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stitious nature, She knew that he would fear and re-
gard his oath,
* I have gono to° far to recede,’ continued the con-
Toued the confessor. ‘ Let me know the whole.
© what does this tend, and what will you have of
me that demands such security ?’
*Thou knowest well the child of the king Aras-
ilus ?’ said the woman.
« * Well, indeed, fora child who hath nobility writ-
ten on his brow and in his heart. A sweet boy,
upon whom I have ever looked with glowing pride
—éve on whom Greece shall learn to look with
mingled love and respect; a child for whom I would
do anything that might honourably be done, so
much’@o { regard him.’
And this was true, for the priest had by some
chance become the most dearly-loved friend the boy
kuew, sharing wich Lim bis little games and sports,
and seemed with him once more to renew his child-
hood’s days. ‘Thus they were much together,
To be Continued,
Gortespondence.
To vuy Eprrox or tne Henarp.
Sir,— The enclosed communication, addressed to T,
W. Dodd, Esq., late High Sheriff of Queen's County,
was duly forwarded to the Patriot for publication at its
date, the only paper I subscribe for published in the Is-
land. After a weck or two's delay, Mr. Laird made
and published in the Patriot a short comment on 1t-an
unlicensed fiberty taken with his correspondent, and, |
opine, one-sided and cowardly.—It is like stabbing in
the dark. Commenthe has a right to, provided he gives
the correspondence in extenso. A true ‘*Patriot” loves
to view all the aspects of a subject, and to afford the
same privilege to all parties. With some patriots, dark
deeds done, injuriously resting on a large portion of the
community, must be kept in the dark, and an extra sly
stab, now and again thrown in to boot, to serve a pur-
pose. If Mr, Laird won't grind my grist, he could say
80, or pass it by in silence, With me, ‘tis doubtful
policy to continue to supply oil to keep the Patriot mill
&@ going, to grind out his peculiar notions.
I am, respectfully,
MANOAH ROWE.
Montague Bridge, Aug. 10, 1867.
TO T. W. DODD, ESQ., LATE HIGH SHERIFF
OF QUEEN'S COUNTY.
Sir,--Very recently my attention was called to a
communication which you, in your capacity as High
Sheriff of Queen’s County, dated 15th August, 1865,
addressed to the Colonial Secretary, and published in
the Journal of the House of Assembly for 1866, which
purports to be a report for the information of the Ad-
‘ ministrator of the Government, of your successful ar-
rest of one of the principal rioters. when several of the
‘Tenant League rescued the property which your Deputy
had levied upon,
The concluding paragraph reads as follows: ‘J
would say, in conclusion, that the great difficulty I ex-
perience in executing the Writs placed in my hands,
arises from the active sympathy shown by all the tenants
tor each other; their ingenious device of giving warning
to each other by means of blowing their trumpets upon
the approach of any of my offivers, effectually prevents
a levy being made before a large number of men are
collected ; while their system of terrorism, by which
they intimidate the well disposed, under threats of burn-
ing their premises and taking their lives, is so complete,
that it is impossible to look for any assistance outside
of the town, and I attribute the capture of Doucette
wholly to the fact that he and his adtomplices saw the
fire-arms which I had placed in the hands of my con-
stables.” '
The charge of arson and murder are here distinetly
put upon a large portion of your fellow-colonists. The
undeniable conclusion that this language induces is. that
the tenant league instigated the members thereof to
auch diabolical nets, with the view of accomplishing
their object, the purebase by the tenantry of ther farms,
by paying to the proprietors ar amount they thought to
be just and equitable. Iam one of the Central Com-
mittee of the ‘‘tenant league,” and for self and col-
leagues presume to ask you to put your band on your
breast and say whether you conscientiously and fully
believe the charge you have deliberately preterred
against the tenant union men? I envy not your posi-
tion a8 a false and foul accuser. Innocence has no
shield against such reckless conduct but in the consciovs-
ness of rectitude, when the accusation is laid in secret,
kept in secret, and used in secret against the accused.
1f I, as a tenant unionist, have said or done anything
offensive to the law, 1am ready to present my back to
the stripes of the law when convicted. But i want to
enjoy my British privilege, to see my accuser on the
witness stand before me. Are you prepared to con-
front me in the criminal box, in open court, as one of
the accused tenant leaguers to testify to the truth of
your allegations, that we tenant union men * intimidat-
ed the well disposed under threats of burning their pre-
mises aod taking their lives?” If not, I cannet think
of you other than a reviler, such ae all lovers of their
species would instinctively shun, With such informa-
tion as eppear to possess, how is it that none of the
parties breathing such een and slaughter, have
not been apprehended and brought up for examination
and punishment? and why were not those tenant union
men, against whom indictments were found, prosecuted ?
Was there any evidence produced at the trial of Messrs.
Dickieson, Doucette & Co., that burning and murder
was a part of the tenant union doctrine, as you have so
pointedly declared it to be? Has the peace and har-
mony of society been restored and preserved by such
omissions? Be it so. But can you explain how the
extension or omission of judicial clemency shall possess
such charming influence, while the infliction to the full
extent of political proscription is calculated to have the
same effeci? To pursue two opposite courses can never
terminate in the same result, and that, too, under the
constant tantalizing sneers of the Patriot and veracious
» Who, eighteen months since, sounded the
death-knell of the tenant union, and in his last issue
seeks to excite the worst fears in the minds of the peo-
vse for the future preservation of the peace of the Co-
ony, ‘as the Island is again at the mercy of the tenant
leaguers, and no adequate arrangement for the mainten-
ance of law and order mm the Colony,” No doubt
His Excellency has been largely imposed on in the past,
and apparently W. H. Pope seeks to continue the same
6, at the expense of the tenant union men. . His
xcellency’s line of procedure towards the leaguers,
under such information as is in his possession, cannot
regarded otherwise than consistent with due respect
to himself, and the high position be occupies, But
there are two sides to every question, and it is impera-
tive on tenant unionists to use all legitinate means to
remove from His Excellency's mind any misconception
, a8 to the means used. by the organization to secure to
the tenantry, by purchase, the fee sunple of their farms,
and to claim their right to their proper political position
in the community.
In conclusion, I wonld suggest the expediency of a
public meeting of the leading tenant union men, to con-
sider the propriety of drawing up a paper to be present-
ed to His Excellency, expressive of the rise, object, and
nue used by the organization, and to disabuse
Excellency’s mind of the wanton reproach restin
upon so ‘a portion of the community by T. W. Dodd,
or the present, I remain,
MANOAH ROWK,
Montague Bridge, 2nd July, 1867,
To the Editor of the Herald.
“ Sir,—Permit me, through the medium of your journal,
_ to contradict a report cireulated about Cardigan by
Donald Stewart, Esq,, to the effect that Hon. J. Wight-
Ps informe im (D, Stewart) that I told
* a backs ‘shat “9 f a Uy av Gorin
" H i gm tl ea he
clent, 3 Gowld spare some forty pounds.
; = ae I most emphatiai
: r renee any other
that I so spoke to him respecting the amount granted
for the Cardigan New Bridge, I simply pronounce it a
mithicious untruth, and the offspring of Mr. Wightman’s
own brain, us
When it was proposed last winter to petition for
money to plank, &c., the Cardigan Bridge, and repair
the Bridge on Launching Road, | was asked by Hon.
Mr. MeDgnald what amount [ thought would be requir-
e€ for the purpose. After a careful estimate of the
probable cost, I informed him that it would require al
least £100 for the two bridges—that is, £80 for Cardi-
gan New Bridge. and £20 for the bridge at Ryan's. And
these amounts, as submitted, have, it appears, been
granted by the Government. It-4s not likely, there-
tore, that [ should now turn round and say we had got
too.much, and be so mighty liberal as to wish to send
thirty or forty pounds of the money out-of my own
neighborhood, particularly as 1 am aware the sums
are sufficiently small for the purposes required. It
would be wiser for Mr. Wightman, in future, to study
more closaly the interests of his Electoral District, than
to make false reports, with a view to the prejudice of
any particular member of that constituency.
Yours, respectfully,
W. P. LEWIS, Rd. Commissioner.
Abbey Bank, Cardigan, July 8, "67.
Ghe Rerald,
Wednesday, August 28, 1367.
ta Our Agent, Mr. Thomas Reilly, will start on a
collecting tour through King’s County on or about the
ist of September, As we have not during the past two
years intruded upon our patrons in the East, nor en-
forced our honest clans agaiast unfeeling delinquents,
we have to request them to respond to this visit by pay-
ing their respective amounts as soon as called upon.
Those who are unable to pay the full amount, ean pay
a portion, even if only a dollar, The old excuse that
they were not aware that our Agent would visit
them so soon, will not avail this time. Our patrons in
Prince County will also take the hint to themselves, as
our Agent intends visiting them in October. “A word to
the wise these hard times is sufficient.
See
INDUSTRY.
AGRICULTURE AND LOCAL
From a perusal of our advertising columns, it will
be seen that the Government have very properly taken
the Agricultural and other Industrial Interests of the
Colony in hand in a liberal spirit, As far as the reven-
ue will admit, inducements have been held out to our
farmers and meehanics to compete for excellence in
their various professions. It is to be regretted that
King’s and Prince Counties have not been equally
favored as Queen's, in being provided with the means
for a local exhibition of farm stock, manufactured ar-
ticles, and the products of the soil. In this respect,
however, the present Exhibition will be in advance of
any previous ones, inasmuch as it is open to the mechan-
ics and farmers of the whole Island, But we shall not
rest satisfied until each of the other Counties receives
equal justice with Queen's in the appropriations for en-
couraging agriculture and originating local exhibitions
for each County. Some general benefit may then be
expected to resuli from the large sums annually granted
for the importation of improved stock and seeds, and
for keeping up an Agricultural Society and a Model and
Stock Farm from which no one derives any bevefit ex-
cept those immediately connected with them and a few
amateur farmers around Charlottetown.
In making public the list of Premiums, the Commis-
sioners appointed to administer the grant of the Legis-
lature for ‘* the encouragement of Agriculture and Lo.
cal Industry,” are aware that some branches of industry
may seem to have been overlooked, and others inade-
quately rewarded ; it was impossible, however, vut of
the limited sum at their disposal, to give full encour-
agement to all trades. It would have afforded them
much gratification to have been able to offer extra pre-
miums for the best carriages and carriage hartiess,with-
out limitation to value; also for the more expensive ar-
ticles of Furniture, involving the employment of the
wost skilltul artizans, and the choicest materials. With
larger means at their disposal, premiumy might have
been offered for mowing machines of Island manufac-
ture, with a view to ascertain whether the large and in-
creasing demand for these useful labor-saving machines
could not be supplied at a cheaper rate, from native re-
sources,-than by importation from abroad. ' Fancy
needle-work and other articles, the production of culti-
vated feminine taste, for which no premiums have been
awarded on this occasion, yet have not been forgotten.
The Commissioners, therefore, wish the forthcoming ex-
hibition to be regarded as an experiment on a somewhat
larger scale than has hitherto been attempted in the Co-
lony, and which, if successful, may induce the Legisia-
ture to sanction the application of a larger sum for a
similar purpose on a future occasion.
It is gratifying to find that the Charlottetown Drill
Shed is at length going to be appropriated to some prac-
tically useful purpose. Had only one-half of the money
which has been spent in building drill-sheds and bar-
tacks, been devoted to fostering the industry
of the country by means of judicious prizes, as
the present Government is about doing, we would have
considered the money well laid ovt. ‘The best thing
that can now be done with them is to use them for ag-
ricultural Halls, and similar useful purposes, and for
this reason we highly approve of the action of the Gov-
ernment in selecting the Charlottetown Drill Shed for
the Fair and Exhibition, advertised in our columns
to-day.
THE CALEDONIAN GATHERING,
Scorcnmen naturally, and perhaps with good reason,
regard themselves as the very ‘' lords of creation.” In
war they have proved their prowess; as historians and
metaphysicians they admit of no superiors; and even in
the domain of poetry and fiction, where the exercise of
the highest faculties of the imagination are required,
they ovcupy the first position. This is somewhat sur-
prising to those who, like Dr. Quill, in ** Charles O’Mal-
ley,” look upon a Svotchman as a oeing possessed of
‘*an imagination as bare as hit ownshins.” In propor-
tion to their numbers, their influence in almost every
foreign country is greater than that of any other nation-
ality. In the Colonies, where their numbers are supe-
nor, their influence is perfectly overwhelming. This
result 18 due to those habits of thrift and industry for
which they are 80 remarkable, and also to the great fact
that they devote themselves more exclusively to agri-
culture than any other class. Especially is this the case
in the United States and the British Provinces, and we
need scarcely say that in almost every country it is the
industrious, hardy, independent tillers and owners of
the soil who wield the greatest power in the State, and,
therefore, We are not surprised that the influence of
Scotchmen is felt and recognised wherever they settle
themselves, Without indulging in generalities, we beg
to congratulate our Scotch friends upon the inflaence
which they possess both in Church and State in this Ie-
land. For example, the announcement of one of thoir
interesting and popular Gatherings, is but the Prelode
arma mag
to a General Holiday. Both the Executive Government
and the City Corporation vie with each other to do honor
to the occasion, and the Scottish Games which have
beea celebrated on Government House Grounds for the
past four years have received an eclat from this circum-
stance which gives more of a Colonial than a sectional
aspect to the affair. How different the treatment which
a Benevolent Irish Society receives when celebrating
the Anniversary of their National Patron Saint! Dark
rumors of a Fenian gathering are mysteriously circu-
tated beforehand; special constables are sworn in for
the preservation of the peace; batons. distributed;
soldiers held in readiness, and the powder in the Gov-
eroment Magazine removed to a green-house for safety.
This is the marked distinetion, Government smiles and
patronage in the one case; and proscription and spe-
cial constables’ batons in the other. We will not insult
the intelligence of our readers by endeavoring to prove
that there is so marked a@ differenve in the character or
social position of Scotchmen and Irishmen in this Col-
ony, as to call for so distinctive a treatment between
the two. We merely refer to this view ef the case to
indace Irishmen to emulate the Scotch in their habits of
industry and economy, and what they lack in numbers
will speedily be made up in influence, We are happy
to know that many of the newly-formed settlements of
this Island, which are almost exclusively occupied by
[rishmen, have*made as rapid progress, and exlnbit as
many evidences of an advancing prosperity as the other
sections of the Island, which may be occupied by the
natives of other countries, A few more years of perse-
vering and well-directed industry upon their farms, will,
notwithstanding their proscription for more than three
centuries, confer upon them an enviable pesition, and ban-
ish forever the slightest distinction upon the part of the
Government in their National celebrations and those of
other countries. This is the ‘‘ moral” we wish *'to point.”
We shall have much pleasure in copying next week
from the Patriot, a comprehensive report of the Scottish
Games of 1867.
Avrnovan there was an understanding, we believe,
that when the editor of the Hxaminer took the Queen's
Printing, he was to abstain from advocating Con feder-
ation in any way, whilst he was the organ of an anti-
Confederate Government; yet from time to time he has
inserted fu bis paper paragraphs tavoring Confederation,
We have not referred to this fact before, nor would we
now, were it not that we read in the Examiner a few
weeks ago a paragraph to the effect that a general elec-
tion is vety likely to take place in this Colony this Fall
upon the question of Confederation, We can only ex-
press our own opinion that if His Excellency were to
take upon himself, either with or without the advice of
his Council, to dissolve the existing Legislature upon
any proposition to Confederate which may emanate
from the Dominion, he would only succeed in returning
a majority more decidedly hostile to union than ever.
Sufficient time has not been allowed to judge of the
working of the Dominion, and an appeal to the electors
under such circumstances, would be merely subjecting
them to needless expense and trouble, Should the Go-
vernor assume So serious a responsibility, he must be
prepared to take the consequences, His continued re-
sidence in this Colony would not be agreeable to him-
self. We say this uch in the belief that there is some
slight foundation for the Heaminer’s rumor ; for we can-
not conceal from ourselves the fact that enemies within
ourselves are underhandedly using their influence to
bring about a so-called favorable offer from Canada,
with the view of humbugging the people into Confeder-
ation. Butif there be no truth in the ramor, we won-
der what the majority of the supporters of the Govern-
ment think of the Lxamtner's couree. In either case,
the Government is placed in a false position by Mr.
Whelan breaking through that reserve upon the question
of Confederation, which he assumed when accepting
the Queen's Printing. His duty evidently is either to}
resign his office, or otherwise hold his peace—a duty!
which the Government and a majority of its supporters!
are bound to see strictly carried out.
The * Patriot” givesan account of a brutal ase
sault in Charlottetown, on the evening of the Cale-
donian Gathering, upon a man named Blue. We
would hope that the reason of the assault is not that
assigned by the *‘ Patriot,” namely—that Blue had
carried a St, Andrew’s standard at the Club's pro-
cession, which was mistaken for an Orarge flag.
The version we heard of the affair is, that Blue,
who was under the influence of liquor, was proceed-
ing down Pownal Street, shouting out for some per-
son “to fight him,” when he was met by a few
equally intoxicated individuals, ready for a fray,
who quarreled with him and beat him in a most in-
human manner, his nose being completely broken,
and his head severely ent. Nothing can excuse
such inhumanity, the perpetrators of which, we hope,
will be brought to justice. The whole affair ori-
ginated, we believe, as many another deplorable
circumstance, in intoxieation, and had nothing what-
ever of a party spirit about it, aud we regret that
the Patriot” has thought proper to throw out the
insinuation which it has done, that because Blue
was mistaken for an Orangeman, he was uoprovok-
edly set upon and abused. There are no facts to
warraut such a conclusion,
The crisis in the Cabinet at Washington has given
rise to a great many rumours and reports, many of
which are probably groundless. For what they are
worth, however, the reader may take those printed be-
low :—
The Herald's Washington Special says one cause of
delay on the part of the President in removing Secre-
tary Stanton is the propneely of the step. Secretary
Seward and Mr. Reed are opposed to the remova! of
Secretary Stanton. It is said that Seward has taken
so decided a stand in the matter as to have occasioned
bad feelings in the President's breast. It is said. that
the President hag resolved to request Secretary Seward
to resign in a note of somewhat equal politeness and
brevity to that delivered to Secretary Stanton, Should
this be true it is belioved Mr. Adams will be recalled
from England and offered the portfolio of Secretary of
State. ft is sald, moreover, that Mr. Randall and Sec-
retary McCulloch are not altogether to be depended
upon in their fidetity to the Johnson policy. The people
say the former contemplates resigning at an early day.
As to McCulloch, there are many rumours, one being
that the President believes the Secretary of the Trea-
sury has brought diecredit on the administration by
appointing improper men into office, and that his man-
agement of the national finances have not been al! that
was expected of him. Another rumour as to the diffi-
culty between the President and Secretary McCulloch,
places matters at such an extreme point as to mention
the name of his pag successor in the person of
Moses Poyie, of New York. It bas been stated, on
very good authority, that one of the reasons which ac-
tuated Secretary Stanton when he refused to resign at
the President's request, is that he has recorved fafor-
mation of a scheme which it is said is on foot for arm-
ing the military organizations in the late rebel states,
whose ultimate object is another assault upon the Go-
vernment, and he is determined to remain at his post
to thwart their designe, It is sald further that one of
the causes of the Inte rupture betwoen the President
and Secretary Stanton, was the refusal ofthe latter to oo
sign to # militia Company ef Moeryiand, compen’,
niainly of returned officers and soldiers, a battery 0
eight guns for which they had applied, The President,
it is said, directed him to furnish the battery, but that
Secretary Stanton declined, and still refuses to do so.
It would really seem that the President has the best
of matters so far, and, certainly, if General Grant has
taken the War Secretaryship, as reported yesterday,
by telegraph, Mr. Johnson’s position before the coun-
try will be a strong one.
THE EMPRESS CARLOTTA.
ee
The Memorial Dip!omatique gives out on the authority
of a letter from Trieste, written by a person in whom
it plaees perfect confidence, that the Empress Carlotta
was poisoned before she returned to Europe, It says:
«The practical eve of so able a practitioner as Dr.
Bulkens was struck with the abnormal symptoms of the
august patient, However violent and painful may
have been the emotions which the Empress experienced
since her departure from Mexico, these could not, ac-
cording to the laws of pathology, be the only cause of
the mental exaltations and the moral prostrations which
alternately succeed each other, and seem to defy the
resources of science. It is certain that in the month of
July, 1866, her Majesty, after having embarked at
Vera Cruz, was seized with a sleepiness occasioned by
a flow of blood to the head, and which continued dur-
ing the whole yoyage. Since then symptoms have con-
stantly been remarked indicating a profound alterna-
tion in the blood, which, from Her Majesty’s youth
and robust constitution, cannot possibly be explained
other wise than by the pernicious action of a physicial
agent. Everything therefore tends to the belief that
some subtle poison has been administered to the Em-
pross by the traitors by whom the court of Chapultepec
was only too closely surrounded, and that Her Majesty
in leaving Mexico carried with her the germ of the
frightful malady which broke out on the 4th of Octo-
ber following, at Rome. In fact, a few days after the
departure of the Empress, certain American journals,
probably initiated into the terrible mystery, pretend-
ed that during the transit from Mexico to the port of
embarkation, her Majesty had given manifest signs of
me ntal alienation; that vews, then premature, was to
be verified a few months later. The Empress herselt
instinctively suspected the truth; for as soon as her
mental faculties began to be troubled, she was beset
with the idea that she had been poisoned, and she still
renining under the influence of that conviction.
The Ottawa News, a Conservative organ, is res-
pousible for the following. ‘These words of warning
are timely, but they are thrown away upon the ** lead-
ing minds” in this Colony :—
It is true that the Confederated Union is in dan-
ger. But not from Howe or Lanctot, or Sanfield,
or any other of its avowed enemies, Our ship of
State is runaing fast upon a rock, but the pilots are
straining their eyes through glasses in another di-
rection, The sea is lashing into foam around a
fearful ‘‘ breaker,” but the captain heeds it not; a
strange fatality bids his vision to a different point
of the compass. The truth 18 that the Union is in
danger from extravaganceand corruption. Already
a fear permeates every clase of society that the com-
plicated machinery of the new Government is going
to press down the people with a fearful burden of tax-
ation. Go where you will, in the city or through
the country, the same undefined dread of appoach-
ing tax-gatherers is felt by all. The people on Do-
minion Day rejoiced over the accomplishment of
Confederation. But when the bonfires were all
burned down, and the last rocket sent up, and the
last fire-cracker popped off, a prescience of coming
danger seems to have settled"upon the public mind.
The country has had enough of Coalitions, That
of ’54 doubled the debt of this Province in four
or five years. Give us a Coalition with an over-
whelmiug majority in Parliameut, and a railway to
build, and we will show you a country rushing to
bankruptcy and ruin as fast as reckless mavagers
can drive it, The Intercolonial Ruilway, if entered
upon with a determined spirit of economy, (or rather
we should say common honesty), can be constructed
without at all endangering the finaucial position of
the Province; but if it is seized upon, as was the
Grand Trunk, as a grand opportunity of enrich-
ing the innumerable cormorants that surround the
Government, it will prove a millstone around the
neck of Confederation, a rock on which the good
ship ** Umon” will be hopelessy. wrecked, ”
We see by the Montreal papers that Mr. McGee,
who has forfeited the confidence of his country-
men, is endeavouring to blast their character, to the
best of his ability, by denouncing the whole of them
as Feniaus, cut-throats and rebels, His so-called
“disclosures” are as clumsy and trashy as the
awful disclosures” of Maria Monk, and will damo
him for all time!o come. It must be a dirty bird
that fouls its own vest, and the utter want of judg-
ment which characterizes his unseemely acts, is only
equalled by his baseness. Mr. Devlin promises a
scathing rebuke, and we feel sure he will redeem
his promise with powerful effect,
tw We think that our contemporaries should
give us credit for articles which they copy from this
paper. The Patriot of Saturday last copied one of
our articles in extenso concerning the Dominion
cutter, La Canadienne, and never gave us credit for
it, The Examiner, following suit, designated the
article a‘ judicious” one, bat attributed its paternity
to the Islander, This is not exactly * doing unto
others as we would wish others to do unto us.
The harvest this year has
Both wheat and oats have been already gathered in,
The wheat is said to be of first-rate quality, and that
which is still unripe promises well all over the Island.
The unusual hot weather of this season has, no doubt,
produced this gratifying result—-the effects of
which upon the financial conditiou of the Colony
can scarcely be sufliciently appreciated or thankfully
acknowledged, toa beneficent Providence. Tho oat
crop 18 said to be light, but will still be an average one—
the mussul mud manure now so generally used, man-
ifesting its fertilizing effects, despite long-continued
droughts and other Tecwtecks. Altogether the pros-
pects of every class inthe colony are bright and cheer-
ing, from the certain prospect of an abundant harvest
of Loth cereals and root crops, 4
been unusually earl “
Tur Epiysurcn Review for July, which has just
come to hand from the Leonard Scott Publishing Com-
pany, New York, contains the following articles :—
1, The Early. Administration of George III; 2. Agri-
oulture and prices in England (1259—1400) ; 3, Pro.
fessor Ferrier’s Philosophical Remains; 4. The Council
of Constantinople; 5, Indian Costumes and Textile
Fabrics; 6. Life and Speeches of Lord Plunkett; 7,
Wine and the Wine Trade; 8, Josiah Wedgwood ; 9.
Burton's History of Scotland; 10. The Military Insti-
tutions of France,
Tae Wesraurnstern Review, which has also been
received, contains seven articles, besides a compre-
hensive review of Contemporary Literature. Th
are: 1. Mimicry and other Protective Resemblances
among animals; 2. Lucius Annmwus Seneca; 3. The
Last Great Monoply; 4. Lyric Feuds; 5. The
Future of Reform; 6. Jamaica; 7, The Religious
side of the Ttalian Question,
oe oe st
LOCAL NEWS.
The Steamship Alhambra, with freight and passengers,
arrived at this port on Saturday, agd left fur Halifax
and Boston on Monday.
An English mail was brought from Pietou last
evening by the Princess of Wales,
Tue Hon. Mr. Coles arrived home on Saturday
night from his short cruise in La Canadienne, much
improved, we understand, in health.
We learn that the Summerside mail bag which was
forwarded by the Princess of Wales on Friday night last,
was opened at Summerside by some dexterous thief
and robSed of a parcel of money belonging to the
Union Bank.
Wr perceive that Mr. Bernard Reddin has removed
to his splendid new shop erected on the site of the old
one. ‘The building is four stories high, and contains
three commodious shops.
Tae annual Militia muster and drill are now pretty
well over throughout the Island. In most cases only
six days drill bave been exacted, and the attendance
was everything that could be desired. We fancy, how-
ever, that whatever knowledge of the goose ste may
have been acquired this season will be forgotten befoes
the next annual muster,
We regret that we cannot find room in to-day’s
paper, for the communication of the City Recoréer,
in reply to that of * Ixion,’’ which appeared last
week, In our next issue we will find space for it.
** An Old Magistraie,” in a letter adressed to the
Proprietors of the Charlottetown newspapers, ad-
monishes parties who may be convicted of setting
fire to houses, that they are liable to suffer the ex-
treme penalty of the law—hanging,
The City Couucil are taking steps to provide tho
City with a sufficient number of watering carts to allay
he dust upon the streets. They ought to have done so
three months ago; our suggestion would be to
abandon the project now, and prepare thoroughly
during the coming winter for the earliest dust of -
pext season.
Mr. Kennedy, the Scottish Vocalist, has been de-
lighting a Charlottetown audience during the past
week. He gave an entertainment on Wednesday and
Friday nights, and on each occasion, his songs, read-
ings and racy stories of the land of brown heather
were rendered in the most artistic style and with ex-
quisite taste. It is needless to say thet his pertorman-
ces were highly appreciated and well patronised, or
that his announcement of an annual visit to Charlotte-
town was received with rapturous applause, Wa
shall hail hie promised visit next summer with un-
feigned pleasure.
A new Presbyterian Church was opened for
Divine worship, at Mount Stewart, on Sunday tho
4th inst., the Revs, Messrs, Falconer and Cameron
officiating. '
Arch, J, McDonald, Esq., has been appointed
Collector of Impost and Controllor of Navigation
Laws for the Port of Georgetown, in the place of
W.B. Aitken, Esq.
Jas. McPhail, Capt. of the Schooner ‘ Two
Brothers,” of Lunenburg, N. 8., pays a high com-
pliment to the efficiency of the keeper of the North
Cape Lighthouse of this Island.
A labouring man namec Tromas Poonx, of this City, fell
overbeard from Pope's Wharf at miduight, on Wednesday
last, and was drowned. On falling, itis supposed his head
must have come in contact with the guard of the steamer
Heather Belle, and the blow stunned him. His body was
recovered in a few moments, but life’ #as extinct. We fear
his death may be attributed to intemperance.—Is/,
A band of Gipsies have encamped on a piece of ground
near the North River Road, about two miles out, and are
plying their miserable trade of **fortune-telling,’’ hey
have a considerable number of horses and carts, and tents,
and from this we may infer that the gang is a numerous one,
which we had not an opportunity of seeing very closely,
The Gipsies are not very desirable people to have in the ym-
mediate vicinity of one’s farm, when the crop is being cut
down, and when they are in want of fodder for hungry
horses; and it will be well for the farmers on the North
River Road to keep a watchful eye on their property, Ex,
The weather during the past fortnight has been unusually
warm. The thermometer repeatedly rose as high as 78
degs. in the shade, and for several days averaged upwards
of 80 degs, throughout the day, This is a degrce of heat sele
dom experienced in the tropics. The hot weather has ben-
efitted the wheat, and the prospect of a good return, for the
small quantity sown, cheers our fermers, ‘The crops gener-
ally promise well. Grain is rapidly ripening under the in.
fluence of the hot weather.—Jsi,
——:
ALL SORTS OF ITEMS.
The Rev. Henry Wendt, who for two years past
has been Superintendant of an Orphan Assy!um at
Philadelphia, was arrested at Rochester, on Mon-
day, by Policeman McLean, for perpetrating rape
on no less than seven little girls who were under his
charge. He is a regularly ordained Lutheran clergy-
man. He confesses that he has done wrong. He
was taken to Philadelphia and committed for trial.
The body of aman named McLeod,—one of the
unfortunate crew of the boat belorging to River
Joho, Nova Scotia, upset somewhere near the en-
trance of this harbor, on the night of the great gale,
was picked up some days ago near Point Prim. The
body of avother of those unfortunate men, Mr,
Stramberg, teacher of the River John Academy,
was found near St. Peter’s Island on Monday last ;
the body of his brother at South Shore on Tuesday;
and that of his uncle near the same place on Wed-
nesday. The last remains of tho three Messrs,
Stramberg were interred in the Protestant Cemetry
of this City, ou the mornings of Tuesday, Wednes-
day, aud Thursday, respectively, after each in turn
being subjected to a Coroner’s inquest, The only
other remaiuing body, that of a man named Me-
Donald, so far as we had heard, has not yet beea
found.—Pat,
When a counterfeit is presented at the Bank of
Y,| England, the gold is instantly paid for it. If it comes
from some known person, he is only asked where he
got it. If from a stranger, the cashier signals to his
detective, always in waiting, and the officer follows
stat Before many hours the Bank is in posses-
sion of the stranger's biograply. ‘Tho offender, once
arrested, is likely to be tried, convicted and dentenced
within two days.
Tue attempt to lay a Submarine Cable between Cuba
and the Mainland has failed for the present, Daring
the paying out process a slip occurred, and part of the
cable was lost.
We hear that Mr. E. W. Jarvis, Civil Engineer,
who oame out to this Islanda few weeks ago, has re-
ceived an appointment as Engineer on the Teter:
Colonial Railway. Mr. Jarvis is nephew of the
Hon. Col. Grey, Charlottetown Royalty.
A very destructive fire occured, Aug. 18th, in the
woods six miles east of Toronto, by which eve thing
within a circle of half a mile was consumed, inc uding
grain fielde, barns and houses; no loss of life was re-
ported, ;
Tho eath at Paris ie announced of Gen. Cavaignac,
in his seventy-eight year, cousin of the former head
of the executive power under the Frenoh Republic,
The Fenian privateer “ Plato,” with 350 men
and 2 twelve pounders, which was despatched by the
Brethren to Ireland some three months ago, to as-
certain if a landing could be successfully effected, re-
y| turned to New York last week, aud reports favorably
of the project. We would not like to be in the shoes
of any Fenian who should make the attompt, It is a
fact, however, that although the privateer sailed
around the coast of Ireland, she completely aluded
the vigilance of the Bri tiph fleet.
*
—
stitious nature, She knew that he would fear and re-
gard his oath,
* I have gono to° far to recede,’ continued the con-
Toued the confessor. ‘ Let me know the whole.
© what does this tend, and what will you have of
me that demands such security ?’
*Thou knowest well the child of the king Aras-
ilus ?’ said the woman.
« * Well, indeed, fora child who hath nobility writ-
ten on his brow and in his heart. A sweet boy,
upon whom I have ever looked with glowing pride
—éve on whom Greece shall learn to look with
mingled love and respect; a child for whom I would
do anything that might honourably be done, so
much’@o { regard him.’
And this was true, for the priest had by some
chance become the most dearly-loved friend the boy
kuew, sharing wich Lim bis little games and sports,
and seemed with him once more to renew his child-
hood’s days. ‘Thus they were much together,
To be Continued,
Gortespondence.
To vuy Eprrox or tne Henarp.
Sir,— The enclosed communication, addressed to T,
W. Dodd, Esq., late High Sheriff of Queen's County,
was duly forwarded to the Patriot for publication at its
date, the only paper I subscribe for published in the Is-
land. After a weck or two's delay, Mr. Laird made
and published in the Patriot a short comment on 1t-an
unlicensed fiberty taken with his correspondent, and, |
opine, one-sided and cowardly.—It is like stabbing in
the dark. Commenthe has a right to, provided he gives
the correspondence in extenso. A true ‘*Patriot” loves
to view all the aspects of a subject, and to afford the
same privilege to all parties. With some patriots, dark
deeds done, injuriously resting on a large portion of the
community, must be kept in the dark, and an extra sly
stab, now and again thrown in to boot, to serve a pur-
pose. If Mr, Laird won't grind my grist, he could say
80, or pass it by in silence, With me, ‘tis doubtful
policy to continue to supply oil to keep the Patriot mill
&@ going, to grind out his peculiar notions.
I am, respectfully,
MANOAH ROWE.
Montague Bridge, Aug. 10, 1867.
TO T. W. DODD, ESQ., LATE HIGH SHERIFF
OF QUEEN'S COUNTY.
Sir,--Very recently my attention was called to a
communication which you, in your capacity as High
Sheriff of Queen’s County, dated 15th August, 1865,
addressed to the Colonial Secretary, and published in
the Journal of the House of Assembly for 1866, which
purports to be a report for the information of the Ad-
‘ ministrator of the Government, of your successful ar-
rest of one of the principal rioters. when several of the
‘Tenant League rescued the property which your Deputy
had levied upon,
The concluding paragraph reads as follows: ‘J
would say, in conclusion, that the great difficulty I ex-
perience in executing the Writs placed in my hands,
arises from the active sympathy shown by all the tenants
tor each other; their ingenious device of giving warning
to each other by means of blowing their trumpets upon
the approach of any of my offivers, effectually prevents
a levy being made before a large number of men are
collected ; while their system of terrorism, by which
they intimidate the well disposed, under threats of burn-
ing their premises and taking their lives, is so complete,
that it is impossible to look for any assistance outside
of the town, and I attribute the capture of Doucette
wholly to the fact that he and his adtomplices saw the
fire-arms which I had placed in the hands of my con-
stables.” '
The charge of arson and murder are here distinetly
put upon a large portion of your fellow-colonists. The
undeniable conclusion that this language induces is. that
the tenant league instigated the members thereof to
auch diabolical nets, with the view of accomplishing
their object, the purebase by the tenantry of ther farms,
by paying to the proprietors ar amount they thought to
be just and equitable. Iam one of the Central Com-
mittee of the ‘‘tenant league,” and for self and col-
leagues presume to ask you to put your band on your
breast and say whether you conscientiously and fully
believe the charge you have deliberately preterred
against the tenant union men? I envy not your posi-
tion a8 a false and foul accuser. Innocence has no
shield against such reckless conduct but in the consciovs-
ness of rectitude, when the accusation is laid in secret,
kept in secret, and used in secret against the accused.
1f I, as a tenant unionist, have said or done anything
offensive to the law, 1am ready to present my back to
the stripes of the law when convicted. But i want to
enjoy my British privilege, to see my accuser on the
witness stand before me. Are you prepared to con-
front me in the criminal box, in open court, as one of
the accused tenant leaguers to testify to the truth of
your allegations, that we tenant union men * intimidat-
ed the well disposed under threats of burning their pre-
mises aod taking their lives?” If not, I cannet think
of you other than a reviler, such ae all lovers of their
species would instinctively shun, With such informa-
tion as eppear to possess, how is it that none of the
parties breathing such een and slaughter, have
not been apprehended and brought up for examination
and punishment? and why were not those tenant union
men, against whom indictments were found, prosecuted ?
Was there any evidence produced at the trial of Messrs.
Dickieson, Doucette & Co., that burning and murder
was a part of the tenant union doctrine, as you have so
pointedly declared it to be? Has the peace and har-
mony of society been restored and preserved by such
omissions? Be it so. But can you explain how the
extension or omission of judicial clemency shall possess
such charming influence, while the infliction to the full
extent of political proscription is calculated to have the
same effeci? To pursue two opposite courses can never
terminate in the same result, and that, too, under the
constant tantalizing sneers of the Patriot and veracious
» Who, eighteen months since, sounded the
death-knell of the tenant union, and in his last issue
seeks to excite the worst fears in the minds of the peo-
vse for the future preservation of the peace of the Co-
ony, ‘as the Island is again at the mercy of the tenant
leaguers, and no adequate arrangement for the mainten-
ance of law and order mm the Colony,” No doubt
His Excellency has been largely imposed on in the past,
and apparently W. H. Pope seeks to continue the same
6, at the expense of the tenant union men. . His
xcellency’s line of procedure towards the leaguers,
under such information as is in his possession, cannot
regarded otherwise than consistent with due respect
to himself, and the high position be occupies, But
there are two sides to every question, and it is impera-
tive on tenant unionists to use all legitinate means to
remove from His Excellency's mind any misconception
, a8 to the means used. by the organization to secure to
the tenantry, by purchase, the fee sunple of their farms,
and to claim their right to their proper political position
in the community.
In conclusion, I wonld suggest the expediency of a
public meeting of the leading tenant union men, to con-
sider the propriety of drawing up a paper to be present-
ed to His Excellency, expressive of the rise, object, and
nue used by the organization, and to disabuse
Excellency’s mind of the wanton reproach restin
upon so ‘a portion of the community by T. W. Dodd,
or the present, I remain,
MANOAH ROWK,
Montague Bridge, 2nd July, 1867,
To the Editor of the Herald.
“ Sir,—Permit me, through the medium of your journal,
_ to contradict a report cireulated about Cardigan by
Donald Stewart, Esq,, to the effect that Hon. J. Wight-
Ps informe im (D, Stewart) that I told
* a backs ‘shat “9 f a Uy av Gorin
" H i gm tl ea he
clent, 3 Gowld spare some forty pounds.
; = ae I most emphatiai
: r renee any other
that I so spoke to him respecting the amount granted
for the Cardigan New Bridge, I simply pronounce it a
mithicious untruth, and the offspring of Mr. Wightman’s
own brain, us
When it was proposed last winter to petition for
money to plank, &c., the Cardigan Bridge, and repair
the Bridge on Launching Road, | was asked by Hon.
Mr. MeDgnald what amount [ thought would be requir-
e€ for the purpose. After a careful estimate of the
probable cost, I informed him that it would require al
least £100 for the two bridges—that is, £80 for Cardi-
gan New Bridge. and £20 for the bridge at Ryan's. And
these amounts, as submitted, have, it appears, been
granted by the Government. It-4s not likely, there-
tore, that [ should now turn round and say we had got
too.much, and be so mighty liberal as to wish to send
thirty or forty pounds of the money out-of my own
neighborhood, particularly as 1 am aware the sums
are sufficiently small for the purposes required. It
would be wiser for Mr. Wightman, in future, to study
more closaly the interests of his Electoral District, than
to make false reports, with a view to the prejudice of
any particular member of that constituency.
Yours, respectfully,
W. P. LEWIS, Rd. Commissioner.
Abbey Bank, Cardigan, July 8, "67.
Ghe Rerald,
Wednesday, August 28, 1367.
ta Our Agent, Mr. Thomas Reilly, will start on a
collecting tour through King’s County on or about the
ist of September, As we have not during the past two
years intruded upon our patrons in the East, nor en-
forced our honest clans agaiast unfeeling delinquents,
we have to request them to respond to this visit by pay-
ing their respective amounts as soon as called upon.
Those who are unable to pay the full amount, ean pay
a portion, even if only a dollar, The old excuse that
they were not aware that our Agent would visit
them so soon, will not avail this time. Our patrons in
Prince County will also take the hint to themselves, as
our Agent intends visiting them in October. “A word to
the wise these hard times is sufficient.
See
INDUSTRY.
AGRICULTURE AND LOCAL
From a perusal of our advertising columns, it will
be seen that the Government have very properly taken
the Agricultural and other Industrial Interests of the
Colony in hand in a liberal spirit, As far as the reven-
ue will admit, inducements have been held out to our
farmers and meehanics to compete for excellence in
their various professions. It is to be regretted that
King’s and Prince Counties have not been equally
favored as Queen's, in being provided with the means
for a local exhibition of farm stock, manufactured ar-
ticles, and the products of the soil. In this respect,
however, the present Exhibition will be in advance of
any previous ones, inasmuch as it is open to the mechan-
ics and farmers of the whole Island, But we shall not
rest satisfied until each of the other Counties receives
equal justice with Queen's in the appropriations for en-
couraging agriculture and originating local exhibitions
for each County. Some general benefit may then be
expected to resuli from the large sums annually granted
for the importation of improved stock and seeds, and
for keeping up an Agricultural Society and a Model and
Stock Farm from which no one derives any bevefit ex-
cept those immediately connected with them and a few
amateur farmers around Charlottetown.
In making public the list of Premiums, the Commis-
sioners appointed to administer the grant of the Legis-
lature for ‘* the encouragement of Agriculture and Lo.
cal Industry,” are aware that some branches of industry
may seem to have been overlooked, and others inade-
quately rewarded ; it was impossible, however, vut of
the limited sum at their disposal, to give full encour-
agement to all trades. It would have afforded them
much gratification to have been able to offer extra pre-
miums for the best carriages and carriage hartiess,with-
out limitation to value; also for the more expensive ar-
ticles of Furniture, involving the employment of the
wost skilltul artizans, and the choicest materials. With
larger means at their disposal, premiumy might have
been offered for mowing machines of Island manufac-
ture, with a view to ascertain whether the large and in-
creasing demand for these useful labor-saving machines
could not be supplied at a cheaper rate, from native re-
sources,-than by importation from abroad. ' Fancy
needle-work and other articles, the production of culti-
vated feminine taste, for which no premiums have been
awarded on this occasion, yet have not been forgotten.
The Commissioners, therefore, wish the forthcoming ex-
hibition to be regarded as an experiment on a somewhat
larger scale than has hitherto been attempted in the Co-
lony, and which, if successful, may induce the Legisia-
ture to sanction the application of a larger sum for a
similar purpose on a future occasion.
It is gratifying to find that the Charlottetown Drill
Shed is at length going to be appropriated to some prac-
tically useful purpose. Had only one-half of the money
which has been spent in building drill-sheds and bar-
tacks, been devoted to fostering the industry
of the country by means of judicious prizes, as
the present Government is about doing, we would have
considered the money well laid ovt. ‘The best thing
that can now be done with them is to use them for ag-
ricultural Halls, and similar useful purposes, and for
this reason we highly approve of the action of the Gov-
ernment in selecting the Charlottetown Drill Shed for
the Fair and Exhibition, advertised in our columns
to-day.
THE CALEDONIAN GATHERING,
Scorcnmen naturally, and perhaps with good reason,
regard themselves as the very ‘' lords of creation.” In
war they have proved their prowess; as historians and
metaphysicians they admit of no superiors; and even in
the domain of poetry and fiction, where the exercise of
the highest faculties of the imagination are required,
they ovcupy the first position. This is somewhat sur-
prising to those who, like Dr. Quill, in ** Charles O’Mal-
ley,” look upon a Svotchman as a oeing possessed of
‘*an imagination as bare as hit ownshins.” In propor-
tion to their numbers, their influence in almost every
foreign country is greater than that of any other nation-
ality. In the Colonies, where their numbers are supe-
nor, their influence is perfectly overwhelming. This
result 18 due to those habits of thrift and industry for
which they are 80 remarkable, and also to the great fact
that they devote themselves more exclusively to agri-
culture than any other class. Especially is this the case
in the United States and the British Provinces, and we
need scarcely say that in almost every country it is the
industrious, hardy, independent tillers and owners of
the soil who wield the greatest power in the State, and,
therefore, We are not surprised that the influence of
Scotchmen is felt and recognised wherever they settle
themselves, Without indulging in generalities, we beg
to congratulate our Scotch friends upon the inflaence
which they possess both in Church and State in this Ie-
land. For example, the announcement of one of thoir
interesting and popular Gatherings, is but the Prelode
arma mag
to a General Holiday. Both the Executive Government
and the City Corporation vie with each other to do honor
to the occasion, and the Scottish Games which have
beea celebrated on Government House Grounds for the
past four years have received an eclat from this circum-
stance which gives more of a Colonial than a sectional
aspect to the affair. How different the treatment which
a Benevolent Irish Society receives when celebrating
the Anniversary of their National Patron Saint! Dark
rumors of a Fenian gathering are mysteriously circu-
tated beforehand; special constables are sworn in for
the preservation of the peace; batons. distributed;
soldiers held in readiness, and the powder in the Gov-
eroment Magazine removed to a green-house for safety.
This is the marked distinetion, Government smiles and
patronage in the one case; and proscription and spe-
cial constables’ batons in the other. We will not insult
the intelligence of our readers by endeavoring to prove
that there is so marked a@ differenve in the character or
social position of Scotchmen and Irishmen in this Col-
ony, as to call for so distinctive a treatment between
the two. We merely refer to this view ef the case to
indace Irishmen to emulate the Scotch in their habits of
industry and economy, and what they lack in numbers
will speedily be made up in influence, We are happy
to know that many of the newly-formed settlements of
this Island, which are almost exclusively occupied by
[rishmen, have*made as rapid progress, and exlnbit as
many evidences of an advancing prosperity as the other
sections of the Island, which may be occupied by the
natives of other countries, A few more years of perse-
vering and well-directed industry upon their farms, will,
notwithstanding their proscription for more than three
centuries, confer upon them an enviable pesition, and ban-
ish forever the slightest distinction upon the part of the
Government in their National celebrations and those of
other countries. This is the ‘‘ moral” we wish *'to point.”
We shall have much pleasure in copying next week
from the Patriot, a comprehensive report of the Scottish
Games of 1867.
Avrnovan there was an understanding, we believe,
that when the editor of the Hxaminer took the Queen's
Printing, he was to abstain from advocating Con feder-
ation in any way, whilst he was the organ of an anti-
Confederate Government; yet from time to time he has
inserted fu bis paper paragraphs tavoring Confederation,
We have not referred to this fact before, nor would we
now, were it not that we read in the Examiner a few
weeks ago a paragraph to the effect that a general elec-
tion is vety likely to take place in this Colony this Fall
upon the question of Confederation, We can only ex-
press our own opinion that if His Excellency were to
take upon himself, either with or without the advice of
his Council, to dissolve the existing Legislature upon
any proposition to Confederate which may emanate
from the Dominion, he would only succeed in returning
a majority more decidedly hostile to union than ever.
Sufficient time has not been allowed to judge of the
working of the Dominion, and an appeal to the electors
under such circumstances, would be merely subjecting
them to needless expense and trouble, Should the Go-
vernor assume So serious a responsibility, he must be
prepared to take the consequences, His continued re-
sidence in this Colony would not be agreeable to him-
self. We say this uch in the belief that there is some
slight foundation for the Heaminer’s rumor ; for we can-
not conceal from ourselves the fact that enemies within
ourselves are underhandedly using their influence to
bring about a so-called favorable offer from Canada,
with the view of humbugging the people into Confeder-
ation. Butif there be no truth in the ramor, we won-
der what the majority of the supporters of the Govern-
ment think of the Lxamtner's couree. In either case,
the Government is placed in a false position by Mr.
Whelan breaking through that reserve upon the question
of Confederation, which he assumed when accepting
the Queen's Printing. His duty evidently is either to}
resign his office, or otherwise hold his peace—a duty!
which the Government and a majority of its supporters!
are bound to see strictly carried out.
The * Patriot” givesan account of a brutal ase
sault in Charlottetown, on the evening of the Cale-
donian Gathering, upon a man named Blue. We
would hope that the reason of the assault is not that
assigned by the *‘ Patriot,” namely—that Blue had
carried a St, Andrew’s standard at the Club's pro-
cession, which was mistaken for an Orarge flag.
The version we heard of the affair is, that Blue,
who was under the influence of liquor, was proceed-
ing down Pownal Street, shouting out for some per-
son “to fight him,” when he was met by a few
equally intoxicated individuals, ready for a fray,
who quarreled with him and beat him in a most in-
human manner, his nose being completely broken,
and his head severely ent. Nothing can excuse
such inhumanity, the perpetrators of which, we hope,
will be brought to justice. The whole affair ori-
ginated, we believe, as many another deplorable
circumstance, in intoxieation, and had nothing what-
ever of a party spirit about it, aud we regret that
the Patriot” has thought proper to throw out the
insinuation which it has done, that because Blue
was mistaken for an Orangeman, he was uoprovok-
edly set upon and abused. There are no facts to
warraut such a conclusion,
The crisis in the Cabinet at Washington has given
rise to a great many rumours and reports, many of
which are probably groundless. For what they are
worth, however, the reader may take those printed be-
low :—
The Herald's Washington Special says one cause of
delay on the part of the President in removing Secre-
tary Stanton is the propneely of the step. Secretary
Seward and Mr. Reed are opposed to the remova! of
Secretary Stanton. It is said that Seward has taken
so decided a stand in the matter as to have occasioned
bad feelings in the President's breast. It is said. that
the President hag resolved to request Secretary Seward
to resign in a note of somewhat equal politeness and
brevity to that delivered to Secretary Stanton, Should
this be true it is belioved Mr. Adams will be recalled
from England and offered the portfolio of Secretary of
State. ft is sald, moreover, that Mr. Randall and Sec-
retary McCulloch are not altogether to be depended
upon in their fidetity to the Johnson policy. The people
say the former contemplates resigning at an early day.
As to McCulloch, there are many rumours, one being
that the President believes the Secretary of the Trea-
sury has brought diecredit on the administration by
appointing improper men into office, and that his man-
agement of the national finances have not been al! that
was expected of him. Another rumour as to the diffi-
culty between the President and Secretary McCulloch,
places matters at such an extreme point as to mention
the name of his pag successor in the person of
Moses Poyie, of New York. It bas been stated, on
very good authority, that one of the reasons which ac-
tuated Secretary Stanton when he refused to resign at
the President's request, is that he has recorved fafor-
mation of a scheme which it is said is on foot for arm-
ing the military organizations in the late rebel states,
whose ultimate object is another assault upon the Go-
vernment, and he is determined to remain at his post
to thwart their designe, It is sald further that one of
the causes of the Inte rupture betwoen the President
and Secretary Stanton, was the refusal ofthe latter to oo
sign to # militia Company ef Moeryiand, compen’,
niainly of returned officers and soldiers, a battery 0
eight guns for which they had applied, The President,
it is said, directed him to furnish the battery, but that
Secretary Stanton declined, and still refuses to do so.
It would really seem that the President has the best
of matters so far, and, certainly, if General Grant has
taken the War Secretaryship, as reported yesterday,
by telegraph, Mr. Johnson’s position before the coun-
try will be a strong one.
THE EMPRESS CARLOTTA.
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The Memorial Dip!omatique gives out on the authority
of a letter from Trieste, written by a person in whom
it plaees perfect confidence, that the Empress Carlotta
was poisoned before she returned to Europe, It says:
«The practical eve of so able a practitioner as Dr.
Bulkens was struck with the abnormal symptoms of the
august patient, However violent and painful may
have been the emotions which the Empress experienced
since her departure from Mexico, these could not, ac-
cording to the laws of pathology, be the only cause of
the mental exaltations and the moral prostrations which
alternately succeed each other, and seem to defy the
resources of science. It is certain that in the month of
July, 1866, her Majesty, after having embarked at
Vera Cruz, was seized with a sleepiness occasioned by
a flow of blood to the head, and which continued dur-
ing the whole yoyage. Since then symptoms have con-
stantly been remarked indicating a profound alterna-
tion in the blood, which, from Her Majesty’s youth
and robust constitution, cannot possibly be explained
other wise than by the pernicious action of a physicial
agent. Everything therefore tends to the belief that
some subtle poison has been administered to the Em-
pross by the traitors by whom the court of Chapultepec
was only too closely surrounded, and that Her Majesty
in leaving Mexico carried with her the germ of the
frightful malady which broke out on the 4th of Octo-
ber following, at Rome. In fact, a few days after the
departure of the Empress, certain American journals,
probably initiated into the terrible mystery, pretend-
ed that during the transit from Mexico to the port of
embarkation, her Majesty had given manifest signs of
me ntal alienation; that vews, then premature, was to
be verified a few months later. The Empress herselt
instinctively suspected the truth; for as soon as her
mental faculties began to be troubled, she was beset
with the idea that she had been poisoned, and she still
renining under the influence of that conviction.
The Ottawa News, a Conservative organ, is res-
pousible for the following. ‘These words of warning
are timely, but they are thrown away upon the ** lead-
ing minds” in this Colony :—
It is true that the Confederated Union is in dan-
ger. But not from Howe or Lanctot, or Sanfield,
or any other of its avowed enemies, Our ship of
State is runaing fast upon a rock, but the pilots are
straining their eyes through glasses in another di-
rection, The sea is lashing into foam around a
fearful ‘‘ breaker,” but the captain heeds it not; a
strange fatality bids his vision to a different point
of the compass. The truth 18 that the Union is in
danger from extravaganceand corruption. Already
a fear permeates every clase of society that the com-
plicated machinery of the new Government is going
to press down the people with a fearful burden of tax-
ation. Go where you will, in the city or through
the country, the same undefined dread of appoach-
ing tax-gatherers is felt by all. The people on Do-
minion Day rejoiced over the accomplishment of
Confederation. But when the bonfires were all
burned down, and the last rocket sent up, and the
last fire-cracker popped off, a prescience of coming
danger seems to have settled"upon the public mind.
The country has had enough of Coalitions, That
of ’54 doubled the debt of this Province in four
or five years. Give us a Coalition with an over-
whelmiug majority in Parliameut, and a railway to
build, and we will show you a country rushing to
bankruptcy and ruin as fast as reckless mavagers
can drive it, The Intercolonial Ruilway, if entered
upon with a determined spirit of economy, (or rather
we should say common honesty), can be constructed
without at all endangering the finaucial position of
the Province; but if it is seized upon, as was the
Grand Trunk, as a grand opportunity of enrich-
ing the innumerable cormorants that surround the
Government, it will prove a millstone around the
neck of Confederation, a rock on which the good
ship ** Umon” will be hopelessy. wrecked, ”
We see by the Montreal papers that Mr. McGee,
who has forfeited the confidence of his country-
men, is endeavouring to blast their character, to the
best of his ability, by denouncing the whole of them
as Feniaus, cut-throats and rebels, His so-called
“disclosures” are as clumsy and trashy as the
awful disclosures” of Maria Monk, and will damo
him for all time!o come. It must be a dirty bird
that fouls its own vest, and the utter want of judg-
ment which characterizes his unseemely acts, is only
equalled by his baseness. Mr. Devlin promises a
scathing rebuke, and we feel sure he will redeem
his promise with powerful effect,
tw We think that our contemporaries should
give us credit for articles which they copy from this
paper. The Patriot of Saturday last copied one of
our articles in extenso concerning the Dominion
cutter, La Canadienne, and never gave us credit for
it, The Examiner, following suit, designated the
article a‘ judicious” one, bat attributed its paternity
to the Islander, This is not exactly * doing unto
others as we would wish others to do unto us.
The harvest this year has
Both wheat and oats have been already gathered in,
The wheat is said to be of first-rate quality, and that
which is still unripe promises well all over the Island.
The unusual hot weather of this season has, no doubt,
produced this gratifying result—-the effects of
which upon the financial conditiou of the Colony
can scarcely be sufliciently appreciated or thankfully
acknowledged, toa beneficent Providence. Tho oat
crop 18 said to be light, but will still be an average one—
the mussul mud manure now so generally used, man-
ifesting its fertilizing effects, despite long-continued
droughts and other Tecwtecks. Altogether the pros-
pects of every class inthe colony are bright and cheer-
ing, from the certain prospect of an abundant harvest
of Loth cereals and root crops, 4
been unusually earl “
Tur Epiysurcn Review for July, which has just
come to hand from the Leonard Scott Publishing Com-
pany, New York, contains the following articles :—
1, The Early. Administration of George III; 2. Agri-
oulture and prices in England (1259—1400) ; 3, Pro.
fessor Ferrier’s Philosophical Remains; 4. The Council
of Constantinople; 5, Indian Costumes and Textile
Fabrics; 6. Life and Speeches of Lord Plunkett; 7,
Wine and the Wine Trade; 8, Josiah Wedgwood ; 9.
Burton's History of Scotland; 10. The Military Insti-
tutions of France,
Tae Wesraurnstern Review, which has also been
received, contains seven articles, besides a compre-
hensive review of Contemporary Literature. Th
are: 1. Mimicry and other Protective Resemblances
among animals; 2. Lucius Annmwus Seneca; 3. The
Last Great Monoply; 4. Lyric Feuds; 5. The
Future of Reform; 6. Jamaica; 7, The Religious
side of the Ttalian Question,
oe oe st
LOCAL NEWS.
The Steamship Alhambra, with freight and passengers,
arrived at this port on Saturday, agd left fur Halifax
and Boston on Monday.
An English mail was brought from Pietou last
evening by the Princess of Wales,
Tue Hon. Mr. Coles arrived home on Saturday
night from his short cruise in La Canadienne, much
improved, we understand, in health.
We learn that the Summerside mail bag which was
forwarded by the Princess of Wales on Friday night last,
was opened at Summerside by some dexterous thief
and robSed of a parcel of money belonging to the
Union Bank.
Wr perceive that Mr. Bernard Reddin has removed
to his splendid new shop erected on the site of the old
one. ‘The building is four stories high, and contains
three commodious shops.
Tae annual Militia muster and drill are now pretty
well over throughout the Island. In most cases only
six days drill bave been exacted, and the attendance
was everything that could be desired. We fancy, how-
ever, that whatever knowledge of the goose ste may
have been acquired this season will be forgotten befoes
the next annual muster,
We regret that we cannot find room in to-day’s
paper, for the communication of the City Recoréer,
in reply to that of * Ixion,’’ which appeared last
week, In our next issue we will find space for it.
** An Old Magistraie,” in a letter adressed to the
Proprietors of the Charlottetown newspapers, ad-
monishes parties who may be convicted of setting
fire to houses, that they are liable to suffer the ex-
treme penalty of the law—hanging,
The City Couucil are taking steps to provide tho
City with a sufficient number of watering carts to allay
he dust upon the streets. They ought to have done so
three months ago; our suggestion would be to
abandon the project now, and prepare thoroughly
during the coming winter for the earliest dust of -
pext season.
Mr. Kennedy, the Scottish Vocalist, has been de-
lighting a Charlottetown audience during the past
week. He gave an entertainment on Wednesday and
Friday nights, and on each occasion, his songs, read-
ings and racy stories of the land of brown heather
were rendered in the most artistic style and with ex-
quisite taste. It is needless to say thet his pertorman-
ces were highly appreciated and well patronised, or
that his announcement of an annual visit to Charlotte-
town was received with rapturous applause, Wa
shall hail hie promised visit next summer with un-
feigned pleasure.
A new Presbyterian Church was opened for
Divine worship, at Mount Stewart, on Sunday tho
4th inst., the Revs, Messrs, Falconer and Cameron
officiating. '
Arch, J, McDonald, Esq., has been appointed
Collector of Impost and Controllor of Navigation
Laws for the Port of Georgetown, in the place of
W.B. Aitken, Esq.
Jas. McPhail, Capt. of the Schooner ‘ Two
Brothers,” of Lunenburg, N. 8., pays a high com-
pliment to the efficiency of the keeper of the North
Cape Lighthouse of this Island.
A labouring man namec Tromas Poonx, of this City, fell
overbeard from Pope's Wharf at miduight, on Wednesday
last, and was drowned. On falling, itis supposed his head
must have come in contact with the guard of the steamer
Heather Belle, and the blow stunned him. His body was
recovered in a few moments, but life’ #as extinct. We fear
his death may be attributed to intemperance.—Is/,
A band of Gipsies have encamped on a piece of ground
near the North River Road, about two miles out, and are
plying their miserable trade of **fortune-telling,’’ hey
have a considerable number of horses and carts, and tents,
and from this we may infer that the gang is a numerous one,
which we had not an opportunity of seeing very closely,
The Gipsies are not very desirable people to have in the ym-
mediate vicinity of one’s farm, when the crop is being cut
down, and when they are in want of fodder for hungry
horses; and it will be well for the farmers on the North
River Road to keep a watchful eye on their property, Ex,
The weather during the past fortnight has been unusually
warm. The thermometer repeatedly rose as high as 78
degs. in the shade, and for several days averaged upwards
of 80 degs, throughout the day, This is a degrce of heat sele
dom experienced in the tropics. The hot weather has ben-
efitted the wheat, and the prospect of a good return, for the
small quantity sown, cheers our fermers, ‘The crops gener-
ally promise well. Grain is rapidly ripening under the in.
fluence of the hot weather.—Jsi,
——:
ALL SORTS OF ITEMS.
The Rev. Henry Wendt, who for two years past
has been Superintendant of an Orphan Assy!um at
Philadelphia, was arrested at Rochester, on Mon-
day, by Policeman McLean, for perpetrating rape
on no less than seven little girls who were under his
charge. He is a regularly ordained Lutheran clergy-
man. He confesses that he has done wrong. He
was taken to Philadelphia and committed for trial.
The body of aman named McLeod,—one of the
unfortunate crew of the boat belorging to River
Joho, Nova Scotia, upset somewhere near the en-
trance of this harbor, on the night of the great gale,
was picked up some days ago near Point Prim. The
body of avother of those unfortunate men, Mr,
Stramberg, teacher of the River John Academy,
was found near St. Peter’s Island on Monday last ;
the body of his brother at South Shore on Tuesday;
and that of his uncle near the same place on Wed-
nesday. The last remains of tho three Messrs,
Stramberg were interred in the Protestant Cemetry
of this City, ou the mornings of Tuesday, Wednes-
day, aud Thursday, respectively, after each in turn
being subjected to a Coroner’s inquest, The only
other remaiuing body, that of a man named Me-
Donald, so far as we had heard, has not yet beea
found.—Pat,
When a counterfeit is presented at the Bank of
Y,| England, the gold is instantly paid for it. If it comes
from some known person, he is only asked where he
got it. If from a stranger, the cashier signals to his
detective, always in waiting, and the officer follows
stat Before many hours the Bank is in posses-
sion of the stranger's biograply. ‘Tho offender, once
arrested, is likely to be tried, convicted and dentenced
within two days.
Tue attempt to lay a Submarine Cable between Cuba
and the Mainland has failed for the present, Daring
the paying out process a slip occurred, and part of the
cable was lost.
We hear that Mr. E. W. Jarvis, Civil Engineer,
who oame out to this Islanda few weeks ago, has re-
ceived an appointment as Engineer on the Teter:
Colonial Railway. Mr. Jarvis is nephew of the
Hon. Col. Grey, Charlottetown Royalty.
A very destructive fire occured, Aug. 18th, in the
woods six miles east of Toronto, by which eve thing
within a circle of half a mile was consumed, inc uding
grain fielde, barns and houses; no loss of life was re-
ported, ;
Tho eath at Paris ie announced of Gen. Cavaignac,
in his seventy-eight year, cousin of the former head
of the executive power under the Frenoh Republic,
The Fenian privateer “ Plato,” with 350 men
and 2 twelve pounders, which was despatched by the
Brethren to Ireland some three months ago, to as-
certain if a landing could be successfully effected, re-
y| turned to New York last week, aud reports favorably
of the project. We would not like to be in the shoes
of any Fenian who should make the attompt, It is a
fact, however, that although the privateer sailed
around the coast of Ireland, she completely aluded
the vigilance of the Bri tiph fleet.