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“—— him, but I must.’
»-_ *Ol, Amalia! my beloved! what is this?’ cried
formed ?—I
THE
* Yee yea!’ said Amalia, ‘1 do—I must; I am
, and preparing to grovel be-
*unsay these
*Do not call me by these unseemly names, Mr.
Griffin; Iam no longer anything to you——I am
married !°
_* Married! * « Married !’ « Married 1" ‘ Married !°
echoed round the group, expressed in every in-
- Sonation and with every shade of emotion. ~
“Yes,” : Buttonshaw, riding forward, ‘she
e’s Mrs. Buttonshaw-——my wife, in
» Lowe you a sincere apology ; but
- You see Amalia loved me long before she ever saw
ou, aud promised that if ever there was au op-
‘ » She would marry me ; well, the oppor-
; teecured this morning, and we have avail-
ed ourselves of it. We are both very sorry for
you; but after all, you couldn't have married her
yo for you were detained in quarantine,
and here you would haye all been in the jaws of
the pursuing parent. I may add that it was sim-
a to escape from the brutality of that
parent that induced her to run offwith you. Her
position at home was desperate, Yes, Senor pa-
pa, it was, and you needu't scowl; you have no
powernow. The Vice-Consul at Tetuan has de-
prived you of it, by marrying us this morning;
and the Church, represented by this thoughtful
re, has sanctioned and blessed the union:
horse ; readful words, my
cas ean nee Meeeeetetnen emcee epee
Corvtespondence,
Dear Herald,— .
As I promised to drop you a weekly letter so that
your readers inay be well posted on ghe affairs publique
of Massachusetts, I now fuldl it. ‘To an individual
leaving not only Charlottetown, but even Montreal, the
commercial emporium of Canada, the city of Boston
would be astonishing. No person remains stationary for
& moment—all have some object in immediate view, and
to accomplish it. A wooden dwelling is as rare
as a silver coin, and an idle storekeeper an object.of
astonishment. People advertise in all trades and pro-
fons, and paste and palut their notices not only on
their corners and places of business, but on flags which
float from ropes connecting opposite houses, One would
imagine Rostonians never sleep, for at night the city as-
sumes nearly ag lively an appearance as at noon-day.
Theatres, concert-rooma, billiard establishments, dining
saloons, dancing hells ad itaitum, are the orders of the
day. Nowarl’s Atheneum is one of the principal places
of amusement. Some of the company, incloding Mrs.
Allen, are at prosent performing in the city. They left
Malifax last week, as another company forestalled them
during their absence in Charlottetown. Yesterday, I
witnessed the departure of Montgomery's Light Guard
for New York to compete at drill for the champion flag.
The Guard is_an Irish regiment, and one of the best
discipline Iuion. ‘The commander is an Irish-
man nar inuin. The officers sre mostly all
mechanic ¢ of officers reminds me of an intro-
uection I half-witred musician last night. Me
was a general in the U. S. army. and was former'y a
boiler fitter in a Philadelphia foundry, His boiler mak-
NON A 8 tila tS tl on al
STON LETTER.
nine’
is before the footlights the
ing propensity is :ather /ifradig. at present, and having
ere are the certificates. We'll have antes for flddling, he hw# atenzagement in the orches-
wedding to-morrow, to which you shall com
you are yery penitent and very good. I hear
eae) isa moans going to Gin this afternoon, so
we’ bye.’ Come, Amalia; come, padre ;’
and they were off! :
Let us draw a veil over the agonies of Unlucky
Tim Griffin,’ It has never transpired to my know-
ledge whether the conduct of Amalia and Button-
shaw was the result of a deep and deliberate plot
in which both participated, and in which Tim and
I performed the parts of catspaws, or whether it
arose from a sudden access of fickleness on the
part of the lady, combined with that villany on
the part of Buttonshaw which he shares with
some other malesof his species. We are thero-
fore free to speculate on the pros and cons of the
question. Tue misogynist will, of course, give
his adhesion to the former alternative, andif he is
a Spanish scholar, perhaps mutter, apropos of my
Spanish heroine,— ‘De mala muger te guarda, y
de la buena no fies nada.’ For my part, I have
ulways given Amalia the benefit of the doubt.
Old Cayrasee, you see, was a desperately nasty
old fellow ; and in desperate circumstances des-
perate resources are necessary. She went off,
therefore, with Tim Griffin in despair, and unex-
tedly (for I defy you to prove any collusion on
r ) meeting Buttonshaw, with whom she
was desperately inlove, she desperately jilted my
friend ; and if she left him desperate, let it be ro-
membered to her credit that she desperately sold
her -raseally parent into the bargin, As for Bat-
tonshaw, he, of course, must have been a ruffian
throughout; but let us be merciful even to that
erring mortal. We are all frail. 1 can testify to
the strength of his temptation, for I can vouch
for the brightness of Amalia’s eyes, And then,
wt reflect thatin all human probability he now
itterly regrets lis conduct.
HOLLOWAY—A FRAGMENT CONCERNING {118
, DOINGS,
Professor Holloway is stillin the prime of life, though
it is now more than a quarter of a century since he per-
fected his discoveries and gave thein to the world. His
yearly bills for advertising, taking the average of the
eight years, amount to the sum of two handred
and twenty-three thousand dullare per annwn, of which
about one wceveh — Mae ee i dollars
are spent in employing the columns of such journals as
lars ten already established. ‘The Posey a 18 need
for the creation of special organs in countries not
hitherto acquainted with the wonders of the printing
prese,and for educating and supporting interpreters
who accompany his agents and make known the pro-
erties of his remedies amongst barbarous and ancivyi-
lized tribes which have no written langnage through
which he may address them. These ‘ missionaries of
health,” as are called, ave chiefly employed in Cen-
tral Africa and ainong the Islands of the Eastern Ar-
chipelago. In the former place they rendered im-
portant service to the late government expedition sent
out by Engtand; and it certainly was a galling con-
feasion for t, Anderson, that after penetrating into
the wild and ate region as far as he could or durst
, the agents of a private individual should laugh at
his official fears and offer to conduct him ** further and
yet farther, rg the different stations ahead of me
which Professor Holloway had already established for
the eale of his Pills and Ointment !”
The newspapers, daily and periodical, in which these
are regularly advertised, amount — to
three thousand seven hundred and sixty-five, of which
two Wegeese eight hundred and sixty-three are printed
in the tongues, while tho balance of nine
hundred and two are divided between the Chinese and
Asiatic tongues, (the former bee tergely »redomina-
ting), and those other languages in whieh Mr. Hollo-
way has made himself the pioneer of printing,
management of this mighty machinery of illamination—
even apart from its expense—may well appear in-
to. ordinary minde; but system and steady
business ion can reduce apparent im possibilities
to order, and under the experienced hands of a host of
clerke and linguists, the wheels of this claborate and
x mechaniem revolve with silent and simulta-
E
to the number of those who are annually restored
by Holloway’s medicines, a Committee eon-
fossed that it could nuteven approximate the amount
with any certainty of correctness, A box of Pills may
t the individual who buys it, or a family of six
eight for whose general use it is procured ; so alse
with a box of Ointment. Again, it may be well con-
eumed this is rare—for the cure of one par-
tioular. 5 Orit may cure that, and yet another
after that, and yet another, being kept in the house as
a family medicine,—and of these cases the commitee
eubmit they have no means to judge. Again, both pills
and ointment may be used conjointly by asingle patient,
by two: how, then, can an estimate be
ian.
fr
i
* May —_—_ the court,’ said a Jawyer before
a justice, the other day, ‘this is a caso of the
importance. While the American eagle,
whose sleepless eyes watches over the welfare of this
Republic, and whose wings extend trom the
ies to the rocky chain of the West, was re-
My his pride of place—'
* Stop stop dare, I say! Vat has this suit todo
amit eagles? Dish has nothing todo mit the wild bird.
‘At ie von sheep,’ exclaimed the justice. ;
have rights here.’
hands
moust
inst cat-gut. Such is life!
pular parties here just now
The party newspapers both laud and
Badges are disposed of containing their
likenesses, on the streets aud in shops, from 1 cent. to
810 each. ‘Times are very good here. There is no de-
cay visible in the garments of the people. I think the
Bostonians dress better than even the Londoners. Wages
range from $2 to $35 a day for first rate tradesmen. A
carter won't drive yon a mile for less than 82. First
class hotels charge $4 a day board, and it is an utter im-
possibility to obtain even a half furnished sitting room
and bed room for less than 814 a week. I tendered a
50 cent piece for some goods lately, and the coin went
round the room as a natural curlosity. Paper pays for
everything. T would strongly advise all who are inclined
to work and are good tradesmen to select Boston for
their home, trom what I hear of it and know by the ex-
perience of comparison. One class should remain
away, and that is the idle loafers who have no trade nor
profession—those who live on thelr wits. A dozen or
so Servant girls came down with the Alhambra, but a
Boston gentleman, a passenger, observed to me—* We
prefer strangers to our own servant girls, who are gen-
erally impertinent; but. believe me, sir, 12 months make
igrorant country girls more impertinent than our own.”
Ae Thave wut yet been sufficiently posted up in the
aifairs of the city, I'll conclude the present letter with a
hope for more interesting matter in the next. F,
of the theatre here, sq@
general now wages war
Grant and Colfax are the
with the majority,
roast them.
(To tux Herarp.] :
The subscriber begs to acknowledge the reccipt of
some stationery, &e.. for the benefit of the scholara of
Lake Verde School, Luts 48 antl 49, from the Mon. R.
P. Haythorne.
August 8, 1863. JAMES SMITH, Teacher.
Mr. A. H. Sr. Germain, Proprietor of the Canadian
Advertising Agency, Toronto. Ont., ix our Sour
Agent for procuring American Advertisements, and
is authorized also to receive Cunadian Advertisements
for this paper.
The Berala.
Wednesday, August 12, 18Gs.
CITY IMPROVEMENTS.
Ovr readers can form some idea of the progressive
character of the City Council, from the rate at which
improvements are being effected on Queen Street —the
principal street of the Town, and the only one, as far as
We are aware, which is being repaired at all. During
the past week, there has been one mah with a wheel-
barrow employed on this street, and daring that time,
he wheeled stone and clay enough to cover ton square
feet. At tls rate of progreasion,it will take some four
or five months to repair the street as far as Queen's
Wharf. Now, if we except Queen Street and Qnreen
Square, we do not think that the City Council can point
to any improvements effected in the City for the past
year. Considering that between three and four thousand
pounds are annually collected by taxes, fines, &c., a per-
son would fancy that the strects ought to be in tolerable
condition at all seasous, that the city ought to be pro-
vided with good side-walks and crossings, efficient
drains and pleasant squares. We kuow that we have
none of these things—that we lave no pure water—and
that no attempt has been made to supply it. At the
same time we have heavy taxes to pay, and there
are no quarterly accounts published, avd no one seems
to know where the money goes,’ What becomes of it. —
Will Councillor Laird tell us? Have the sweets of the
city printing closed his eyes to these matters,or is a paltry
grant of two or three hundred pounds to St. Dunstan's
College of more importance than the thousands of
pounds wrong from the poor of the city, and spent no
one knows when, where orhow? A few spirited gentle-
men, by the aid of private subscriptions, have done more
to adorn and finprove the Town than tie whole Council
put together, with their revenues at their back. This
way of managing business cannot be allowed to go on
much longer. From ¢tood authority, we hear, that not-
withstanding the heavy and increasing taxes levied from
the citizens, the Corporation is going in debt £700 or
£800 a year! Wow long is this going to Jast? ‘the
steam fire engine was seized the other day, and we sup.
pose the Market House and Police Court will go next—
unless the citizens are prepared to pay five times the
taxes they do now, Are they prepared for this? We
fancy not; and if they are not, they must wake up and
insist that the Corporation be revised or abolished; for
at present we maintain that it is worse than useless, One
eMcient magistrate, with a clerk and four or five special
constables.could do more for one-third the money, than
the present large and expensive organisation. We
imagined that when Mr. Laird was elected to the City
Council, the reizgu of economy and reform would be in-
augurated, but we find that we have been mistaken. His
own interests and not those of the public, are what mos!
concern him, At the present thine, the Corporation is
next thing to bankrupt, and, unless we are treatly mis-
informed, is running into Cebt head over heols. “Now,
there are two or three things very evident, and about
which the citizens should concern themselves. It ts
plain that the Corporation Is clither too extravagantly
worked, or that taxation Is Insufficient. If the former,
is it better to attempt to cut down the expenses or
abolish the concern altogether? As to taxation being
insufficient, we think there is scarcely a rateable citizen
who will not say that taxation Is sufficiently high—in fact
that it is higher than it ought to be for all the advan-
tages derived from it. TN: only question then is, can
economy be introduced into the * soulless” Corporation ?
In ous opinion it cannot, and the sooner the citizens de-
vise and adopt some better plan by which to govern the
town, and secure the judicious expenditure of the taxes,
the sooner will we have good streets and side-walks,
and pure water and air. A mass meeting of citizens
ought to be called to consider the “ situation,” for,
otherwise, matters will be conducted as ry! are until
we wake up some dine morning and find the market
, steau engine, and other city property in the
of the Sheriff; or else taxation will be so enor-
increased aa to depopulate the town. In the
meantime, would the Corporation be so as to have
blished an accurate statement of its fnancial condi-
rng The statement, we know, would amaze the citizens,
HERALD,
4
WEDN
Pecan oor au apemameaeeee
NOVA SCOTIA,
‘Tur Local Legislature of Nova Scotia not on Thurs- |
day last, and adjourned almost immediately after unthhy
Monday, the 10th Instant. The object of the adjourn-|
ment seems to have been to enable the Dominion and
Local anti-members of that Province to hold a consulta-
tion on “the situation,” as also a conference with Sir
John A. McDonald and the other members of his Gov-
ernment, at present in Halifax, on the same subject. A
peaceful withdrawal of Noya Scotia from the Dominion
was to have been proposed to Sir John, and in the event
of his refusal to such a policy, some definite ne of ac-
tion was to have been adopted and submitted to the
Local Parliament. From Monday's papers we learn that
no satisfactory arrangements could be come to with
Sir John and his colleagues-in fact that the latter had
no power except to offer a ‘few offices in the way of
bribes to the Repeal leaders, who reject all such offers
with scorn, The hostility of the Nova Scotians to all
overtures short of Repeal ts manifested in a thousand
different ways. The papers are determined and defiant,
and the people are ten times worse, even on the admis-
sion ofavowed Unionists, The Canadian “conelliators,’
as Sir John and his friends ave ealled, met with a frigid
reception on thelr landing—not over a dozen persons
being present on the wharf; and ‘Halifax, the hospitable,’
as the cloquent Darcy MeGee styled it, for the first time
in her history, wraps herself up in an ley hauteur in the
prosence of the * charmers,” and declines to spread the
festive board for them or to mingle with them tn soctal
pleasures. The members of the Legislature refused an
invation to dine at Government House, because they be-
lieved they would meet Sir John and his friends there.
The Spartan fortitude and determination thus exhibited
commands our adnifration, and we are at times Inclined
to believe, that any people, however numerically small
they may be, animated by such a spirlt, cannot long be
held in subjection. ‘The patriotism of the people and
their leaders is above all praise; and their contemptuous
rejection of place and power, when offered for the purpose
of diverting them from the assertion of thelr rights, is
in bright contrast to that servile and mercenary spirtt
which characterises too many politicians of the present
day. The MeCullys aud the Millers—fourth-rate law-
yers and politicians—fellows who, like Sciplo Afrl-
canus, sought to build a great name to themselves“ up-
on the foundation of mighty mischiefs done,” may strut
upon the stage at Ottawa, in all the pride and conse-
quence of senatorial honors and pay,but the reflection of
their treachery to the people, and the deplorable eon-
dition into which they have plunged their native Pro-
vince, must often intrude upon their hours of solititude,
and even sadly mar the enjoyment of their dignity,
Not forthe wealth of the Provinces would any honest
or honorable man accept the position of those traltors—
acquired In the manner it has been. Leaving, however,
those who have brought about the situation, for a con-
sideration of the situation itself, we seo no way in
which it can be changed unless by an appeal to arms.
Some of the repealers appear to think that the power of
Great Britain will not be emp'oyed to compel Nova
Scotia to remain tn the Union—that the Mother Coun-
try wishes to coerce none of her Colonies under a re-
gime or constitution not agreeable or desirable to them.
if this be so—and we very much doubt it—then Nova
Scotia might safely take up arms to-morrow in behalf
of her rights. But it is the consideration whether
Great Britain will or will not use force to compel an ac-
ceptance of the situation that gives the repealers pause,
and bids them rather bear those ills they have than fly
to others they know not of. The effusion of blood would
certainly be a very poor way to coment a union such as
the Dominion of Canada is—bordered by a jealous and
powerfal neighbor—but if the Nova Scotlans are de-
termined to recover theirlost rights, they must not val-
culate that they are going to get them by talking. They
must be prepared to smell gunpowder and face the
gallows. and if they have their courage screwed up to
this sticking-pol.t, we very much doubt if they can
accomplish a repeal of the Union—and for the reasons
we gave a few numbers back—the certainty of the
British Government putting forth all its power to main-
tain Imperial rights, the weakness of the Nova Scotians,
and the improhability ofthe Americans alding them tu
the struggle. Time, however, will shortly develope these
various issues, as the” present crisis cannot long con-
tinue.
Tur Portianp Convention, after a short Session ad-
Journed without doing much towards forwarding Reci-
procity. The Provincial delegates had some trouble and
withdrew from the convention. We are not aware
whether the Island delegates,-whose expenses (£75) the
Island papers forgot to tell their readers, were defrayed
bv the Government—were among those who withdrew.
We must await their own report to the Board of Trade
upon that point, The only good likely to result from
the convention, apart from the intercourse of commer-
celal men from both sections, will be the ex‘ension of rall-
road communication between the Provinces and the
United States, Even this is an indirect advantage worth
contending for. As free trade is anall important matter
to the people of this Colony, we hope the Government
will prove thelr competency for their position, by call-
ing the Legislature together, to consider Gen. Butler's
propositions, without waiting to ascertatn what the
“anadian or Imperial authorities think of the subject.
We have aright to look after our own interests, and if
they are opposed by those authorities, the consequence
be theirs. Let us, at all events; do oar duty to the peo-
ple. After the return of the delegates, we shall refer to
this again.
Mr. W. M. Wien, of St. John, N. B., an tmitator
of Dickens in his style of reading, is about to give
some public readings in Market Hall, for particulars of
which see advertisement in to-day’s paper. Speaking
or tits gentieman,the St John Morning Journal says :—
“Mr, Wright's reading of the humorous passages is
delightful, and calls forth repeated and irresistible bursts
of laughter. Dat it is not in the comic alone that Mr.
Wright excels, for when in the pathetic passages he
brings tears into avrcog men’s cyes, and women weep
outright, his suecess camvot be doubted; and to this
success the sympathetic (ones of a sweet and flexible
voice contribute almost as much as his dramatic power,
The following words from Misa Field's “ Pen Photo-
graphs of Charles Dickens’ Readings " may justly be ap-
plied to the Readings of Mr. Wright :—‘ iZ¢ Las demon-
strated by personal Wlustretion the meaning of the long
neglected art of reading,* Ile has shown us that it
means a perfectly casy, unaffected manner, a thoroughly
colloqaial tone and an entire absence of the stilted style
of elocution that has heretofore passed current for good
reading. He has proved that the very best reading ap-
proaches the very best acting.”
Hore: AccommMopatTiIon.—A large number of the pas-
sengers by the Alhambra lust week were Ameriean ex-
cursionists, who, for the want of hotel accommodation,
had to remain on board the steamer whilst she was here,
and took their departure in heron her return. This
shows that notwithstanding the number and. excellence
of the small hotels which the town posseses, yet from the
year)y increasing number of travellers Who find their way
to this Island in the summer season, a large first-class
hotel is much wanted and would pay handsomely. One
located at the river's side, with bath-houses and boats,
is what ts requived, and sucha one as would attract
travellers to our shores during the hot months of summer.
There is a great dearth of enterprise among us, or this
want would have been supplied before now.
Tur following challenge has been transmitted by the
weil-knowa oarsmen, the Ward Brothers, to the Editor
of Bell's Lise, London:—
“The Ward Brothers, désirons of testing the relative
merits of the oarmanship of Great Britain and the Unit-
ed States, will make a match with any four men for $5, -
000 a side. Distance. five or six miles straight-away.
The race to be 1owed incither conntry, on waters to
be mutnally agreed upon. We will give $1,000 to any
crew willing to visit the United States, for expenses, or
will take that amount and row in England, Communi.
cations yy steamer or telegraph, addressed to care Edit-
or New York Herald, will receive immediate atvention,”
Mn. Kexxepy, the Scottish vocalist, is to entertain
the lovers of song and anecdote in Market Mall, on
Seca
| him.and offending the nostrils of every man in the State,
| ed at Port Hawksbury.—
Monday and Tuesday nights next.
AUGUST 12, 1868.
“LIBERTY AND LICENSE” ONCE MORE.
—
Tuw Patriot, in two colamns of editorial, having estab-
lished, to its own satisfaction, the right of the press to
single out and abuse private gentlemen for their private
views, exercises that right in its late issue by introducing
to the notice of its readers the Rector of St. Dunstan's
College. Now, we have only one word to say about the
Patriot's conduct in this matter, and It is this—that if
private gentlemen have no protection against this sort of
“license,” they have, at all events, the privilege of
applying a good horse-whip to the back of the editor
who exercises it~a fact very unpleasantly known to
some of the Editors of the Patriot; but which they seem
anxious to have repeated, from their frequent and
altogether inexcusable liberties with “ private gentle-
men.” Private gentlemen may, and generally do, treat
with contempt such splenetic scribblings as the Patriot
indulges In, but there are exceptions to every rule, and
if, through provocation, our contemporary or his aids
should receive, as they have before, a touch of the argr-
mentum ad hominem, the fault will be their own, and they
will meet with but little sympathy In the community.
As to St. Dunstan’s College receiving Government aid,
we are not going to have any controversy on that point,
but we may state onr conviction, that perhaps before
the crows have a bill of sale of our contemporary that
institution will receive state ald with the free consent of
a majority of the electors of the Colony—the New Glas-
gow * Arcadian” and his assistants to the contrary. At
present they are unwittingly aiding the grant,
Thurlow. Weed, who supports the 1epublican ticket.
says in his paper, the New York Commercial Advertis-
eri ’
“Governor Seymounis not to ba beaten by heing ecall-
eda Copperhead, or Kiank Blale to be ‘distanced in
the race because he isa revolutionist. Ridicule Sey-
mour as some Republican journals may, he is the most
popular man in the Democratic party, The man who,
in 1864, with the record against bim that Seymoar had,
and with the odor of the New York rio clinging to
barely ta eseane an election in a poll of over seven hun-
dred thousand votes, is a eandidate not to be sneezed
at, The man, we repeat, who, with the intense pres-
sure of disloyalty brought against him, could poll over
three hundred and sixty thousand votes, is more to be
feared now than in 1861. Eternal vigilance is neces-
sary to elect General Grant.”
Distixfvrsuep Anniyars.—The Dominion Steamer
Napoleon, having on board Sir John and Lady McDonald;
Sir George Cartier; Hon, Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell; Hon.
Saudeld McDonald, Attorney General of Ontario; Miss
Cuvilller; Miss Symes; Miss Louisa Cuvilller; Miss Me-
Donald; T. N. Gibbs, Nsq., M. P.; Lieut. Col. Bernard
F. Gibbs, Esq.; arrived at this port this morning.
We do not know what stay these gentlemen purpose
making. nor are we aware wehether the visit is of a
political nature, or merely on pleasure. We are of the
opinion that it is altogether one of pleasure, and under
such Cirenmstances, we wish those distinguished gentie-
men a pleasant time of it, and hope to see them renew
their visit annually.
AN imaginative writer, over the signature of “ F. M.
N.,” in the last Summerside Journal, says that the peo-
ple of Tignish, at the late Tea Party held in that place,
fought until they drove one another into the sea! Will
some Tignish friend favor us with his opinion on this
episode—so damaging to the falr fam of that locality?
Our own opinion Is, that “ F. M,N." is aslanderer of
the narrow-minded stamp, and deserves a trouncing for
his wholesale libel.
Tun Postmaster General despatched the Steamer
Heather Beileto Pictou this morning, for an English mail
due to-day. As the telegraph is out of order, it is not
known whether the English Steamer has arrived at Hall-
fox ;but as the weather has heen favorable, it is antl. pat-
ed that she has been up to time. We may, therefore, ex-
pect the mall cither this evening or to-morrow.
Finst Anrtvats rrom Tan Bay.—Fishing schrs. Model,
Ball, with 96 barrels Mackerel, to Williem Heard, Esq.,
and Game Cock, Chivirie, with 140 barrels, to HI. E. Star-
bird & Co., arrived yesterday forenoon. They report Mack-
erel very scarce, bat have done better than the sverage
catch upto date,
,
A strange scene, says the Peterborough * Examiner,
was enacted at Seaham harbor lately. A man who had
deserted his wife to elope with another woman was
brought home by the police, escorted by a mob, Includ-
ing about 500 women beating tin pots and yelling.
Tiere is quite an exodus of laborers going on just
now from this Colony to New Brunswick. The emi-
grants are going to work on the railway known as
‘Western Extension,” and will receive one dollar and
a quarter a dav—at least, so it is said.
One of the newest dodges practised by the thieving
fraternity of Buffalo is for one of them to suddenly fall
down on the pavement as if sun struck, and a crowd
being thus immediately collected, his associates make a
raid upon the pockets of the sympathizing by-standers.
The following parties were passengers in the Dark
Undine wiuch sailed for England on Thursday :—-Chas,
Dalgleish, Eeq. ond Mra. Dalgleish; Dr. Inglis. Mra.
Inglis, Master and Mise Inglis; Mr. Playfair and Miss
Blateh.
During the last year the Irish in the States sent home
the eum of £2,700,000 to their relations. Of this money
more than a million dollars was in prepaid passage orders.
Anovr three hundred mowing and reaping machines
have been sold here this season; and stili the supply is
not equal ta the demand.
Mr. Barratt, the Temperance lecturer, lectured tn
Temperance Hall, Charlottetown, last evening, to a
good audience. :
Our farmers ate busy hay-making. The crop is above
an average one. Potatoes and other crops promise
well.
There were 1142 deaths in New York last week. The
highest number daring any week in 1867 was 708.
Tus Steamer Conmerce arrived this morning from
Poston and Halifax, with freight and passengers.
‘The Halifax Chronicle has been enlarged and clothed in
an entire new suit,
Tur revenue this year is in excess of that for the same
period last year.
Tur Colonial Rifle competition begins at 9 o'clock to-
morrow morning—~at Kensington.
The Bark Prioress, sailed for Liverpool on Tuesday last,
and the Undine on Thursday evening, by Hon. J, C, Pope.
The Sch, “ Lettie,” 1s reported to have taken 70 Bbls, of
mackerel in her seine some few days since.
The Sch, * Dominion,” at St. Poter's last Friday, reports
76 Bois. Macke rel,
ee
The steamer City of Durham arrived last night from
St. John, N. F. e have received our usual fyles but
note little of importance. The reports of the Fisheries
from the Northward are not encouraging. The Agents
of the City of Durham entertained o large party of
ladies and gentlemen on board that vessel in St. John.
His Excellency the Governor of Newfoundland came
passenger in the steamer en route to England.—-Jiz. Ee.
The steamer Her Majesty, hence, bound to Montreal,
put into the Straite of Canso leaky, and will be taken
on the Marine Railway there for repairs. The steam.
er struck on White I and was subsequently dock-
He. Unionist.
The President of the United States has directed the
Scoretary of War to withdraw all the military from
those of the Southern States which have ta-
tives in Congress, Thus has civil govnriment been ro-
Miscellaneous,
The London Weekly Register of the 11th says:—
“Daring the last few days three items of social in.
telligence have created quite a panic amongst certain
persons of the ultra-Protestant persuasion in London.
The first is that at the dinner table of 4 certain Cath
nobleman, the deservedly popular Princess of Teck met,
and spoke to, no less a person than the Archbishop of
Westminster; and, moreover—the horror of horrors
—the said prelate eaid grace in the ofa Prin-
cees of the Royal Family of England! But the second
anecdote is worse than ‘the firat. Monsignor the Hon,
George Talbot, private chamberlain to His Holiness,
enlled theother day at Marlborough House and paid a
visit to the Prinoe and Princess of Wales, having known
the former in Rome. And there is, ene a moro
dreadful tendency to Popery in high places. On Sun-
dav last, the heir of the throne of England, with his
wife and brother, paid an afternoon visit toa Catholic
peeress near London, and remained nearly two hours
wandering about the gardens of the house. What will
Messrs. Newdogate and Whalley say to all this.
A letter from Buenos Ayres. published in the Off.
cial Gazette of Turin, eatimates that no less than 4000 the
number of Italian emigrants‘landed in South American
ports between the Ist of January and the 15th of March.
A few figures will show the rapidly increasing impor-
tance of this movement, which takes place almost ex-
clusively from the port of Genoa, In 1862 the number
of emigrants amounted to 3.082 persons; in 1863, to 4,.
494; in 1864, te 6.435; in 1865, to 5.004; in 1866, to 6,-
000 ; and for 1898 we may estimate a total exceeding 10,-
000. The returns for 1867 are wanting. -
Important. Advices have been received that the
Hon, Mr. Rose has put one-half of the Intereolonial
Railway loaf in the market. The Montreal Gazette
says: *£1,500,000 of the sum he offered is covered by
the Imperial guarantee, (the Act limiting the rate of in-
terest to 4 per cent.) and $500,000 upon the credit of
the Dominion. If we are not misinformed, the loan
was offered in the proportion of three-fourths guaran-
teed and one-fourth without the guarantee. The bids
were very satisfactory, amonnting to £8,250,000 stg.
The lowest tendera accepted were at a premium of 54
and the higheat 64.”
Pisrrxevisuep OCanapians.—On Saturday last Sir
John A. MeDoneld and Lady McDonald, Hon. J. 8. Me-
Donald and daughter, Miss MeDougall and Co). Bernard,
brother of Lady McDonald, arrived by express train
from Windsor, They are the guests of His Excellency
General Dovie, The Hon. Dr. Tupper also arrived. The
Hon. Mr, Mitchell arrived here the same evening via
Pictou and Sir Geo, B. Cartier and Lady came passen-
gers in the steamer Carlotta, which arrived yesterday
from Portland, On Saturday evening, His Excellency
the Lieutenant Governor entertained a large party at
dinner fn honor of his distinguished guests.—[Hx. Col.
ll. M. 8. Urgent, arrived at Plymouth, G. B., on
the 14th ult. having on board Prince Dejatch Alamayor,
the son of King Theodore. He is7 years of age and
is described as being a very interesting and intelligent
child. He appeared to be delighted with England, ex-
claiming. "this isa beautiful country ;I will never go
back.” The native servant who accompanied him, on
going over the dockyard and arsenal at Plymouth, ob-
served with regret “Ah, Theodore, Theodore, you
should have seen this!”
The City Council of Baltimore voted $50,000 for the
relief of the sufferers by the flood, $15.009 to repair tho
streets and bridges, and $20,000 for clearing away the
sand and rubbish. ‘The Cou. il also adopted a resolu-
tion of thanks to Geo. W. Childs, of the Philadelphia
‘Ledger,’ for his contribution in ald of the sufferers.
The Board of Trade are also adopting measures in ald
of the sufferers, Many females are entirely destitute
and homeless, and are living temporarily in the engine-
houses of the fire department.
Tae Suez Canar,.—A short time since it was annonne-
ed that the great Suez Canal to connect the Mediter-
ranean with the Red Sea was drawing near to comple-
tion; bat the work has come to a sudden standstill for
want of the one thing needful"—money. The Frenoh
shareholders are unwilling to make further advances,
and the Legislative body have paseed a bill to allow the
Company to raise tunds through the organization of a
great lottery scheme,
The Atlantic Cable Companies have decided to re-
duce,on and after September ist, the tariff on cable
messages between Valentia, Ireland, and Plaister Cove,
Nova Scotia,to three pounds for ten words, with five
words additional allowed for the address, etc. The
charges on land lines are to be added.
There is a great demand for harvest laborers in all
parts of the Province of Ontario. The Windsor Re-
cord say's there is fear that much grain will be injured
in that section from the inability to secure sufficient
help to store the same in season.
Late advices from Mazatlan deny the truth of the
statement to the effect that Capt. Bridge, of Her Maj-
esty’s frigate. ‘*Chanticleer,” had been either repri--
wnauded or recalled, and announee that the blockade of
that port is still fally maintained.
Mormons continue to flock to Salt Lake. Reeently
600 persons—100 men, $50 women, and 150 ehildren—
arrived at New York ev route to Utah. They were Eng-
lish and Welsh. .
News by Telegraph.
Vienna, Aug. 6.—Baron Von Buest, in a speech at the
Jobuttezfest to-day, declared that Austria would not inter-
fore in German affairs, and that the Imperial Government:
utterly ignored any policy of vengeance. ‘
New Yorx, Aug. 6.—The office of the Fire Star In-
surance Company, was robbed about 8 o'clock this po mv of |
40,000 United States 5-20 Bonds, :
New Yorn, Aug 7.—Gold 47}. ;
Monrargat, Aug. 6.—Adelbert Lancelot, has organized a
new association for the independence of Canada.
Lonvos, Aug. 3,—The Cable of 1866 ceased to work at
thirty-five minutes past twelve o'clock this afternoon, and
tests show the fault to be at the Newfounland side,
Cable has probably been damaged by an iceb &,
(Signed.) Crnvus W, Fiery.
Panis, August 3.—An Imperial decree is issued, autho-
riging the issue of anew loan, Dispatches from Bucharest’
report a fight has taken placo near Buetchuah, between
Turkish insurgents, in which the latter were defeated and
dispersed. It was rumored thata Turkish gun boat had
been fired on from the shores in the neighbo of Gal-
taz.
Rtomn, Aug, 3.—It is reported that in the Consistory
which will be held by the next month, Monsignors
Merode, Chigi, ‘Talbot, Rondi, Parr and Sayretti will be ap-
pointed Cardinals, i
Lonpon, 5th (even,)-—The “Times” editorially says of
the Mazatlan affair, although the commander of the Shans
ticler was exposed to considerable provocation, he should
have sought redress through his government, Otherwise
headstrong and espe, gra commanders will always hold
the power of peace and war. Even the Soanish American
States insolvent, and brutal ag they are, to this treatment.
A despatch from Constantinople that Mr. Morris,
the American minister refuses to concur in the protocol of
the Sublime Port, ne oe to hold lands in fwnee
Lonvow, Aug, 4—Tho Royal Commission on the
Church establishment have mace their xpport. The:
commend the abolition of all the E; Sces Ca-
thedral establishments in Ireland except 80, to be
tained on reduced revenues, ‘They also report in
measures to encourage tenants Church
chase property. y, and to enable land
the payment of tithes and rent charges, to even’
of their lands, ‘The wheat harvest in
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lished,
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“—— him, but I must.’
»-_ *Ol, Amalia! my beloved! what is this?’ cried
formed ?—I
THE
* Yee yea!’ said Amalia, ‘1 do—I must; I am
, and preparing to grovel be-
*unsay these
*Do not call me by these unseemly names, Mr.
Griffin; Iam no longer anything to you——I am
married !°
_* Married! * « Married !’ « Married 1" ‘ Married !°
echoed round the group, expressed in every in-
- Sonation and with every shade of emotion. ~
“Yes,” : Buttonshaw, riding forward, ‘she
e’s Mrs. Buttonshaw-——my wife, in
» Lowe you a sincere apology ; but
- You see Amalia loved me long before she ever saw
ou, aud promised that if ever there was au op-
‘ » She would marry me ; well, the oppor-
; teecured this morning, and we have avail-
ed ourselves of it. We are both very sorry for
you; but after all, you couldn't have married her
yo for you were detained in quarantine,
and here you would haye all been in the jaws of
the pursuing parent. I may add that it was sim-
a to escape from the brutality of that
parent that induced her to run offwith you. Her
position at home was desperate, Yes, Senor pa-
pa, it was, and you needu't scowl; you have no
powernow. The Vice-Consul at Tetuan has de-
prived you of it, by marrying us this morning;
and the Church, represented by this thoughtful
re, has sanctioned and blessed the union:
horse ; readful words, my
cas ean nee Meeeeetetnen emcee epee
Corvtespondence,
Dear Herald,— .
As I promised to drop you a weekly letter so that
your readers inay be well posted on ghe affairs publique
of Massachusetts, I now fuldl it. ‘To an individual
leaving not only Charlottetown, but even Montreal, the
commercial emporium of Canada, the city of Boston
would be astonishing. No person remains stationary for
& moment—all have some object in immediate view, and
to accomplish it. A wooden dwelling is as rare
as a silver coin, and an idle storekeeper an object.of
astonishment. People advertise in all trades and pro-
fons, and paste and palut their notices not only on
their corners and places of business, but on flags which
float from ropes connecting opposite houses, One would
imagine Rostonians never sleep, for at night the city as-
sumes nearly ag lively an appearance as at noon-day.
Theatres, concert-rooma, billiard establishments, dining
saloons, dancing hells ad itaitum, are the orders of the
day. Nowarl’s Atheneum is one of the principal places
of amusement. Some of the company, incloding Mrs.
Allen, are at prosent performing in the city. They left
Malifax last week, as another company forestalled them
during their absence in Charlottetown. Yesterday, I
witnessed the departure of Montgomery's Light Guard
for New York to compete at drill for the champion flag.
The Guard is_an Irish regiment, and one of the best
discipline Iuion. ‘The commander is an Irish-
man nar inuin. The officers sre mostly all
mechanic ¢ of officers reminds me of an intro-
uection I half-witred musician last night. Me
was a general in the U. S. army. and was former'y a
boiler fitter in a Philadelphia foundry, His boiler mak-
NON A 8 tila tS tl on al
STON LETTER.
nine’
is before the footlights the
ing propensity is :ather /ifradig. at present, and having
ere are the certificates. We'll have antes for flddling, he hw# atenzagement in the orches-
wedding to-morrow, to which you shall com
you are yery penitent and very good. I hear
eae) isa moans going to Gin this afternoon, so
we’ bye.’ Come, Amalia; come, padre ;’
and they were off! :
Let us draw a veil over the agonies of Unlucky
Tim Griffin,’ It has never transpired to my know-
ledge whether the conduct of Amalia and Button-
shaw was the result of a deep and deliberate plot
in which both participated, and in which Tim and
I performed the parts of catspaws, or whether it
arose from a sudden access of fickleness on the
part of the lady, combined with that villany on
the part of Buttonshaw which he shares with
some other malesof his species. We are thero-
fore free to speculate on the pros and cons of the
question. Tue misogynist will, of course, give
his adhesion to the former alternative, andif he is
a Spanish scholar, perhaps mutter, apropos of my
Spanish heroine,— ‘De mala muger te guarda, y
de la buena no fies nada.’ For my part, I have
ulways given Amalia the benefit of the doubt.
Old Cayrasee, you see, was a desperately nasty
old fellow ; and in desperate circumstances des-
perate resources are necessary. She went off,
therefore, with Tim Griffin in despair, and unex-
tedly (for I defy you to prove any collusion on
r ) meeting Buttonshaw, with whom she
was desperately inlove, she desperately jilted my
friend ; and if she left him desperate, let it be ro-
membered to her credit that she desperately sold
her -raseally parent into the bargin, As for Bat-
tonshaw, he, of course, must have been a ruffian
throughout; but let us be merciful even to that
erring mortal. We are all frail. 1 can testify to
the strength of his temptation, for I can vouch
for the brightness of Amalia’s eyes, And then,
wt reflect thatin all human probability he now
itterly regrets lis conduct.
HOLLOWAY—A FRAGMENT CONCERNING {118
, DOINGS,
Professor Holloway is stillin the prime of life, though
it is now more than a quarter of a century since he per-
fected his discoveries and gave thein to the world. His
yearly bills for advertising, taking the average of the
eight years, amount to the sum of two handred
and twenty-three thousand dullare per annwn, of which
about one wceveh — Mae ee i dollars
are spent in employing the columns of such journals as
lars ten already established. ‘The Posey a 18 need
for the creation of special organs in countries not
hitherto acquainted with the wonders of the printing
prese,and for educating and supporting interpreters
who accompany his agents and make known the pro-
erties of his remedies amongst barbarous and ancivyi-
lized tribes which have no written langnage through
which he may address them. These ‘ missionaries of
health,” as are called, ave chiefly employed in Cen-
tral Africa and ainong the Islands of the Eastern Ar-
chipelago. In the former place they rendered im-
portant service to the late government expedition sent
out by Engtand; and it certainly was a galling con-
feasion for t, Anderson, that after penetrating into
the wild and ate region as far as he could or durst
, the agents of a private individual should laugh at
his official fears and offer to conduct him ** further and
yet farther, rg the different stations ahead of me
which Professor Holloway had already established for
the eale of his Pills and Ointment !”
The newspapers, daily and periodical, in which these
are regularly advertised, amount — to
three thousand seven hundred and sixty-five, of which
two Wegeese eight hundred and sixty-three are printed
in the tongues, while tho balance of nine
hundred and two are divided between the Chinese and
Asiatic tongues, (the former bee tergely »redomina-
ting), and those other languages in whieh Mr. Hollo-
way has made himself the pioneer of printing,
management of this mighty machinery of illamination—
even apart from its expense—may well appear in-
to. ordinary minde; but system and steady
business ion can reduce apparent im possibilities
to order, and under the experienced hands of a host of
clerke and linguists, the wheels of this claborate and
x mechaniem revolve with silent and simulta-
E
to the number of those who are annually restored
by Holloway’s medicines, a Committee eon-
fossed that it could nuteven approximate the amount
with any certainty of correctness, A box of Pills may
t the individual who buys it, or a family of six
eight for whose general use it is procured ; so alse
with a box of Ointment. Again, it may be well con-
eumed this is rare—for the cure of one par-
tioular. 5 Orit may cure that, and yet another
after that, and yet another, being kept in the house as
a family medicine,—and of these cases the commitee
eubmit they have no means to judge. Again, both pills
and ointment may be used conjointly by asingle patient,
by two: how, then, can an estimate be
ian.
fr
i
* May —_—_ the court,’ said a Jawyer before
a justice, the other day, ‘this is a caso of the
importance. While the American eagle,
whose sleepless eyes watches over the welfare of this
Republic, and whose wings extend trom the
ies to the rocky chain of the West, was re-
My his pride of place—'
* Stop stop dare, I say! Vat has this suit todo
amit eagles? Dish has nothing todo mit the wild bird.
‘At ie von sheep,’ exclaimed the justice. ;
have rights here.’
hands
moust
inst cat-gut. Such is life!
pular parties here just now
The party newspapers both laud and
Badges are disposed of containing their
likenesses, on the streets aud in shops, from 1 cent. to
810 each. ‘Times are very good here. There is no de-
cay visible in the garments of the people. I think the
Bostonians dress better than even the Londoners. Wages
range from $2 to $35 a day for first rate tradesmen. A
carter won't drive yon a mile for less than 82. First
class hotels charge $4 a day board, and it is an utter im-
possibility to obtain even a half furnished sitting room
and bed room for less than 814 a week. I tendered a
50 cent piece for some goods lately, and the coin went
round the room as a natural curlosity. Paper pays for
everything. T would strongly advise all who are inclined
to work and are good tradesmen to select Boston for
their home, trom what I hear of it and know by the ex-
perience of comparison. One class should remain
away, and that is the idle loafers who have no trade nor
profession—those who live on thelr wits. A dozen or
so Servant girls came down with the Alhambra, but a
Boston gentleman, a passenger, observed to me—* We
prefer strangers to our own servant girls, who are gen-
erally impertinent; but. believe me, sir, 12 months make
igrorant country girls more impertinent than our own.”
Ae Thave wut yet been sufficiently posted up in the
aifairs of the city, I'll conclude the present letter with a
hope for more interesting matter in the next. F,
of the theatre here, sq@
general now wages war
Grant and Colfax are the
with the majority,
roast them.
(To tux Herarp.] :
The subscriber begs to acknowledge the reccipt of
some stationery, &e.. for the benefit of the scholara of
Lake Verde School, Luts 48 antl 49, from the Mon. R.
P. Haythorne.
August 8, 1863. JAMES SMITH, Teacher.
Mr. A. H. Sr. Germain, Proprietor of the Canadian
Advertising Agency, Toronto. Ont., ix our Sour
Agent for procuring American Advertisements, and
is authorized also to receive Cunadian Advertisements
for this paper.
The Berala.
Wednesday, August 12, 18Gs.
CITY IMPROVEMENTS.
Ovr readers can form some idea of the progressive
character of the City Council, from the rate at which
improvements are being effected on Queen Street —the
principal street of the Town, and the only one, as far as
We are aware, which is being repaired at all. During
the past week, there has been one mah with a wheel-
barrow employed on this street, and daring that time,
he wheeled stone and clay enough to cover ton square
feet. At tls rate of progreasion,it will take some four
or five months to repair the street as far as Queen's
Wharf. Now, if we except Queen Street and Qnreen
Square, we do not think that the City Council can point
to any improvements effected in the City for the past
year. Considering that between three and four thousand
pounds are annually collected by taxes, fines, &c., a per-
son would fancy that the strects ought to be in tolerable
condition at all seasous, that the city ought to be pro-
vided with good side-walks and crossings, efficient
drains and pleasant squares. We kuow that we have
none of these things—that we lave no pure water—and
that no attempt has been made to supply it. At the
same time we have heavy taxes to pay, and there
are no quarterly accounts published, avd no one seems
to know where the money goes,’ What becomes of it. —
Will Councillor Laird tell us? Have the sweets of the
city printing closed his eyes to these matters,or is a paltry
grant of two or three hundred pounds to St. Dunstan's
College of more importance than the thousands of
pounds wrong from the poor of the city, and spent no
one knows when, where orhow? A few spirited gentle-
men, by the aid of private subscriptions, have done more
to adorn and finprove the Town than tie whole Council
put together, with their revenues at their back. This
way of managing business cannot be allowed to go on
much longer. From ¢tood authority, we hear, that not-
withstanding the heavy and increasing taxes levied from
the citizens, the Corporation is going in debt £700 or
£800 a year! Wow long is this going to Jast? ‘the
steam fire engine was seized the other day, and we sup.
pose the Market House and Police Court will go next—
unless the citizens are prepared to pay five times the
taxes they do now, Are they prepared for this? We
fancy not; and if they are not, they must wake up and
insist that the Corporation be revised or abolished; for
at present we maintain that it is worse than useless, One
eMcient magistrate, with a clerk and four or five special
constables.could do more for one-third the money, than
the present large and expensive organisation. We
imagined that when Mr. Laird was elected to the City
Council, the reizgu of economy and reform would be in-
augurated, but we find that we have been mistaken. His
own interests and not those of the public, are what mos!
concern him, At the present thine, the Corporation is
next thing to bankrupt, and, unless we are treatly mis-
informed, is running into Cebt head over heols. “Now,
there are two or three things very evident, and about
which the citizens should concern themselves. It ts
plain that the Corporation Is clither too extravagantly
worked, or that taxation Is Insufficient. If the former,
is it better to attempt to cut down the expenses or
abolish the concern altogether? As to taxation being
insufficient, we think there is scarcely a rateable citizen
who will not say that taxation Is sufficiently high—in fact
that it is higher than it ought to be for all the advan-
tages derived from it. TN: only question then is, can
economy be introduced into the * soulless” Corporation ?
In ous opinion it cannot, and the sooner the citizens de-
vise and adopt some better plan by which to govern the
town, and secure the judicious expenditure of the taxes,
the sooner will we have good streets and side-walks,
and pure water and air. A mass meeting of citizens
ought to be called to consider the “ situation,” for,
otherwise, matters will be conducted as ry! are until
we wake up some dine morning and find the market
, steau engine, and other city property in the
of the Sheriff; or else taxation will be so enor-
increased aa to depopulate the town. In the
meantime, would the Corporation be so as to have
blished an accurate statement of its fnancial condi-
rng The statement, we know, would amaze the citizens,
HERALD,
4
WEDN
Pecan oor au apemameaeeee
NOVA SCOTIA,
‘Tur Local Legislature of Nova Scotia not on Thurs- |
day last, and adjourned almost immediately after unthhy
Monday, the 10th Instant. The object of the adjourn-|
ment seems to have been to enable the Dominion and
Local anti-members of that Province to hold a consulta-
tion on “the situation,” as also a conference with Sir
John A. McDonald and the other members of his Gov-
ernment, at present in Halifax, on the same subject. A
peaceful withdrawal of Noya Scotia from the Dominion
was to have been proposed to Sir John, and in the event
of his refusal to such a policy, some definite ne of ac-
tion was to have been adopted and submitted to the
Local Parliament. From Monday's papers we learn that
no satisfactory arrangements could be come to with
Sir John and his colleagues-in fact that the latter had
no power except to offer a ‘few offices in the way of
bribes to the Repeal leaders, who reject all such offers
with scorn, The hostility of the Nova Scotians to all
overtures short of Repeal ts manifested in a thousand
different ways. The papers are determined and defiant,
and the people are ten times worse, even on the admis-
sion ofavowed Unionists, The Canadian “conelliators,’
as Sir John and his friends ave ealled, met with a frigid
reception on thelr landing—not over a dozen persons
being present on the wharf; and ‘Halifax, the hospitable,’
as the cloquent Darcy MeGee styled it, for the first time
in her history, wraps herself up in an ley hauteur in the
prosence of the * charmers,” and declines to spread the
festive board for them or to mingle with them tn soctal
pleasures. The members of the Legislature refused an
invation to dine at Government House, because they be-
lieved they would meet Sir John and his friends there.
The Spartan fortitude and determination thus exhibited
commands our adnifration, and we are at times Inclined
to believe, that any people, however numerically small
they may be, animated by such a spirlt, cannot long be
held in subjection. ‘The patriotism of the people and
their leaders is above all praise; and their contemptuous
rejection of place and power, when offered for the purpose
of diverting them from the assertion of thelr rights, is
in bright contrast to that servile and mercenary spirtt
which characterises too many politicians of the present
day. The MeCullys aud the Millers—fourth-rate law-
yers and politicians—fellows who, like Sciplo Afrl-
canus, sought to build a great name to themselves“ up-
on the foundation of mighty mischiefs done,” may strut
upon the stage at Ottawa, in all the pride and conse-
quence of senatorial honors and pay,but the reflection of
their treachery to the people, and the deplorable eon-
dition into which they have plunged their native Pro-
vince, must often intrude upon their hours of solititude,
and even sadly mar the enjoyment of their dignity,
Not forthe wealth of the Provinces would any honest
or honorable man accept the position of those traltors—
acquired In the manner it has been. Leaving, however,
those who have brought about the situation, for a con-
sideration of the situation itself, we seo no way in
which it can be changed unless by an appeal to arms.
Some of the repealers appear to think that the power of
Great Britain will not be emp'oyed to compel Nova
Scotia to remain tn the Union—that the Mother Coun-
try wishes to coerce none of her Colonies under a re-
gime or constitution not agreeable or desirable to them.
if this be so—and we very much doubt it—then Nova
Scotia might safely take up arms to-morrow in behalf
of her rights. But it is the consideration whether
Great Britain will or will not use force to compel an ac-
ceptance of the situation that gives the repealers pause,
and bids them rather bear those ills they have than fly
to others they know not of. The effusion of blood would
certainly be a very poor way to coment a union such as
the Dominion of Canada is—bordered by a jealous and
powerfal neighbor—but if the Nova Scotlans are de-
termined to recover theirlost rights, they must not val-
culate that they are going to get them by talking. They
must be prepared to smell gunpowder and face the
gallows. and if they have their courage screwed up to
this sticking-pol.t, we very much doubt if they can
accomplish a repeal of the Union—and for the reasons
we gave a few numbers back—the certainty of the
British Government putting forth all its power to main-
tain Imperial rights, the weakness of the Nova Scotians,
and the improhability ofthe Americans alding them tu
the struggle. Time, however, will shortly develope these
various issues, as the” present crisis cannot long con-
tinue.
Tur Portianp Convention, after a short Session ad-
Journed without doing much towards forwarding Reci-
procity. The Provincial delegates had some trouble and
withdrew from the convention. We are not aware
whether the Island delegates,-whose expenses (£75) the
Island papers forgot to tell their readers, were defrayed
bv the Government—were among those who withdrew.
We must await their own report to the Board of Trade
upon that point, The only good likely to result from
the convention, apart from the intercourse of commer-
celal men from both sections, will be the ex‘ension of rall-
road communication between the Provinces and the
United States, Even this is an indirect advantage worth
contending for. As free trade is anall important matter
to the people of this Colony, we hope the Government
will prove thelr competency for their position, by call-
ing the Legislature together, to consider Gen. Butler's
propositions, without waiting to ascertatn what the
“anadian or Imperial authorities think of the subject.
We have aright to look after our own interests, and if
they are opposed by those authorities, the consequence
be theirs. Let us, at all events; do oar duty to the peo-
ple. After the return of the delegates, we shall refer to
this again.
Mr. W. M. Wien, of St. John, N. B., an tmitator
of Dickens in his style of reading, is about to give
some public readings in Market Hall, for particulars of
which see advertisement in to-day’s paper. Speaking
or tits gentieman,the St John Morning Journal says :—
“Mr, Wright's reading of the humorous passages is
delightful, and calls forth repeated and irresistible bursts
of laughter. Dat it is not in the comic alone that Mr.
Wright excels, for when in the pathetic passages he
brings tears into avrcog men’s cyes, and women weep
outright, his suecess camvot be doubted; and to this
success the sympathetic (ones of a sweet and flexible
voice contribute almost as much as his dramatic power,
The following words from Misa Field's “ Pen Photo-
graphs of Charles Dickens’ Readings " may justly be ap-
plied to the Readings of Mr. Wright :—‘ iZ¢ Las demon-
strated by personal Wlustretion the meaning of the long
neglected art of reading,* Ile has shown us that it
means a perfectly casy, unaffected manner, a thoroughly
colloqaial tone and an entire absence of the stilted style
of elocution that has heretofore passed current for good
reading. He has proved that the very best reading ap-
proaches the very best acting.”
Hore: AccommMopatTiIon.—A large number of the pas-
sengers by the Alhambra lust week were Ameriean ex-
cursionists, who, for the want of hotel accommodation,
had to remain on board the steamer whilst she was here,
and took their departure in heron her return. This
shows that notwithstanding the number and. excellence
of the small hotels which the town posseses, yet from the
year)y increasing number of travellers Who find their way
to this Island in the summer season, a large first-class
hotel is much wanted and would pay handsomely. One
located at the river's side, with bath-houses and boats,
is what ts requived, and sucha one as would attract
travellers to our shores during the hot months of summer.
There is a great dearth of enterprise among us, or this
want would have been supplied before now.
Tur following challenge has been transmitted by the
weil-knowa oarsmen, the Ward Brothers, to the Editor
of Bell's Lise, London:—
“The Ward Brothers, désirons of testing the relative
merits of the oarmanship of Great Britain and the Unit-
ed States, will make a match with any four men for $5, -
000 a side. Distance. five or six miles straight-away.
The race to be 1owed incither conntry, on waters to
be mutnally agreed upon. We will give $1,000 to any
crew willing to visit the United States, for expenses, or
will take that amount and row in England, Communi.
cations yy steamer or telegraph, addressed to care Edit-
or New York Herald, will receive immediate atvention,”
Mn. Kexxepy, the Scottish vocalist, is to entertain
the lovers of song and anecdote in Market Mall, on
Seca
| him.and offending the nostrils of every man in the State,
| ed at Port Hawksbury.—
Monday and Tuesday nights next.
AUGUST 12, 1868.
“LIBERTY AND LICENSE” ONCE MORE.
—
Tuw Patriot, in two colamns of editorial, having estab-
lished, to its own satisfaction, the right of the press to
single out and abuse private gentlemen for their private
views, exercises that right in its late issue by introducing
to the notice of its readers the Rector of St. Dunstan's
College. Now, we have only one word to say about the
Patriot's conduct in this matter, and It is this—that if
private gentlemen have no protection against this sort of
“license,” they have, at all events, the privilege of
applying a good horse-whip to the back of the editor
who exercises it~a fact very unpleasantly known to
some of the Editors of the Patriot; but which they seem
anxious to have repeated, from their frequent and
altogether inexcusable liberties with “ private gentle-
men.” Private gentlemen may, and generally do, treat
with contempt such splenetic scribblings as the Patriot
indulges In, but there are exceptions to every rule, and
if, through provocation, our contemporary or his aids
should receive, as they have before, a touch of the argr-
mentum ad hominem, the fault will be their own, and they
will meet with but little sympathy In the community.
As to St. Dunstan’s College receiving Government aid,
we are not going to have any controversy on that point,
but we may state onr conviction, that perhaps before
the crows have a bill of sale of our contemporary that
institution will receive state ald with the free consent of
a majority of the electors of the Colony—the New Glas-
gow * Arcadian” and his assistants to the contrary. At
present they are unwittingly aiding the grant,
Thurlow. Weed, who supports the 1epublican ticket.
says in his paper, the New York Commercial Advertis-
eri ’
“Governor Seymounis not to ba beaten by heing ecall-
eda Copperhead, or Kiank Blale to be ‘distanced in
the race because he isa revolutionist. Ridicule Sey-
mour as some Republican journals may, he is the most
popular man in the Democratic party, The man who,
in 1864, with the record against bim that Seymoar had,
and with the odor of the New York rio clinging to
barely ta eseane an election in a poll of over seven hun-
dred thousand votes, is a eandidate not to be sneezed
at, The man, we repeat, who, with the intense pres-
sure of disloyalty brought against him, could poll over
three hundred and sixty thousand votes, is more to be
feared now than in 1861. Eternal vigilance is neces-
sary to elect General Grant.”
Distixfvrsuep Anniyars.—The Dominion Steamer
Napoleon, having on board Sir John and Lady McDonald;
Sir George Cartier; Hon, Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell; Hon.
Saudeld McDonald, Attorney General of Ontario; Miss
Cuvilller; Miss Symes; Miss Louisa Cuvilller; Miss Me-
Donald; T. N. Gibbs, Nsq., M. P.; Lieut. Col. Bernard
F. Gibbs, Esq.; arrived at this port this morning.
We do not know what stay these gentlemen purpose
making. nor are we aware wehether the visit is of a
political nature, or merely on pleasure. We are of the
opinion that it is altogether one of pleasure, and under
such Cirenmstances, we wish those distinguished gentie-
men a pleasant time of it, and hope to see them renew
their visit annually.
AN imaginative writer, over the signature of “ F. M.
N.,” in the last Summerside Journal, says that the peo-
ple of Tignish, at the late Tea Party held in that place,
fought until they drove one another into the sea! Will
some Tignish friend favor us with his opinion on this
episode—so damaging to the falr fam of that locality?
Our own opinion Is, that “ F. M,N." is aslanderer of
the narrow-minded stamp, and deserves a trouncing for
his wholesale libel.
Tun Postmaster General despatched the Steamer
Heather Beileto Pictou this morning, for an English mail
due to-day. As the telegraph is out of order, it is not
known whether the English Steamer has arrived at Hall-
fox ;but as the weather has heen favorable, it is antl. pat-
ed that she has been up to time. We may, therefore, ex-
pect the mall cither this evening or to-morrow.
Finst Anrtvats rrom Tan Bay.—Fishing schrs. Model,
Ball, with 96 barrels Mackerel, to Williem Heard, Esq.,
and Game Cock, Chivirie, with 140 barrels, to HI. E. Star-
bird & Co., arrived yesterday forenoon. They report Mack-
erel very scarce, bat have done better than the sverage
catch upto date,
,
A strange scene, says the Peterborough * Examiner,
was enacted at Seaham harbor lately. A man who had
deserted his wife to elope with another woman was
brought home by the police, escorted by a mob, Includ-
ing about 500 women beating tin pots and yelling.
Tiere is quite an exodus of laborers going on just
now from this Colony to New Brunswick. The emi-
grants are going to work on the railway known as
‘Western Extension,” and will receive one dollar and
a quarter a dav—at least, so it is said.
One of the newest dodges practised by the thieving
fraternity of Buffalo is for one of them to suddenly fall
down on the pavement as if sun struck, and a crowd
being thus immediately collected, his associates make a
raid upon the pockets of the sympathizing by-standers.
The following parties were passengers in the Dark
Undine wiuch sailed for England on Thursday :—-Chas,
Dalgleish, Eeq. ond Mra. Dalgleish; Dr. Inglis. Mra.
Inglis, Master and Mise Inglis; Mr. Playfair and Miss
Blateh.
During the last year the Irish in the States sent home
the eum of £2,700,000 to their relations. Of this money
more than a million dollars was in prepaid passage orders.
Anovr three hundred mowing and reaping machines
have been sold here this season; and stili the supply is
not equal ta the demand.
Mr. Barratt, the Temperance lecturer, lectured tn
Temperance Hall, Charlottetown, last evening, to a
good audience. :
Our farmers ate busy hay-making. The crop is above
an average one. Potatoes and other crops promise
well.
There were 1142 deaths in New York last week. The
highest number daring any week in 1867 was 708.
Tus Steamer Conmerce arrived this morning from
Poston and Halifax, with freight and passengers.
‘The Halifax Chronicle has been enlarged and clothed in
an entire new suit,
Tur revenue this year is in excess of that for the same
period last year.
Tur Colonial Rifle competition begins at 9 o'clock to-
morrow morning—~at Kensington.
The Bark Prioress, sailed for Liverpool on Tuesday last,
and the Undine on Thursday evening, by Hon. J, C, Pope.
The Sch, “ Lettie,” 1s reported to have taken 70 Bbls, of
mackerel in her seine some few days since.
The Sch, * Dominion,” at St. Poter's last Friday, reports
76 Bois. Macke rel,
ee
The steamer City of Durham arrived last night from
St. John, N. F. e have received our usual fyles but
note little of importance. The reports of the Fisheries
from the Northward are not encouraging. The Agents
of the City of Durham entertained o large party of
ladies and gentlemen on board that vessel in St. John.
His Excellency the Governor of Newfoundland came
passenger in the steamer en route to England.—-Jiz. Ee.
The steamer Her Majesty, hence, bound to Montreal,
put into the Straite of Canso leaky, and will be taken
on the Marine Railway there for repairs. The steam.
er struck on White I and was subsequently dock-
He. Unionist.
The President of the United States has directed the
Scoretary of War to withdraw all the military from
those of the Southern States which have ta-
tives in Congress, Thus has civil govnriment been ro-
Miscellaneous,
The London Weekly Register of the 11th says:—
“Daring the last few days three items of social in.
telligence have created quite a panic amongst certain
persons of the ultra-Protestant persuasion in London.
The first is that at the dinner table of 4 certain Cath
nobleman, the deservedly popular Princess of Teck met,
and spoke to, no less a person than the Archbishop of
Westminster; and, moreover—the horror of horrors
—the said prelate eaid grace in the ofa Prin-
cees of the Royal Family of England! But the second
anecdote is worse than ‘the firat. Monsignor the Hon,
George Talbot, private chamberlain to His Holiness,
enlled theother day at Marlborough House and paid a
visit to the Prinoe and Princess of Wales, having known
the former in Rome. And there is, ene a moro
dreadful tendency to Popery in high places. On Sun-
dav last, the heir of the throne of England, with his
wife and brother, paid an afternoon visit toa Catholic
peeress near London, and remained nearly two hours
wandering about the gardens of the house. What will
Messrs. Newdogate and Whalley say to all this.
A letter from Buenos Ayres. published in the Off.
cial Gazette of Turin, eatimates that no less than 4000 the
number of Italian emigrants‘landed in South American
ports between the Ist of January and the 15th of March.
A few figures will show the rapidly increasing impor-
tance of this movement, which takes place almost ex-
clusively from the port of Genoa, In 1862 the number
of emigrants amounted to 3.082 persons; in 1863, to 4,.
494; in 1864, te 6.435; in 1865, to 5.004; in 1866, to 6,-
000 ; and for 1898 we may estimate a total exceeding 10,-
000. The returns for 1867 are wanting. -
Important. Advices have been received that the
Hon, Mr. Rose has put one-half of the Intereolonial
Railway loaf in the market. The Montreal Gazette
says: *£1,500,000 of the sum he offered is covered by
the Imperial guarantee, (the Act limiting the rate of in-
terest to 4 per cent.) and $500,000 upon the credit of
the Dominion. If we are not misinformed, the loan
was offered in the proportion of three-fourths guaran-
teed and one-fourth without the guarantee. The bids
were very satisfactory, amonnting to £8,250,000 stg.
The lowest tendera accepted were at a premium of 54
and the higheat 64.”
Pisrrxevisuep OCanapians.—On Saturday last Sir
John A. MeDoneld and Lady McDonald, Hon. J. 8. Me-
Donald and daughter, Miss MeDougall and Co). Bernard,
brother of Lady McDonald, arrived by express train
from Windsor, They are the guests of His Excellency
General Dovie, The Hon. Dr. Tupper also arrived. The
Hon. Mr, Mitchell arrived here the same evening via
Pictou and Sir Geo, B. Cartier and Lady came passen-
gers in the steamer Carlotta, which arrived yesterday
from Portland, On Saturday evening, His Excellency
the Lieutenant Governor entertained a large party at
dinner fn honor of his distinguished guests.—[Hx. Col.
ll. M. 8. Urgent, arrived at Plymouth, G. B., on
the 14th ult. having on board Prince Dejatch Alamayor,
the son of King Theodore. He is7 years of age and
is described as being a very interesting and intelligent
child. He appeared to be delighted with England, ex-
claiming. "this isa beautiful country ;I will never go
back.” The native servant who accompanied him, on
going over the dockyard and arsenal at Plymouth, ob-
served with regret “Ah, Theodore, Theodore, you
should have seen this!”
The City Council of Baltimore voted $50,000 for the
relief of the sufferers by the flood, $15.009 to repair tho
streets and bridges, and $20,000 for clearing away the
sand and rubbish. ‘The Cou. il also adopted a resolu-
tion of thanks to Geo. W. Childs, of the Philadelphia
‘Ledger,’ for his contribution in ald of the sufferers.
The Board of Trade are also adopting measures in ald
of the sufferers, Many females are entirely destitute
and homeless, and are living temporarily in the engine-
houses of the fire department.
Tae Suez Canar,.—A short time since it was annonne-
ed that the great Suez Canal to connect the Mediter-
ranean with the Red Sea was drawing near to comple-
tion; bat the work has come to a sudden standstill for
want of the one thing needful"—money. The Frenoh
shareholders are unwilling to make further advances,
and the Legislative body have paseed a bill to allow the
Company to raise tunds through the organization of a
great lottery scheme,
The Atlantic Cable Companies have decided to re-
duce,on and after September ist, the tariff on cable
messages between Valentia, Ireland, and Plaister Cove,
Nova Scotia,to three pounds for ten words, with five
words additional allowed for the address, etc. The
charges on land lines are to be added.
There is a great demand for harvest laborers in all
parts of the Province of Ontario. The Windsor Re-
cord say's there is fear that much grain will be injured
in that section from the inability to secure sufficient
help to store the same in season.
Late advices from Mazatlan deny the truth of the
statement to the effect that Capt. Bridge, of Her Maj-
esty’s frigate. ‘*Chanticleer,” had been either repri--
wnauded or recalled, and announee that the blockade of
that port is still fally maintained.
Mormons continue to flock to Salt Lake. Reeently
600 persons—100 men, $50 women, and 150 ehildren—
arrived at New York ev route to Utah. They were Eng-
lish and Welsh. .
News by Telegraph.
Vienna, Aug. 6.—Baron Von Buest, in a speech at the
Jobuttezfest to-day, declared that Austria would not inter-
fore in German affairs, and that the Imperial Government:
utterly ignored any policy of vengeance. ‘
New Yorx, Aug. 6.—The office of the Fire Star In-
surance Company, was robbed about 8 o'clock this po mv of |
40,000 United States 5-20 Bonds, :
New Yorn, Aug 7.—Gold 47}. ;
Monrargat, Aug. 6.—Adelbert Lancelot, has organized a
new association for the independence of Canada.
Lonvos, Aug. 3,—The Cable of 1866 ceased to work at
thirty-five minutes past twelve o'clock this afternoon, and
tests show the fault to be at the Newfounland side,
Cable has probably been damaged by an iceb &,
(Signed.) Crnvus W, Fiery.
Panis, August 3.—An Imperial decree is issued, autho-
riging the issue of anew loan, Dispatches from Bucharest’
report a fight has taken placo near Buetchuah, between
Turkish insurgents, in which the latter were defeated and
dispersed. It was rumored thata Turkish gun boat had
been fired on from the shores in the neighbo of Gal-
taz.
Rtomn, Aug, 3.—It is reported that in the Consistory
which will be held by the next month, Monsignors
Merode, Chigi, ‘Talbot, Rondi, Parr and Sayretti will be ap-
pointed Cardinals, i
Lonpon, 5th (even,)-—The “Times” editorially says of
the Mazatlan affair, although the commander of the Shans
ticler was exposed to considerable provocation, he should
have sought redress through his government, Otherwise
headstrong and espe, gra commanders will always hold
the power of peace and war. Even the Soanish American
States insolvent, and brutal ag they are, to this treatment.
A despatch from Constantinople that Mr. Morris,
the American minister refuses to concur in the protocol of
the Sublime Port, ne oe to hold lands in fwnee
Lonvow, Aug, 4—Tho Royal Commission on the
Church establishment have mace their xpport. The:
commend the abolition of all the E; Sces Ca-
thedral establishments in Ireland except 80, to be
tained on reduced revenues, ‘They also report in
measures to encourage tenants Church
chase property. y, and to enable land
the payment of tithes and rent charges, to even’
of their lands, ‘The wheat harvest in
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