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Arrival of the ‘ Australasian. |
(From Wilmer & Smiths European Times.)
NOVA SCOTIA.
The question before the people of this
countay is, whether the Nova Scotians ever
really bad the Confederation scheme before
them? The arrangement of 1863 had been
fairly and full: by them as one
that was to laSt until the commercial rela-
tions of the provinces were agreed upon.
This is beyond dispute; nor was it till
1866 that oplé ot the colony became
aware of the scheme which was then on
foot, They then discovered that some of
their representatives formed part of a de-
putation which had proceeded to London
t arrange a project of general confedera-
tion, and immediately 9 petition against it
was got up for presentation to the House
of Commons, which raccived over 30,000
signatmies, .All ithe petitioners asked for
was delay. Whey said, ** let the matter be
tested by @ genéral election before you
‘come to a decision.” The request was not
Sompted with. The elections in Nova
Scotia took piace, and the result was most
decisive, hardly a member in favor of con-
federation being returned, The celrgsice
declare that Nova Scotia has been thrust
nst her will into a ‘perilous association
with 9 few millions of people who offer no
mankets for their productions, who have
no capital to spa:e, and who have a long
defenceless frontier, without a war ship
on the ocean, or an arsenal on the sea-
board.” ‘The delegates, haying been re-
ulsed at home, turn to the Uuited States.
Taioa with the Great Republic ‘ would
open to the Nova Scotians a career, and
ensure them adequate protection by land
and sea forever,” the heavy taxation they
would be called upon to endure being con-
sidered as only a temporary evil. ‘Chey
have still a hope in the ‘sturdy love of
English fairplay” that their appeal to the
nation will answered, Untortunately
at home we are just now so much engross-
ed, and likely to be for some time, in our
own affairs, that colonial subjects are hard-
ly likely to receive that attention they de-
serve. The coming election and the Irish
€hureh will be thought far more important
than the ible severance of a fine pro-
vince with a population of half a million
hardy and intelligent people.
The Princess of Wales gave birth to a
daughter on the morning of the Sth July,
and the bulletins issued report favorably
of her progress. The Queen visited her
Royal Highness daring the day. The fa-
mily of the Prince of Wales now consists
of four children, two sons and two daugh-
ters. It is stated that shortly after the
prorogation of Parliament her Majesty will
visit Switzerland, travelling incognito.
The statement that Sir Robert Napier is
to be raised to the Peerage has been offi-
cially confirmed, and his elevation was
zetted on the 14th. His title will be
aron Napier of Magdala, Sir Robert
Napier, in replying to his health, referred
to the period,40 years ago, when he landed
in Calcutta a second lieutenant of the En-
gineers, “‘ without a connection in the
country but my contemporarivs.’ Hecon-
sidered the Abyssinian campaign was an
‘assurance of the amalgamation of the In-
dian and English services. It was with
seks! pride he retlected that the reward
e received at the hands of the Goyern-
ment was given to the first English soldics
who from a simple lieutenant, with noth-
ing but his name to begin with, has won
the honour which has been so generously
conferred upon him by his Sovereign,
A grand tete was ie at the Crystal
Palace on the 4th in honor of the Duke ot
Edinburgh. His Royal Highnese was ac-
companied by the Prince of Wales, and re-
eeived a pertect ovation from 30,000 per.
sous who visited the Palace on the occasion,
A bull fight has recently taken place at
Havre, under the sanction of the French
Governnient, and attended by the French
aed The novel sight attracted about
(000 persons, who went Pain rather dis-
rs AR Beary as no one was killed, and no
ood of any consequence was shed, be-
cause the bulls tought with their horns
covered,
Gyeat agitation prevails in Spain in con-
sequence of the discovery of a military
conspiracy of a serious character. Several
nerals have been arrested, includin
arshal Serrano and Generals Dulce an
Zabala, who have at times played a con-
spicvous part in Spanish nolitice. The
ministerial journal of Madrid announces
that the Queen, by the advice of the Gov-
ernment, had requested the Duke and
Duchess of Montpensier to quit the coun-
try. The news reeeived in Paris that dis-
turbances had broken out at Valencia and
Bareclona has not been, as yet, confirmed.
Agitation is atso stated to exist in Portugal.
On an appeal to the House of Lords, in
the caso of Muleany, an Irish Fenian,
against a judgment of the Court of Queen's
piel their lordships confirmed conyie-
tion.
The Urgent, bringiug the son of the late
King Theodore, arrived at Plymouth from
Alexandria on the 14th, The young prin-
ce, who is described as a bright inte ligent
boy of seven years of age, visited the
naval commander-in-chiet at Devonport,
and was taken to sce various places in the
neighbourhood. He proceeded to Ports-
mouth en route to Osborne.
Tn the House of Lords on tho 13th inst.
the royal assent was given by commission
to a number of bills, including the Scotch
eH Tish Reform Bills and the Boundery
In the House Commons, on the 13th,
thero was along acd rather warm debate
upon the merits of our iron-clad fleet, when
the battle of turrets against broadsides
was fonght over and over aguin. Captain
McKinnon charged the A mirality with
“criminal blundering,” and Mr. Steeley
followed with an elaborate attack on the
present constitution of tho Board, and
asked for a scientific inquiry into the prin-
ciples which should govern for the future
the construction of men-of-war,
Tho Irish Roman Catholic bishops have
replied to ord Mayo’s last letter. ‘They
persist in repudiating the responsibility of
breaking off the negotiations with refer-
ence to the churter for a Catholic univer-
sity, and insinuate that the Government
withdrew from the correspondence direct-
ly they found that tho proposed arrango-
ment would not lead to the fulfilment of
their views regarding political affairs,
The usual Orange moeotings came off at
several places in Ireland on the 1th. One
of the largest was at Newtownards, about
10,000 being present, where the Party Pro-
vessions Act was chiefly condemned, Un
the 14th an affray took place at Monaghan
between Orangemen and Roman Cathaties.
The former were proceeding through the
town with fites amd drams, when they were
attacked by a Roman Catholic mot, and
a general fight onsued. ‘The Riot Act was
read before the assemblage disyersed,
Some disturbances also took place at Do-
negal and Londonderry, but nothing of n
serious character.
sure of L'Allegro and Penseroso.
The National Rifle Association have held
their annual meeting at Wimbledon this
week. The heat qnd absence of rain have
had such an effect on the common, that a
large space in the neighborhood of the
ammunition shed caught fire on Wednes-
day, and was not extinguished for some
time, On the same day at Nottingham the
temperatore in the shade reached 93 de-
rees, and in the aun 106, which, accord-
fig to Mr. Lowe, is higher than in any
summer for twenty-six years,
The Paris Moniteur has published the
concession to Baron Erlanger and Mr.
Reuter for the construction of a submarine
cable between the United States and
France. The contractors are to enjoy a
monopoly for 20 years, and the cable must
be finished betore September, 1869, unless
circumstances beyond control prevent the
completion of the work. The Moniteur
also publishes a deeree *‘ authorising the
importation and exportation” of corn and
flour throughout France.
The recent marriage of Menotti Gari-
baldi at Bologna has awakened the enthu-
siasm of the people of that city. Crowds
eame forth to cheer the young people, ad-
dresses were presented to them, and when
they visited the theatre ‘*Garibaldi’s Hymn’
was called for and given several times,
followed by cheers for the hero of Caprera,
who was unable to be present, owing to
ill-health, for Rome, for Italy, and for the
newly married pair, Menotti has proceed-
ed to visit his tather,
Prince Karageorgewich, who is : ccused
of complicity in the late assassination of
Prince Michael, of Seryia, has been sum-
moned to appear before the Court of Jus-
tice at Belgrade, in order that ho may be
tried on this charge.
The Parliament now sitting is actively
engaged in hastening its own dissolution,
aad wha ten days an era in the political
life of England which commenced in 1832
will have closed, and a new one will have
commenced. For those gentlemen who
aspire to seats in the new House of Com-
mons, the prospect ot four months’ can-
vassing and no autumn holiday is not a
pleasant one. But the new arbiter of the
empire—the houscholder—will require as-
siduous court paying to him; aad, with a
few fortunate exceptions, those who are
ambitious of senatorial honors will have to
sacrifice their leisure for the purpose of
doing so. ‘The preparations for the great
battle which is to determine the future of
the country are begun in right earnest.
Everywhere the constituencies are select-
ing their leaders, and the number of con-
tests is likely to be so great, that such a
stand-up figut as promises to take placein
November next has not been witnessed by
the present generation, _
Frionrrut Famine 1X Morocco,—The
Constitutionel contains a distressing account
of the famine in Moroeco, which is spread-
ing the most disastrous effects amongst
the Mussulman populations. The harvest
has been a total failure, and for such grain
as can be imported enormous prices are
demanded. ‘The situation is described as
worse than that of Algeria. Numbers of
persons are constantly dying ef huuger.
‘The roads are covered every morning with
the dying and the dead. The rich are
powerless to save these poor creatures;
and the number of those who have perish-
ed, either of hunger or the epidemic, is es-
timated at one-fourth of the entire popula-
lation, ‘*Itis not, as will be seen,” says
the Constitulionel, ** Alg ria alone which
has just passed through a deplorable crisis,
In Tunis, as in Morocco, the populations.
ravaged with cholera, ruined by invasions
of locusts such us were never belore scen
in the memory of man, and suffering two
years of drought, have, in the summer of
1868, been plunged into the deepest sul-
fering. Fortunately, in Algerian a good
harvest has repaired, so tar as it was pos-
sible, the losses experienced by those tribes,
and the wants of the coming winter may
be met by the provisions made for giving
employment, by the exercise of charity,
and various kinds of assistance judiciously
rendered.
A Madhid advice of July 10 states that
cholera has appvared in Luroche, Morocco.
NEW DOMINION.
Several officers of the army, of a religious
turn of mind, have recently been in the habit
of spending a considerable portion of their
leisure hours in street preaching and other
public religious exercises. ‘This practice ap-
pears to have giving offence to some pro-
minent parties, by whom the attention of the
Horse Guards was called to the matter, and
it is now stated that an order has been issued
prohibiting officers in Her Majesty’s services
from preaching or otherwise exercising cleri-
eal functious, We can hardly believe that
the military authorities have done any such
improper thing, and we are sure Hor Majesty
the Queen will never give her sanction to
such an orcer. If an oftiver sees fitto spend
a portion of his time in trying to improve the
morals of his fellow creatures, he is deserving
of praise rather than blame, It is surely
inuch better that he should do this than that
he should waste his time, and bring disgrace
upon himself and his uniform, by indulging
in habits of dissipation and debauchery.
Lord Adelbert Cecil, of the Rifle Brigade, has
done much good in Ottawa and other places
by preaceing in the strects, and his good ex-
ample has had a strikingly beneficial effect
on ujs men, The only desire of such men is
to do good, and an order prohibiting them
from preaching could only have the effect cf
driving them from the service.— Toronto Pa,
ConrepEration Leacur 1x Van Cov-
ver's IsLanp.—A mecting was held lately
in Smith's Hall, Government-st., to organ-
ize an association to secure the immediate
admission of British Columbia into the
Dominion of Canada on terms equitable
and expedient, and also to obtain, without
delay, representative institutions with Re-
sponsible Government. The meeting was
very unanimous and enthusiastic, and con-
eluded with three cheers for Confederation
and three lor the Queen,
Shipments to and from Canada can now
be made without delays hitherto incident
to the system requiring a thorough exam-
ination of the cargoes by the custom house
oflicers on the lines, “Lhe Secretary of
the Treasury has issued a cireular of regu-
lation under which cars loaded in Canada
and sealed by the United States Consul or
commercial agent at the point of shipment
may be run through to the seaboard cities
without giving transportation bonds, A
similar regalation controls shipments to
Canada .—Lhiladelphia Ledger.
The crops in Lower Canada do not promise
well, The Montreal News says that the hay
had the benefit of copious rains in the spring—
hence it acquired strength and resisted the in-
fluence of the draught;—but late sown grain
willprove a miserable failure. In many cases
the termers will be lucky if they recover tho
seed put into the ground. There are some
instances in which crops are sown atthe end
of May and the first week in June, where they
are uot six inches npove the ground, although
The Pall Mall Gazztte of the 18th ult. says:
“It is understood that the Loan for the Inter-
colonial Rails ay of the Dominion of Canada
will be announced on Monday by Messrs.
Baring and Messrs. Glyn. It is to bo for
£4000,000, of which £3,000,000 will bear in-
terest at the rate of 4 per cent., guaranteed by
the Imperial Government, while the remaining
£1,000,000 will be raised exclusively on the
credit of the united colonies, and will bear 5
percent. In the first instance only half of
tho total £4,000.000 will be put forth—namely,
&1,600,000 of the guaranteed bonds, and
£570,000 of the Canadian,”
UNITED STATES.
In New York on Tuesday there were eight
cases of sunstroke reported, and forty-two
deaths from that cause, The N.Y. World says:
“Nurses and doctors did a thriving trade
yesterday, and from early noon until the sun-
set paled its golden fire, thy paupers on the
Islands in the river, fumed, cursed, and mop-
ped themselves frantically. All along the
docks stevedors lay panting on bales of cot-
ton, and bent their bodies over casks of rum
and sugar, vainly ex.deayoring to get a breath
of air, and coasting schooners, and the huge
hulks of ocean steamers and emigrantvessels,
lay with their keels secthing in the water,
Down at the castle garden the emigrants
huddled in bulk, some with their hair frowzy
and unkept, and their faces flushed and flamed
with a heat and torridness never before by
them experienced. Porters Loisting heavy
packages of goods up high hatchways, dropped
down stricken with a sudden fear, thinking of
tho little ones at home depending on their
sinewy arms for bread, and were carried away
never to be heard of again without sorrow and
tears in this life, All this time the sun pour-
ed down like molten lead on the beads and
through the brains of thousands who were
anxious to flee from the hot wrath but could
not. Chiefly did those suffer who had notac-
climated themselves to our heated summer—
the wanderer from Norway, Sweden, from the
cantons of the Alps, from the Vosges, from
Styria and Dalmatia, from where the Adriatic
flows in ceaseless song; from Baltic and
Khine, from Berlin and Vienna, Dublin and
Manchester, and the isle of Western Europe,
seckers after fortune, who will never more in
this life encounter the fickle Goddess.”
Baron Cuvier states that if the progeny of a
pair of herrings went on increasing and 1mul-
tiplying without molestation or destruction of
the ava, in twenty years it would require all
the seas in the world to contain the herrings
that would result. If only half the spawn
came to life, and half the young fish lived, a
boat could not move in the sea.
There is a Yankee in Springfield who rides
a great deal in the omnivus, and always sits
near the forward end. so as to pass up the fare
of his fellow passengers. Each one gives
him, naturally, a ten cent piece; but he gives
the driver instead a ticket, which, as he buys
them in quantities, costs him but nine cents.
Hence profit, and in the future, itis to be pre-
sumed, enormous wealth.
Tt is supposed that on July 4, 1869, passen-
gers will be able to travel by continuous rail
aeross the continent, from San Francisco to
Boston. ‘The two great companies have sur-
mounted the greatest difficulties which are to
be encountered in their respective lines. Each
has passed the summit of the highest inter-
vening mountain range, and is now on the
home stretch.
The Daily Palladium says truly: It is am-
using at times to observe the stories of the
merchants who don't advertise; to see the
anxious proprietors looking into the streets
and see the people go by, wondering why they
don’t conre In, while the stores of their noigh.
bors who do advertise are thronged with cus-
tomers. Some people will learn by ebserva-
tion, others will not. :
There are now 41,000 officials required by
the executive department of the United States
alone to execute acts of Congress, whose age
gregate siluries amount to over thirty-one
million dollars.
Tenuivory acquirep wirnovr run:
cuaseé.—The United States has taken pos-
session ot two small uninhabited islands
in tho Pacific Ocean, about hait way trom
the Sandwich Islands to Japan. ‘This 18
the first acquisition of territory ever made
by our governmentin this manner, ‘The
islands are near together, and each is
about a mile anda half long, by three
quarters of a mile wide, They are tu be
Known asthe Midway Islands.—Am paper
Very Latest Telegrams.
Madrid, July 30.
The Queen refuses to accept of the resig-
nation ot Admiral Muriz, Commander of
the Spanish fleet in America waters.
London, July 29,
The reports are confirmed that peace
has been concluded by Russia with Bok-
hara,
Prince Napoleon has returned to Paris
frem his tour in the East.
A naturalization treaty bas been conclu-
ded between the Grand Dueal Govern-
ment of Llesso and the United States,
A despatch from Belgrade says the assas-
sins of Archduke Michael haye been shot.
London, July 29,
The usual Banquet given on the con-
clusion of the Session ‘of Parliment to the
Ministers occured this evening, Mr, Dis-
raeli in the course of his reniarks, touched
upon the relations existing between Great
Britain and the United States. He said
for Rowdies,” in his paper of the Ist inst.,
has thought fit to make use of the following
language towards the Magistrates of Summer-
side :—
*'Is not this a pretty state of affairs? Does it
not reflect credit upon the leading men of
the town? What kind of magistrates have
we, that they will not, in fulfillment of their
oath, interfere und use ordinary endeavors
t
are
“blundering and incapable”?
If the editor of the Progress must have men
for magistrates who are not afraid of doing
heir duty, let him make outa listund forward
it to the Executive, who no doubt will do right
in the matter,
Asking your insertion of the eee
Iam, &c., M.N,
Summerside, August 5, 1868.
to maintsin the public peace?
“The fact is our magistrates arc a set of im-
beciles, no more fitted for the office they
hold than go many timid women, We have
known recent instances where magistrates
have been called upon to have rowdics ar-
rested, and actually refused or evaded their
duty, much to the disgust of the order-lov-
ing citizens who made the request. We
think the best thing these magistrates can
do is to resign, pro bono publico: for, what
with the affliction of blunderingand incapable
representatives in the House of Assembly,
and the want of some kind of muncipal reg-
ulations, or the powor of making such,
which throw the whole burthen of presery-
ing the peace upon the J, P.’s, we must have
men for magistrates who are not afraid of
doing their duty.”
This wholesale charge by the editor of the
Progress on the magistrotes and representa-
tives of Summerside, is mixed up with an ac-
count of rioting and fighting by a gang of
rowdies at Summerside, on the night _of the
Catholic Tea—and a strange charge it is—
more audacious and more uncalled for than
anything that has yet appeared in an Island} |
newspaper.—The Palladium, in the days of
fierce controversy, nevor made so sweeping, |
so broadcast an onslaught on any body of men,
Surely the editor of the ’rogress must have
forgotten himself, and only that his paper goes
far and wide, and might have an injurious ef-
fect on the interests and good name of Sum-
merside, it would not be worth noticing, Let
us see who the magistrates are—let us look at
them and judge if they ‘tare imbeciles, no
more fitted for the office than so many timid
munications.
addresses of our correspondents as a guaranty
of their good faith.
return communications that are not used,
Summerside Journal. —
THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1868,
No notice can be taken ot anonymous com-
We must know the names and
We cannot undertake to
PRINOE COUNTY INDUSTRIAL EX-
HIBITION.
One of the most remarkable features
of modern industry and civilization is the
series of Exhibitions—world-comprising,
National and Provincial—which has fol-
lowed the great Hyde Park Pair of 1851.
That waa the preparatory key note of the
harmony of peace and music of prosperity,
which shall reverberate through the Mil-
enium, when * swords shall be beaten into
plough shares and spears into pruning
nooks,’ (What Armstrong guns and
Snider rifles shall be beaten into, remains
to be seen.)
ed inthe track opened up by England;
and last year the most magnificent gather-
ing together of the Arts and Scierces
that the world has ever seen, took place
in la belle France,
‘The Ucited States follow-
Not so grand, but,
women” :—
Harny C. Green,
Wittirax Brainsro,
J. R. Garpinen,
E, L. Lrpiarp,
James Mummmeap,
Joun Lurvunoy,
Contin McLennan,
James CAMPBELL,
James L. Houman,
Cuanres Green,
Anous McMiniay,
Davw Rocrr:,
Why, Mr. Editor, an euology could be writ-
ten on each, but take them as a body, in what
part of P. KB. Island can you find men more |
respectable, more intelligent, 1
more firm and more humane
are they? and timid women
one of them is fit to head a regiment, and
some ofthem have been in situations where
men’s souls ave tried,” and came off victori-
ous.—' Not fitted for the office’! Will the
editor of the Zvogress please teach them and
tell them of the fitness they require? If they
act contrary to law, and the Kditor will put
them right, they will no doubt be thankful.
Does he expect these magistrates, each one
fram daylight till dark at his post, sober and
industrious, toiling to support his family, and
at the same time contributing to the prosperity
sand advancement of Summerside ?— does the
editor of the ’rogress expect them to be out
all night on the streets in search of “rowdies" ?
The editor of the Progress says they will
not m:intain the public peace. Can any in-
stance be nimed where a well-grounded com-
plaint has been laid before any one of the
‘nagistrates that he lias not acted upon it, and
full imp irtial justice, tempered with mercy
promptly administered, or any rioting seen,
that has not to the utmost been put down,
The Editor says a magistrate refused to
give a warrant of commitment because Con-
stable Gay could not give theirnames. Well,
perhaps the magistrate was right. Could he
be expected to turn out of his bed when he
believed there was fault on both sides? Why
did not Mr. Gay lodge a proper complaint
next morning ?—he did nothing of the kind.
In regard to another direct charge of the
Progress, when magistrates “refused or evae
ded their duty,” &¢. He likely means what
occurred on the evening of the tea party day,
when one Smith was said to be threatening
and abusing a countryman, and wanting to
fight—a magistrate walked up as requested,
saw Smith walking away, and back down the
street again, No blow had been struck; all
was quict and serene; no complaint was made
by the countryman, and the Uhigistrate de-
clined yielding to popular clamor to send
Smith off two miles to jail. Another man,
seated in a wagon opposite one of the hotels,
was very noisy. but soon left for his home
some two miles off. At ten o'clock at night
the streets of Summerside were calm and still,
tt was a day of great rejoicing—the young
men and maidens, strong and beautiful, had
loft their farms and spinning wheels, and in
coaches and truck waggons came pouring
into the tea party, English, Irish, Scotch and
French, from all_parte-of-the country mingled
in the greatest pleasantry and good humour;
and round the yrounds, at the sumptuous tea-
tables surrounded by bewitching ladies, at the
swings, at the dance below to the bagpipes
and over head to the violins, all were happy
—happy that their crops promised so well,
happy that the day was lovely, happy as they
met each other in the reel and jig, and happy
as they looked to the future.—‘Tom Thumb,
too, and Commodore Nutt had arrived at the
wharf, and with their ladies magnificently
dressed with waterfalls sparkling with dia-
monds, had just received the first enthusiastic
greetings of the people of Prince Edward Is-
land. Surely on such a gala day the editor of
with regard to the misunderstanding?
which have been so much dwelt on by the
United States, every day leads to a better
feeling upon them; and ho expressed the
opinion that their solution was near at
hand, the r.sultis only what can be ex-
pected from the natural good sense and
feeling of two great and kindred nations,
The Emperor Alexander has called a
conterence of 13 members, to meet on the
18th of August next, at St. Petersbur. h,
for the purpose of a:ranging the detailes
of an International Convention, pledging
all the great Powers to abandon the use
of explosive bullets in time of war,
London, Aug 3,
A dredful accident occured in Mauchest-
eron Saturday wight, During the regular
performance at Lang's Musie Hall, an
alarm of fire was raised when the entire
audience immeditaly rushed for the doors,
completely blocking up the passageway,
The wildest excitement prevailed, and
when at last order by tho repeated an-
nouncement that there was no fire, it was
found that no Jess 23 persons, mainly
woman ani children, had been crushed to
death in the stampede, and ala ge numder
of persons had limbs broken and were
otherwise Injured,
Now York, Aug, 3,
Advices trom St. Domingo state that
1500 of President Baez's troops were
badly beaten by the revolutionists, and
their commander Gen. Brigham, killed.
The reported English loan is a myth.
Ottawa, Aug. 3.
The different insurance companies have
deposited about one million dollars in
cash, one million in Canadian and British
suritios, and three-quarters of a million in
United States Securities, in the ‘Treasury.
Gold 145 LS.
the Progress would not like to see any one
cent off to prison,
At Somerset Tea Party they fought as only
Irishmen can fight, notwithstanding a new
Court and u new batch of J. P.'e have there
been recently appointed. At Tignish ‘Tea
Party it is said they runght until the vanquish-
ed were driven into the se., all the endeavors
of the Clergy, Sheriff and Justices to stop the
contending factions being of no avail; and at
Summerside, the place where the editor of
the Progress makeg out is worse than the
town on the Mississippi, where the man was
‘‘chawed up,” not one blow was struck until
the riot he tells us of took placo at eleven
o'clock at night. How is it the Mississippi
authorities and the magistrates or police of
thiy Mississivpi town, allowed that poor man
to be “ chawed up"?
The editor of the Progress may rest assured
that the prosperity and the welfare of Sum-
merside are of paramount interest to the
inagistrates, and that they will never allow
their town, where they expect to spend their
days, to be what he says it is—* A Paradise
for Rowdies,” Rowdyism may triumph for a
night, but retribution’ will certainly follow,
It ill-becomes the Progress thus to hold men
up to ridicule, who, some of them, have laid
the corner stones of Summerside, and are still
laboring away for its advancement, Rather
let the Progress cheer them on and lend a
hand for the attainment ot those objects, that
from time to time will be needed, Have not
the magistrates the safety and comfort of the
people and of the town at heart, as mach as
has the editur of the Progress, and if minor
differences of opinion on Police, &¢., should
exist, there surely need be no occasion for
invective.
The Editor complains of the * affliction and
blundering of incapable Representatives in the
House of Assembly.” ‘This is a moat uncalled
for and ungentlemanly charge, Surely the
people who have elected the Represensatives
to Parliament are the best Judges in the mat-
t
ter, The present Members had servod their
9)
gathering as Summersi
their healthy dames,
ters shall gather on
September,
INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION. So mote it be,
has been very warm,
dry calm weather will
perhaps, scarce less productive of good,
and stimulating to enterprise, have been
those smaller Agricultural and Scientitic
Re-unions, springing up since in, Siates
and Provinces. By means of these, local
interests have been advanced, and a
healthy ambition among all producing
classes has been fostered. It is one of
the signs of the times that, amid the
clash of arms, ine interest of Military and
Voluvtecr Reviews, and the time and
brain engrossing experiments with pro-
jectiles and tortifications, the voice otf
peaceful industry and invention has made
itself so distinctly heard, that science,
lite preserving and gentle, has ranged up
in public estimation close alongside of
science deadly and destructive, We trust
that the years to come, though perhaps
yeta long way off, will witness the latter
completely distanced by the former,
Our own Island has not forgotten its
duty to itself in this department of enter-
prise, and year after year have prizes been
offered to its competing producers, ‘Chose
prizes have certainly not been large, yet
they have served, not so much by their
intrinsic worth as by the credit of their
reception, to stimulate care.
ofthe thriftiness of our Island Farmers,
8o apparent to, and remarked by stran-
gers, is due to the influence of our An-
nual Fairs, cannot be estimated. ‘hough
the number of persons tuking part in
How much
those Fairs may beara small proportion
to the entire farming and manufacturing
community, yet the influence and exam-
ple ofthe ambitious ones have affected
their neighbors, just as one ripple on the
water creates another,
We are very much pleased to sce that
our Government has, this year, takén a
step in advance, inasmuch as prizes are
offered and other preparations made for
a County Exhibition. For Prince County
this will be held in Summerside, on the
80th day of September, as advertised in
our present issue,
attention of our Farmers to the list of
We ask the especial
Animals and articles for which prizes
will be given. Other Counties to whom
the same opportunity is given will be
coming forward arrayed in their bet
dress, and we should well like to sce
Prince County not a whit behind. What
do our Western men say? In the mat-
ter of horses and cattle, we ought to rank
A. 1 with any other portion of the Island,
Where are ** those horses?” In Horti-
culture, perhaps, we shall not stand the
same chance as Queen's County, with its
time-and-leisure amateur gardeners, In
Grain, Butter and Cheese, Yoxtile Mab.
riés in wool, an? Knit Goods, we ought
marries = = memes - ton a
* 4 ;| country for four years in a former House, so “a Several persons have asked yg .
[ Yr ' Henky Morley anagances the grall is Basding o fact, meataring capt: COBRRESPONDENG® much o the general hart eo hol ie we did not publish the report of the ne
rofessor Lle A eso stunted that, cut it) ~~ nn ~~ last olection tay were both re-elected. baa a ramet i
ra fiton’ Peoe ieee i rg to os \eewea Sey ses the owners can gather no To Tue Eprror of THE JOURNAL, the editor of the Progress says they are “blun- ae of Desc i hace oi
volume of Milton's Poems belong “7 “4 straw. * Whatis to become of eattie vext Stes dering and incapable.” Is it because they are Pawson and of 7 o-
the British Museum, he claims to have winter with a deficiency of forage?’ is the ‘ f the S erside Progress, in| don’t do as he wishes in opposition to the ex-/| that we did intend doing so Lad the case
found a new poe by Mikon Bicol, ode question which farmers are asking each other. Eitan kepeenntcye Baniensiie a Paradise desire of their constituents, that they) been gone through, but when the Com
titled ** An Epitaph,” in the familiar mea- : .
adjourned we thought it unfair to
the complaint without giving any of the
defence, We purpose in January, when
the Court meets, to have the trial report.
ed for the Journal.
Ey The Crops to the Westward look
well and encouraging, and we were in.
formed that, notwithstanding the cry out
in the spring about the scarcity of seed
grain, there is more sown than ever bes
fore. We saw some splendid fields of
hay as we passed through Montrose, The
effects of the mussel mud are easily seen
whereever it has been applied to the land,
The wheat crop is splendid, and if i¢ es,
capes the weevil will be an abundant
harvest. The oats are short, in general,
but the root crops are good. We may
yet hope to see the day when our Farm.
ers will not need to purchase ftour,
tay” The Industrial Exhibition {
Queen's County, is advertised to be held
in Charlottetown, on Tuesday and Wed.
nesday, the 29th and 30th of September,
The Exhibition in King’s County will be
held at Georgetown, on the same days,
We had prepared a notice of the Tem.
perance Convention and a synopsis of the
speeches at the publie meeting, for this
days paper, butwe are obliged to lay i:
aside till next week,
Bive
The Road Commissioner for this Dj,
trict is doing some good work this gum.
mer, ‘Lhe streets in different parts of
the Town have been much improved, and
several bridges built at many of the cross.
ings. An excellent piece of road is also
being Sujit near Mr. Green’s mill, and
another piece near Mr. Thomas Cairns,
When these jobs are completed the tra.
velling public will have a good road to
come into Summerside both ways. It jx
fue to our Representatives to state thot
to them ure the public indebted for ob.
taining the money which has been ex.
pended in improving those roads,
The Fire Wardens seem determined ¥
to d> their duty. They have inspected
the different dwellings and compelled all
houscholders to furnish ladders and fire
buckets. They have also issucd tenders
for sinking several more wells. The fire
engine is ina good state, and they have
ordered, we are informed, two or three
large water casks. When these arrange-
ments have been completed, the ‘Town
will be pretty well provided for in caso
of fire. It is well we have some men
among us who are competent to hold offi-
ce and discharge their duty.
If the ire Wardens have the power
to compel parties to emove nuisances,
we direct their attention toa heap of
stone and rubbish on the street opposite
to the Drill Shed Square.
We learn that the amount realized at
the Catholic Tea on the 29th was £120,
The Steamer had on board on Tuesday
night last, 23 horses, part from here and
part from Charlottotown. She had also
upwards of 50 men going to work on tho
railroad in New Brunswick. Judging
from the language and conduct of these
men, we should say that Charlottetown
has got rid ot that number of drunkea
rowdies,
The adjourned Parliament of Nova
Scotia meets to-day. Some warm deba-
ting will no doubt take place on the re-
port ofthe delegates and their protest.
Sir George Cartier and the Hon. Mr.
McDougallare now in Halifax.
Messrs. Beer & Sons have raised a
large lot of winter wheat, and will have
it on sale in time for the fall sowing. We
would like tosee it exhibited at our forth-
coming Exhibition.
The fish, we are informed, are very
plenty this season. While at Mimine-
gash the other day, we visited the fishing
station of Mr. Matheson. A large num-
ber of men were employed, and a quantity
of beautiful codfish had been taken and
were nicely cured. The mackarel had
just come, but not many were taken. Mr.
Matheson has a trap set about a half mile
from the shore, made of seine, and 89
constructed that the fish when once in can
not get out. He has taken lots of fish
in it, and among others some beautiful
to do well, ~Bedeque and Tryon, where
are you? Cascumpee, look alive!
Now as regards the profit. This is
emphatically an age of scrutiny and criti-
cism. First class in material or work-
manship, whoever he may be, tikes the
first position, and makes most money.
“What's in a name” may be a good deal,
but what's in the stuff is a great deal
more. Now in case of a Free ‘Trade
‘Treaty with the States, or improved re-
lations with the Dominion, excellence in
all products exported, and foreign reli-
ance on Island traders, will be found to
pay well. No more certain and substan-
tial foundations of commerce can be laid.
Neither can anything be conceived more
calculated to promote lasting intercourse,
and prevent the operations of trade being
at the mere caprice of rulers, than the
fact that by the superiority of our pro-
ductions we can render our commerce a
necessity to other nations, All this lies
entirely in the hands of our people, and
we believe that the Island, atter its long
sleep, is waking up in earnest to the
knowledge of this fact. Let this year be
one of progress and advancement,
little more pride as regards the looks of
our houses—a little sore artistic skill in
the laying off of our fields—a little more
calculation of what will bring the bestre-
sults—a little more nrain any MUSSEL
MUD will achieve wonders in our Island,
We are confidently expecting also that
the best of effects, and as pleasant a
de has yet seen,
hergetic Farmers,
and smiling daugh.
Wednesday the 30th
at the First prince county
will result when our o
The weather during the past few days
We fear that this
be favorable for
he weevil to injure the wheat,
salmon,
=
A,
‘ <6 or Commence.—An adjourned
“ting of the Chamber of Commerce w#*
held in the Market Hall, on Monday night
last—Hon, D, Brenan, President, in the et
—to take into consideration the expediency
sending two Delegates to the Commercié
Convention to be holden at Portland on Tues
bead next, the 4th day of August. Consider
able discussion took place at the meeting
when it was decided to call a Public Meeting:
to be held on Wednesday evening following.
In the meantime a Committee appointed hed
to apply to the Executive for funds to gar
in defraying expenses of Delegates. At re
meeting on Ws dnesday evening, two por
gates—Frederick Brecken and W. lies
Keqrs.—were appointed to hed the
land ~snid Delegates leave this evening in
ot ust lahat Aare Jacgye Zarter
Prixcess, hy way of Shediac. — 4,
ee nn
A ENN CAE AT SEN
SUMMERSIDE JOURNAL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1868.
na
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Arrival of the ‘ Australasian. |
(From Wilmer & Smiths European Times.)
NOVA SCOTIA.
The question before the people of this
countay is, whether the Nova Scotians ever
really bad the Confederation scheme before
them? The arrangement of 1863 had been
fairly and full: by them as one
that was to laSt until the commercial rela-
tions of the provinces were agreed upon.
This is beyond dispute; nor was it till
1866 that oplé ot the colony became
aware of the scheme which was then on
foot, They then discovered that some of
their representatives formed part of a de-
putation which had proceeded to London
t arrange a project of general confedera-
tion, and immediately 9 petition against it
was got up for presentation to the House
of Commons, which raccived over 30,000
signatmies, .All ithe petitioners asked for
was delay. Whey said, ** let the matter be
tested by @ genéral election before you
‘come to a decision.” The request was not
Sompted with. The elections in Nova
Scotia took piace, and the result was most
decisive, hardly a member in favor of con-
federation being returned, The celrgsice
declare that Nova Scotia has been thrust
nst her will into a ‘perilous association
with 9 few millions of people who offer no
mankets for their productions, who have
no capital to spa:e, and who have a long
defenceless frontier, without a war ship
on the ocean, or an arsenal on the sea-
board.” ‘The delegates, haying been re-
ulsed at home, turn to the Uuited States.
Taioa with the Great Republic ‘ would
open to the Nova Scotians a career, and
ensure them adequate protection by land
and sea forever,” the heavy taxation they
would be called upon to endure being con-
sidered as only a temporary evil. ‘Chey
have still a hope in the ‘sturdy love of
English fairplay” that their appeal to the
nation will answered, Untortunately
at home we are just now so much engross-
ed, and likely to be for some time, in our
own affairs, that colonial subjects are hard-
ly likely to receive that attention they de-
serve. The coming election and the Irish
€hureh will be thought far more important
than the ible severance of a fine pro-
vince with a population of half a million
hardy and intelligent people.
The Princess of Wales gave birth to a
daughter on the morning of the Sth July,
and the bulletins issued report favorably
of her progress. The Queen visited her
Royal Highness daring the day. The fa-
mily of the Prince of Wales now consists
of four children, two sons and two daugh-
ters. It is stated that shortly after the
prorogation of Parliament her Majesty will
visit Switzerland, travelling incognito.
The statement that Sir Robert Napier is
to be raised to the Peerage has been offi-
cially confirmed, and his elevation was
zetted on the 14th. His title will be
aron Napier of Magdala, Sir Robert
Napier, in replying to his health, referred
to the period,40 years ago, when he landed
in Calcutta a second lieutenant of the En-
gineers, “‘ without a connection in the
country but my contemporarivs.’ Hecon-
sidered the Abyssinian campaign was an
‘assurance of the amalgamation of the In-
dian and English services. It was with
seks! pride he retlected that the reward
e received at the hands of the Goyern-
ment was given to the first English soldics
who from a simple lieutenant, with noth-
ing but his name to begin with, has won
the honour which has been so generously
conferred upon him by his Sovereign,
A grand tete was ie at the Crystal
Palace on the 4th in honor of the Duke ot
Edinburgh. His Royal Highnese was ac-
companied by the Prince of Wales, and re-
eeived a pertect ovation from 30,000 per.
sous who visited the Palace on the occasion,
A bull fight has recently taken place at
Havre, under the sanction of the French
Governnient, and attended by the French
aed The novel sight attracted about
(000 persons, who went Pain rather dis-
rs AR Beary as no one was killed, and no
ood of any consequence was shed, be-
cause the bulls tought with their horns
covered,
Gyeat agitation prevails in Spain in con-
sequence of the discovery of a military
conspiracy of a serious character. Several
nerals have been arrested, includin
arshal Serrano and Generals Dulce an
Zabala, who have at times played a con-
spicvous part in Spanish nolitice. The
ministerial journal of Madrid announces
that the Queen, by the advice of the Gov-
ernment, had requested the Duke and
Duchess of Montpensier to quit the coun-
try. The news reeeived in Paris that dis-
turbances had broken out at Valencia and
Bareclona has not been, as yet, confirmed.
Agitation is atso stated to exist in Portugal.
On an appeal to the House of Lords, in
the caso of Muleany, an Irish Fenian,
against a judgment of the Court of Queen's
piel their lordships confirmed conyie-
tion.
The Urgent, bringiug the son of the late
King Theodore, arrived at Plymouth from
Alexandria on the 14th, The young prin-
ce, who is described as a bright inte ligent
boy of seven years of age, visited the
naval commander-in-chiet at Devonport,
and was taken to sce various places in the
neighbourhood. He proceeded to Ports-
mouth en route to Osborne.
Tn the House of Lords on tho 13th inst.
the royal assent was given by commission
to a number of bills, including the Scotch
eH Tish Reform Bills and the Boundery
In the House Commons, on the 13th,
thero was along acd rather warm debate
upon the merits of our iron-clad fleet, when
the battle of turrets against broadsides
was fonght over and over aguin. Captain
McKinnon charged the A mirality with
“criminal blundering,” and Mr. Steeley
followed with an elaborate attack on the
present constitution of tho Board, and
asked for a scientific inquiry into the prin-
ciples which should govern for the future
the construction of men-of-war,
Tho Irish Roman Catholic bishops have
replied to ord Mayo’s last letter. ‘They
persist in repudiating the responsibility of
breaking off the negotiations with refer-
ence to the churter for a Catholic univer-
sity, and insinuate that the Government
withdrew from the correspondence direct-
ly they found that tho proposed arrango-
ment would not lead to the fulfilment of
their views regarding political affairs,
The usual Orange moeotings came off at
several places in Ireland on the 1th. One
of the largest was at Newtownards, about
10,000 being present, where the Party Pro-
vessions Act was chiefly condemned, Un
the 14th an affray took place at Monaghan
between Orangemen and Roman Cathaties.
The former were proceeding through the
town with fites amd drams, when they were
attacked by a Roman Catholic mot, and
a general fight onsued. ‘The Riot Act was
read before the assemblage disyersed,
Some disturbances also took place at Do-
negal and Londonderry, but nothing of n
serious character.
sure of L'Allegro and Penseroso.
The National Rifle Association have held
their annual meeting at Wimbledon this
week. The heat qnd absence of rain have
had such an effect on the common, that a
large space in the neighborhood of the
ammunition shed caught fire on Wednes-
day, and was not extinguished for some
time, On the same day at Nottingham the
temperatore in the shade reached 93 de-
rees, and in the aun 106, which, accord-
fig to Mr. Lowe, is higher than in any
summer for twenty-six years,
The Paris Moniteur has published the
concession to Baron Erlanger and Mr.
Reuter for the construction of a submarine
cable between the United States and
France. The contractors are to enjoy a
monopoly for 20 years, and the cable must
be finished betore September, 1869, unless
circumstances beyond control prevent the
completion of the work. The Moniteur
also publishes a deeree *‘ authorising the
importation and exportation” of corn and
flour throughout France.
The recent marriage of Menotti Gari-
baldi at Bologna has awakened the enthu-
siasm of the people of that city. Crowds
eame forth to cheer the young people, ad-
dresses were presented to them, and when
they visited the theatre ‘*Garibaldi’s Hymn’
was called for and given several times,
followed by cheers for the hero of Caprera,
who was unable to be present, owing to
ill-health, for Rome, for Italy, and for the
newly married pair, Menotti has proceed-
ed to visit his tather,
Prince Karageorgewich, who is : ccused
of complicity in the late assassination of
Prince Michael, of Seryia, has been sum-
moned to appear before the Court of Jus-
tice at Belgrade, in order that ho may be
tried on this charge.
The Parliament now sitting is actively
engaged in hastening its own dissolution,
aad wha ten days an era in the political
life of England which commenced in 1832
will have closed, and a new one will have
commenced. For those gentlemen who
aspire to seats in the new House of Com-
mons, the prospect ot four months’ can-
vassing and no autumn holiday is not a
pleasant one. But the new arbiter of the
empire—the houscholder—will require as-
siduous court paying to him; aad, with a
few fortunate exceptions, those who are
ambitious of senatorial honors will have to
sacrifice their leisure for the purpose of
doing so. ‘The preparations for the great
battle which is to determine the future of
the country are begun in right earnest.
Everywhere the constituencies are select-
ing their leaders, and the number of con-
tests is likely to be so great, that such a
stand-up figut as promises to take placein
November next has not been witnessed by
the present generation, _
Frionrrut Famine 1X Morocco,—The
Constitutionel contains a distressing account
of the famine in Moroeco, which is spread-
ing the most disastrous effects amongst
the Mussulman populations. The harvest
has been a total failure, and for such grain
as can be imported enormous prices are
demanded. ‘The situation is described as
worse than that of Algeria. Numbers of
persons are constantly dying ef huuger.
‘The roads are covered every morning with
the dying and the dead. The rich are
powerless to save these poor creatures;
and the number of those who have perish-
ed, either of hunger or the epidemic, is es-
timated at one-fourth of the entire popula-
lation, ‘*Itis not, as will be seen,” says
the Constitulionel, ** Alg ria alone which
has just passed through a deplorable crisis,
In Tunis, as in Morocco, the populations.
ravaged with cholera, ruined by invasions
of locusts such us were never belore scen
in the memory of man, and suffering two
years of drought, have, in the summer of
1868, been plunged into the deepest sul-
fering. Fortunately, in Algerian a good
harvest has repaired, so tar as it was pos-
sible, the losses experienced by those tribes,
and the wants of the coming winter may
be met by the provisions made for giving
employment, by the exercise of charity,
and various kinds of assistance judiciously
rendered.
A Madhid advice of July 10 states that
cholera has appvared in Luroche, Morocco.
NEW DOMINION.
Several officers of the army, of a religious
turn of mind, have recently been in the habit
of spending a considerable portion of their
leisure hours in street preaching and other
public religious exercises. ‘This practice ap-
pears to have giving offence to some pro-
minent parties, by whom the attention of the
Horse Guards was called to the matter, and
it is now stated that an order has been issued
prohibiting officers in Her Majesty’s services
from preaching or otherwise exercising cleri-
eal functious, We can hardly believe that
the military authorities have done any such
improper thing, and we are sure Hor Majesty
the Queen will never give her sanction to
such an orcer. If an oftiver sees fitto spend
a portion of his time in trying to improve the
morals of his fellow creatures, he is deserving
of praise rather than blame, It is surely
inuch better that he should do this than that
he should waste his time, and bring disgrace
upon himself and his uniform, by indulging
in habits of dissipation and debauchery.
Lord Adelbert Cecil, of the Rifle Brigade, has
done much good in Ottawa and other places
by preaceing in the strects, and his good ex-
ample has had a strikingly beneficial effect
on ujs men, The only desire of such men is
to do good, and an order prohibiting them
from preaching could only have the effect cf
driving them from the service.— Toronto Pa,
ConrepEration Leacur 1x Van Cov-
ver's IsLanp.—A mecting was held lately
in Smith's Hall, Government-st., to organ-
ize an association to secure the immediate
admission of British Columbia into the
Dominion of Canada on terms equitable
and expedient, and also to obtain, without
delay, representative institutions with Re-
sponsible Government. The meeting was
very unanimous and enthusiastic, and con-
eluded with three cheers for Confederation
and three lor the Queen,
Shipments to and from Canada can now
be made without delays hitherto incident
to the system requiring a thorough exam-
ination of the cargoes by the custom house
oflicers on the lines, “Lhe Secretary of
the Treasury has issued a cireular of regu-
lation under which cars loaded in Canada
and sealed by the United States Consul or
commercial agent at the point of shipment
may be run through to the seaboard cities
without giving transportation bonds, A
similar regalation controls shipments to
Canada .—Lhiladelphia Ledger.
The crops in Lower Canada do not promise
well, The Montreal News says that the hay
had the benefit of copious rains in the spring—
hence it acquired strength and resisted the in-
fluence of the draught;—but late sown grain
willprove a miserable failure. In many cases
the termers will be lucky if they recover tho
seed put into the ground. There are some
instances in which crops are sown atthe end
of May and the first week in June, where they
are uot six inches npove the ground, although
The Pall Mall Gazztte of the 18th ult. says:
“It is understood that the Loan for the Inter-
colonial Rails ay of the Dominion of Canada
will be announced on Monday by Messrs.
Baring and Messrs. Glyn. It is to bo for
£4000,000, of which £3,000,000 will bear in-
terest at the rate of 4 per cent., guaranteed by
the Imperial Government, while the remaining
£1,000,000 will be raised exclusively on the
credit of the united colonies, and will bear 5
percent. In the first instance only half of
tho total £4,000.000 will be put forth—namely,
&1,600,000 of the guaranteed bonds, and
£570,000 of the Canadian,”
UNITED STATES.
In New York on Tuesday there were eight
cases of sunstroke reported, and forty-two
deaths from that cause, The N.Y. World says:
“Nurses and doctors did a thriving trade
yesterday, and from early noon until the sun-
set paled its golden fire, thy paupers on the
Islands in the river, fumed, cursed, and mop-
ped themselves frantically. All along the
docks stevedors lay panting on bales of cot-
ton, and bent their bodies over casks of rum
and sugar, vainly ex.deayoring to get a breath
of air, and coasting schooners, and the huge
hulks of ocean steamers and emigrantvessels,
lay with their keels secthing in the water,
Down at the castle garden the emigrants
huddled in bulk, some with their hair frowzy
and unkept, and their faces flushed and flamed
with a heat and torridness never before by
them experienced. Porters Loisting heavy
packages of goods up high hatchways, dropped
down stricken with a sudden fear, thinking of
tho little ones at home depending on their
sinewy arms for bread, and were carried away
never to be heard of again without sorrow and
tears in this life, All this time the sun pour-
ed down like molten lead on the beads and
through the brains of thousands who were
anxious to flee from the hot wrath but could
not. Chiefly did those suffer who had notac-
climated themselves to our heated summer—
the wanderer from Norway, Sweden, from the
cantons of the Alps, from the Vosges, from
Styria and Dalmatia, from where the Adriatic
flows in ceaseless song; from Baltic and
Khine, from Berlin and Vienna, Dublin and
Manchester, and the isle of Western Europe,
seckers after fortune, who will never more in
this life encounter the fickle Goddess.”
Baron Cuvier states that if the progeny of a
pair of herrings went on increasing and 1mul-
tiplying without molestation or destruction of
the ava, in twenty years it would require all
the seas in the world to contain the herrings
that would result. If only half the spawn
came to life, and half the young fish lived, a
boat could not move in the sea.
There is a Yankee in Springfield who rides
a great deal in the omnivus, and always sits
near the forward end. so as to pass up the fare
of his fellow passengers. Each one gives
him, naturally, a ten cent piece; but he gives
the driver instead a ticket, which, as he buys
them in quantities, costs him but nine cents.
Hence profit, and in the future, itis to be pre-
sumed, enormous wealth.
Tt is supposed that on July 4, 1869, passen-
gers will be able to travel by continuous rail
aeross the continent, from San Francisco to
Boston. ‘The two great companies have sur-
mounted the greatest difficulties which are to
be encountered in their respective lines. Each
has passed the summit of the highest inter-
vening mountain range, and is now on the
home stretch.
The Daily Palladium says truly: It is am-
using at times to observe the stories of the
merchants who don't advertise; to see the
anxious proprietors looking into the streets
and see the people go by, wondering why they
don’t conre In, while the stores of their noigh.
bors who do advertise are thronged with cus-
tomers. Some people will learn by ebserva-
tion, others will not. :
There are now 41,000 officials required by
the executive department of the United States
alone to execute acts of Congress, whose age
gregate siluries amount to over thirty-one
million dollars.
Tenuivory acquirep wirnovr run:
cuaseé.—The United States has taken pos-
session ot two small uninhabited islands
in tho Pacific Ocean, about hait way trom
the Sandwich Islands to Japan. ‘This 18
the first acquisition of territory ever made
by our governmentin this manner, ‘The
islands are near together, and each is
about a mile anda half long, by three
quarters of a mile wide, They are tu be
Known asthe Midway Islands.—Am paper
Very Latest Telegrams.
Madrid, July 30.
The Queen refuses to accept of the resig-
nation ot Admiral Muriz, Commander of
the Spanish fleet in America waters.
London, July 29,
The reports are confirmed that peace
has been concluded by Russia with Bok-
hara,
Prince Napoleon has returned to Paris
frem his tour in the East.
A naturalization treaty bas been conclu-
ded between the Grand Dueal Govern-
ment of Llesso and the United States,
A despatch from Belgrade says the assas-
sins of Archduke Michael haye been shot.
London, July 29,
The usual Banquet given on the con-
clusion of the Session ‘of Parliment to the
Ministers occured this evening, Mr, Dis-
raeli in the course of his reniarks, touched
upon the relations existing between Great
Britain and the United States. He said
for Rowdies,” in his paper of the Ist inst.,
has thought fit to make use of the following
language towards the Magistrates of Summer-
side :—
*'Is not this a pretty state of affairs? Does it
not reflect credit upon the leading men of
the town? What kind of magistrates have
we, that they will not, in fulfillment of their
oath, interfere und use ordinary endeavors
t
are
“blundering and incapable”?
If the editor of the Progress must have men
for magistrates who are not afraid of doing
heir duty, let him make outa listund forward
it to the Executive, who no doubt will do right
in the matter,
Asking your insertion of the eee
Iam, &c., M.N,
Summerside, August 5, 1868.
to maintsin the public peace?
“The fact is our magistrates arc a set of im-
beciles, no more fitted for the office they
hold than go many timid women, We have
known recent instances where magistrates
have been called upon to have rowdics ar-
rested, and actually refused or evaded their
duty, much to the disgust of the order-lov-
ing citizens who made the request. We
think the best thing these magistrates can
do is to resign, pro bono publico: for, what
with the affliction of blunderingand incapable
representatives in the House of Assembly,
and the want of some kind of muncipal reg-
ulations, or the powor of making such,
which throw the whole burthen of presery-
ing the peace upon the J, P.’s, we must have
men for magistrates who are not afraid of
doing their duty.”
This wholesale charge by the editor of the
Progress on the magistrotes and representa-
tives of Summerside, is mixed up with an ac-
count of rioting and fighting by a gang of
rowdies at Summerside, on the night _of the
Catholic Tea—and a strange charge it is—
more audacious and more uncalled for than
anything that has yet appeared in an Island} |
newspaper.—The Palladium, in the days of
fierce controversy, nevor made so sweeping, |
so broadcast an onslaught on any body of men,
Surely the editor of the ’rogress must have
forgotten himself, and only that his paper goes
far and wide, and might have an injurious ef-
fect on the interests and good name of Sum-
merside, it would not be worth noticing, Let
us see who the magistrates are—let us look at
them and judge if they ‘tare imbeciles, no
more fitted for the office than so many timid
munications.
addresses of our correspondents as a guaranty
of their good faith.
return communications that are not used,
Summerside Journal. —
THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1868,
No notice can be taken ot anonymous com-
We must know the names and
We cannot undertake to
PRINOE COUNTY INDUSTRIAL EX-
HIBITION.
One of the most remarkable features
of modern industry and civilization is the
series of Exhibitions—world-comprising,
National and Provincial—which has fol-
lowed the great Hyde Park Pair of 1851.
That waa the preparatory key note of the
harmony of peace and music of prosperity,
which shall reverberate through the Mil-
enium, when * swords shall be beaten into
plough shares and spears into pruning
nooks,’ (What Armstrong guns and
Snider rifles shall be beaten into, remains
to be seen.)
ed inthe track opened up by England;
and last year the most magnificent gather-
ing together of the Arts and Scierces
that the world has ever seen, took place
in la belle France,
‘The Ucited States follow-
Not so grand, but,
women” :—
Harny C. Green,
Wittirax Brainsro,
J. R. Garpinen,
E, L. Lrpiarp,
James Mummmeap,
Joun Lurvunoy,
Contin McLennan,
James CAMPBELL,
James L. Houman,
Cuanres Green,
Anous McMiniay,
Davw Rocrr:,
Why, Mr. Editor, an euology could be writ-
ten on each, but take them as a body, in what
part of P. KB. Island can you find men more |
respectable, more intelligent, 1
more firm and more humane
are they? and timid women
one of them is fit to head a regiment, and
some ofthem have been in situations where
men’s souls ave tried,” and came off victori-
ous.—' Not fitted for the office’! Will the
editor of the Zvogress please teach them and
tell them of the fitness they require? If they
act contrary to law, and the Kditor will put
them right, they will no doubt be thankful.
Does he expect these magistrates, each one
fram daylight till dark at his post, sober and
industrious, toiling to support his family, and
at the same time contributing to the prosperity
sand advancement of Summerside ?— does the
editor of the ’rogress expect them to be out
all night on the streets in search of “rowdies" ?
The editor of the Progress says they will
not m:intain the public peace. Can any in-
stance be nimed where a well-grounded com-
plaint has been laid before any one of the
‘nagistrates that he lias not acted upon it, and
full imp irtial justice, tempered with mercy
promptly administered, or any rioting seen,
that has not to the utmost been put down,
The Editor says a magistrate refused to
give a warrant of commitment because Con-
stable Gay could not give theirnames. Well,
perhaps the magistrate was right. Could he
be expected to turn out of his bed when he
believed there was fault on both sides? Why
did not Mr. Gay lodge a proper complaint
next morning ?—he did nothing of the kind.
In regard to another direct charge of the
Progress, when magistrates “refused or evae
ded their duty,” &¢. He likely means what
occurred on the evening of the tea party day,
when one Smith was said to be threatening
and abusing a countryman, and wanting to
fight—a magistrate walked up as requested,
saw Smith walking away, and back down the
street again, No blow had been struck; all
was quict and serene; no complaint was made
by the countryman, and the Uhigistrate de-
clined yielding to popular clamor to send
Smith off two miles to jail. Another man,
seated in a wagon opposite one of the hotels,
was very noisy. but soon left for his home
some two miles off. At ten o'clock at night
the streets of Summerside were calm and still,
tt was a day of great rejoicing—the young
men and maidens, strong and beautiful, had
loft their farms and spinning wheels, and in
coaches and truck waggons came pouring
into the tea party, English, Irish, Scotch and
French, from all_parte-of-the country mingled
in the greatest pleasantry and good humour;
and round the yrounds, at the sumptuous tea-
tables surrounded by bewitching ladies, at the
swings, at the dance below to the bagpipes
and over head to the violins, all were happy
—happy that their crops promised so well,
happy that the day was lovely, happy as they
met each other in the reel and jig, and happy
as they looked to the future.—‘Tom Thumb,
too, and Commodore Nutt had arrived at the
wharf, and with their ladies magnificently
dressed with waterfalls sparkling with dia-
monds, had just received the first enthusiastic
greetings of the people of Prince Edward Is-
land. Surely on such a gala day the editor of
with regard to the misunderstanding?
which have been so much dwelt on by the
United States, every day leads to a better
feeling upon them; and ho expressed the
opinion that their solution was near at
hand, the r.sultis only what can be ex-
pected from the natural good sense and
feeling of two great and kindred nations,
The Emperor Alexander has called a
conterence of 13 members, to meet on the
18th of August next, at St. Petersbur. h,
for the purpose of a:ranging the detailes
of an International Convention, pledging
all the great Powers to abandon the use
of explosive bullets in time of war,
London, Aug 3,
A dredful accident occured in Mauchest-
eron Saturday wight, During the regular
performance at Lang's Musie Hall, an
alarm of fire was raised when the entire
audience immeditaly rushed for the doors,
completely blocking up the passageway,
The wildest excitement prevailed, and
when at last order by tho repeated an-
nouncement that there was no fire, it was
found that no Jess 23 persons, mainly
woman ani children, had been crushed to
death in the stampede, and ala ge numder
of persons had limbs broken and were
otherwise Injured,
Now York, Aug, 3,
Advices trom St. Domingo state that
1500 of President Baez's troops were
badly beaten by the revolutionists, and
their commander Gen. Brigham, killed.
The reported English loan is a myth.
Ottawa, Aug. 3.
The different insurance companies have
deposited about one million dollars in
cash, one million in Canadian and British
suritios, and three-quarters of a million in
United States Securities, in the ‘Treasury.
Gold 145 LS.
the Progress would not like to see any one
cent off to prison,
At Somerset Tea Party they fought as only
Irishmen can fight, notwithstanding a new
Court and u new batch of J. P.'e have there
been recently appointed. At Tignish ‘Tea
Party it is said they runght until the vanquish-
ed were driven into the se., all the endeavors
of the Clergy, Sheriff and Justices to stop the
contending factions being of no avail; and at
Summerside, the place where the editor of
the Progress makeg out is worse than the
town on the Mississippi, where the man was
‘‘chawed up,” not one blow was struck until
the riot he tells us of took placo at eleven
o'clock at night. How is it the Mississippi
authorities and the magistrates or police of
thiy Mississivpi town, allowed that poor man
to be “ chawed up"?
The editor of the Progress may rest assured
that the prosperity and the welfare of Sum-
merside are of paramount interest to the
inagistrates, and that they will never allow
their town, where they expect to spend their
days, to be what he says it is—* A Paradise
for Rowdies,” Rowdyism may triumph for a
night, but retribution’ will certainly follow,
It ill-becomes the Progress thus to hold men
up to ridicule, who, some of them, have laid
the corner stones of Summerside, and are still
laboring away for its advancement, Rather
let the Progress cheer them on and lend a
hand for the attainment ot those objects, that
from time to time will be needed, Have not
the magistrates the safety and comfort of the
people and of the town at heart, as mach as
has the editur of the Progress, and if minor
differences of opinion on Police, &¢., should
exist, there surely need be no occasion for
invective.
The Editor complains of the * affliction and
blundering of incapable Representatives in the
House of Assembly.” ‘This is a moat uncalled
for and ungentlemanly charge, Surely the
people who have elected the Represensatives
to Parliament are the best Judges in the mat-
t
ter, The present Members had servod their
9)
gathering as Summersi
their healthy dames,
ters shall gather on
September,
INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION. So mote it be,
has been very warm,
dry calm weather will
perhaps, scarce less productive of good,
and stimulating to enterprise, have been
those smaller Agricultural and Scientitic
Re-unions, springing up since in, Siates
and Provinces. By means of these, local
interests have been advanced, and a
healthy ambition among all producing
classes has been fostered. It is one of
the signs of the times that, amid the
clash of arms, ine interest of Military and
Voluvtecr Reviews, and the time and
brain engrossing experiments with pro-
jectiles and tortifications, the voice otf
peaceful industry and invention has made
itself so distinctly heard, that science,
lite preserving and gentle, has ranged up
in public estimation close alongside of
science deadly and destructive, We trust
that the years to come, though perhaps
yeta long way off, will witness the latter
completely distanced by the former,
Our own Island has not forgotten its
duty to itself in this department of enter-
prise, and year after year have prizes been
offered to its competing producers, ‘Chose
prizes have certainly not been large, yet
they have served, not so much by their
intrinsic worth as by the credit of their
reception, to stimulate care.
ofthe thriftiness of our Island Farmers,
8o apparent to, and remarked by stran-
gers, is due to the influence of our An-
nual Fairs, cannot be estimated. ‘hough
the number of persons tuking part in
How much
those Fairs may beara small proportion
to the entire farming and manufacturing
community, yet the influence and exam-
ple ofthe ambitious ones have affected
their neighbors, just as one ripple on the
water creates another,
We are very much pleased to sce that
our Government has, this year, takén a
step in advance, inasmuch as prizes are
offered and other preparations made for
a County Exhibition. For Prince County
this will be held in Summerside, on the
80th day of September, as advertised in
our present issue,
attention of our Farmers to the list of
We ask the especial
Animals and articles for which prizes
will be given. Other Counties to whom
the same opportunity is given will be
coming forward arrayed in their bet
dress, and we should well like to sce
Prince County not a whit behind. What
do our Western men say? In the mat-
ter of horses and cattle, we ought to rank
A. 1 with any other portion of the Island,
Where are ** those horses?” In Horti-
culture, perhaps, we shall not stand the
same chance as Queen's County, with its
time-and-leisure amateur gardeners, In
Grain, Butter and Cheese, Yoxtile Mab.
riés in wool, an? Knit Goods, we ought
marries = = memes - ton a
* 4 ;| country for four years in a former House, so “a Several persons have asked yg .
[ Yr ' Henky Morley anagances the grall is Basding o fact, meataring capt: COBRRESPONDENG® much o the general hart eo hol ie we did not publish the report of the ne
rofessor Lle A eso stunted that, cut it) ~~ nn ~~ last olection tay were both re-elected. baa a ramet i
ra fiton’ Peoe ieee i rg to os \eewea Sey ses the owners can gather no To Tue Eprror of THE JOURNAL, the editor of the Progress says they are “blun- ae of Desc i hace oi
volume of Milton's Poems belong “7 “4 straw. * Whatis to become of eattie vext Stes dering and incapable.” Is it because they are Pawson and of 7 o-
the British Museum, he claims to have winter with a deficiency of forage?’ is the ‘ f the S erside Progress, in| don’t do as he wishes in opposition to the ex-/| that we did intend doing so Lad the case
found a new poe by Mikon Bicol, ode question which farmers are asking each other. Eitan kepeenntcye Baniensiie a Paradise desire of their constituents, that they) been gone through, but when the Com
titled ** An Epitaph,” in the familiar mea- : .
adjourned we thought it unfair to
the complaint without giving any of the
defence, We purpose in January, when
the Court meets, to have the trial report.
ed for the Journal.
Ey The Crops to the Westward look
well and encouraging, and we were in.
formed that, notwithstanding the cry out
in the spring about the scarcity of seed
grain, there is more sown than ever bes
fore. We saw some splendid fields of
hay as we passed through Montrose, The
effects of the mussel mud are easily seen
whereever it has been applied to the land,
The wheat crop is splendid, and if i¢ es,
capes the weevil will be an abundant
harvest. The oats are short, in general,
but the root crops are good. We may
yet hope to see the day when our Farm.
ers will not need to purchase ftour,
tay” The Industrial Exhibition {
Queen's County, is advertised to be held
in Charlottetown, on Tuesday and Wed.
nesday, the 29th and 30th of September,
The Exhibition in King’s County will be
held at Georgetown, on the same days,
We had prepared a notice of the Tem.
perance Convention and a synopsis of the
speeches at the publie meeting, for this
days paper, butwe are obliged to lay i:
aside till next week,
Bive
The Road Commissioner for this Dj,
trict is doing some good work this gum.
mer, ‘Lhe streets in different parts of
the Town have been much improved, and
several bridges built at many of the cross.
ings. An excellent piece of road is also
being Sujit near Mr. Green’s mill, and
another piece near Mr. Thomas Cairns,
When these jobs are completed the tra.
velling public will have a good road to
come into Summerside both ways. It jx
fue to our Representatives to state thot
to them ure the public indebted for ob.
taining the money which has been ex.
pended in improving those roads,
The Fire Wardens seem determined ¥
to d> their duty. They have inspected
the different dwellings and compelled all
houscholders to furnish ladders and fire
buckets. They have also issucd tenders
for sinking several more wells. The fire
engine is ina good state, and they have
ordered, we are informed, two or three
large water casks. When these arrange-
ments have been completed, the ‘Town
will be pretty well provided for in caso
of fire. It is well we have some men
among us who are competent to hold offi-
ce and discharge their duty.
If the ire Wardens have the power
to compel parties to emove nuisances,
we direct their attention toa heap of
stone and rubbish on the street opposite
to the Drill Shed Square.
We learn that the amount realized at
the Catholic Tea on the 29th was £120,
The Steamer had on board on Tuesday
night last, 23 horses, part from here and
part from Charlottotown. She had also
upwards of 50 men going to work on tho
railroad in New Brunswick. Judging
from the language and conduct of these
men, we should say that Charlottetown
has got rid ot that number of drunkea
rowdies,
The adjourned Parliament of Nova
Scotia meets to-day. Some warm deba-
ting will no doubt take place on the re-
port ofthe delegates and their protest.
Sir George Cartier and the Hon. Mr.
McDougallare now in Halifax.
Messrs. Beer & Sons have raised a
large lot of winter wheat, and will have
it on sale in time for the fall sowing. We
would like tosee it exhibited at our forth-
coming Exhibition.
The fish, we are informed, are very
plenty this season. While at Mimine-
gash the other day, we visited the fishing
station of Mr. Matheson. A large num-
ber of men were employed, and a quantity
of beautiful codfish had been taken and
were nicely cured. The mackarel had
just come, but not many were taken. Mr.
Matheson has a trap set about a half mile
from the shore, made of seine, and 89
constructed that the fish when once in can
not get out. He has taken lots of fish
in it, and among others some beautiful
to do well, ~Bedeque and Tryon, where
are you? Cascumpee, look alive!
Now as regards the profit. This is
emphatically an age of scrutiny and criti-
cism. First class in material or work-
manship, whoever he may be, tikes the
first position, and makes most money.
“What's in a name” may be a good deal,
but what's in the stuff is a great deal
more. Now in case of a Free ‘Trade
‘Treaty with the States, or improved re-
lations with the Dominion, excellence in
all products exported, and foreign reli-
ance on Island traders, will be found to
pay well. No more certain and substan-
tial foundations of commerce can be laid.
Neither can anything be conceived more
calculated to promote lasting intercourse,
and prevent the operations of trade being
at the mere caprice of rulers, than the
fact that by the superiority of our pro-
ductions we can render our commerce a
necessity to other nations, All this lies
entirely in the hands of our people, and
we believe that the Island, atter its long
sleep, is waking up in earnest to the
knowledge of this fact. Let this year be
one of progress and advancement,
little more pride as regards the looks of
our houses—a little sore artistic skill in
the laying off of our fields—a little more
calculation of what will bring the bestre-
sults—a little more nrain any MUSSEL
MUD will achieve wonders in our Island,
We are confidently expecting also that
the best of effects, and as pleasant a
de has yet seen,
hergetic Farmers,
and smiling daugh.
Wednesday the 30th
at the First prince county
will result when our o
The weather during the past few days
We fear that this
be favorable for
he weevil to injure the wheat,
salmon,
=
A,
‘ <6 or Commence.—An adjourned
“ting of the Chamber of Commerce w#*
held in the Market Hall, on Monday night
last—Hon, D, Brenan, President, in the et
—to take into consideration the expediency
sending two Delegates to the Commercié
Convention to be holden at Portland on Tues
bead next, the 4th day of August. Consider
able discussion took place at the meeting
when it was decided to call a Public Meeting:
to be held on Wednesday evening following.
In the meantime a Committee appointed hed
to apply to the Executive for funds to gar
in defraying expenses of Delegates. At re
meeting on Ws dnesday evening, two por
gates—Frederick Brecken and W. lies
Keqrs.—were appointed to hed the
land ~snid Delegates leave this evening in
ot ust lahat Aare Jacgye Zarter
Prixcess, hy way of Shediac. — 4,