Summerside Journal -- 1867-02-28 -- Page 2

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tw eoldiers wad te lar the foundation of
nn efficient army Of feserve.

My Lorne avo Gextaewes Your nt
tention will again be walled to tie estate

of the representation of the population in
Parliament, and T trast that your dilibera
tions, condneted in a apivit: of moderation
and mutval forbearames, may load te the}
*sloption of measures which, without nn.)

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i OPTERTES iN NEW YORK

The New York Pwaewe eneak: at follows
of # lottery which recently took place in that
vity 1 |

About 175,000 peaple are suppored to have
gqraehed their teeth and tern ticit hair on the |
murning of the 20th, oFer the news from}
Chicago. tis not rash to aswme that of

Correspondence,
Te tH Horror or Due Joonyar
Sin:
Tn your paper of the Tth inst., you have an)
editorial on “ Bounties,” having a special re-

ference to our fisheries; from thore remarks, |

due distarbance of the balance ot political! those Who held tickets th the Groat Chicago and from most of what T have ever seen in)

power, shall trevly extend the elective!
franchise, i
The frequent occurrence of disagreement

Lottery, & Vast majorgy fully expected to be- |
cowe the formnate possessots of the Opera-
Hove, and that the 800 Incky ones who drew |
the smaller prizes ere almost ax disconsolate |

: \
any of our Island Journals, it is quite evident, |

‘that the subject is generally looked at from a)

wrong stand point, and treated accordingly.

between the employers of labor and their! 4 the thousands who drew vothing at all. |The view generally taken 4s well expressed

workmen, cagsing much private suffering |
and public loss, and occasionally teadine
as is alleged, to acts of outrage and vio-
lence, has induced me to issue a comnis-
sion to jnquipe inte and veport upon the |
ganization of trades unions and other}
etics, whether of workmen or employ-
ers, with power to sngrest any improve-
ment of the laws for their own benefit, |
Application will be made to you for parlia- |
mentary powers, which will be necessary |
to make the inquiry cfective,

Thave directed bills to be laid before
you for the e€tension to other trades of the}
beneficial provisions of the tactory acts,
especially reported by the Royal Commis-
sion on the employment of children, and}
for the better regulation, according to the
principle of those acts, of workshops where
women and children are very largely em-
ployed,

The condition of the mereantile marine
has attracted my serious attention, Com-
is are made that the supply of seamen

is deficient, and the provisions for their

health and discipline on board ship are
imperfect. Measures will be submitted to
you with a view to increase the efliciency
of this important service. [

IT have obseryed with satisfaction the re-
laxation recently introduced into the navi-
gation laws of France, Ihave expressed
to the Emperor my readiness to submit to
Parliament a proposal for the extinction,
on equitable terms, of the exemption fyqm
local charges on shipping which are still
enjoyed by a limited number of individuals
in British ports, and have in anticipation
of this step already admitted British ships
to the advantages of the new law. A. Dill
upon this subject will forthwith be laid
before you.

A bill will also be submitted to you for
making better provision for the arrange-

eetint of the afftirs of railway companies
which are unable to meet engagements.

Measures will be submitted to you for
improving the management of the sick,
and other poor in the metropolis, and for
redistribution of some of the charges for
relict therein,

Your attention will also be called to the
amendment of the law of bankruptey, to
ue consolidation of the Counts of Probate
and Divoree and Admirality, and to the
means of disposing with greater despatch
and frequency, of the increasing business
in the superior courts of common Jaw and
at the assiz

The relations between
tenant in Ireland have engaged my atten-
tion; anda Lill will be laid betore you
which, without interfering with the rights
of property, will offer direct encourage-
ment to occupants of land to improve their

j

Inndlord and

holdings and provide a simple mode of

obtaining compensation
improvements,
Tcommend to your careful considera-
tion these and other measures which will
be brought before you, and I pray that
your labors may, under the blessing of

for permancnt

; : .
Providence, conduce to the prosperity of

the country and happiness of my people.

A Picttre or Bacttetors py AN oLp
Matp.—Bachelors are loveless, cold, un-
patriotic dastards and chur’ The bach-
clors accept all the pleasures of good so-
ciety when they can, and support none of
itsexpenses. They dine out, and do not
give dinners in return; they feast at wed-
dings, christenings, pic-nics, but you never
sve the inside of their apartments, ‘T'
shabbily plead the uncommodating: spirit
ofthe lindlady. They chat on the increase
of erjme and the national expenditure ; but
they are neither taxpayers, subscribers to
the national schools, donors to the distress
fund, nor teachers in the Sunday School;
they are unfit for vestrymen, or any office
requiring judical or adminstrative capacity ;
and as to voting, the manhood sulfrage
could not possibly enfranchise them; for,
until educated by the friendly and saga-|
cious teaching of woman, they cannot!
have risen to the state of manhooe, nor
know whether they are Whigs or Tories.

A most terrible story has lately been
made public in New York, though whether
true or false we cannot pretend to say. A
certain woman of evil repute named Res-
tell resides in a splendid brown stone man-
sion in the most fashionable part of the
Fifth Avenue, It is said that this woman
has in the basement of her establishment
a large furnace which is used for the pur-
pose ol burning babies in. The New York
Hepress says that it is getting to be vulgar
tor New York ladies to be troubled ‘with
otfspring, and that as soon as they are
born they are handed over to the tender
mercies of this Madame Restell. We can-
vot believe that this is anything but a sen-
sational story, but it has created a very
great sensation in New York, and Madame
Atestell has rushed into print a ‘‘eard,” in
which of courso she indignantly denies the
horrible story,

Tun Ansurp ‘ Pextan Trrearavs”
from Ireland, we presume, are at an end.
The Yankee telegraphers have sent us a
great deal of smoke, but very little fire
seems to hive been burning. The des-
patch last night says the “rising is at an
end.” When we receive reliable state-
ments from England and Ireland we shall
probably discover that there was no ‘ ris-
ing” at all, and that at least nine tenths of
the reports sent by Cable weve without the
slightest foundation in fact.—St. John Mor.
Telegraph.

A New Brunswick paper says:—‘‘ The
Tostmaster General is taking steps to re-
duce the postage rates on letters to und
from the United States, from ‘ten to five
cents. The same rates will be established
between the United States and the other
British Provinces.

It is stated that the Queen has directed
the decoration of the Victorin Cross may
be conferred on persons serving in the
Jocal forces of the colony of New Zealand,
or who may hereafter be employed in the
‘eal forces raised, or Which may be raised,
in the colonies and their dependencies
generly,

A number of the merchants of Pictou
have adopted the early closing system.
They engage to slose their places of busi-
ness at 74 o'clock between the Ist o1 Dee-
ember and the Ist of May, and at 84 o'clock
between the Ist of May end the Ist of
December.

A late English paper says a person has
patented a wateh without hands that shows
on its face no hands but those which tell
the honr and minute looked for. The
figuras ate displayed as they are wanted,
audjng vibers appear on the watch face,

| sorry for them.

j were

For ourselves, we must confess we won't feel
They spent their five dollars
foolishly, and they richly deserved to get no-
thing for their investment.

Perhaps the unfortunate persons who didn't

draw the great prize tany be helped to a reso- |

lution to avoid such thihgs for the future by
looking at the following figures: ‘The Upera-
Htouse was valved (hy its owner 600,000,

| though the winner could only obtain $200,000 |
The Art Gallery was not worth, at the |

for it,
outside, over $50,000, About 180,000 tickets
sould at $5 each, yielding §8900,000,
Alluwing $200,000 for expenses, you have
$700,000 as the price obtained for the Opera-
tloyse—at least 30 per cent. more than it
would have brought ata regular sale, But
this is notall; nearly 30,000 tickets remaining
unsold were reckoned the property of Mr.
Crosby, and placed in the wheel; so that the
| owner of the building, beside getting a very
handsome price for it, had one chance in
every seven of drawing it himself! We have
no doubt that the drawing was conducted
honestly, and without deception; but had we
not better avoid, for the future, all transxe-
tions in which the sellur has such tremenduous
advantages over the buyers ?

A MIL1ion oF Perse AnvED TO Drati
tx Bririsn Ixpia. —A cutta correspondent
of the London Times, Dec. 7, gives some
ful details of the recent famine in the District
of Ori A Government Commissioner has
prepa a report. of which it is said:—A pic-
ture move heart-rending, facts more hideous,
could not be given. ‘Lhe Commissioner esti-
mates the deaths in Orissa alone at 500,000,
to 600,000, and in some places he admits that
three-fourths of the population have been
carried off. Orissa had five millions, And
the mortality of Midnapore, which was as
severely yisited; of Ganjam and Chota Nag-
pore, which were terribly, yet more mildly,
dealt with; of Calcutta, whose hospitals. still
tell so snd a tale; and of the other districts,
where the sequela, at least of starvation, car-
ried off many, and remember that the deaths
are still going on at the rate of a hundred a
day, and you will agree with the rough esti-
mate generally accepted here thut the number
of victims will not be undera million. In
1888-9, when as little was done for relief as
in 1866, the mortality in the Jumna Do
was 800,000. “But the tale of victims in this
Orissa visitation mounts higher than even
that, as high as the greatest of all recorded
famines in India—that of 1770.

A CirrayMan Conyicrep.—The Rey. Joel
Lindsley, like the Rev. Mr. Babin, has been
on trial charged with murder, but the result
has been Jess fortunate for him than that of
the Alymer trial for the Canadian clergyman.
Lindsley, who was tried at Allion, N. Y.,
was accused of whipping his little son to death,
and the jury finding him = guilty of man-
slaughter, he was sentenced to imprisonment
in the State prison for four years and a halt’.
A thrill of horror went through the court
room us the physiciuns testified to the con-
dition of the child's body, as seen by them
after it was laid in its coffin. One witness
swore that the boy must have received several
hundred blows; that the body was covered
with black and blue marks, the skin broken
in many places, the nails of the hands and feet
torn up at the sides, and even the souls of the
fect and the backs of the hands laid bare in
places. Lindsley acknowledged that he had
alternately beaten and ‘reasoned with? the
child for two hours when observing a change,’
he laid him onthe bed. The poor niother
eried out, Why, Johny's dying!” On this
the father took him up from the bed, and the
boy died in his arms. ,

Ka A new paper, called the Temperance
Watchman, the organ of the Good Templers,
has been started in Halifax, Messrs, MeNab
and Shaffer are the printers.

A bankrupt law, which it is said willrelieve
one hundred thousand American insolvents
if it should become law, has passed the Uni-
States Senate. It is many years since the
American Congress passed a similar law,
which, after serving a temporary purpose, was
repealed,

The Halifax Express says—‘‘ Look out for
spurious Provincial notes. Numbers both of
the old and new issue are in circulation, which
we caution the pubiic to be careful about re-

) ceiving, as they are dishonored at the Receiver

General's office, on account of their mutula-
tion.

The members of the Maine Legislature have
voted themselves a copy each of Webster un-
abridged, Lippincott’s Gazetter, and the Bible,
and $10 worth of postage stamps for each
member,

Four young lads, under twelve years ofage,
were discovered in a Boston Church on Sun-
day playing cuchre for ‘beer for the crowd.”

London proper only covers a little over 652
acres. In Lombard Streetit has been sold at
newly £70 stg. per square foot, or over
£2,000,000 peracre. Alderman Mechi, says
a friend ot his thought he had gota BARBRA
when he purchased at the rate of $1,660,000
peracre. About 600,000 persons come into
that acre to do business every forenoon, and
leave again in the afternoon and evening.

The question of withdrawing the United
tates Legation from Rome again, came up in
the House of Representatives on Wednesday,
and after a long and irrelevant debate, finally
carried on a division of 61 to 48. The Washi-
ington correspondents of the New York pap-
ers state that ‘ this debt proved that their was
an ill-concealed hostility to the Roman Catho-
lic Church, preyading the minds of the major-
ity of the house,”

They have in New York an incorporated
“ Society for the protection of destitute Ro-
man Catholie children.” ‘To its refuge it seems
the local courts rend Roman Cutholic vagrant
children. Tt had last year 625 of these in
charge, and out of arevenne of $106,856 re-
ceived from the State ‘‘as per legislative ap-
propriation “ 850,000, and from the city, ‘ for
support of children,” $21,000. In its schools
the distinctive tenets of the R. C. Church are
taught.

There are now wanting only 850 miles of
wire to connect New York with Pekin, in Chi-
na

Mn. Rernotns is getting along finely
with his stock list for the People’s Railway.
altho! he has time to callon comparatively
few of our citizens, when we saw his book
yesterday between $10 000 and 811,000
had been subscribed. The project com-
mends itself to everybody—indeed, we
noticed on Mr, Reynold’s list the names of
several lady stock-holders.—There will be
no difficulty in securing the funds, We
publish to-day the Prospectus of the Com-
pany, and a statement of the peculiar ad-
vantages of the locomotives which it is
proposed to place on the line.—St, John
Mor. Telegraph.

Tue Inrant’s Frrexp.— Mrs. Winslow's
Soothing Syriip is the best and surest remedy
in the world for all diseases of children; such
as teething, wind colic, &e. It corrects acid-
ity of the stomach, regulates the bowels, and
gives rest, health and comfort to mother and
child. Perfectly safe in all cases, as millions
of mothers can testify. Offices, 48 Dey street,
New-+Youk, and 205° High [olborn, London.

hy yourself in the following :-—

“If, for instance, farmers could not afford)

to cultivate potatoes without Government's
} taxing the whole community in order to pay
ithem a bounty of say, twenty shillings on
}every hundred bushels of potatoes raised by
|them, will any one have the hardihood to say
jthat the country at large is profited by the
cultivation of the potatoe under these cireum-
stanees? Would it not be much better for

| the country if the farmer cultivated same crop

| which would pay, then thus to tax the whole

ommunity for his support. What do the tax
payers get in return for the pound which they
| pay the farmer for raising this hundred bush-
J els ofpotatoes? ‘They get simply one hundred
| bushels of potatoes, for which they have te
pay as high, and perhaps a little higher price,
| than would be demanded by the merchant for
imported potatoes. The pound paid the
furmer for raising them is so much money
taken out of their pockets and put into his.”

The aboye would be in point, if a bounty
was asked for the cultivation of cotton, or the
sweet potatoe, or the silk worm; for which
neither our soil nor climate i8 suitable, and
would not be at any time sustaining,—but not
tenable when applied to our fisheries, For
this fact,that we have an inexhaystible amount
of fish on our shores, of which nearly the only
use that has been made, has been to enrich
the Nova Scotians and Americans; but P. E.
Islanders have not received any beneit com-
paratively to what they ought to have done.
Wise legislation would materially assist in
bringing about a remedy for this. But to
follow gut your own line of argument, let us
suppose that the furmers of P. E. Island did
not raise a sufficient quantity of potatoes for
home consumption, and that a quantity had
to be imported to supply the deficiency instead
of cultivatiug them here where the soil and
climate is most suitable to produce them to
an almost fabulous quantity, and that instead
of importing the potitoe, we could have by
proper management a luge surplus to export.
Now under these circumstances, would it not
be wise policy to grant a bounty for the rais-
ing of potatoes justin order to develope the
article us a source of wealth, and to continue
the bounty till the business hecame self sus-
taining, and no longer. Under these cireum-
stances will any one have the hardihood to
say that the country at large would not be
benefitted by the cultivation of the potato:

Now sir, our fisheries are nearly prec
in that position, We have an abundance of
inaterial to work upon, undeveloped,—and it
is high time that we should share the protits
of our own natural resources in the fisheries
with the ** Nova Scotians and Yankees.”

But many entertain scrions doubts whether
the fisheries would be a paying business or
not, as it has been often tried, and the result
in most instances has been a loss. Now I do
not hesitate to say that the cause of failure is
mostly attributable to the want of knowledge.
of those who have engaged in it; for in most
cases vessels not at all suitable in model, and
without a proper outfit, with crews on board
not acquainted with the business, have been
sent on fishing voyages; and the result has
been as it could not be otherwise—a failure.
Many think any sort of a vessel with good sea-
men on board will do to prosecute the fishing
business, but this is altogether a mistake.
Vishing is as much a mechituical art as a
Carpenter or Watchmaker. There is a train-
ing required before any man can become a
good fisherman, and until this is done—that
is to learn the art of fishing—it cannot be
carried on profitably.

This may seem an odd assertion. But it it
can be shown that experienced fishermen can
make from £15 to £25 per month on our
fishing ground, while our men fishing along-
side of them can hardly make as many shil-
lings, I think it will be a song proof to es-
tablish what I have said as to the want of
knowledge on the part of our fishermen,

I have already referred to the Woya
Scotians, many of whom come to our shores
every year and take a’full fure in from five to
eight weeks; the time they take to catch their
full load chiefly depends on the weather and
not to the chance of finding the fish,~For
the fish are always on the ground from the
middle of May till the latter part-ef October.
I have known frequently, five mento take
one hundred Quintals ina week,—while at
the same time our vessels fishing alongside
of them, would not take over ten Quintals.
This much for the cod-fishing.

The success which attends the American
vessels is so well known in fishing Mackeral,
that I need scarcely refer to it only to say
that our attempts to follow in their tracks have
been miserable failures; all of whichis at-
tributable to the causes I have already named,
that is our almost total ignorance of. the first
principles of the business from beginning to
end. I may say here that the above remarks
have altogether a reference to schooner fish-
ing. Bout fishing is different in many points,
so much that a good boat fisherman may be of
very littic service in a schooner, and certainly
not at all qualified to take charge of a fishing
voyage in a schooner. Now the claim on
government aid rests on the following :—

Ist, We have an exhaustible mine of wealth
in our fisheries, that are at present nearly
unproductive,

2nd. They have not hitherto been profit-
able, through the want of knowledge Ly those
engaged in them,

3. And in order to gain the required know-
ledge and develope this natural resource of
wealth. The fostering aid of the Government!
is almost indispensable not only in granting
bounties, but also in lowering import duties’
on articles required to carry on the business.
If something similar to this was done, the re-
sult would be that the revenue in a short time
would be repaid ten fold by increased trade.
Idid intend to touch on other points, but!

I intended.

If you should deem the above worthy of a

place in your Journal you will much oblige
A FISHERMAN.

Alberton, Feb. 16, 1867.

To Tne Epiror or tne Jovunar
Sir i—

I was surprised to observe an editorial para-
graph in your last paper stating that the con-
tract of building my Warehouse was performed
by a Mr. McKay, of Moncton. As there is
no foundation whatever for this statement, 1
have to state that you will correct it at once
by ‘nserting this letter in your next issue.
‘The contract was undertaken and completed
by Thomas Alley, Esq., in a manner highly
creditable to him; and I had nothing to do
with Mr. McKay inthe matter. As the timber
for the building*could not easily be procured
on the Island, I understand that Mr, Alley
purchased it from Mr. McKay, and employed
him to frame it in Moncton, with a view of sav-
ing freight, but from delay in its arrival here,
and its incomplete state when itrenched here,
Inte in the seuson, the contractor incurred a
very heavy outlay in completing his contract.

I remain, sir,
Your obedient servant,
OWEN CONNOLI
Charlottetown, Feb, 16th, 1867,

RNAL, THURSD

; i of life ca ve poor one
the article Nas lengthened out far bevond what! Arte hes be called 8 I '
jeven if owing to accidental circumstances,

MM ERSIDE J Au

Summerside Journal,
TRURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1867.

wa” No notice can be taken of abenymour
communications, We must know the names
and addresses of our correspondents as a gun-
ranty of their geod faith, We cannot under. |
take to return communications that are not used |

j

A»~ LOAN,

Ax attempt was made some years ago
to obtain the Imperial guarantee to the
loan of a comparatively large sum of
money to be expended in the purchase
of the proprictory estates on the Island
by the Government of the day. The
proposal met with much opposition,
The soundness of the principles upon
which the Land Purchase Bill is founded
was not then so generally acknowledged
as itis naw, It was considered unjust
to tax all classes of the community for
the benefit of one class. It was urged
that it was both inexpedient and unsafe
to permit the Government of the Island
in its corporate capacity to become a
speculator of lands. ‘The money in such
hands, it was argued, could not fail of
being injudiciously and corruptly ex-
pended, and the upshot of the whole
matter would be that the Island would
be involved in debt, and that a consider-
able portion of the tenantry would be en-
abled to obtain free lands, There was
much that was reasonable in these ob-
jections, and the conclusion did not’seem
improbable. The Land Purchase Bill
had but just commenced its operations,
and from a variety of causes it appeared
as if the lands purchased by government
would cost the people a great deal more
than they were worth, much more than
they would if the business were left to
be transacted by the proprietors and
thelr tenants as private individuals. But
the experience of a few years convinced
many of the most strenuous and honest
opponents of the Land Purchase Bill that
its principles were sound, and that to
obtain the proprietor’s estates by pur-
chase was the the only feasible mode by
which the tenantry of this Island could
be freed from the .yoke of landlordism,
It was found that Government could
be both honest and economical in the
management of their land purchases—
Mthat land could be bought and sold by it
with little or no loss to the Colony, and
that the tenantry would be very material-
ly benefitted by making the Government
an agent, between them and the pro-
prictors.

It is no doubt very proper and very
praiseworthy for the people of the Island
to endeavor to obtain tree land by their
own exertions, and fiom their own
resources, but is not the Parent Country
bound in justice to render them some
assistance in accomplishing this desirable
end? It is now universally admitted
that a very grievous error was committed
when the wilderness lands of the Colony
were granted to a few individuals, An
intolerable burden was by this impolitic
act, placed on the backs of the future
population of the country, and are not
those who committed the error bound
by the laws of justice and humanity to
do something towards its remedy. We
think that they are, and if so small
a favor as the extension of the credit of
the Imperial Government to this ill-used
colony would aid its people in regaining
their proper position as owners of the
soil which they haye reclaimed from the
wilderness, it is our opinion that common
justice demands that it be granted.

We have always thought that if by
any means the condition of the Island
tenant farmers were fairly understood by
the people of Rugland, they would cheer-
fully render them the required assistance.
The Island is by no means a poor coun-
try, but it cannot be expected that an
agricultural people can, i a few years,
without great sacrifices and much incon-
venience, spend large sums ini the pur-
chase of their lands.

EBRUARY 2, |

which to buy up our Township Lands no
one wo fs thoroughly convernant with

our affairs whl deny, We think if the

Government of the Island would take up

the matter carnestly, this favor at least

wight be procured, There w ould be at,
any rate no harm in making an atteropt

to get it.

It is thought by some that our hostile

attitude as a people, with regard to Con-

federation, has prejudiged the minds of
Imperial Statesmen against us, and that)
as long as we in this matter ran counter

to the wishes of the Home Government,

we need ask no favors ofthem. We are
of course not in a position to know what

force there may be in this objection, but

we shrewdly suspect that itis nothing
more than the ominous croaking of those

to hunt up obstacles to throw in the way
of new enterprises,

THE ELECTION.
Tnis much talked of and long looked
for event came off on Tuesday last, and
as far as we can learn the contest between
the both parties seems to have been very
great. In this District especially, the
election was a tight one. Every one at
all interested seemed to be up and doing.
Everything passed off quietly, of course
there was a little hard talk between op-
ponents, a few fights among those who
had indulged in intoxicating drink, but
we believe nobody was hurt.

As far as we havo been able to learn,
the following persons are the successful
Candidates,

Prince County.
First District—Bell and Howlan.
Second Distriet-—Yeo and Ramsay.
Third District-—Ramsay and Arsneault.
Fourth District—ILowatt and Laird.
Filth Distriet-—McLennan and Green.

Queren’s County.
Charlottetown—Breeken and Jenkins.
First Distriet—Sinclar and Cameron,
Second Distriet—MecNeill and Calbeck.
Third District—Coles and Kelly
Fourth District—Duneian and Davies.

Kina’s Country.
Georgetown—Haviland and MeAt
First District—Hensley and Kic
Second District —Whelan and Cl
Third Distriet-—Owen and Wightman.
Fourth Distriet—Prouse and Henderson,
We will endeavor in our next number to

lay before our readers the number of votes
poled by each Candidate.

te We were, a few days ago shown
through the extensive establishment of

of Benj. Haywood, Esq., Tignish. We

8
are compelled to defer a description of it

tilla future number. Mr. Haywood in-
formed us that in consequence of the in-
creased import duties upon dye stuffs, these
materials have this year cost him some
sixty pounds more than last year, and that
he found the cheapest market to purchase
in was the United S

tee Prince Edward Island and New-
foundland, as our readers have doubtless
heard, have been omitted in the ‘ Bill for
the Confederation of the British Provinces.”
They will have the ‘* privelege” of enter-
ing the Union whenever they see fil to do so,
as provision has been made for this in the
bill.

te Tne new Masonic Hall of Alberton,
which has just been completed by John
Hubbard, Esq., Architect, of Tignish, is a
building which reflects credit upon all who
have been concerned in its erection. It
belongs to Herbert Bell, Esq., who has
had the lower storey fitted up for a store
and warehouse. It is a well-proportioned
building and neatly finished.

tg Our thanks are hereby tendered to
our numerous friends and patrons, to the
Westward, for the very kind reception we
met with everywhere. We can fully ap-
preciate the spirit in which we are encour-
aged by our Western friends. They may

The unusual drain of the circulating
medium from the country must of neces-
sity cause a disturbance in the mercan-
tile world, and our farmers would be sure
to feel the ill effects of any such distur-
bance. Scarcity of money would cause
the prices of farm produce to be low,—
low prices for the fruits of his industry
Will hinder the farmer both from paying
his debts and buying his land. If a loan
could be procured at a reasonable rate of
interest, these difficulties would ina great
degree be obviated. ‘The lender in that
case, not requiring his principal immedi-
ately, the people would be obliged to
send only the annual interest out of the
country, and consequently much of the
money which is now sent abroad as pay-
ment for land would be kept in it. Al-
though we do not agree with all that we
hear and read of the evil of sending
money out of the country, still we believe
such a steady drain as is now flowing
put of it without any prospect of its
spéedy return with increase will cause
much inconvenience. | We know well
that money is not wealth, but only the
representative of wealth. A country that
abounds in the necessaries and coniforts

money may ata particular season be very
scarce init, But money which is pajd
for land is much longer in coming back
to the pockets of the purchaser than
money which is invested in what is com-
monly called business. Although the
Island is so much the richer for every
acre of tree land created in it, still some
time must elapse before the people in
general will be able to feel the full effect
of their increased wealth, A loan such
as we advocate would enable the Govern-
ment to give the tenant a longer term in
which to pay for his land, and would
consequently enable many more tenants
to become freeholders.
It is not likely that a small and un-
known Colony like this would be able to
nogotiate a loan in the money market at
home.on its own unsupported credit, that
is without an Imperial guarantee, but
with such 4 guarantee we have no, doubt
the money required could be procured on
comparatively easy terms. That we have
almost a right to demand the Imperial

also rely upon our aid in the adyocacy of
everything which-will benefit our own
County in particular and the Colony at
large. We take great pleasure in giving
pubricity to the letter of ‘*A Fisherman”
of Alberton, and take this opportunity of
inviting corr spondence on this or other
subjects of 1nterest. ‘

nn SAAR AA AN

tw Last week we Were shown the
“jumping off” place, It is situated on
the Western Shore, and, we were told,
about half-a-mile from the place where
General Wolf landed, many year’s ago.
We estimated the height of the bavk by
the extent to which an object diminished
when precipitated from the top. For this
purpose, We went ** head-oyer-heels,” over
the bank. The man who accompanied us
told us afterwards that we ‘ diminished”
considerably, as he could find nothing im-
mediately alterwards except our fur cap,
one shoe, and a large tooth. This tooth
was afterwards ** putin.” ‘Lhe height we
found to be about 94 feet.

tar A Very large and influential public
Temperance Meeting was held in the Tem-
peranee Hall at Cascumpee on Thursday
evening last, the 21st inst., just previous
to the session of the Grand Division, Ad-
dresses Were attentively listened to from
different speakers. A very labge audience
Was preseut.—CoM,

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tar” Tue Gulf, along the North Shore of
the Island, has been comparatively clear
of ice during the whole ot the preceding
part of the winter, ru

7 Everyone, we think who have trav-
elled through Prince County, and who has
visited Alberton and the commercial feen-
tres round it, and knows that the germs of
an immense business are planted, there,
the development of the fishing business,
will admit that ** the time has arrived” for
the division of Prince County into two
parts, Prince & Albert Counties. We have
several important reasons for this decision
which we reserve fomthe present.

ta A Locomotive Street Railway will

probably be built in St. John, N. B., next
summer. The proposed route is ‘from

Reed's Point to Indiantown, passing thro’

Portland Street:

ka" We publish in another column a letter
from Owen Connolly, Esq., correcting a state-
ment made'by us a few weeksago. We glad-
ly give it insertion, as we were misinformed
in the matter. We always wish to give hqnor
to whom honor is due, and especially, so in
this casé, as our friend, ‘Thomas Alley, Eaqy,

A Oona

guarantee in order to raise money with

faint-hearted people who are ever ready |*

THE LATE REV, MR McDONALD.
We think that we may safely sy
thet no man in this Island, let his station
in lie be what it may, Was ever more
dearly loved and deeply reverenced than
the late Rev. Donald McDonald, whose
death is announced iu another column of
this day’s paper, His whole life and his
whole ability were spent in the services ot
his Divine Master. Never did any man
devote himself more wholly and anreser-
vedly to the good of others than did’ Mr.
McDonald. [is labors as a preacher of
the Gospel were but a part, though per-
haps a very considerable part of his lile’s
work, He was emphatically the people's
friend as well as their teacher, Having
the most intimate intercourse with the
members of his numerous congregations,
sleeping fu their houses, eating with them,
conversing With them by their firesides, he
understood them as very few ministers un-
derstand those among whom they labor,
He was never atraid of compromising his
dignity by the most intimate intercourse
with the humblest members of his eongre-
gation. He could call every hunb. of his.
flock by his or her Chris‘iam name, He:
know the exact circumstances of all, and:
was ever rendy with sympathy, consola-
tion, reproof, or substantial aid, 2s the
case demanded. He was a man of warn
feelings, and loved his people, ant they ir
return were deyotedly attached to hin
His memory will be reverently and aifec-
tionately cherished by the children’s chil-
dren of those who are called by his name.
We need say nothing of his unparalleled
success as a minister of the Gospel, that is
patent to all, We learn that his funeral
procession, which lett Southport on Mon-
(ay morning last, for Orwell—where he
was interred—was very large, there being
over three hundred and filty sleighs.

We copy the following from the Patriot
of the 2Jrd instant :—

Henpreps of our readers will hear, with
profuund sorrow and regret, that the Rry.
Donatp McDoxarp isnu more, At o'clock
on Fiiday night, at the advanced age of 85
years and some months, crowned with honor
and esteem, and in the tull and certain hope
ot a glorious immortality beyond the grave,
this venerable minister of the Gospel calmly
and peacefully fell asleep in Jesus. ‘To his
numerous and deeply attached flock, as well
ats personal attached friends, the announce-
ment of his discease, though not unexpected,
will be sad news. Providence, which blessed
Mr. MeDonald with good health through life,
was also kind to him in his hatter days. ‘Phough
for some time confined to bed, he suffered
little or no bodily pain; for the last week or
two he was too weak to speak innch, but. re-
tained the use of all his ficulties to the last,
and recognized every acquaintance and mem-
ber of the church who visited him, He enjoy-
ed perfect peace of mind in view of his ap-
proaching end, and his firm-faith and serene
hope indicated the genuine character of his
Christian profession,

The late Mr. MeDonald was born in Perth-
shire, Scotland, and received a collegiate ed-
ucation at the University of St. Andrew's.
Ile was a man of superior talent, and could
preach in English or Gaelic with equal facil-
i MP-lium sized, but powerfully built, he
with an iron constitution, great
powers, and a kindly and generous
Jf the fifty years of his ministry,
he passed forty years in Prince Edward I.-
land, and, during that period, labored as few
before him have ever labored, He preached
on week days and Sabbaths, in private houses,
in churches, in schoolhonses, and in the open
air, On sacramental occasions he often spoke
for five or six hours without intermission.
During the term of his ministry he built four-
teen churches, baptized over 2,200) children,
and marrigd more people than dry living
clergyman, His parish—the largest on the
Island and containing at, present about five
thousand adherents—extended trom Wilmot
Creck to Murray Harbor, and trom Rustico
to Belle Creek. or forty yeurs he travelled
throughout its whole extent, preaching and
teaching as he went. ‘hose who do not know
the state of the country for a long time after
Mr. McDonald's arrival here, can hardly form
any idea of the hardships and discomforts he
must have experienced. He was everywhere
a welcome guest, and did an incalculable
amount of good. His conversation on general
topics was both interesting and instructive,
and ata period when newspapers were less
common than they are now, the people were
indebted to their minister for much of their
information respecting the leading events oc-
curring abroad, He never entered into any
agreement with his congregation as to the
umount of stipend he should receive, but
took what they felt disposed to give, and we
believe tnat they did not contribute very liber-
ally, Of this, however, he never once com-
plained. He was much misrepresented in his
day by men who did not understand him, and
the tongue of calumny often made free with
his name, but he outlived the one and silenced
the other. His remains will be interred at
Orwell Head, on Monday next. The funeral
cortege will leave Southport at ten o’clock in
the morning. It is unnecessary for us to add
that friends and acquaintances are invited to
attend, for we feel assured they will be pre-
sent from all parts of the country, to pay the
last tribute of respect to one who will long
live in the grateful recollection of thousands
of our fellow Colonists.
eR ETRE, Ui OMIT ESC RR LNA

An iuquest was held before Dr. Beer, one
of the Coroners for the County, on Wednes-
day. the 6th inst., on the body of Mary Nayer.
of Winsloe Road, who was found dead in her
house on the night previous. Verdict—
© Death from visitation of God.”—Pat®

The Yarmouth Jerald says that as some
young persons were skating on the harbor, one
of them, Charles Stanwood, was struck with a
rifle ball, which, entering the elbow of the left
arm and clearing the joint, passed upward.
It cannot be found with the probe, but causes
severe pain, the hand and arm being swollen.
During the afternoon, there was ritle firing
from one or two places in the neighWorhood of
the accident. ?

We were shown yesterday two bars of gold
from the Wellington and Palmerston claams
at Sherbrooke,one weighing over 550 ounces,
the other 280 ounces the whole worth about
$16,000. The Company owning the claims
have about 500 tons of quartz, which, if yield-
ing in the same ratio, will give about 2,000
ounces. The agent ofthe company, Mr. Snow
who appears to be a very energetic and busi-
like person, informs us that he has over 100
men at work, and will probably have double
thut number before the close of the summer.
Gold mining operations at Sherbrooke have
heen very successinl during the past ycat.—
dix, Express:

~~
tw Tur celebrated Mr. Dick, whose
naine is so well known in scientitie-cireles,
died lately at Thurso, G. B. ar

was proposed by Mr. Arthur Owen instead
of Aroha, Sinclair, as stated by us Inst
week,

te A Collection on belialf of ghe Rey,
C, Chiniquy's mission will be taken im: the

ia the gentlemin who is entitled fo it,

Summersidg Presbyterian. .Chure
Lord's day, : ; Habag

tyr Jotin Ramsay, of the Third District,

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