Summerside Journal -- 1869-05-06 -- Page 2

General News Items.

A correspondent to the St.John 7ele-
graph, Who has returned home fron the
United States, whether he went last sum-
mer, writes us follows :—

Tama mechanic that ean handle the | least once every week. The inconvenience | 36:

tools of my trade better than a pen, but 1}
take it up to wara our people against those |
men who would lead them into such dan: |
geras that proposed by Mr, Cudlip, 1)
never siw guch ivisery in this Province as |
[saw in Bdston among the working peo
ple there. dtis worse in New York, as i
was told by those who saw it. ‘There were |
in Boston when I Jett it, 349 families re-
eeiving support from public soup kitchens, |
and it was sad to see respectable people
thus reduced to beggary, Our} cople can
get their food and clothing for their libor,
anal same money too, but there 1 saw
neither. Tam back again, have learned
wisdom by sad experience, and the man
that wonld advoeate such folly as to join
that country Lonly hope that he may be
the first to have to be ted by the soup
kitchens.”

The St. John News eall attention to the |
fact, that the debate on the dis-establish-
ment of the Irish Chureh lasted only four
nights, and asks

“What do the tiresome twaddlers of
our Legislature think of that? ILere was
a great measure involving the disposal of
£16.000,000, and touching interests held
to be of the most sacred character by large
sind influential classes olthe British people,
“th it was expected to be discussed for four
long nights in succession—but which it was
thought of afterward might be exhaustively
debated in less time, asin point of fact,
we believe, it was. ILlow long would it
take our copions men to exhaust them-
selves and everybody else in a measure

correspondingly important to { Pro-
vinee? Four nights! They would searecly

the half done in four , judging by the
interminable talk on the want of confidence |
‘motion, Oh! gentlemen, time is short
and precious; pray condense yourselves |
nud cultivate the blessed ait of silence)
when you have liltle to say, ond that has
been already said.”

The same language might be applied |
to the members of our Local Legislature. |

Tur Ilupson Bay Ciaims.— The pro- |
positions to which the Canadian ministers |
‘in London have agreed are as follows:—
‘

- 41. To pay the H. B. Company £300,000 |
$1,500,000) ter all their territorial claims |

and rights in Ruberts Land, or what is
co nmonly called the North West Terntory,
2. Lhe Company to retain all its stations
and the land around them, note i
in all 40,000 acres.
3. The Company mayelaim a twentic

part of every township or district laid out}

in the fertile part of the ‘Territory.

4. ‘The Company shall not be subjected
to any exceptional taxes. These terms
were to be submitted to the stockholders
of the Company on the 24th, and ifaccept-
ed by them, the Canadian Minister will
endeavor to secure the assent of the Cana-
dian parliament. In our view, the Ins
three conditions would have been amply
suflicient, and perhaps more than sufficient,
avithout the first, which is altogether un-
necessary and unfair. Why a compary ia
London should be paid for land which it
never owned nor occupied in America, is
what we cannot understand. -If any one
shonld be paid, it is the Indians,—J/ontre-
al JWitness.

Yorarp Bank Norrs

—It is said that

altered 85 and $10 notes.are in circulation’

here. It becomes our people ‘to be very
careful in looking at the money they re-
ve, so that these inipositions may be de-
ected at once-—S8t, Juin News.

Tus St

‘ey or Lire —The intelligence
from the great wheat growing regions of
this continens is encouraging. Vall sown
wheat in thé United States and Ontario
2 survived the perils of the winter, and
gives promise of an abundant harvest bye
and bye. In Wurope, particularly in Eng-
Jand, the winter has been an exceedingly
wet one, and fears have been entertained
that the wheat fields would suffer material
dlamage in consequence. But we believe
these apprehensions have not been verified
to any great extent. If the spring sown
wheat should do as well proportionately as
that sown'in the fall, we may salely
anticipate full gvanaries iu the au-
tumn. Should that prove to be the case,
as we hope it may, it will be a boon of
great value to they working man, both in
the old world and the new; for the price
of bread would rule low.—/d.

Tho potatoe fever rages. Tt is reported

$a. farmer in Vermont has ‘been offered
320,000 for from forty to filty bushels of a
new description of potatoe — being five-
sixths of last year’s crop of that particular
Kind.

It was lately stated that four Europeans
had become Mahommedans at Madras,
The report is confirmed, and it is also ex-
plained by the further statement that they
are all about to marry Mahommediun wives

A Connecticut rogue stole a horse and
earriage, and then borrowed money of the
Jitehfield county Sheriff, to pay the expen-
ses of pursuing an immaginary thief

Minnesota isin luck. © It has inexhausti-
ble springs of mineral paint, which most
obligingly flow red, green, brown, white
and yellow paint at the desire of their
owners, i

Melbourne, Australia, has a newspaper
thatis printed in Chinese characters edited
hy an Algerine; and corrected by a native
ol Buenos Ayres, ‘

London covers 122 sqnare miles,contains
400,000 dwellings, with an average of
eight persons to each, andhas a population
of nearly $3,200,000,

A Georgia editor, to make delinqnents
4¢nuy up,” ollers to distribute by lot among
those who settle, A gold’ watch’ and otker
pr

Sugar planting has heen very successful
in Louisiana this season, and the crop is
estilnated at from 250,000 tu 306,000 hogs-
heads.

Queen Victoria wears her hair as she did
25 yeurs ago. Coiffures, waterfalls, chig-
nons, curls and Wack hair are naught to
her,

A married woman, aged 13, was divor-
ced recently in New York trom her hus-
band.

A New York paper, the World. is envious
ol the financial position of this country. In
issue of Tudsday it says:—** The reve;
ot the Dominion of Cannda for the month
of March last was a trifle Jess than a mill-
ion; expenditure something over half a
million, So much for bloated despotisin,
Woult that ‘our despotism woald bloata
little 4uthe same way.”

There ‘id abdut, $2,000,000 worth of
groods in the bonded warehouses in Port-
land, ‘busite®: a Jaige amount of sugar
ejsewhere ‘stored, Ww al'ing Wwansportation
tu the Canadas. ; :

DoNNer has engaged Mrs. M. K, Dallas
fo write exclusively lor the N. Y, Ledger,

a 81,000 a year,

jas in ordmary s
jmiserable hay crops, last yenr, in conse-
}qnence of the dronght, and the severe,

| March prevented them obtaining supplies
| from more fortunate localiti

jin this St. Lawrence district, the owner:
j being unable to pay such prices 14 to

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SUMMERSIDE JOUR

TAL, THURSDA

Y, MAY 6, 1869,

N FROM Capp
‘on. — Lhe Cape Breton News says:

Bu

j**Itis to be hoped that arrangements will

be made so that the Pictou and Prince}
Edward Islind steamer may ke Ship|
Harbor the place of arrival and departure, |
instead of Port Hood, as formerly; at the

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and difficulty of travel between Wycoco- |
magh and Port Llood were the grounds of
unceasing complaint from travelers by
the Lake route last year. Il the proposed
change be adopted, passengers would be
conveyed to’ and “from Ship Harbor ‘to
West Bay, to which latter Point the Syd-
ney steamer would proceed weekly or
semi-weekly as the trips of the Gulf steamer
would render nece Since the with-
drawal of the Newfoundland Steamer this
is the only route by rail and steam avail-
able to travellers to and from these parts |
to Nova Scotia, and it is right that every
improvement contributing to. their con.
fort and the publicgood, should be adopted
without delay.

A newspaper published in the Ottawa
county, the Carleton Place Herald, regrets
thatsome of the farmers of Rentrew County
are killing their cattle to save them from
starvation, it being impossible, owing to
the length of the winter, to obtain proven-
der for love or money. Matters are bad
now, but willbe much worse, according
to our contemporary, before the grass has
begun to grow. It suggests a special
meeting of the County Council, to devise
means whereby the cattle may be pre-
served, and the farmers enabled to carry
on their Iabors for the present year. A
similar story might be told of several other
parts of old Canada, In the district west
of Montreal, as far as Cornwall, and in
other border focalities, the cattle have sul-
fered terrible this wiuter for lack of fodder,
which has been three or four times as dear
asons., Farmers gathered

musal snow blockade of February and

*s. Fine cattle
have thus been

| Legislation, $443,86:

Very Latest Telegrams.

Ottawa, April 30.

The estimates in part for 1869-70 were
brought down to day.
Tnierests charges and publigt debt $5,25'
3; Civil gevern + ¢ $7TOL.05105 Adu inise
n of Justice, 8665 Police, $43,4405
Geologival Survey and
Arts, Agriculture and

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tratio

Observatory, $39,700

Statistics, $6,000; Iinmigratioy ang paaran-
tine, $55,870; Marine Lospitals, §34.500;
Pensions. 855,072; Pyblie Works ar Y Builds

ings, $3,638,385; Ocean ‘aid River Steam
Packet Service, B252,941) Phe expenditure
under these heads is nearly $160,000 less than |
1863-"U9. |

The salaries of Chicf Justice of New Bruns- |
wick, and Mr, Justice Parker are made $4,000 |
each; Puisne Judges ‘in New Brunswick, $3
200 each. $750 is set down for an Observa-
tory in New Brunswick, and $4,000 for Emi-
gration agency at Miramiehi.

London, April 29.

In House of Commons this evening, lton.

Chichester Fortescue, Chief Secretary for |

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and Londonderry. Every endeavor had
been made by Government to supress riotous
proceedings, and the peace preservation Act
had been fully enforced. He also stated that
further explanations at this time were im-
politic,

The Trish Church Bill was further consid-
ered and three divisions taken on proposed
amendient in whick the Government majority
was froin seventy to ni¢nety.

It is reported that the Swiss Gove nment
has ordered Mazzinito leave the’ country,
The Austrian Government has religved Pra-
gue from a state of siege. The ajority in
the Spanish Cortes is growing impatient at
the delay in going upon a form of Goyern-
ment. ait

Advices from New Zealand to Feb, 15, state
that a terrible massacre occured there, dur-
ing which Lient. Gascoyne, wife and fiunily,
and six settlers were killed.—The settlers
arriving in the town report that the stores are
closed and ensigns flying half mast.

New York, April 30.

Money coutinues plenty on good busin-
ess papers. Gold closed at i24,

Ottawa, Canada, April 27.

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#16 per ton for hay.” In some cases the

animals killed, for want of feed, have |

proved a total loss, their flesh being in a} joyjed in C

conditi unfit for food. It is also a faet
that the ill fortune of the farmers in some |

Inthe Tlouse of Commons to-day, Mr,
Keeler asked wether the Goy't intended to
‘enforce similar taxes and duties upon Amer-
icn vessels tradine at Canadian Ports as
nadian vessels trading at America
Yhe Jlon. Mr. Rose said the matter
consideration. Gov’t dots not

| Ports,
under

Ireland deplored the recent outrages in Cork }

districts last year, and their necessities) pledge itself to any partidulur line’ of policy.
and hardships, this winter, hhave enused | Mr. Coffin inquired wether the Goyern-
a pretty extensive emigration to the United} ment intend to place an armed, foree on the

States, © Many who have not left the coun-

ry greatly discouraged, and anything
jbut resignad to the prospects which a

| longer stay in it presents.

Exrraorpinany CAse or InuNess aANp

th) Praxce.—A remarkable ease of suspended |

}animation has occurred at Millom, in the
|ncighborhood of Whitehaven, in West
Cumberland, It appears that some 18 or
19 weeks ago, a girl, about 11 or 12 years
of age, residing with her parents at Millom
was ill, and the medical attendant advised
a removal for change of air, ‘The patient
was taken to Old Hall arm, leased from
Mr. A, Brogden by Mr. W. ‘Toughton.
She was attended to with every care, but
mude no progress towards recovery, and |
in ashort time fell into a lethargic state |
resembling that of a person in a trance.
condition she remained for many
but at length woke up to a state of}
vusness,and calling upon her mother |
who was in attendance upon her, related
how she had been in heaven and seen nu-
merous angels and her brother, who died
sometime avo, On being questioned to
that effect, she expressed a desire not to
recover from her illness, but to go to the
happier land of which she had had glimp-
ses. At that time she is deseribed by her
attendants as having a most ‘* heavenly
expression of countenance,” and although
she had been for many weeks without one
particle of solid food, ner face was plump,
her cheeks suffused with a lovely hue. the
lips alone being devoid of the colour na-
tural to ange when in health. The power of
speech remained only for a short time, and
the girl then relapsed into her former
state, or nearly so. She liesin a lethargic
condition, but when a question is put to
her, she manifests her powers of under-
standing it by a slight moving of the head,
or some motion to indicate that she is sen-
sible to the sound of human voice, ‘The
only sustenance, il it can be called by that
name, the girl has received for fully 15 or
16 weeks has been the occasional moisten-
ing of the lips with brandy and water or
ten, Within the last few days the girl's
limbs have become gradually more rigid,
as though foretelling of no very distant
dissolution,

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IIow to ride a yelocipede—straddle a
saddle, then paddle, and skedaddle,

Naples was recently covered with a yel-
low dust, brought hy « tempestuous soath-
east wind trom Africa,

A newspaper in Southern Tlinois notes
the passage of a Virginia family en route
for the far west, consisting of the old man.
the old woman, fourteen childien and
eleven dogs!
Burglare are still operating in ‘Toronto
and other parts of Canada,

Portland, Me.. seems dreadful unlucky
in the matter of fires. ‘The building of the
Portland Picking Company was burned
lately, inyolying a loss of $40,000.

During the last week no less than nine
‘bodies of mon and women haye been found
in the streets and waters of New York,
nearly all of whom seemed to have been
mysteriously murdered.

Unusual activity is
American Navy yards.

The Sun learns that the handsome sum
of one million of dollars was lately offered
for the New York Vines newspaper estab-
lishment, including its valuable real estate,
| Phe offer was declined,

A new weekly paper under the title of
The British Mail. ile been started in Chi-
engo, Its aim will be to keep the British

| residents of that city thoroughly informed
upon matters transpiring in the Old Coun-
| try and these Provinces,

A Cure vor Cataract.’ The Paris
papers mention the discovery by Dr. Tavig-
not, of cure of partial or total blindness
from cataract, without a surgical operation,

| Ife merely instills into the eye an oil con-
taining a small quantity of phosphorous,
The latter substance is said to have the
| property of dissolying the obscured ery-
staline, and to. form anew one. Ixperi-
}ments made at the Government Veterin-
ary School,.of Alfort upon horses and

sulisfuctorily proved the re-

d to prevail in the

The Postinaster-General has received
informstion from Mr, John Burns that as
the Cunard contract has been ratified, two
pawerlul screw steamships of upwards of
3,000 tons cach, specially adapted tor the
requirements ot the North American Mail
service, have been contracted for. ‘These
|ve sels are to be named Abyssinia and
| Alge ia.—AHalifax Express.

We should not hesitate to recommend to
any friend of ours, Parsons’ Pargative Pills;
they are scientifically prepared, and are adap-
ted to all the purposes of a good purgative
medicine.

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const of the Dominion to prevent America
| fishermen from fishing Cyandian waters
|during the coming n. ,Vhe , Premier
said that he understood that, the adnjiral in
Canada had a considerable armed forge on
the ground for the purpose of protecting the
fisheries, but desired Mr. Coffin to allow the
question to d.

Consols 9334; U. 8S. bonds; Ti¢erpool
markets quite and without quotable ¢hange.

The Cambridge University Boatmen have
accepted conditionally the. challenge . of the
Harvard College Club, §
The Goverments of France and Belgium
have ecd to appoint a mixed Comission
for the settlement, of Commercial questions.

sten’s Musicar Revinw for April is to
hand, and, in addition to fifteen pages of select
reading matter, contains the tollowing new
and beautiful music:

Aint I Sweet? A lady's comic song.
T. Brigham Bishop. ‘

Rest, Darling, Rest,
By 1h. C, Tisley.

/’m stilla friend to you.
By Will S. Hayes.

Sle wipes the tear from every eye.
Song. By H. VP. Danks.
Forest Glade Mareh. By Charles JNinkel.

Damask Rose Waltz. By BK. Mack.

Golden Sunset Mazurka. By Jd- Uarviston.

Music is gencrally considered expensive, but
when such a quantity is furnished for the small |
sum of 80 cents, it ceases to be a luxury, and
even the poorest may sing, play, and be happy.

Our musical friends will do well to examine
this work, and we feel confident that3v cents,
sent to the publishers for a sample copy, will
rield them a largerreturn for theirinvestment
than any similar outlay they can make. Send
for a copy, or get your newsdealer to get one
for you, and we guarantee you will thank us
for calling your attention to it.

Itisissued by J. L.. Peters, music publisher,
Box 5429, New York. at the low price of $3
a year, or 30 certs for single copies.

Loving mt oursglyes, we naturally feel
interested in circulating it among our musical
friends, and know of no better way of: doing
so thineby recommending Deters Musicap
Monthly. ‘The reading matter is not excelled
by any of the standard monthlies, and the
music is all that can be desired, both as. re-
gards quantity and quality. ., Knowing this:to
be the case, we have made arrangementsimith
the publisher to club it with our paper for
§3.25, or we will receive subscriptions at the
rate of $3 per year

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by
A beautiful’ Jallaby.

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Song and chorus,

Sacred

Returnina.—The American boat brought
back from the United States yesterday, large
numbers of Proyincialists who had sought in
vain their fortunes inthe dominion of Ungle
Sam. -About fifty of these lefé last night by
the Hmpress for their old homes in Nova
Scotin. More will leave by train this morn-.
ing for Prince Edward Island, and not a few
go to Fredericton by the Steamer. ‘They te-
present the ‘fimes” as even harder abroad
than at their Globe—despised homes.— Saint
John Telegraph. 4

Co.inctare HWonors.—Mr, James Inglis,
son of Dr. Inglis, recently carried off the
eighth prize for junior Latin, and the fourth
for junior Greck, inthe Edinburgh University:
Mr. ‘Thomas May, son of Thomas May, Esq.,
Glen Stuart, obtained the first prize—a med-
al—in the second class of mathematics in the
same institution. We chronicle these honors
with pleasure. The young men who have dis-
tinguished themselves at one of the first Uni-
versities in the world commenced their aca-
demical career in Prinee Kdward Island, ‘Mr.
Inglis, we believe, attended a session at Dal-
housic. Halifax, but Mr. May received all his
mathematical education in the Prince of Wales
College. Our youthful friends have our best
wishes for their future success, We hope they |
will achieve yet higher distinction, and reflect
still greater honor upon their Alma Mater.
The distinguished position which the students
frown the rince of Wales College have hither
to taken abroad, affords satisfactory evilence
of the thorough training in that institution, —
Patriot.

Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry,

whose value in curing Coughs, Colds, Bron-
ehitis, Whooping Cough, Croup, Asthma,
Palmonary Affection, and Incipient Consump-
tion is inestimable.

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of Wild Cherry is, in my belief, the best remedy
before the public tor Conghs and Pulmonary Cont
plaints, Having tested the article with my self and
family, in cuses of severe Coughe and Colds, for
yeurs, with uniform and unexceptionnble suécess,
1 unhesitatingly recomend it with full coutideuce
im its merits.’ :

“Having ezperienced the beneficial resulté of
Dr. Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Qnerry, in any owt
person and with other members of iny family, in
cages of severe Couge and Colds, [ unhesitatungly
give you my testimony, believitig it to be the re-
medy “par excellence’ for all disenses of the
throut aud chest, wand L would siscerely recommend
it us such.”’

None genuine unless signed 1, Burts on the
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Prepared by SETH W, FOWLE & SON, 18 Tre-

| St. John’s News, April 2

WET
FROM J, TANNER, Esq.,Connwanrr, Gi Wu! 4

There is another point on which Mr,
SuMNER, who has been all his life a strong
anti-slavery man, pours out’ the vials ol

his wrath against Bngland. He tells us,
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in substance, that it isan enormity—a
crime against civilization—that the coun-
trymen of Wilbertoree should have sym-

thized with a slave-holders’ rebellion
in the United States. The countrymen of
Wilberforce do. not love any form ol slav-
ery, and they did, what the United States
never attempted,—never even seriously
entertained—poured out their treasure by
niillions to remove that évil frem> every
spot of tht earth’s surface where the flag
floated. But they never, recognised the
issue of the late war of sections on this
continent as between alavery and anti-
slavery. ‘They saw that the Contederacy
attempted te be set up witha slave pow-
er; but they saw also that the constitution
sought to be maintained was a slavery-
protecting one. And yet further,
formal proclamation, that protection to
slavery was offered asa reward for re-
turning to obedience, and its abolition
made the punishment of continued disobe-
dienee, itis quite true, as was stated by
General Averill on a public occasion in
this city, that the ‘mills of the gods grind
fine,” and that by a great convulsion the
anachronism of slavery has been crushed
out of North America. It did seem to us,
too, that the infatuation of the South in
favor of this * institution” was the cause of
its punishment; for long after the blacks
had been wsed with great success in the
Northern armies, the South, up to the
very last, reluscd to take one step in fa-
your of emancipation, or using them in
their armies. Had they proclaimed eman-
cipation and made soldiers of (he blacks,
they would have won more sympathy
from the civilized world, and they might
have maintained their cause, All these,
however, if curious, are idle speculations
now. ‘The simple point that we wish to
establish is; that the men whom Mr,
Sumner so violently assails had no more
syinpathy with the cause of slivery than
he has, and made much more practical
sacrifice, instead of mere mouthing, to re-
move the eyil fromthe world, Many of
them also saw that if the dissolution of the
United States had taken place, ard the
South set up a purely slave republic, the
chances of nbolution would have been
sooner and nearer {rom that state of things
than with slavery protected and sanetion-
ed by the tree North; and that, being di-
rectly. brought, faee to fuce with the civil-
ized world, without any buffer or shield
afforded by connection with free institu-
tions, it would sooner fall before the uni
| versal opinion of mankind. At any rate
all these were opinions which might be
held without giving just. eause for any
national rancour; and we think itis greatly
to be regretted that, for any reason what-
ey Myr. Sumner should lend his services
in any so unworthy a yocation,— Mon-
| treal Gazete,

Change in the New York School Law.

A School Bill isnow pening in the
Legishuture of New York, similar to the
one introduced by the Mon, Mr, Flynn
into our ITouse of Assembly last session
It provides that were any demonation en-
rolls two handred scholars. the ** Chamb-
ferlin, County Treasurer, or other officer
who-may have charge of the school monic
to pay over cight dollars a head for an
number of schollars the ssid Manager.
Head or Superintendent may make it ap-
peur that he has taught.” The people of

the United States are beginning to lose
faith ia their boasted Gvodless school

system.—//e Leporter,

Tne Country Froopnp. — We stop the
press this morning to announce a serious
cilamity, that has fallen upon a great'portion
of the county of Missisquoi and neighbering
The valley and low lands of the
whole county, so far as we can learn, are
submerged, und the suffering, misery and loss
entailed upon the community are beyoud pre-
sent calculation. In all directions we hear
of mills, bridges, factories, and other yaluable
property being swept away by the flood. In
this village of Ireligsburg the water lies in
some yarts six feet on the land. All the
bridges in the neighborhood, except the cover-
ed bridge, leading into the village, have been
carried away by the irresistible flood. It is
impossible to move about at all. From
Cowansville we learn that the river there is
very high, and that Smith’s grist mill has been
destroyed. Further damages also feared. In
Wast Highgate, Vt., the butter tub factory,
two.seythe factories, and two saw mills had
been washed away. ‘The water in the Riche-
lie opposite to St, Jolin is likewise very high
and still rising, though with the exception of
warehouses of grain &¢., on the river's edge,
no ftreat damage is to be feared in the town,

A Ciry Swerr away by A FLoop.—The
San Francisco Lulletin, gives the following
particulars, written by an eye-witness, of the
destruction of the Mexican city, Alamos,
Sonora, by a flood:—* On the 15th Decem-
ber, it commenced to rain, and on the 16th a
genufne wind and rain storm set in, lasting
until the 18th, During its continuance it ap-
peared as if no human being could live within
its reach. The Alamos river was swollen to
a great height, and in its wild, headlong
course, carried everything before it, Ilouses
were swept away like so many straws, and
the whole block of buildings were thrown
down like so many rotton trees. ‘The wind
was no less terrible than the water, Jouses
were unroofed and blown to shutters; tiles
and like material were blown through the air
like chalf; and strong trees were uprooted
as if they had been cornstalks, ‘The best
part of the city is wholly destroyed. About
the only buildings saved worthy of mention
are the Mint, the ehurch and the old State
College. These stood on high ground, and
this advantage, with their solidity saved them.
‘The loss of life has been quite larges Sixty
‘dead bodies have been picked up; some of
them were mangled fearfully and could scar-
cely be recognized. Many of the bodies were
found miles down tho*river. Undoubtedly
the number will be largely increased, ‘lhe
ruined city of Alamos was the Athens of
North West Mexico, or at least, had that re-
putation, At the time of its destraction it
contained a populition of about 7,000 souls,

The Legislature of Nova Seotia met on
‘Thursday. ‘The speech of the Lieutenant
Governor is « mild document, and must be
sadly disappointing to those violent repeaters
who believed that it would contain something
very formidable and startling. It states that
the Windsor and *Annapolis Railway will be
open for traffic before the en | of the year, It
mentions that the additions to the Hospital for
tlie insane are completed; makes reference
to Agri¢alture and the Fisheries; and con-
gratulates the country on the success of the
Provincial Exhibition. It has a word to say
of gold discovery, and regrets the depression
of the coal trade, It states that the expendi-
tures have Leen kept within the estimate ; that
the revénde for Crown Lands was greater
than was estimated; but reccommends a re-
tiction in the Crown Land Staff. It regrets
the depression of trade, and the exodus re-
sulting from it; but hopes for a large emigra-
tion to the Province during the year, It pro-
inises a Dill in amendmeut of the Mining
Laws.

Aynivensany Oration —The anniversary
oration of the Mount Allison Alumni Society
is to be delivered tuis year by the Rey.

Ilaward Sprague ef Milltown, Subj
“Poetry and Kloquence in America.”.—N. 2.

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No notice can be taken of annonynious com-
munications. We must know the momes and
addresses of our correspondents aga guaranty
of their good faith. We cannot undeitake to
return communications that are not used,

~ THE NORTH WEST TERRITORY. —

Tn New Dominion has lately received
a large accession of territory. ‘The Hud-
son Bay Company laid claims to an im-
mense tract of land north and north west
of Canada. ‘Their title to it was at least
questionable, but they held on to it
with grat tenacity as long as they de-
cently could. Very little was known
about the Hudson Bay Territory until
lately. ‘The policy of the Company seems
to liave been to keep people ignorant of
the nature and resources of their poses-
sions. Most persons imagined that those
possessions were of no great value to any
one except the owners, ‘They were
thought to be cold and sterile, fit only for
the habitation of foxes and other fur
yielding animals, and their hunters, white
and red, ‘The Company, as we before
hinted, were well pleased to keep the
world:in ignorance ef the true. yalue of
theirimmense preserve. , They well knew
that colonists are the great enemies of
wild animals of all kinds, Experience
told them that the hope of their gains
would be gone if the country were once
opened up for settlement. ‘They were
therefore content to allow millions of acres
of some of the best land in America to
remain the abode of the wild beast of the
forest and the plain for an indefinite
number of ycars, in order that they might
draw a large yearly dividend on their in-
vested capital. ‘They had a legal title to
the land, they said—a charter given them
some tivo hundred years ago; and had
they not aright to do what they liked with
their own? If they saw fit to keep land
which was capable, if settled, of yielding
a comfortable subsistence to millions of
human beings, in a wild and unimproved
w hundreds of

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half-starved, degraded Indians, and an in-
definite number of minks, martins, bea-
yers, foxes, squirrels, and the other wild
creatures, big and little, whose business
was it to interfere with them? Could
they not show their parchment, with its
great scals, leaden or waxen, as the case
might be, also duly signed and delivered ?
What better title was required? Could
any English landlerd produce a better
one for his preserves ? Canadians found
out that this North West Territory was a
}goodly land, well watered with broad
streams, and containing fertile yalleys
and extensive plains. ‘They bogan to
grumble and to find fault with the impro-
vident Mother Country, and (the greedy
dog-in-the-mangerish Hudson Bay Com-
pany. They asked one another the ques-
|tion always asked whena land monopoly
s established on this American Con‘inent.
What right have these British traders,
stock-jobbers and noblemen, to deprive
the people of the realm of this fair por-
tion of their heritage? Are these prai-
ries, and yalleys, and woods, and streams
to remain forever unimproved and unused,
jexcept hy a few traders for the benefit of
ja few monied men? The monied men,
when they heard of these questionings
and murmurings, set up a great cry about
vested interests and the sacred rights of
property and _all that sort of thing. Spoli-
ation was a word continually on their lips.
‘The Canadians, however, did not pay
much attention to the clamor, but kept
on sturdily declaring that these capitalists
had no right to the land, and that it was
a sin and a shame to keep good land, ca-
pable of yielding food for man, in a state
of pristine wilderness, just to please a
few rich men who would ncither cultivate
it themselves or allow others to cultivate
it. The Dominion Government took the
matter in hand, and sent Delegates to
London to see if terms could not be made
with the Imperial Government and the
Company. ‘lhe Downing Street officials
were, it appears, much more civil and
obliging to the Canadian ¢cclegates, rep-
resenting some three millions of people,
than they ever were to delegates from
this little Island, who were sent there
more than once on a similar errand. ‘The
North West proprictors, like the Island
proprietors, made a dreadful fuss, and us
they were numerous, rich and influential,
they had a pretty good prospect of suc-
cess. But the Canadian delegates, keep-
ing in yiew the three and a half millions
at ahome, werefirm, An offer was made
of $1,500,000 for nineteen twentieths of
the land. ‘This offer was scouted by
many of the memlers of the Company.
‘They declared that they were going tobe
rovbed. ‘T.e meeting of shareholders
convened to consider the proposal was a
most unruly one. Such language as was
held by the indignant landholders on
that afternoon, is not by any means un-
familiar to the ears of landlord ridden P.
LE. Islanders. ‘They have heard the.same
arguments and the same protests a theu-
sand times in almost precisely the same
terms. But it was all of no avail. ‘The
proprictors had powerful Canada to deal
with, and not weak little P. 1. Island,
The Colonial Minister was inflexible,
The screws were tightened, and the pro-
prietors were for once obliged to ‘ cave
in.” Something that looks marvelously
like a compulsory sale was effected.
Take what you are offered, says Marl
Granville, or it will be worse for you.
The shareholders, if they had their own
way, if they were not afraid that a worse
thing would befal them, if they hold out
much longer and insisted on better terms,
would not have sold a foot of their highly
prized territory. ‘lhe Canadians on their
part say that they ought to have got the
land for nothing, that the company had
no right to it; but all things considered,
they concluded that they might have done
worse. ‘The land which thay have thus
purchased amounts to 50,000,000 acres
of good land, be the same a little more or
less. It is watered by the Saskatehewan,
Assiniboine, the Red River, and their
tributaries,and contains numberless lakes,
large and small, The climate is by «no
means so cold as one would imagine, A
Methodist Minister, the Rey. Mr, Camp-

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the 30th of December, says that up to that

time there had been hardly any snow,and
the cattle and horses fed on the plains,
The winter has been mild. The country
is healthy; ali sorts of vegetables grow
well, and wheat yields from 40 to 60
bushels to the acre. Coal is plentiful in
that region,and gold has been found there,
Altogether, the country is a very fine one,
‘The worst thing about it, however, is,
that like a great many other good things,
it is pretty’ hard to be got at. “There is no
good road to it from Canada as yet, but
one is being made, The best route to
to this new land of promise is through the
State of Minnesotta. “When you get
there, you are are from 500 to 1000 miles
from a market, whichis not a very plea-
sant consideration... We do not think
that this North West Territory will be
made ayailable for the purpose of coloni-
zation as soon as same people seem to
think, There is too much unoccupied
land in more accessible situations on the
continent,to render it likely that intending
settlers will choose a home so very far out
of the worl. as the banks.of the Saskatch-
ewan, tho’ that country be the earthly Pa-
radise which its admirers declare that it is.

LOUVICOAL VERY,

Tw order to convince his readers that
the Gdyernment of the Mother Country
keeps the people poor, the editor of the
Huaminer abuses the Jounna, ard ma-
ligns a gentleman who, he supposes, con-
tributes to its columns. | This is charac-
teristic. As it requires some knowledge
and some ability to reason, (any block-
head can scold), and as it is much easicr
to string falsehoods together than to con-
struct an argument, the Haaminer’s anti-
British scribe replies to our article in fa-
vor of British Institutions, by a ‘violent
and an unscrupulous personal attack. We
accused the Haaminer of having in its
editorial columns violated every rule of
good sense, good taste and good manners.
The yeracious editor, by way of proving
that our strictures were unjust, inserts
an article in his next number, which any
man possessing either the honor of a gen-
tleman or the morality of a christian,
would scorn to indite. It is very unfor-
tunate that the newspaper which claims
to be, par excellence, the advocate of a
religious education, should be~ mainly
conducted by men whose writings prove
them to be wholly regardless not only of
the amenities of civilized society, but of
the restraints and sanctions of that relig-
ion for which they profess so unbounded
areverence. We do not know who the
writers for the Hxaminer are, and we do
not want to know. We judge them sole-
ly by their writings. We frecly admit
that there is one among them—though
we differ widely from in opinion—who
writes like a gentleman and a scholar,
and we have no doubt that he is heartily
ashamed of the company which necessity
forees him to keep; but the rest of the
motley crew are rapidly achieving for the
Heaniner a bad pre-eminence among our
newspapers, for vulgarity, scurrility,
venemous malice and unscrupulous false-
hood,

Mr.idirwan’s Valedictory Address,
As editor of the Progress, appears in the
last issue of that paper. Though i. con-
tains much that provokes discussion, we
will not argue with him now ; we are not
in the mood. We wish our parting with
him to be without the faintest tinge of
acrimony or ill feeling. We have had
our little disagreements and bickerings, it
is true,—on review they now seem very
small indeed,—but for rival editors in a
small town, we have jogged on, side by
side, without in any very unusual degree
disturbing the peace of the community.
This was no doubt in a very great degree
owing to Mr. Kirwan's good sense, geni-
ality and forbearance. He possesses a
kindly and sympathetic nature, and by
far the greater number of those who dif-
fer most widely on public questions with
the journalist, cannot withhold their res-
pect and esteem from the man and the
citizen. For our part, we cheerfully bear
testimony to Mr. Kirwan’s many private
and social virtues. As a neighbor, he
was everything that could be wished for,
and his zeal in every work of improve-
ment, and his public spirit, made him a
very useful member of this community.
THe will be much missed in Summerside.
Modesty no doubt induces him to say that
the Progress will be conducted with great-
er ability under the editorship of his suc-
cessor, than while under his control. We
very much doubt it. Mr. Kirwan pos-
sesses, as a journalist, many good quali-
ties which but very few public writers
cun boast of, It is quite’ possible that
our contemporary over the way may fall
into the hands of more profound and
learned men than Mr. Kirwan, but such
a genial, witty, independent, off-hand,and
withal sensible editor, the Progress will,
we believe, nevér have again. We heart-
ily wish Mr. Kirwan success: in whatever
project he may engage. ‘

We learn that the Schr. Jane Bell,
which sailed from this port last week,
grounded on the bar while going into
Cascumpee harbor, and shortly after took
fire and was compictely. burnt, ‘The
origin of the fire is not known, but is
supposed to have originated from a quan-
tity of lime which was on board. ‘The
whole of her cargo was lost, the most of
which belonged to the owner of the vea-
sel. We regret to learn that the vessel
was notinsured, The cargo of the owner
was insured. Our readers will remember
that the Jane Bell was built last summer
at Alberton by Herbert Bell, isq., for
I. GC, Hall, Esq., who meeté with this
heavy loss,

Tit heavy rains of the last few days
have made the roads yery bad. It would
be much’ more to the credit of John
Williams, if he would make that piece of
road near Charlottetown even passable,
than to be displaying his fiery temper in
abusing a gentleman who'came out with
his views on road making in the Jslandér.
The first five miles of the Malpequo Road,
leading from the city, is o disgrace to
any man pretending to know how to make
roads or keep them in repair. We hope
the Board of Works will at once discharge

bell, writing from Tort Bdmonston, on

all incompetent Road Commissioners.