages to five per
the most gigantic What had ever oecurred | ¢eht., and, seeing no remedy, the workmen
since the creation of the world. have Accepted the alternative.—There was a
" ) ey ve | meeting of delegates at Blackburn on the 13th,
The Pope is pr inting at the Propaganda | when the evil of over-production was debated,
afie smile of the famous, manuscript of} and it was resolved to agitate for a limitation
the Greek Ha ae Msp which is tet factory labor to nine hours for five days in
more ancient than that of Mount Sinai’ he week, and six hours on Saturday. ‘The
The fac smile ts to compete with the Bible | truck is, that machinery has been so improved,
of Tischendoriff, and the Holy Father in-j and its increase in the country so great, that,
tends to send it to the Paris Exhibition. with an adequate supply of cotton to work on
The Herald's spocial Washington des- Anat a Nhe We Gur ane Ane rekon
patch aie tho. Judiciary Committee 18) state of things is the more remarkably when
daily taking tostimony in the idinpeachment | ie i. remembered that a couple of yenrs. ayo
case, and one of the: members said that) the markets of the world were all bare.
Surratt will be brought before them as 2

witness as to President Jolinson’s com-
plivity with the assassination of Mc. Lin-
coln. ;

A Washington despatch says that on the
25tD inst., the United States Senate work-
hours in Committee of the whole on
wious Amendments proposed to. the
bill by differcut Senators, and the
¢ several lively discussions. No Sen-|
ator advocated free trade, and all of the}
speakers admitted the propriety of framing |
arevenue tail! which should incidentally
protect such branches of American indus-

About one thousand of the Freneh troops
have arrived from Mexico, and a telegram
from Trieste gives a glowing account of the
prospects of the Emperor Maximilian in the
country which he still hopes to govern. It is
declared that he has become so) populir that,
if a yote were taken on the subject, the dec-
laration of the people wonld be for the Bin-
pire. ‘This is evidently not the feeling of the
Emperor of the French, who has given up the
Empire as hopeless, and is ansious to wash
his bands of the share he had in erecting it.

The Rastern question is still giving uncasi-
ness to the diplomuatists, as the relations be-
uy as need the fostering aid of the govern-| tween Greece and ‘Turkey are growing more
ment, But on questions of detail thore!) and more unitiendly. It is now as rted that
was a wide difference of opinion, and the ptle latter is preparing n great armed force,
Senators, to use the words of Mr, Grimos, | With the AL ea wey to te
disagree as to how mueh money shall be |S" from interference between the Christian

* . subjec! » Porto heir or.
tuken from the pocket of Peter to support jesce oF oneal Aha dh
The French Government is said to be very

and enrich his brother Paul. New Eng ; ; y
land interests were not especially cared for | AN81OMS to bring ubout the mecting of a con-
Hk oe sane . aM Met ea he | the apprehension of arefusal renders itaverse
Cape Bituminous coal, on W hich ie ito tuking upon its own shoulders the burden
comnittes recommended filty cents per lof a proposal
ton, to please the Maryland and Peunsy1- Ta Fi i bls areoel Auer
sania niluing interests. _ La France publishes a harrowing descrip-
MOM As tion of prevailing distressin Ttily, In Venice
In thousands of eases, Mrs. Winslow's | 80,000 out of 110,000 inhabitants are recciving
Soothing Syrup, for all diseases with which {relief from public charity. sip has com-
children are afflicted, such as teething, griping | menced at Verona, In Sardinia tho peasants
in the howele, wind colic, &e., has Veen used )are reduced to the necessity of eating herbs
with perfect and never-failing success in thdfi- fant roots like wild beasts. The Unt Cat-
Sanda of eases. It softens the gums, reduces | folica characterises the present situation as

ference respeetiug the Eastern question, but

While these men pursued the avoca-
tions from which they were drawn by
the bounty policy, they paid money into
the reyenue, and none of them were a
burden on the community, but when they
became fishermen, a certain number of
them became pensioners on the public
bounty, as completely as if the eharity
of the community were their only means
of support, It would, by no means, fol-
low that fish would be any cheaper in the
country if a bounty were paid on every
barrel or on every quintal caught. ‘The
recipients of bounties do not calculate
upon any lowering of the price, for then
they would lose on the price of the fish
what they had gained as bounty, and
they would consequently not be bene-
fitted by the aid given them by the State.
‘The laws of supply and demand would
regulate the price then asnow. — If there
were a large number of unemployed men
in the country, for whom no work could
be found, we do not know but that it
would be « good plan for the State, since
it would be obliged to support them in
any case, té send them a fishing rather
than to allow them to live in idleness; but
as long as every young man in the Island
ean find work cnough to do, we think it
very bad policy in the government to sct
them to work ata job that wont pay
without public assistance. ‘The working
man would not pocket any of the bounty,
the whole of it would go into the hands
of the dealer in fish. If he worked for
half his hand, he would be obliged to
sell his fish to the merchant, who would
take good care to pay him as low a price
as possible for them, If the bounty took
the shape of a tonnage, the fitter out of
the vessel would receive every farthing
of it—if'a bounty were paid on the fish
exported, then the whole of it would go
into the pocket ef the exporter ; in either
case the actual catcher of the fish
would not be in the slightest degree
bencfitted. The fallacy that lies at the
root of this policy of bounties is, that
what is apparently advantagcous @one
‘lass of men, is advantageous to all
s. If a prohibitive duty were put
upon axes, and if no one could purchase
an axe for less than fifteen shillings, the
blacksmiths of the Island no doubt would
think the duty a capital one, but the axe
using part of the community would, we
opine, entertain quite a different opinion.
It must be always borne in mind™that
governors should legislate for the beftclit
of the many, and not for the advantage
of the tow. Free trader though we be,
we think that the aid of the state can be
extended to untried branches of industry
with considerable advantage to the com-
munity in general, but we wotfd’ not
continue that aid one day longe® than
would be necessary to decide the success
or nonesuccess of the experiment. Wo

‘iadamation and allays all pain, Mothers, do fa IY is ‘hungary’ from the Alps to the
_ abt fail to procure it. _ Adriatic.”

would, for instance, by direct pecuniary

nn ret ee

We leara that a contract for provid-
ing the New Brunswick Government, or
rather the Railway Conmissioners with
thirty-five thousand sleepers, containing
one 1,179,000 fect of Hacmatae and Pine,
to replace the decayed sleepers on the HE.
& N. A. Railway, has been taken by
Archd. MeKay, Esq., of Moncton, He has
alse secured the contract for constructing
50 miles of fencing—that 26 miles on each
side of the road—between Moncton and
Shediae, which will require sixty thousand
fence poles.

Mr. McKay is an Tslander and well
known lo the shipbuilders of this locality.
By dint of perseverance and enterpr
has attained his present not unenviabe
position, Ife has undertaken some of the
heaviest contracts of the EL. & N. A. Rail-
road, and is the party who performed the
contract of building the imimense ware-
house of O yen Connolly, Esq., Charlotte-
town. Ilis card ean be seen in another
column,

cers Who addressed the
Charlottetown last

Ox of the
publig imeetug

in
Friday eyening, on the subject of a loun,
sf

sitid the best way to get it was to AGir !
AqitarTk! AGrrars! Wetully agree with
him, and we intend to aqreat AGITATE !
aqivate! fora better mail arrangement
in the Western part of this Island. We
want a mail direct from Summerside to
New London, to Freetown, Bedeque, and
to Cape Traverse. We want a mail bag
made up in Summerside for Cirupdelton,
KLot 4, one for Miminigash, and a Post
ONice at Gavin's, Bloomfield, and not have
the Postman obliged to earry papers out-
side of the mail bag. "There are a umber
of places to the Westward where Way
Offices should be kept. In settlements
which we could name, where there
over twenly fiunilies, there is no post offic
accommodation rer thanAten mile,
The consequence is that newspapers are
sometimes three weeks old or more before
they can get them, :

We copy the following from the S¢. Croix
Herald, every word of which is appropriate
to the rural disttiets of this Island :—

“We who arein the habit of hearing
daily by means ot the telegraph what is
transpiring in the Old Worldas well asthe
New, can scarcely conceive in its fullest
measure the hardship of being shut out as
it were from the world in this way, We
maintain that the hardy industrious tar-
mers who go and settle in the woods, re-
claiming the forest from the wild beast and

make it the abode of civilization are the
real bone and sinew of the country, They
are the germ ofa country’s prosperity, and

as suck wre entitled not only to special
protection but to all the facilities it is in
the power of the Government to bestow.
Cortainly the very least they can expect is
postal aecommodation once a& week, 80
that in the midst of their pérsevering toil
they may know what is passing inthe out+
Ride world. Tho extra’ expense to the
country isa mere bagatelle and not worth
mentioning. The settlers necd not ask
this as a boon, it is their priveloge to de-
manmLit asa right, and no Government is

town & Royalty. The Hon, Daniel Davies
hag expressed a desire that he should not
be again phieed in nomination, andas Mr.
Dodd has accepted the invitation tendered
him, he is now before the public as a
Candidate with Mr, Brecken, Mr. Dodd
is a mereantile man, and we believe will
make a good representative if the electors
see fit to confide their trust in him,

We copy the following highly im-
portant despatch from the Royal Gazelle,
of the.7th instant. We recommend our
readers to peruse it very attentively. ‘The
Union of the Colonies, is by far the most
important question ever submitted to the
decision of the people of British Ame-
rica, and every man in the community
should endeavor to make himself master
of the subject. It is only by pursuing
such a course, that’ the people of any
Colony can come to any rational decision
in the matter :—

DowninG Siren, 19th Janunry, 1867.
Sir— :

The negotiations respecting the proposed
Confederation of the British North American
Proyinees have reached a point at which L
think it right that yon should be generally
apprised of the modo in which that proposal
is viewed by Her Majesty’s Government.
‘They are not unaware of the difficulties which
must attend any attempt to consolidate in one
body politic, a variety of Provinces whose
habits, laws, and interests must be, in many
respects, different, and in some perhaps not
whooly compatible. By fir the most important
part of those difflculties has been removed in
the present instance by the wise and loyal
foresight of the public men of Lower Canada,
who, in their treatment of this subject, have
shown thensclyes able to reconcile a manly
support of Cheir hereditary entstonis®and Insti-
tutions with a generous confidence in the jus-
tice and tricudly feeling oftheir nore mumer-
ous fellow subjects of British origin The
questions which remain in controversy willbe
approached by her Majesty's Government witht
anxious and cereful attention, butyl niust add,
in no spirit of indifference.

‘That in tinue of war and tumult the armed
force of British North America should be one,
under one Supreme Command—that in time
of peace, their commerce, their post, their
ureat lines of communication, and, with due
reward to local use, their civil and criminal
jurisprudence, should be governed by the
sme rules; that an extended public opinion
should be brought to bear on the settlement
of narrow local controversigs, and that the
most important mfairs of British North Ameri-
ea should be adminstered by a combination of
the @blest men whom it can furnish—these
benefits appear to me so indisputable, so per-
yading, and so permanent in their character,
that 1 should be wanting to my duty if 1 did
not express to you, and through you to the
community over whieh you preside, my earnest
hope that no trifling obstacle will be allowed
to interfere with their full attainment.

As my objoct ia not to express jany opinion
on the details of this meastre, but to give to
the principle on which itis founded, thatfrant
support which Iler Majesty's Government con-
sider to. be duo from them, I shall oly add,
that you are abet) riberty to conimunicate
this despatch to your xecutive Councile

3 I have, &ey &e., &e.,
© ) (signed) ~~ 7 CARNARVON,
Lient. Govérnot Dundas, races

& ke. ht,

jad, encourage the culture of flax on the
- e « * . ¥ .

justified in withholding it fron them,”

‘ .