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sembly,
Tuuspay, April 7.
Hon. Leader of the Opposition took ex-

ception to the vote relative to the contin-
gent expenses of Vigtoria Barra’

. Keep-
ing said Barracks insured was very proper,
aud he would not objectto any
for that purpose, but he wou
pay a sum of £100 tothe per
of those Barracks, Drill serjeant 1
pay of the Military department of the Col-

ony, could be had to take care of the)
Barracks fvee of charge,they being alloyed

free quarters in those buildings. ‘The fl. |
ciency ofa soldier or military officer, as

keeper of barracks, should be considered

preferable to that ofa civilian. He was)
not, therefore, prepared to support the
payment of avy such salary, in order to)
enable any man to live at his ease, when |
others were prepared to discharge the du-

tivs of the officer in question, tree of charge |
tu the country. Ile then moved that the
words ‘contingent expenses’ be struck out
of the resolution in question. ;

Hon, Leader of the Government said}

at in taking charge of the Barracks citer |
tho troops left, the Government found
it necessary to appoint a careful and com: |
petent person to take care of that property. |
whose constant attention to that duty wi
required in order to prevent a resort that |
might lead to the destruction of a property |
that had cost the cauntry a large sum ot)
money. Drill serjeants were employed to}
go through the country, and could not, |
therelore, be expected to attend duty at)
the Barracks. ‘The officer appointed had
discharged his duties satisfactorily, and
was under the control of Government,
Drill serjeants were under the control of
thé Inspecting Field Officer of Militia,
whose orders they were expected to obey,
‘The officer in charge of the magazine wis
provided with free quarters at said Bar-
racks.

Hon. Mr, Davies said that he, as one of
the Committea appointed to look atter the
Barracks, felt it his duty to see that a reli-
able person was placed in charge of that

on in charge |

i

property, to clean and put it ina proper}

state of preservation, Had military oflicers
been appointed that to duty, they would
require subordinates, and, in his opinion,
would not perform the duties as cheap or
as well as a civitian,

Hfon, Mr, Henderson could not compre-
hend the reasoning set forth by Hon. Mr.

Davies. A trained yolunteer or military |
min was surely better qualified than a! at North River.
civilian to superintend matters relating to |
Why was not the officer in|
charge of the magazine entrusted with the
keeping of the Barracks, and thereby the

Barracks.

salary in question saved.

Mr. P. Sinclair said the Hon. member
(Mr. Henderson) should not oppose a vote
to pay lor taking care of Barrac

the accommodation of troops called in, as)
would appear from that hon. member's re- | ) :
marks on a former occasion, by his own Teachers, to be paid out of the educational

advice and sanction,

Hon. Mr, Henderson would reply to the!
remarks just made by the hon.member, Mr |
ir, at the propcr time, the rule of the

Sinc
House being :
«ft the proceedings.

riiust doing so at that sta
Mr. Brecken saic

that had a similar political office, to that Aerie ( the hon. member (Mr, Brecken) relative to ; oie : oe a |
question, been create: by the opposition, Bliz ae econ Charlotte Po Olas Memorial alluded to by t! at hon. member, | Whe fey Nee aN FAN ba v a
when in the majority, the arguments of |) 7/20000) MICA! Loe 16 6 al He, hon, Mr. Howlan, reviewed the labors of | )00 5 Paiiae SUE Gani for er the ding
embers, | in the Governine fowl, y His Lordship the Bishop, touching the ad.) rei eiae tie ongonton or tie line

Hons The heed fier a the Government, | times IH. Fitzgerald, Lot 13, 5 0 Ofvancement of the educational interests of the | Mtde money on them; he had large quantities |
would be very Cifferent, Charles Fowle, Lot 31 6 0 Olid: foo auiGhie Cmachan aes , | of freight, and it was forwarded at almost his
Mr. McNeill d that if the valuable 1 , | whole Island, and his cflorts to provide schools |), priea, aid, th tint way Tie made all. the!

property now laying waste, and for whict

the country had to pay a large sum, was
allowed to go to destruction the ery of;

maladministration would be raised.

Ton, Mr, Laird, the yote in question had
reference to the current year, and if the
ve required to the whole of the amount, it
would be accounted for in the ordinary

way,

The Iouse then divided on the smend-
ment of the Ion Leader of the Opposition,

as follows :—-

For the amerdment—Hons. Leader of
the Opposition, MeAuley, Ienderson, Kel-
ly, Messrs. Brecken, Owen, McLennan,

Rumsay, Howatt, Green, Prowse, Yeo—12

Agaiust it—Hons. Leader of the Goyern-
ment, Atty. General, Laird, Davies, Cal-
Ly

boek, Howlan, Messrs G. Sinclair
Sinclair, Arsenault, McCormack, McNeill,
Kickham, Cameron, Reilly, Bell—15.

Mr. Prowse asked the Government to}

lay before the House a certain petition
from inhabitants of Murray Harbor North.
praying fora post office at or near Jol
Chipman’s together with any correspon:
dence with the Postmaster Gener, 1 on that
snbject,

Hon, Leader of the Government replied
that tho Government was not disposed to
present every petition asked for; but in
regard to that alluded to by the hon. mem-
ber (Mr, Prowse) the subject was referred
to the Postmaster General, who did not re-
commend the prayer of said Petition.

Mr, Prowse said his object in making
the enquiry was, that the inhabitants ol
the adjacent settlement who had signed
the petition in question, had been led to
believe, since doing so, that the peiition
they had so signed asked for the removal
ot their post oflice, and not the establish-
ing of another offe+ at Chipman's. He,
therefore, felt it his duty to state that the
prayer ot said petition was solely furanew

rest Office.

Hon, Leader of the Government snid that
tie remarks of the hon. member (Mr.
Prowse) were perlectly correct. The pe-
t tion in question asked for a new office at
Chipman’s, but it had not been considered
ailvisable to increase the number of post
oltices,

Ifon. Mr. Davies moved that the order
‘in reference to the petition of inhabitants
of Lot 35 and others, and also that of Thos.
Mowbray and others, in reference to the
Small Debt Courts, be discharged, and that
said petitionebe referredto the Committee
nppointed on thew26th ult: to report there-
on, and that the names of Hon, Mr, Kelly
and Mr, Arsenanlt be added to tha siid
committee, Motion carried,

Mr. Brecken gave notice thatto morrow
he would ask for memorial of City Council
relative to a House of Industry,

Ifon. Mr. Calbeck presented a_ petition
from certain inhabitants of North River,
asking for an Act to incorporate the Buptist
Church at that place Said petition re-
coived and read,

House in Committee on Temperance
Dill. Mv. Cameron in the chair, |

A long debate on the bill followed.
Among the points debated was the chang-
ing of the mode for obtaining licenses for
‘Taverns in school districts, from the ma-
jority of houseliolders in said districts, to
the majority of a public meeting called for
that purpose. The supporters of the bill
said that parties went from house to house,
and succeeded surreptititionsly to secure a
majority of signatures to their certificates
for obtaining lieonses. Other hon. mem:

| were now heid in sca plices should be| —

allowed to continue. In support of whieh | taat some of the
(he said that the number of post offices held hor.
Hin houses of entert inment were but few
jund that said houses were among the first
| ol the kind in the colony.

the Hon, Leader of the Opposition sug-| were no: improved on by the change of suc-
sum reqaired | gested the d_ sirability of a compromise be-| cessive Governmen ¢
il Avis: to tween the views of those hon. members | School, the only change was to do away with}

eants in the; contemplated by the bill, and those who,

‘allowed the exercise of discretiouary pow-

‘travel through the country suffered much

IDE JOURNAL, THURSDA

SUMMERS

» Governme yserved clas+e3: and that, too, in the city of Boston.)
wa, diner Sue aul i ne tthe I say, that the people naturally felt indignant
member Dr. Jenkins, were already pro- | at the course ot President Johnson, Oty thelr

vided for in the School Act. ‘The anny jeden iveeevani tesa yay Dl wormedte
> li vere but matters of detail.) 4 y opinic fi fore ty

Phe mwa MaiheTee of the free school system, | Ben Wade will preside at the White House.

las first introduced and carried out by the) Senator Wade has nothing to recommend) ,

Alter considerable debate on the point. | Liberal party, still continued the same, and

ism, and his coarse denunciation of rebels; |,
As to the Normal
haye been elected President of the Senate.

One other consideration should be borne in
mind; and that is. in a republican form of
government, the people ought te rule. Con:
gress is elected directly from the people. It
Congress passes a law, and the President
| vetoes at, and Congress passes it over his yeto
hy a two-thirds vote, it is then plainly the
duty of the executive to enforce that law.
Has President Johnson done this? Far from
lit. He defies Congress, and disregards the
| laws which they pass. His attempt to remove
the Secretary of War, in deflance of an Act

tie imperative necessity on the part of candi: |
| dates for the office of teacher, ho vever high
le of the | their attainments, of saying five nine Me
i yer ainst remoyi se Post Ot-| that school, which would still continue availay
a ae BEM eae mo | ble for those candidates whom the Board of
pete RON SoU NUleed. : ._| Edueation might pronounce incompetent to
Hon. Mr. Howlan then withdrew his} otain license. He reviewed the general
amendment in favor of that proposed bY} working of the free school system, and the
the Lon, Leader of the Opposition, to Ute} incalculable benefits it conferred on the rising
effect that any Post Office hereatter estab-| go eration, Religious training, he observed,
lished, and all courts of Justice now Coh-| was a subject of vast importance, and” one
stituted. should not be held in’ public! upon which the ablest minds found it difficult
houses or taverns. | to legisiote, of Congress, was a signal fuilur Ie ein-
Said amendment was then earried, | Mr Brecken said that the allusion made to | ployedamere tool, Adjuds t-General Thomas,

i Il Iment to | He sabject of Education in His Excelleney’s | a man of no force of character whatever, to

Dr. Jenkins submitted an amendment to) i and (bel take ui faive the plkce Glia Mi Banton,

i should be} Speech at the close of last Sess
the effect that the government should be opening of the present, led the public to look | ono of the abl traits eenneis
President“Jofinson seems to be especially

for some more important Changes than. the
mere trifling amendments referred to in’ the unfurtunate in the men whom he sclects to|
accomplish his purposes. Ile does not seem |

bill, Ile then spoke of the Memorial of the
R.¢. Bishop, and s dd that the Catholic popu- |; possess the power to detect the right meul
lation, whose exclusive support was given to) wyon he hasan appointmentto make, N Iy.
the party composing the present Government, | ai successful men possessed this faculty. |
Witness Napoleon, Wellington, Washington, |
Lincoln, Lee, and Grant, either of whom
rarely made ® wrong selection.

expected what His Lordship’s Memorial!

termed—common Justice, at the hands of the

party in power. It appeared, however, from

the minute of Council, in reply to said Me-| "a iiidst this impeachment excitement, the

morial, that those whose influence y laced the Presidential clection is hovering in the dis- |
Government in power, were deceived, Some tance, coming nearer and nearer. Already |
hon. members of the Government doubtless | the popular voice of the Republican party has |
responded to the views expressed by their! )eon expressed in favor of Gen. Grant. He |
Bishop, and thought ita erying injustice to be) i) undoubtedly get the nomination, |
denied the prayer of His Lordship's Memorial, | \ ho the Democrats will unite on is not so |
and yet they remained silent on the qnestion. lelearly defined, George Il. Peridleton. is

‘The system of paying the whole of the salary | spoken of most prominently, Your readers

of teachers from the treasury was contrary to) wil] be interested in. knowing that he is the
that which obtained in the sister Colonies.) great champion of repudiation. All honest
The principle of raising a portion of the) jinded men hope he will not be elected. As

who contended for the sweeping change

though not epposed to the princip

er relative to the establishment of houses
of entertainment at distances from eight to
ten miles apart on Main Post Roads, where
such houses might be required—limiting
aud restricting the sale of spirituens liquors
in such houses, to bonafid: travellers, and
for medicinal purposes.

He, Dr. Jenkins, contended in support
of his Resolution, that those who had to

hardship from the effect that for long dis-
neces, on certain roads, no houses of en-
| tertainment were allowed.
| ‘The supporters of the bill contended that
‘the intvoduction of the Resolution reterred
to was contrary to the principle of the bill,
, and theretore strongly opposed its adop-
| tion.
| Said Resolution was then rejected.
J

Another amendment, submitted by Dr. ‘opinion, n second one; if not, all the Colonies
| Jonkins, to the effect that ‘Tavern-keepers | and the United States also, were wrong, and
should be compelled to open their houses) P. BE. Island alone right,
(tor the reception of travellers at all hours| pon, Mr. Laird, the only important change
13k the night as well as the day, was car- relating to the Education Act that had been linvested in them largely, and it has almost
ated on the platform at the last election, and Cut) ciited Caterprise. What capitalist will invest
| The Chairman then reported the bill as iad pean Fee ie He aeAL TRS We jhis money in building houses, &c., when he
j amended agreed to, feoinitiios Vreisury id ays aie FECA can Be 7 eee D pent a gold frog gorse,

adj He, . , holes’ ment, and fils br AUS InvVeste reed

| Mouse adjourned vided by the unpupular amendment of tC | ron (acanie iio at ite gold Seat
Conservatives, He said that the reducing the )remium, and thus his interest is swelled t
salaries of teachers, led to the opening Of nearly fifteen. per cent.
many Private Schools. Ife quoted extracts |

has one or two candidates, and some of them
have half'a dozen.

Now I wish to say one word about these

interest gold-bearing bonds, Cupitalists have

WepnNrspAY, April 8,

ee eee

him for the position but his extreme radical-| ) jrosses of our correspondents as 4 guaranty

and | think itis unfortunate that he should) |, urn communications that are not used,
ret

teachers pay by locat assessment was, in his!) Vice President, every State in the Union |

This system of ex |

* Tis well to be merry and wise,

"Tis well to be loyal and true;
"Tis well to be off with the old love,
Before you are on with the new,”

Summerside cpournal.

THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1868.
No notice can he taken, ot anonymous com
munications. We must know the names and

= Ir has been a source of amusement to
us to watch the game of cross questions
and crooked answers which has for some
little time been progressing between a
correspondent of ours and the Progress
= jeditor, ‘The former represents the true
fecling of the solid men of Summerside
and the surrounding country, While the
latter gives expression to the Annexation
proclivities of sume unsettled individuals
who have nothing to lose and ey erything
to gain. Meanwhile the Mysterious
Editor of the Journal, whom nobody
quite secms to know, comes in fora share
of that abuse which, with the ignovant
mind, goes for the most incontrovertible
reasoning. ‘This species of argumenta-
tion, so entirely convincing, and witbal
so soothing and comforting to the disput-
ant who makes use of it, would come
with still more scathing and fearful
effect, if it could only be brought t6 bear
upon some definite flesh-and-blood per-
sonage. It is certainly provoking tortind
that after such a powerful and polished
shaft as appeared in the last Progress has
been drawn to the head, and prepared
for the destruction of the ‘ aristocratic
editor,” he then cannot with certainty be
found ; nor that any answer can be given
to the fierce avengers of democracy, who
cry; “Whereis hes’ Who is hie 2!
“Just let us see him!" . This ethereal
being, whom we may call ‘* Vox ct
| preterea nihil,” is accordingly safe from
| tion of that splendid intellect he posess- | that tremendous punishment so sublimely
|ed, from his mother, who seems to have | described in the elegantly chaste and
exulled in rare intellectual powers, A) classical language of the ‘* Progress” as
woman of exquisite taste, and her mind] y decent kick.’ We contemplate with
elevated by a love of the past, and rich} mournfulness the perplexed and unhappy
in historical lore, she undoubtedly exer-| condition of the Progress’ editor, un-
cised over that young spirit such an able, notwithstanding his Yankee train-
influence as only gifted woman can.—|ing, to‘ guess” the author of “Briton.”
| Losing her at an carly age, and swiftly | Wrapped in profundity of thought,
attaining to the self-reliance and energy) strugaling with suppressed inspiration,
of youth, Mr. McGee left his country for |g spectacle of stormy grandeur, he threat-
the United States. We believe it is|ens to hick somebody!!! Oh is that
Milton who says: all? What a fall was there, my country-

of their good faith. We eannot undertake to

THE LATE HON, T. D. McGEE,

Come to the bridal chamber, Death!
Come to the mother, when she feels
For the first time, her first-born’s breath,
And thou art terrible |
But to the hero, when his sword
Tlas won the bettle for the free,
Thy voice sounds like a prophet’s word,
And in its hollow tones are heard
The thanks of millions yet to be.”

One of the darkest and most appalling |
crimes that have ever been committed |
has lately caused the American Continent
to vibrate with horror, ‘Thomas D'Arcy
MeGee, unshrived, and in an instant,has
been hurried away from the Councils of

“to the Bar of God, Of him it was
bit the other day said in the British
House of Commons, ** A man who never
speaks without influencing masses of his
countrymen, whenever he addresses
them; he is at this moment one of the
most eloquent advocates of British rule
and British Institutions that is to be
found on the face of the globe.”
| Born at Carlingford, Ireland, on the
{15th April, 1825, he received great por-

men!

On motion Hons. Callbeeck, Laird and)
Mr.jGeo, Sinclair, were appointed to bring |
in a bill to incorporate the Baptist Church

| froma Report of Commissioners of Education |
in Scotlind, showing that the recommendation
t

said Commissioners favored one uniform,

and more concentrated national

empting bonds for taxation ts nothing more |
nor less than a gigantic fraud, and has been
| the means of crippling the trade and industry
| of the country, But there does not seem to

“The childhood shows the man,
As morning shows the day.”

| But to this as to every rule, there is an

Surely there is but one step from
the sublime to the ridiculous.

But the question arises: Did we write
lthat letter, or not?—lLet us think,

systems) he any hope of a reform in this

respect. ‘The

cks built for including extra expenditure of lust year, |
293

House in Committee of Supply. Myr. similar in its provisions, relative to the nature
Rielly in the chair. of instruction, to the secular system which
Hon, Attorney General submitted sev-| hal hitherto given general satisfaction in our
eral resolutions, among which were for] Colony. :
»}expenditure on bridges and wharis in} Mr. McNeill was of opinion that the duty
,| Road District Nos. 8 and 4, Prince County, | cf the state was to impart a sound system of
=| j secular education, lesving in the hands of
parents the religious training of their children,
ich he said

bondholders haye money on their side, and
money is powerful. ‘The tendency of this

and the poor man poorer.

, lds, some more next time.

To the following persons as School

| He spoke of the manner in y
‘liberal Protestants had been mi sd by the |
| Conservative party, because they acted in

| harmony with their Catholic fellow subjects
Ellen Richardson,Summerside, £15 0 | 0” political grounds; and that in his opinion,
Ilien swale Any, 16 0 | the people appreciated too highly the privi-
ae Want. St. Elennors, 8 _leges of a free system of Education, to allow

|

- a e |any vital change to be etfected in that system,
Donald McKay, an old Teacher, 5 0 0) DY Vital change beneath oe
James Stewart, Belmont, East

'funds ot the Colony, namely —
| : here.

ers

Oth in
lost $

tant.
00 last ye

| lon. Mr. Howlan replied to the remarks of |

Arch. McKenzie, West Royalty, 9 0 0! for the poor of Charlottetown, The »mount

money there made.

') Eulalie Arsenault, Egmont Bay, 10 Ol it cost the Colony to educate the 640 pupils |

rumor, and T give it for what it is worth.

ing importance than a mere knowledge of) 12 which way sullicient capit
Us j reading and writing should be imparted in the | tis
year only, and not to form a precedent for, school. He the: 1eviewed the course pursued Cis matter?
| future years, jby the Conservative party towards the| have not got spunk enough to do
Hon, Atty. General said that the object; Catholics, relative to the Orange Bill, and the | tl ’
of the note appended to the foregoing, Wtitings and speeches of one who had pean) rel hing for us. Let
Resolution was to prevent disappointment, Colonial Sceretary of that party at the time | a Pca Nea attr cate Gvery, Telandui
relative to the continuance of such grants that bill hid been introduced, and which, he i ra Ta eUpORE, ;

in future. The schools taught by the par- | WS Proud to say, Her Majesty was pleased) 1 He eu AN

ra 4" ~ | to disallow; and asked, if it was reasonable | letter; and L will again sign the ini
ties named did not come under the provi-| 4 suppose, that the Catholics could receive

sions of the School Act, but as similiar! oyen-handed justice at the hands of a party
sums had hitherto been given, it would! who had sanctioned such proceedings as
not be just to deprive the said recipients | those to whom he alluded, 2
of their usual allowances without an inti-| Op motion the debate was then adjourned
mation to that effect, until to-morrow.

Hon. Atty. General then submitted
tesolutions granting £533 for the relief
of paupers.

The grant of £7 10s. to Donald Gillis,
Miscouche, for way office, alter some re-
marks, was agreed to,

Mr, Brecken asked the Government
what action, if any, would be taken rela-
tive to a memorial of the City Council on

The foregoing grants are given for this

s

CREN,

To run Eprror or tae Jourxaw
Sim :—
The editor of the Progress, in the las

Gorre

of which abounds in the choice
5 } On (| tnee ’ bso much approved of in

LETTER FROM BOSTON,
Mowpay, Arnit 3, 1868.
Frrenp Berrraw,— |

tke subject of a Workhouse. After a long silence, during which time 1)
Hon, Leader of the Government replied, | linge pene wd greatinterest the Summer. |
and said that the qnestion was under the | ae Uh again venture to address your |
consideration of the Governmennt. | aehin@ets te a aT {0 be us fulllot
Ifon. Attorney General presented a bill! fire which Inive needed gees Yeats of ware
‘ ye presented a Dill) fare which have preceded it,

for tho better security of the Crown and| In the first place, the impeachment of a
Government of the United Kingdom, with-| President of the United States is now in his-
in the Island, which bill, he said, was|tory. Most of your readers doubtless sym-
based upon a Despatch from the Secretary | pathize with Presidert Johnson. | suppose
of State for the Colonies, to his 23 cellency | this to be the case from the fact that merely
the Licut, Governor, and introduced in| all the Luropean papers and people look upon
compliance with the wishes of the Home| him as adefenderot the liberties of the people. |
Goyernment, During the war times, the Provincialists
Hon. Atty. General moved that the Rdn- | Senerally, both here and home, sided with |
cation Dill be read a second time, and in| te South. | And Jeff. Davis's friends of war |

Billinsgate 1

publie that the writer of the article in ques-
tion is no doubt a graduate of some cele
brated college; perhaps that of the « Five
Points.” {tis not my intention to condes-
cend to answer the sling terms and low
personal abuse with which the article re-
ferred to abounds. — Such language is
i sug
pecutiar to the Progress editor; he is. evi-
dently more at home while wallowine
through such filth, thanhe is when writing
prosey editorial

* Land Banks,” ete,

In replying to him T feel that I have
need to fortily myself against the dange
to which Lam somewhat exposed in ‘Des
coming contaminated by the. filth With
which [am reluctantly brought ih contact
just as the anatomical operator finds it ne-
i ry for his satety. to keep about his

t resident Jolinson’s friend ; person some preventitive against ¢ i
doing so he observed that as c. | times are Presic , PLCS OF COT aire titas RCH Ae
8 ho had ex day. Why the Provincial people should bo | While lisseeting & putrid “and pestilental

plained the principle amendments contem-
plated by the bill, when first introducing
it, and also when the resolutions touching
those amendments were belore the House
in Comimitt@, he-considered it unnecessary
to remark again at any length on the sub-
jeet, at that stag’ Met the proceedings,
Ilon. Leader of the Opposition then ad-
dresse the House, and reviewed the lead-
ing amendmenta of the School Act,as sub-
mitted in the billunder consideration, The
alteration relative to the Normal School,
threo Visitors, instead of two, the Board
of Education to be composed of eleven
members instead of nine as form ‘ly,
granting £6 extra to teachers of the French
language, were, he said, the principle am-
endments contemplated by the bill, and
were not, in his opinion, calculated to
proye of any material improvement to the
eneral educational interests ot the colony.
“he question as to the best system of Rdu-
cation to be imparted by the State, was
agitating the public mind; some held the
opinion that a mere sucular education was
futile, and, ia fact, injurious, when it was
not based on a religious and sound moral
training.

Hon, Atty. General repliggd, he alluded
to the momentous interests involved in
the question. and said that a religious edu-
cation was of the first importance, com-
pared with which a mere secular educa-
tion was but of secondary consideration,

opposed to the North isa problem T am Hot | Sites

able to solve, ‘he majority of Provincialists| With regard to
who leave home make for the Northern states,
They work here, make a good living here

somo of them carry on business here succoss.
fully, and most of them soon adopt the man-
ners and customs of the people, Yet, stiange
to sry, they hardly ever become advisers of
the Yankee government,

I will not attempt to define what my indiyi-
dual opinion is on the question of impeach-
ment. I will merely present to your readers
afew facts which may place Congress in a
better light.

When Lee’s army surrendered, the South-
erners admitted that they were Whipped; that
they had tried to rule with the aidof the
sword, and had failed; and they were conse:
quently willing to accept almost any terms of
reconciliation.

But Lincoln's death happened about that
time, and Johnson became President, The
breach between him and Congress widened;
he took Southerners into his cabinet and his
eouncils; and, before he was President six
months, the South was as haughty and de-
manding as when Brooks cudgelled Lumner
in the senate chamber of the United States,

The North was justly indignant with Presi-
dent Jolinson for bringing about this state of
things. He had accepted the second place on
their ticket, and was elected as a staunch Re-
publican, ‘Their sons had spilt their blood
like water on the Southern battle-flelds; they

r the silly. threat thrown
out about kicking, I May state that I am
hot t fighting character; in fact I um a
an of peace, and entirely disapprove of
bullying or rowdyism of any sort, but
the Progress editor seems anxious to mi
adisplay of his kicking propensities, 1
have not the slight objection to gratily
him in’ this particular; and perhaps the
j result may be slightly different trom What
jit Wits 0 few days since when he eallod an
offencing boy into his office and adininis-
tered justice with his Shillalah, atter the
Auda Teatt ‘approved of in the land
i) Intec erty i y days of

hynull Werty in the days of Judge

The Progress editor, knowing that a fur-
ther exposition of his Annexation senti-
ments would draw dowh upon hin the in-
dignation of the loyal eople of this Island
wisely for himself” ana the reputation of
his contemptible sheet, retrains from an-
swering my lotter ina straightforward and
manly way, but in lieu thereof introduces
certain extracts from the Halitax Chronicle
Which are as far trom the point at issue as
night is from day.

I never accused the Progress editor ot
treason, and hence the extracts referred to
do not apply in this case, ‘The intent of
my letter was merely to contradict a state-
ment in his paper. that a large portion of

kG

bers were of opinion that but few of the
inhabitants of 6 ¢hool districts would
attond moetitgs, and thereby licenses
tight be obtained without the consent. of
the mujority of the distriet.

Hion. Mr. flowlan submitted an amend-
ment to the eft that post offices, herent
ter to be establiehed, should not be kept

had endured, and are now enduring. an army
of tax-gatherers for support of the war; the ‘ vac i
heavy debt had crippled the resources and in- | © the United States; and Tam still willing
dustries of the country to sue's an extent that to dofend the position I have taken, if the
to-day hunger and want stalk abroad through editor of the Progress can continue the
all the Northern cities. (In proof of this, CONWOVersy without resorting to the low
Statoment, witness the crowds that daily | Slang which disgraced the editorial columns

But the mode of imparting to the youthful our population were desirous of annexation

mind a knowledge of religious truths, was
a question on which some of the greatest
minds differed,

Dr. Jenkins said that he felt very much

da teyerns, but ¢hat euch post offices us

disapppointed that som f more im- i

-| gather round the police stations for ¢ of his last issue.
toe ae Mb a tew MBE sicscions Sie of soup doled out by the dlls Allien BRITON,
hea introduced in the Wi {to actually provent starvation among the oar | April 22, 1868, ’

system is to make the poor man pay all the | young Irishman could, we
taxes thereby making the rich man richer, | iad no foreshadowing in his early years.

But there, that is enough on polities this |
time; but ifyou publish this, L will give you

I read the letters of your correspondent) | ‘ pee
“Maca.” Tliked them very much, and should lic of the West.
haye been pleased to see him when he was

So you are going to lose the linc of steam-
The Oriental, Alhambra, and Commerce, |
are advertised to be sold next Thursday, the |
I understand the stockholders |
r. ‘They always seemed

But this is only a
|

£203 0 | Should consider that something of more last-| lone, let a joint stock company be formed, |

could be easily
Who will be the first to move in)
Don't letit be said that we
anything tor
elves, but have to ask the Yankeos to do!
| it once be known |

1 for one/ lish institutions. ‘This witness is true,

sue of that paper, devotes a column in an-
swer to my letter of the Gthinst., one-third | his vast energy to the
language | public mind the wild dreams he had him-

1 f ! hj self once cherished,
; market, proving to the intelligent reading |

son “Roads,""Education,” |

| whose unification none

exception, The extraordinery and cheek- | aN a ph
| i ) afraid we didn't. We're sorry

| ore, bon Wiitek y lay Derore, they Ore
Fered career which now ae Ee ate iat We cdnley BUR len elie aee Lis
next best thing, we'll endorse it! But
| Deeply imbued with Republican prin unfortunately even this will not restore
les, und fascinated with the delusive | the prestige which the © Progress” man
‘dreams of * Liberte, Egalite,Fraternite,” | has lost among all Yankee admirers, by
lhe sought a Utopia in the model Repub-| his dulness in guessing, and the manifest
Saddened by the sight ieapacity he has exhibited in this pecu-
| of Ireland's distress, his as yet unmatur- | iarly Y aikee mgen er As the editor of
fed and sanguine mind conceived ite) (he PApGH 1S NOG Briton,” he had better
remedy to lie in the superficial ideas and e Buees OS RUN, Or perhaps he might
impossible plans of the Socialist. It is cackleate” a little. In fact we are of
not strange, therefore, that the Repub- the opinion that before he finds ‘ Briton
lican press, as represented by some of) O8t he will have todo ‘a heap of reck-
the most bitterly Anti-British sheets, | OMM8-
should receive a warm and impassioned! ‘The arguments of the Halifax Chronicle,
assistant, Article after article, from his | distinguished by tieir superticiality, are
glowing and versatile pen, portrayed the of precisely the proper calibre for the
sorrows of the Green Isls, and inflamed democratic and annexationist mind.
the passions of its sons. Returning} Warren Hastings, Governor Eyre, and

0
Louisa Arsenault, Lot 15, 15 0 Olthat attended the difterent schools in Char- ? ‘ ee home, and becoming inyolved in the trou- certain other individuals are breught for-
Francis Buote, Lot t, 10 0) 0} lottetown, paid out of the Treasury, whilst Why don’t some enterprising Islander stort) ples of 1848, it became necessary tor} ward, for what purpose no one who ‘is
J.J. Arsenault, Lot 15, 6 0 0) not one shilling was paid towards the educa- tae on (he rout between Boston ANU Tim to leave his country thet second lunilessed wilh demnantin GaN ORGR ot
Geo. Corbett, Charlottetown, 10 0 0] tion of the 500 children provided for, a Charlottetown Ls QUEER Ey cath prove ajme, and accordingly in’ the United! thought can tell, What the acts of indivi-
Mgndlaorr’” a6. 2) 6 6| Nova Scotia, and other places sim grants, | Diying investment. Let it be an Island! States he gave himself up to the study dual men, or the course pursued towards
St Ann's, do. 20 0 Q/} to that asked for here had been given, and no, Steamer, commanied by an Island captain, of political Constitutions. ‘To trace the) them, has to do wi i i
ii hi ; 5 {hue and ery w. ised against the principle | manned by an Islind crew, and ow ny Wea : Pi AO ENG » Aas to do with a question which
James Easton, Georgetown 30 g/ hue and ery was raised against the principle Ny, w, and owned by wwonlneeretlits fi ae es ey ae
, jin those Provinces. Surely hon. members | stand capital. And if no one man ean do it) VUKings of his now fast maturing iatel-|is by no moans an individual one, but a

lect, and the processes of thought throug

| territorial, and which respects the dis-
which « complete

jmemberment of the British Empire, itis
hard to say. ‘The « argument” runs
eave ‘Governor Hyre has been held
|tesponsible for some unnecessary ernel-
tes practised on the negroes of Jamaica
therefore Fenian sympathizers, annexa-
tionists and traitors in-Nova Scotia lave
aright to surrender a large Rritish Pro-
vince into alien hands, and tear to pieces
the English Dominion in this part of the
world, We are atraid the ‘argument’
will not hold good at the Colonial Ollice,
though it is evidently the very style of
reasoning for some of the profound minds
jof this country. We are glad that the
| controversy has placed the Progress sheet,
at lust, in its true light belore the peo-
ple of the Island. -It is now'a declared

“ Change came o'er the spirit of his dream,”

is not nece Suflice to say, that the
world now knows the memory of D'Arcy
| McGee as that of a most staunch and
brilliant admirer and st pporter of Eng-

and hath its seal in his blood! Remov-
jing to Canada and viewing there the
| happy and prosperous state of his coun-
| trymen under Colonial law, as contrasted
With the unnatural and feverish excite.
/ment of American life, he now bent. all
i dispelling from the

Fenianism had no
more deadly and powerful enemy than

jhe; Ireland and the Irish no. surer or! Annexation paper. And we have great

| wiser friend, Warm-hearted, indeed, 4S | pleasure in announcing, free of charge
jan Trishman, had the wretch who shot to all persons who are longing ee
him wanted for anything, McGee had Yankee rule Wis Ay Ciatlite aye
ec the fave eo hate ngs maga LY , Who sympathise with the
to help. Lor that band of deadly enemies of Mngland, and desir
/men-—misguided and weakly led by Am-/ gee this country sa 1 Hed ith | haiti
lerican influence, who leagued in Fenian | of the Ameri He ie le Hee te Pw
ean ah g in of the American war debt, that they will
circle and traitorous bond, were yet his loubtless find free se i Me
one Would! Haye tee Goudtess find free scope in the Progress
| ave laid down) for the expression of their Opinions.
took.
adopted country,
have done more! Tite subject of the disaffection of
|to bring about, he had long labored in| Nova Seotiais not so indifferent a matter
jhealth and in sickness; and his last |to the English people as is attempted to
speech, uttered in the Ottawa Parliament |be shown. — It is exciting much interest
but a few moments before his death, was|&t home, and naturally so. Itis not a
of the utmost kindness and conciliation | little thing,as annexationists would have
towards Nova Séotia Sacha death he Hi believe, to hand over these colonies to
deserved not at the hands of the assassin, | America; and England is iE
Reared in che bosom of the aneiane Ca to do it wleheuea tical ae nbjotn
red . ine ht. We subjoin
tholi¢ Church, a firm adherent to it, he | the following trom an Mnglish paper :—
was yet by Fenian murderers hurried in- whats
to eternity without prevaration, without
any of the last consolations of his Chureh
or the benediction of its Priests, Such
is the infidel and fiendish spirit of demo-
cracy and its dupes!

The lessons enforeed upon our attention
by the life, history, and death of D'Arcy
McGee are, at this critical time, ‘
important and salutary. ‘Their testit
against republican views is most
whelming, and should be we
by all Annexationists, 1

|the life which they so dastardly
| Hor the advantage ot his Y

“There is going to be trouble.
Serious trouble, about this Nova Scotian
business. Phe 350,000 of inhabitants in that
Colony were, it will be remembered, always

more or less hostile to tie plan of Contedeva-

tion. A vote of! the Assembly was, we be-
lieve, taken, though this iy now denied; bat
es alwiys understood that considerable
Pressure had been exercised from home, and
that the relations between the Dominion and
Most | this particular Province would for atime be
mony delicate and insecure . Since the Act was
overs ead however, coastituting the Canadas a
m fidndored Aen the Nova Seotians have become
The evidence of ie UMD than ever, aud theysare nowin
one who forswore all his early Te aan which, if we may trust the mambers
tions, and, by patient Shuetetign. | iki hey deetere er te aye open cag
anc tli iit the é ben * cede
eep thought became convinced of the | aaa that they “are ruted by Cand”
truth, cannot lightly be passed over. that the tariff iy ridiculously heavy, that their
Though he is gone, and the potent voice

an linve te uit Peal HM Ottawa, that they will
is hushed forever ? RVG rovide for local ex Tkuro he dipoc
ate be adldaa yet that evidence ro. | taxes, and that they will Heep Sia
1 if ¢ studied through all succeed. | OPPression. Every connty hus voted for tho
ing time, by the scholars and publicists :

of our own country. The Dominion of|

tepeal of the Dosnini Y 3s
General has declared thom hte plane ar ho

Canada will not forget the illustrious emetecit the Imperial Parliament, has

dead, and long after tho pale cla hie ent Is hee compelled ip dena yeaa We

been laid to rest, with the itposing ites

of the Catholic Service, will she point

+ bl been compelled to send home Mr.
Wwe as its agent to obtain.a repeal of, the
with mingled affection a i
nd grief to
gtave of hor Firs Massies | Sag

obnoxious Act. . ‘Lhe col
oxic . sOlonists expect that
ny will be able to offer reasons wiih Par-
wil bow pre Accept, and that the Act
epealed in ‘two ee ae
i PP Fe : pence, big the iret ie Ahroek dled cheba “"
. wider D, Crawford will prea > [ite that it thy Actis not xepented, and ree
in the Christian Mo, eae a, i
merside, on Tord’
o'clock in the m
evening.

itmay bo

nti + \sy|Pealed at onee, Nova. Seoti i rea
i fie) House, Sum. / feet and large maritime fopalal bt ia
Vay next, at 11) *Plendid harbors and eographigal compand
orning and 64 in the | Ove" Newfoundland ind Prince Kdwafd Island,
Bu declare its desire to be ninexed to the
nitod Btates, ‘ke Attornoy:Genoral almost