Summerside Journal -- 1868-05-28 -- Page 2

@, alearful odds, and he
scious. Brighteyes were beaming over |
him; blue eyes. suffused with tears and}
affection! Reader, can you guess whose
eyes they were? Right. You have
guessed right the first time. They were
Susan Bray's, as bright and true as when,
two years before, he had lett them at
Patny, though they had shed many tears
over his prostrate form during his ancon-
sciousness,—as if he, or any printer that
ever lived, were worth such solicitude ?

The first word they both pronounced
was * Fdelity,” and their eyes proclaimed
the fidelity of their hearts.

It is now about four years since the
foregoing scene was enacted, and the
other day I received No. Lot a new paper
called the Freeman’s Star, from Patny,
edited and printed by Jabez Bee. A letter
accompanied the paper, containing a re-
quest that I should visit him at home, and
that Susan, Ais wife, would be delighted
tosee me. As soon as spring opens I
shall go,

Success to the printers, say I; and when
temptation is besetting them, as it too
often is, may they have a voice to. speak
to their generous souls, exhorting them to
** Fidelity.”

AT HOME AND ABROAD.

That “hills look grecn afar off,” and
that ‘distance lends euchantment to the
view,” are old sayings and very true ones;
and under the influence of the feelings
thus created many young men leave home
and friends to better their fortunes ina
far-off land. A New-Brunswickerattract-
ed by the glitter of the gold-fields of
M.utana, writes to the Colonial Farmer

(Fredericton, N. B.) in regard to his ex- | ried off the

perience, as follows,—

*Thear that quite a number of New-
Bronswickers are going to start tor this
country this spring. If they do come they
have my best wishes for their success,
but let me say to them, think twiee before
you start for far-off mines, If they have
a comfortable home, they willdo better in
the end to staythere. Mining is very un-
certain, and those that never were ina
brisk little camp, have very strange ideas
about gold-digging and money-making in
such places, One young mun writes to
know if he can mak 100 per year, clear;
another, if he could earn cnough in four
years to buy a snug little farm, A man
with a wife wants to know what kind of
employment they could get, and what
thelr wages would be at different kinds of
employment. They seem to think that
they can come here and by working for
wouyes a few years, make a fortune, That
isa very wrong idea If they cannot do
better here by working for themselves
than they ean by working lor others, they
had better stay in eld New-Brunswick.
They will see the trath of this remark
shortly after they arrive here, if they don't
before. Miners are all gamblers,—some
gamble at the gambling-tables alone,
others in stock and mining-ground (gen-
erally developed), some have a little of
both. There is not one man in every one
hundred that goes to a mining-country
that will work for wages longer than to
geta little stock to enable him to geta

claim of bisown, W: s $5 per dayf
and alter you ti the t of living out o,

it, at the end of the week, you will have
a little left,—say $15. You put this care-
fully away the first week, aud think that
in wtew years you will have all that you
want at that rate of saving; but after a
few weeks it looks very smull—we begin
to think that we can do better; we light
out, as the miners say, find a piece of
ground that looks favorable—everybody
thinks that itis very rich, We go to work,
spend weeks opening it, fit up for sluicing,
and when we go to washing gravel, find

g
out that it won't pay the grab bill; this is
frequently the case, but notalways, With
the wwiner itis allor nothing, Let th

young men that want to get 8400 per y
ona farm, stay in) New-Branswick and
exhibit the same amount of energy there
that they will have to here in order to get
what they seck tor, and they will obtain
it in a shorter space of time, and will not
be out of God’s cou try either, And to
those who have wives, if they must come,
come, but dou’t bring a wile to this coun-
try, especially if she isa good wile; but
if she is not, bring her here by all means,
for this is just the place to wake up some
fing morning and find yourself aiinus a
wile, Many aan has brought a wile to
this country and left her herve living and
well but she was svon alter Mrs. Some-
body else. It is very common to hear of
such cases. This mountain is very light.
aAnd I would candidly and honestly say to
him that has a family. let that fainily re-
wain in New Brunswick,—and with his
family is the place lor him.”

THE MARCH OF OPINION,

When a man changes his opinions on
any subject, and shapes his conduct by his
new views, shallow people call hin in-
consistent. This is all wrong. He that
has been disabused of erroneous impr
sions by experience, and yet, trom a fear
of being reviled or ridiculed, conceals the
fact, and adheres in practice to what he
believes to be filse in’ principle, is the
really inconsistentman. With such weak-
backed moral cowards, who fear the een-
sure of fools more thin they love truth,
the world abounds. ‘They are stumbling-
hlocks in the path of progress, and deserve
the contempt of all honest, fearless, noble-
minded men. There is another class of
** consistent’ people, who are so bigoted
and conceited that demonstration itself
cannot convince them that the lamp by
which their feet are guided, even though
it be an ignus fatuus, that is continually

EMA eN he
———

ec Qautry: to whi
ue

if Napier has mean-
while won golden opinions.and has proved
himself not only worthy of the illustrious |
tamily to which he beongs and worthy of
his day and generation, but worthy too of
a first place in the front ronks of military
commanders of all time, He has proved
himself a master of the grandest econo-
mies—the economy of human lite.”
‘he saddest story that
as that ofa child in Swit-

we ever read Ww

| zerland, a pet boy—just as yoursis, readcr

—whom his mother, one bright morning,
rigged outin a beautiful jacket all shining

Hwith silk and buttons, and gay as mother’s

love could make it, and then | ermitted him
to go out to play. Heo had searevly step-
ped from the door of the * Swiss cottage”
when an enormous eagle swooped him
from the ground and bore him to its nest,
high up among the mountains, and yet
within sight of the house of which he had
been the joy. ‘There he was killed and
devoured, the eyrie being at a point which
was literally inaccessible to man, so that
no relief could be afforded. In tearing
the child to pieces, the eagle so placed the
gray jacket in the nest that it beeame a
lixture, and whenever the wind blew it
would flutter, and the sun would shine on
its lovely trimmings and ornaments, For
years it Was visible trom the lowlands,long:
iter the eagle bad abandoned her nest.
What a sight it must have been for the
parents of the little victim !

The oldest city in the world is Damascus,
which is still a centre of trade, as it was in
the days of Abraham. ‘Che Damson, or blue
plain came tromthence. The Dank rose
introduced into England in the reign. of
tlenry VIL, ‘The Damascus dlade, so famous
the world over for its keen edge and remark-
able elasticity, is the secret of the manufac-
ture of which was iost when ‘Tamerlane car-
artist to Paris.” ‘Phis ancient
city su renowned in history—so full of interest,
thrilling and instructive to the student ot
history, is still what it was tour thousand
years ago, tthe Head Syria,” or as Julian
has it, ** the Eyes of the Bast.”

We learn that James F. Montgomery, Es
has imported this spring trom Bngland san
ples of the Myatt improved, Ashleaf Kidney,
Lancashire Red, and York Regent potato:
for distrinuting amoug his ‘Tenantry. This
shows that Mr. Montgomery is desirous of
improving the condition of the settlers on his
Kstate.— /st.

Have you a Coven, Cold, Pain in the
Chest? In fact, have you the premonitory
symptoms of the ‘insatiate archer,” Con-
sumption? Know that relief is at hand in
Wipstar’s Bafsam of Wild Cherry.

A RAILWAY TO THE PACIFIO,

A Ratway to the Pacifie over British
territory is a subject that has often been
spoken of by publi¢ men in British Am-
erica, und there is no doubt but that such
an undertaking, if taken hold of in the
right spirit by the New Dominion, and
aided by Great Britain, would prove of
immense advantage to both countries.
We have lately seen in our contemporary,
The Examiner, an account of the natural
resources of Nital, und of the rich and
varied productions of that country, We
have also read cqually glowing deserip-
tions of the luxuriaut growth und produc-
tions of some parts of the great and rich
country now a wilderness, through which
such a dine would haye to pass, We have
lately received a Jetter from: a friend in
New South Wales, where he states that
engineering skill is being rewarded by
pushing railway lines up mountains three
thousand feet above the level of the sea,
and we have not heard that greater difi-
cultics lie in this route. We believe that
the far-secing aud sagavious statesmen of
the United States marvel that the rich
country between Lake Superior and the
Rocky Mountiins has not engaged more
of the attention of publie men in England
and Canada than ithas. The whole line
is iv tersporsed with lakes, some of which
are surrounded with a soil and climate
Which polit them out as parts of the Hud-
son Bay Teritory that have been lett sui-
ficleudy long in their primeval state, We
subjoin the following article from the St
John Morning News :—

* The expedicney, not to say necessity,
of a Railway communication fiom the At
lantic to the Pacilic, over British ‘Lerritory,
is beginuing to be ieltin the Mother Coun-

ty. A fow weeks ago a paper was read
on the salject by Alired Waddington be-

fore the Geographical Society of London,
(Englind), tan allusion to which the
author, in a Communication to the Cana-
dian News of the 26th March, published in
London, observes: * The truth is the in-
terests of Canada and British Columbia,
however idcutical with those of the Mother
Counuy, Ge thing which England will find
out one of Uiose days) are norally over-
looked or neglected i this country, But
what would become of the Doniinion if
deprived of a communication with the
Paciic, 80 essential to her development,to
her Maritime prosperity, to her very ex-
istence? And what it that communication
be opened tuo la Captiin Richards
suid with (ruth at the meeting, * that a
commuuication between the Colonies ot
Canuda and British Columbia would be
the starvation of both. And when we see
the vastly greater Engineering difficulties
surmounted by the Americans in their
San Francisco route as compared with
those of Canada, to the Pacilic, it would
be a lasting disgrace if we did not: hasten

Be
«

|

betraying them into bogs, is anything less
than a light from Heaven, In_ the midst
of facts that might, one would think, open
the eyes of the blind, they tell you with
the pride that so often accompanies stolid

to [them and avail ourselves of the

facilities whieh nature has afforded us.
| British America is one in interest, and, to-
| gether with the Mother Country, must be
| oue in purpose, if the dang with which

wrejudice, that they ** like old ways best.” | both are inenaced is to be averted.”

f the world had always been me
such conservatives of ignorance,
fighters agaiust intelligence, primitive
ploughs would be still dragged: through
the ground attached to the tails of horses,

le up of |
such | also contains # letter from the pen of A,

‘The same paper under date 16th April,

J. Dallas, dated + Reform Club,’ in’ which
it is stated that ‘a project has been mvot
ed in Australia to abandon the postal route

and the belief in’ the immobility of the} to this couutry by Panama tor that by San
earth be as religiously entertained to day | Francisco so soon as the Adantic and Pa-

asit wasin the dark ages.
consistent mind recognizes the inevitability
of change.

The truly | cifie Railway is completed,

The distance
from Wellington, New Zealand, to San

Only blockheads, who refuse | Francisco is stated to be 700 miles shorter

to listen to the teachings and illustrations | than to Panama, with the great advantage
ot time and nature, are constant to the | that Tahiti lies in the direct course 2,200
rules and systems of the comparatively | miles from Wellington<-forming a com-

unenlightened past. “Old things are |
passed away.” Let us study the present, |
and study it with a reference to the future. |
Except the Author of all things. nothing
in the universe is ‘the same yesterday, |
to day, and forever.” |
th A tp |
The New York Herald, in an exceeding- |
ly well written article void of the Jeust
particle of that sensationalism and cynicism |

peculiar to that journal, remarks cone rns]
ing Sir Robert Napier’s snecess:—" The)
result is a triumph not only to ¢ nation,

but toa something within civilization —to

modious coaling stitiun apd agreeable
hallway house. Jtis worthy of considera-
tion Whether, in connection with the above
scheme, Victoria, Vancouver's Island,
might not be substituted lor Sun’ Francis-
co” A Railroad trom Canada to Victoria
would thus place Englind in direct postal
communication, not only with Japan,
China, aud the Eastern Archipeligo with
New Zealand and our Australian colonies.”
he writer goes on to show other adyan-
tages, which a line Urough Canadian
Verritery would possess over the Ameri-
xin route, aud concludes astollows: «Lo

akiled generalship and first class militury Canada this sulject is of the Bret import.

Mange foy the
sadors oy ryw

ane. Ifer dominion woulk
a highway to the
status which would go far to overcor
opposition, recoucile conflicting interests,
and consolidate her resources in one wuit-

ed Empire.’ ”

to overe

ecuted, -

Farrell, the aitempted Assassin
of Prinee Alfred executed.

London, May 24.
The efforts made to prove an: alibi in the
case of the Fenian Barrett, the Clerkenwell
conspirator, have failed, and his executicn
will take place at the expiration of the week
for which he w
Telegrams
ticipation of overland mails, says that Vrince
Alfred bad left there for England in commaad
of the steam frigate Galatea, and that he was
quite well. Farrell, the attempted as
of Prince Alfred, was executed on the ?2nd
of April We
Despatches received from General Napier
to the 5th instant, states that a portion of his
troops had reached the coast, and embarked
for Bombey, and that the remainder of the
troops and stores belonging tu the expedition
had been hastened forward, to be slipped
from Zoula as rapidly as possible, and that
the evacuation of the country would be soon
effected. The wounded are deing well, and
rapidly becoming convalescent. The troops
are generally in good health.
London, May 22.

In the House of Commons to-night Mr,
D. J. Reardon, member for Athlone, gave
notice that he would propose to the Gov-
ernment the following questions: ‘IL the,
health of the Queen is such as to detain
Her Majesty from London? why do not
the ministty advise abdication.” The
question was ruled out of order,

London, May 23d—3 o'clock,

The debate on the Irish Church was
again resumed, the suspensory vill being
underconsideration, —Mr.Gladstone niade
a speech explaining the character and in-
terestotthe measure. He said the Liberals
would pot consent to subsidize any of the
ms in Ireland. Ile expressed his
vise that the ‘Pories should now threat
en iesistance to this bill alter yielding
ent to resolyes of which it was the
uresult, ‘Lhe Llouse of Lords might
bly reject it, bat still it was the duty
TLouse of Commons to process with
the movement of reform which it had com-
menced, Mr,Glad tone elosed by moving
that the bill pass a second rentding,

Mr. Gathorne [Hardy moved it be post-

poned six months, and supported his mo-
tion ina speech of much warmth — Ile de-
claved that the bill was a surprise and
confi it misstated the
Queen's reply to address of the House
concerning the disposal of Ecclesiastical
patronage, and relieved the Crown ol
some of its greatest prestige, iucluding the
veto power, He ascribed the origin ol
this movementto the enemies of the Chureh
and State, and made an earnest appeal to}
all the Protestants to oppose it ‘The de-
bate was continued at great length,
Mr. Disraeli, ata diate hour, rose, He
defenced the action of the Vory party in
resisting the Lill, ‘The policy which had
created this measure was disastrous to the
country, and its direct result was to abol-
ish both the Chureh and State,

Mr. Gladstone replied. Ile said the
step taken by the Liberal party was not
hostile cither to Protestantism or the
Chureh of Englund

The debate terminated with Mr. Glad:
stone’s speech, and a division took place
on the motion, that the bill have a second
reading with the following results: lor the
second reading 312 agaiust 258, majority
54, Theannouncement was received with
foud and prolonged cheering from the
liberal bouches

A motion was then made that the House
go into Committee for the consideration of
the bill on the oth of June; the motion
wis Carried without a division, and the
House at 2 A. M., adjourned,

Dispatches trom Rome states the Pope

has invited the Roman Catholic Bishops ot

the United Stites to raise one thousianc
volunteers for Papalaruiy, and authorizing
them to make such terms with recruits as
may be necessary and proper,

eromositgeomnerzenm rm wrdatetonsaernaienntvereenttrinnstyn norm
.
Gorrespondence,
PIN EON rN
To tuk Epiron or 1ue Jounnat,
Dear Sin:—

IT read with interest the ‘* Leader” in your
issue of the 14th inst., commenting upon the
advantages of Drince Edward Island as a
resort for summer tourists. With your per:
mission I will endorse your remarks, and add
a few others.

‘The more intelligent tourists have for a few
weeks past been seeking allogether different
resorts wherein to while away a few weeks
er months during the “heated term,” than
they were wont to frequent. Newport, Nia-
Saratoga, and otuer favorite locilities,
are being abandoned to Mr. and Mrs. Shoddy
and family, and quiet country residences
sought out instead. Modest farm houses, in
the interior and along shore, are invaded and
pronounced superior, These places afford
the rest and freedom from care desired, and
are attended with less ruinous expenses.
being tumiliay with many seaside resorts, it
is my opinion that this Island iy superior in
almost everything desired by this class of
tourists. Hops, rants, and fashionable dissi-
pation of every description, they are anxious
to avoid for the time being, and consequently
spacious hotels with regal accommodations,
may be chissed among the disadvantages
rather than advantages. Wholesome food,
baths, drives and walks, and a child-like
freedom from all the cares of busy and fash-
ionable life, are the great desiderata; and
Prince Edward Island affords all these to the
fullest extent.

Summerside has already some reputation
among pleasure seckers, and it only remains
ts be sliown how casy of communication it is
with Boston, and other towns periodically
sending forth their jaded and weary citizens,
and that accomodations suitable to. the pur-
pose of their coming, await their arrival, to
make it a favorite resort for a superior class
of American tourists .

Allow me further to say a word in regard
to a paragraph in your United Stites s
mary of news of the same issue, which speaks
of a large Fenian convention held in Worces-
ter—my native city. Ifthe Convention used
the same hall that was occupied by the “ im-
mense audience,” you may readily conceive
the size of the convention and the immensity
of the cndience, when I inform you that Hor-
ticultural Hall will not seat above two hun-
dred persons, with any degree of comtort,—
atd the associations of that fragrant audience
chamber must lave been inspiring to the
orators of the occosion; for it is occupied,
ench in its due season, by Dutch dances,
spiritual meetings, paltry shows, and other
gatherings of the same nature. And, Mr.
Editor, itis the fittest place imaginable for

ga

., ‘quire a) Ran hy
East and ac Aine :e Indeed at being compelled to echo Fer

| bluster, 1 i fo
ithe $50,000 subscription—don't they wish
they may getit? 1 doubt if the
w

States prices.

; munications.
respited, : : addresses of our correspondents as a guaranty
om Sydney, Australia, in an- of their good faith,

return communications that are not used,

jment, through the

such a demonstration—the entra ce to the| step deeper into the mire and shows how he

aall ind that of the police station being di- | lessly lost is this once powerful and unprinci-
rectly opposite each other, The old hall has| pled party. Mr.
not much to boast inthe way of glory; never- | party was

impudence and braggadocia. As for

available

th of that “immense audience”
ave supplied a glass of whiskey eac

trations may be taken, not only with many
tins of allowance, but in very large doses |

ees aoe |
Barret the Tenian to be Ex- feitliont causing serious apprehensions,

Very respectfully,
ae, MR. DICK.
May 20, 1868.

¢ dournal.

THURSDAY, MAY 28: 1868.

"No notice can be taken ot anonymous com-
We must know the names and

Sumnersid

W cannot undertake to

‘THE NEWS.

Tue Royal Visit to Ireland, which

appears to have been a complete success

trom beginning ta end, was brought to a

close on the 26th of April, when the

royal party re-crossed to the English side

of the channel. ‘The well-wishers ol

Irish prosperity anticipated manv happy

results from the Prince's visit to Ireland. |
Fenianism, which has ever been regarded

as one of the foulest conspiracies that

ever blackened the bright page of the
history of civilization, has broken out

almost simultaneously, in three parts of

the Empire, entirely remote from each

other,—in the cold-blooded assassina-

tion of McGee, the cowardly attempt at
the life of Prince Alfred, and tie Clerk-
enwell explosion. Gladstone is vigor-
ously pushing his resolutions, for the
abolition of the Irish Church Establish-
British Commons.

D'isracli and his purty are clinging to the
‘Treasury Benches witha tenacity worthy
of a better cause. The British public
are jubilant at the successful termination
of the Abyssinian war. By the latest
despatches it is announced chat King
Theodore was killed at the head of his
followers, or, as is believed, committed
suicide. 14,000 men laid down their
arms and surrendered at discretion, The
loss of the Abyssinians is stated to be
500 killed and 1500 wounded, while the
British achieved their victory without
the loss of a single man, and the causali-
tics amounted to only one flicer and 14
men wounded. ‘The old adage ** that
reform begets reform,” was exemplified
in the House of Commons on the pass-
age of Gladstone's resolutioas, when it
was agreed that the grant to the Muay

nooth College should be discontinued, as
also the Regium Donum—that is a royal
gift given annually to the Presbyterians.
Charles Dickens, the preat novelist and
public reader, hus returned to England,
he signified his intention of setting forth,
in the periodical which he conducts, his
opinions on the present social, moral and
political state of the United States. At
a dinner given him by a number of jour-
nalists in New York, he said that in the
interval between his first and second
visits he could not help observing the
‘changes moral, changes physical, chan-
ges in the amount of land subdued and
cultivated, changes in the rise of yast
new citics, changes in the growth of the
graces and amenities of life, changes in
the press.”

From the Dominion there is little
news of any importange. Arrests are
made almost daily of persons who are
supposed to be implicated in the murder
of McGee. The entire domain of the
Hudson’s Bay Compary is to be ceded
to the Crown. This will appear strange
as it was thought all along that it would
be incorporated in the Dominion.

In the United States the Impeachment
of Andrew Johnson has so far proved an
entire failure, The more prominent
members of the Senate have expressed
their convictions in the most decisive
langtage, as to the entire insufficiency of
evidence upon which the articles of
impeachment were founded. There hus
been a division in the Radical camp, and
when the eleventh article in the Impeach-
ment—which was the hardest one on
the President—was put to vote it was
iost. Great excifement seems to have
been manifested as to the probable
course which would be taken by such
members as Sprague end Ross, as they
had it in their power to cast the vote
which would cither criminate or acquit
Johnson. We read from the correspon-
dent of the Boston Jost that—

“The gall ries seemed to recognize this
fact, the Senators recognized it, «and the
voice of the Chief Justice evinced the fet
Bhat he too regarded the issue as henging up-
on the vote he was then tuking. A pincould
have been heard to fall. The Jacobins were
confident—they lau hazarded their eause Up:
on Ross, and they could not doubt his vote.
* Mr. Senator Ross—What say you; is the
President guilty or not guilty, as charged in
the eleven articles of a high misdemeanor?’
‘Not Guilty,’ was the response which startled
Radicalism and balanced the taces of the con-
spirators. ‘The scene may be imagined but it
canpot be described. A bomb suddenly ex-
ploded in the Chamber could not have spread
yreater consternation among Impeachers and
Managers. ‘The fruit had turned to ashes
upon their lips, and a howl of bribery and
corruption was started by Manager Bingham.
The contrast was over; the President ac quit-
ted and impeachment consigned to infumy.
Butler's bald head assumed the hue of the
boiled lobster; Bingham resiod his intellec
tual forehead upon the Manager's table; Stes
vens Lit his bloodless lips, and Logan satura:
ted che carpet with tobacco juice. Mad the
recess of fifteen minutes been allowed, as
suggested by some ofthe Senators, the im-
pression is they would have continued the
vote and whiped out the whole list of artic les,
but consternation, as Mr. Evart declared,had
seized upon the disappointed Impeachers,and
they knew not what to do but to adjourn. It
is well understood here that the adjournment
over and posiponement of the other articles
have no significarce whatever.
Impeachment is dead, as is fully recognized
by the Radicat Senators, and the movement
of Bingham and the other Managers in the
House in getting authority to investigate ru-
mors of bribery is nothing amore than the
movement of the cuttle fish) which attempts
to retreat benonth the cover ofits own. filth,
This movement is regarded as but another

] Evarts declared that his
dismembered and irretricyably

theles after resounding with the clarion | ruined by the folly of iinpe

achiment.”

s Charles Dickens, i
: atest of modern novelists and public! acknowledged the splendour and enchent-

4 is embarking for his native) ment of that style,as the theme, *Daniel

would | readers,
h, at] country, there
But pardon me, | only wished succeeding him, in the New

c LATEST NEWS i to show that the reports of Fenian demon-|

sacred oratory.

on
will accrue to the elergy of the Dominion

isembarkation. That immente profit

Iris a strange coincidence that just) by his visit, we need hardly predict.

confessedly the

is landing,and immediately
World, one
confessedly great in the science of
William Morley Pun-
shon, the prince of jreachers and lectur-
ers, has produced in Canada, by. the very
first of his ministrations, a profound im-
yression. Casting around his auditory
of thousands, the unseen magic
chains of polished cloquence, he has
succeeded in holding the human heart,
on this side the water, in as potent
thrall as that exercised’ by his voice on
the Old World, It has well been said
that the ‘charm of eloquence retreats
from the scrutiny of anulysis as life Te
tires from the knife of the anatomist,
and accordingly it is in vain to attempt
description of this orator’s marvellous
powers. It may, however, be said that}
his commanding survey of minds is such
us is produced by the vast conceptions,
and burning thoughts of a master spirit,
uttered with a strange splendour and
polish of speech. From the models of
classic times, and the chief rhetoricians
of later days, he seems to have wrested
their strength, and carried it in.o the
sacred desk. He has evidently taken
for his own the poct’s address to Elo-
quence :—
“T see thee stand by Freedom's fane,

Pouring the persuasive strain,

Giving vast conceptions birth;

Hark! I hear the thunders sound

Shake the forum round and round,

Shake the pillars of the earth!

First-born of liberty divine!

Put on religion’s bright array,

Speak! and the starless grave shall shine

The portals of eternal diy.

Rise! kindling with the orient beam,

Let Calvary’s cross inspire the theme—

Unfold the garments roided in blood;

O, touch the soul, touch all her chords,

With all the omnipotence of words,

And point the way to heayen—to God!”

Born in Doncaster in 1824, young

Punshon very carly displayed signs of
that tenacious memory which Las so much
conduced to raise him to his present po-
sition.
seems not to have cared at all for its
business, but to have addressed himseli
earnestly to the consideration of Parlia-
mentary questions. We quote—‘* In the
debates nobody was better posted up.
Tue temptation of a newspaper was irre-
sistable, and while the other clerks were
dvep in figures, he was culling figures of
speech fiom the orators of the Reformed
Pailiament, watching the opening genius
of Gladstone and Macaulay, noting the
maturer exccllencies of Peel and Palm-
erston, and marking the finest flights of
Shiel and O'Connell for his own. The
predilections of a young politician are
seldom of much importance, but it so
happened that young Punshon’s devotion
‘vo newspaper studies threw him into the
society of three young men, who were
earnest disciples of the then newly-born
Conscrvative opinions of Sir Robert Peel
and his adherents, and who held weekly
meetings to strengthen each other in their
political faith. Once a month one ot
them read a paper to the resé on a given
subject. In these weekly discourses and
mouthly lectures, Mr. Punshon first dis-
tinguistied himself as possessed of those
tuculties which have made him eminent.”
Convinced at length that the murt ot
merchandise was not his post of labour,
he entered into training for the ministry
ata Wesleyan institution. ‘Transfined,
then, into the active work, he began his
career of public speaking. ‘*1t was in
the character of a lecturer that he appear-
ed for the first time in London, standing
on the platform of Mxeter Hall, to dis-
course to the members of the Young
Men's Christian Association, on the Pro-

Placed in a counting-house he}

Already in Montreal, thousands have

in Babylon” has been opened to them
from the lecture stand.

After presiding at the Canadian Con-
ference, Mr. Punshon will assume the
same duties at the Conference of Eastern
British America, which assembles in the
latter end of June, at Fredericton, New
Brunswick.

The St. John Morning News says:—
Business on the whole is not very active
at present, but it is believed to beina
healthy ‘state, and the prospects are en-
counnging. We hear no complaining
against our banksat present, They seem
to be able and willing to supply the pre-
sent wants of the business coammunity and
soon money will be more plentitul, Prices
of flour are a shade Jower, The best
brands from New York will cost: more
than equai grades from Canada, We be-
lieve there will be much less risk of Cana-
divn flour souring this season than last.
asthe wheat is in much better conditiom,
Oysters were selling at $L per barrel, and
tle market well supplied, Butter is very
scpree, and iss ling at 28 cents per Ib,
Oats are 70 cents per bushel.

‘AWe learn that the P. E. L.S.N Company
have purel { the cteamer General
Whiting, She was one of the blockade
runners, aud has becn lying in St. John
for some time. She is much larger than
the Princess of Wales, and iss: id te be w
very fine boat. We are informed that it
is the intention of the Company to run
her on this route alternately with the one
now repning, and ma the day time if pos-
sible. y This company seem determined to
alford every convenience to the traveling
public as well as to offer larger hicilities lor
ireight. ‘Lheir enterprise deserves the
patronage of the public. When the Saint
Lawrence, (ior that is to be her name)
ison the route, PB. Island will be able to
bowst of as good steam communication ag
any of the Provinces

tw We regret to learn that the wife of
the Hon. James Yeo died at ber residence
on Wednesday morning, at 2. o'clock.
From what we have heard of her acts of
kindness and hospitality, we feel assured
that the poor have lost a kind triend; and
none Will feel her loss more than the poor
Aicmacs, to whose wauts she daily minis-
tered, We deeply sympathize with the
bereaved family,
bh op The Brig Kewadin, Cole Master,
arrived in this Port on Friday last, trons
Liverpool, with a general cargo of Mer-
chandize,
tw’ Another cargo of Hay arrived here
this morning, and is on sale at R. A,
Strong & Bro,’s.

We are obliged to-day to dispense with eur
head lines, in consequence of a supply of
pipec received being tov short,

Mr Lewis Muttart has been appointed
Postinuster at Cape Traverse, in (ue piace
of Me. William Brow, resigned,

te The latest Telegrains announce that
the Senate on the Z6th voted on the secoud
avd third articles of dinpeachment, and
acquitted the President, the vote standing:
19 to 3), The Court ot Impeachnient
then adjourned, Thus ends Impeuchment,
‘There is a rumor that the Penis are con-
cenduting den Oudensbarg, tor a raid
Into Cauada, and that) the American
Govermancut is hiking menusures to prevent
it, Gold is quoted at 1404. Vhis isabout
all the pews of any Wnporlance lo be tound
in yesterday's despatches,

wae ON the night of Monday, the 17th
Ist, at an Liergency Mecting of the officers
and members of Prataigar” Lodge, british
‘Lemplars, an address was presented to Mr.
James Chozibe (who had becn a member of
suid Lodge), on the eve ot his leaving for
Calitortaa, U.S.) Mr. Crozicr is a deserving
)young nan whe carries with him the beat
Wishes of all his acquaintances, — Com,
Trincetown Koysaty, May 14, lses,

ha ‘Tue Steamer Enperor hus not, as
yet, made her second tip tere, All the ex-
jellement she ciused has ended in smoke. She
jis plying between Shediac and Newcastle,
j culiing at Kichibucto, Kingston and Chatham.
| She leaves Shediae every Saturday and Wed-
needay morbing on the arrivalot the jhorning
(rain and Steamer L’rincess of Wales,

We were much ; leased in attending, on

phet of Hloreb. lt was not, strictly
speaking, a lecture, but an oration ot
extreme brilliancy, suited in a high de-
gree to captivate the minds and find its
way to the affections of a youthful audi-
ence; and we never remember to have
heard such rapturous applause as that
with which the thousands there assembled
greeted cach glowing period. By this
single performance, Mr. Punshon estab-
lished a metropolitan reputation outside
his awn denomination, which was in-
reased two or three years afterward by
s second lecture, betore the same asso-

Bunyan ; and more recently still, by shat
most masterly oration on the Huguenots,
which tens of thousands in almost all
parts of England have listened to with
unbounded delight. In a two-hours dis-
course upon such a theme, ordinary and
even very superior lecturers would have
considered a manuscript indispensable.
But not so Mr. Punshon, A few notes
on some small cards held in the hand,
were all the prompting he required to yo
through his magniticent address. He toid
that old story of persecution with an in-
spiring eloquence, that made men hold
their breath while they listened, or burst
forth into a tempest of applause.” Such
amazing talents have, however, produced
in the mind of their possessor nothing,
save an carnest disposition to use them
tor the good of his fellow men. As an
instance, he offered the Wesleyan Con-
ference in England te raise witsin a
given time, by public lecturing, the sum
of ten thousand pounds in aid of poor
churches under their care, The oller
was accepted, and the work hus lately
been accomplished.

In physical powers, Mr. Punshon pos-
sessces, for speaking, certain advantages
and disadvantages, About five tect ten
inches in height, he inclines to corpu-
leney, and hus a commanding presence,
His voice, however, is somewhat husky,
and not over prepossessing.

Such is the man whom the great En-
glish public have delighted to honor, and
Whose presence they have consented for
a few months to forego, in order that
America may profit by it. Asa parting
testimonial of his great labors, and the
affection in which he is held by all

ciation, on the Immortal Dreamer, John |

Friday last, an examination of the pupils re-
peelving Metruction at the Chariottetown
| Academy in several branclies of female edu-
jeation, such as Music, French History, Geog-
raphy, use of the Globes, Algebra, “Botany,
ke. ‘Phe young ladies answered reiurkubly
well, and seemed 10 understand what they
had been taught. Some gentlemen present
asked several questions, which were immedi-
ately and correctly answered. After the ex-
amination, several appropriate prizes were
| given to the pupils, and the parents present
jseemed well pleased with the proficiency of
| their children. Suchan institution deserves
encourugement.— Com. to Jat,

We understand that Mr. Wallnce McLeod
thas been appointed to fill the vacancy in’ the
Post Office nade by the death of Mr. Byrne.
As Mr. McLeod has proved binself to be an
efficient, attentive and obiiging official, and
us we deem it both just anu politic to reward
merit, we think that the Government have
done pertocdy right in appointing bin to. fill
the Vucunt post. Mr, MeDonald, his sueces-
sor, youny min of promise and bids fair
to make a good ofticer.— Arr,

Mone Istanpers Abroap.—By British
pipers: recently received, we observe the
name ot Mr. L. G. MeNeill, of Cavendish, P.

Islind, among those students on whoni the
ree of M, A, was conferred by the Senatus
Academicus, of the University uf Adinburgh.
Mr. McNeill also obtained a Medal for niathe=
Wiaties, and prizes in each of his classes. of
Moral and Natural Vhilosoply. Mr. D. Ul.
Cogswell, of Georgetown, has likewise taken

4 prize for an essay on English Literature, at
the above University.-—//az,

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SHIP NEWS.

_ The Brig “ Volant,” Finlayson, master, ar-
rived at the port of Charlottetown on the 17th
inst, 89 days trom Glasgow, with a general
cargo tor Messrs. Owen ind Welsh,

i Lhe Bark © Undine,” Durie taster, arrived
in Charlottetown on ‘L hursday last, trom Liv-
erpool, with a general cargo for Jd. OC, Vope
and others,
The Bark Constance,” » master,
from Liverpool, with Goods to. Messrs. Dun-
can & Co, and others, arrived in Charlutte-
town on Briday morning last.

artied, |

At the residence of the bride's father, at
Middleton, on Thursday, the Ylast inst., by
Jolin Wright, Eeq., J. ., Mr. Wallace John
Bradshaw, of Fuiton, Oswego County, N.Y.
to Klizabeth, youngest daughter of Job
Wright, Eeq.
On the 19th instant, by the Rey. J: Davis,
Mr Donald G. McPhee, of West River, to
Miss Cuilerine McDonald, of French Fort.

‘ i

Churches in England, a salver with seven

hundred guineas was presented to him!
1

At Douglastown, on the 20vd Aptil, Michael

MeKuy, aged 68 years, a native of P. 1. Isl.