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Contederate States of North Germany,has
han army of9u0,000 men at her command,
which, with the contingents from the
An English paper has this story from Confederate States ot the South, will
f gmouut to 1,250,000 men, ‘The Russian
army on @ peac footing amounts to 73

AN INCIDENT IN AUSTRALIA,

Australian i

‘cone. A loud roar as of artillery was heard | military escort. A : te
‘during the entire night. The mountain a ‘The train was met upon its arrival by

veiled in darkness long after the hour of day-|the Austrian officials, a large body ot
break the next morning. As the forenoon troops and a vast crowd of people who
ladvanced a strong wind sprung yp from. the ihad assembled to give ex pression to aele
apathy

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i

north, and dispelled the gloom, and Mount) respect for the dead and their s

"Three tiny boys. colony bora, of Day-

lesford, in Victoria, started into the bush! at cammanil she can bring into the field

000 men, but with the reeruiting souree’s

to look for some runaway goats. Phe) ) 300,000 soldiers, With these enormous
oldest was only seven; but Australian lads) (joes confronting each other, the perma

and lasses have a continent for a plays nent pe

ground, aud nothing was feared. When,
however, the little ones missed the dinner

hour, and then tea, their parents cael Grove
anxious, and searched the neighborhood | the following particulars of the loss of lite |

in vain,

Night fell, and with the aid ot
the local polic

the search was extended,
and though it lasted till the morning the
ehildren were still missing. At dawn a
storekeeper came in who had seen the
small wanderers on the road over-night;
and then a boy, who had given them the
right direction as he passed, ‘This was
ali that could be gained throughout the
second day; but now the littl sattered
@ommunity had heard of the toss, and was
on the alert. ‘The quartz miners put their
tools by and went out into the bush; so did
the sawyers ut the steam mill; aud so did
the wood cutters in the serub; and the
third day was thus passed in a vigorous
seareh. Still no trace or tidings, exeepta
faint footmark going in the wrong diree-
tion towards the Warribee River, and
therefore the good folks were growing
very much concerned, and it was settled
at a public meeting that all hands should
strike work and go look for the babies,
Accordingly the next day—the fomth—
every shop wis shut, every tool and im-
plement was left idle; or seven hun-
dred men, women and children turned out
in all directions into the dense scrub, to
hunt the strayed ones up Seventy pounds
were collected as a reward for the tinder;
though no one wanted that incentive, and
the man at the steam mill kept the whistle

poing all day to guide the li fect home, |
going y to guide the little feet home, | Diulit or (en y

if they were still able to stir, For days
these kindly souls of the Victorian town-
ship kept up the hu.t. It was in vain; at
the end of the week the shops had to be
re-opened, and work mourniully resumed,
for the children could not be discovered.
The heart broken parents publicly thank
ed their neighbors tor doing all that human
gentleness and good will could do, and so
the melancholy narrative ends, for the
children were lost and must have Iaic
down te die in the wilds. It will hereafter
be a colonial tale to match our British
* Babes in the Wood,’ with the blue-bird
and the bell-bird for ‘cock robin,’ and the
generous Daylesford folk to: make a plea-
sunt verse instead of the ‘ wicked uncle.’ |

Revtash OF Oxrond, Tite WOULD-RE AS:
BASSIN oF IIER Masesry 1x 1840.—The
British Medical Journal sa “ After
twenty-seven years of continement in a
criminal lunatic asylum, during which his
conduct has been exemplary, and no tra-
ces have appeared of mental aberration,
Oxford, the pot boy who shot at her Maj
esty in St. James Park, has been liberated.
—Dnring this time many appeals have
been made in his behalf by iniluential per-
fons who hayo had the opportunity of
watching his demeanor and gauging his
character,—His own story has always
and was so consistently from the first, that
the pistol which he fired was not loaded.
Tt will be remambered that no bullet. wi
ever found. Ile attributes the eriminal
act which he has expiated by long
murement, and which, under a less me
ful government, must have cost h
inordinate vanity, fostered by a vy: ety of
trivial circumstances in his demestic lite
and training on which we need not dwell,
and which led to a senseless desire to at-
tain notoriety by some means; and. this
foolish and criminal impulse led to his la-
maentable crime, He has occupied his time
in a certain amount of self-education, of
which the means have been granted to him
at Broadmoor and in the asylum in which
he was formerly confined, and has become
a tolerable linguist. He | also taught
himself, and practised ‘graining,’ which
he does sufticiently well to earn a living.
dle has been mercifully released, but has

been very properly prohibited: from 1
maining in or visiting England. Whether

directly insane at the time of his offence,
or led by a miserable love of notorie it
is right that the person of the Sovereign
should be protected from the yanity of a
man who, at however distant a period,
could commit the cowardly outrage of
which he was the perpetrator.”

AAAAAR A AMAA A em
Tur Conprtion or Muxico.—Robberies
atill continue to be perpetratnd all over
the country, and in the capital, under the
very nose of the authorities, are carried on
in open day on a seale and with such a
system that New Yoyk adepts ought to
blush at their awkwardness. Searcely a
day passes but we hear of some leading
and wealthy cilizen, being forced under
threats of immediate or subsequent as:
sination, to give his captors a sum of mo-
ney varying from $8000 to $6000, A few
days ago an incident of this kind oceurred
in the open plaza, within a hundred yards
of the palace and tho chief police station,
and in the presence of the moving popula-
tion that at no moment could have num-
bered less than from 4000 to 5000 persons
It is true that the citizen was released af-
ter several hours’ duress, by the appear:
ance of the Governor backed by the police,
but the guilty parties have not yet been
arrested, and we are told that the ransom
- money ($6000) has since been paid, the
kidnapped citizen feeling no contiderce in
the abitity of the authorities ¢o afford him
protection from the after consequences of
as refusal.

Another aceoant of the condition of the

eountry contains the following :— The
Mexicans haying fusiladed their last Aus-
trian, are now busy al the old work of fu-
silading one another, In Guerrero—a
region with a very appropriate name—the
two. chiefs, Alvarez—and Jeminez, are
engaged in a controversy which employs
nearly every musket and every fighting
man in the State. Robber bands go about
‘in other parts of the country, attacking
towns and levying forced loans. In Jalis- |
eo they held the two towns, Jaeotopee and
Hamillo, to ransom. They called them-
selves Imperialists and avengers of Maxi-
milian, Kidnapping is a favorite pursuit.
wealthy travellers being carried off and
held in durance till their friends pay large
sums for their liberty, Yueatah at this
moment is in a state of secession, calling
on that @ld intviguer, Santa Anna, to tho
rescue. is '

Ak ARAN AA te

The enormous: atmamenta which are

i of Europe is regarded as next
| to impossible.
en Fisnina Freer.—We clip

jand disasters to the Gloucester Fishing
‘and Coasting Fleet during the year 1867,
| from the Cape Ann Advertiser :—

In our issue of Noy. 24th we gave a re-
view of the fishing business of the season
and also published a comparative state-

Lhad attended its prosecution, Since that
| time other losses have oceurred, and to-day

losses for the year, in a couvenient form
for reference,

We find by veferring to our files that
during the year there have been thirteen
vessels and sixty flve lives lost, against fil-
teen vessels nn twenty-six lives last sea-
son, Ob the disasters this year, three
vessels and thirteen lives have been lost
in the Newfoundland fishery; three ves-

ery; three ve sand fifteen lives in. the
bay mackerel fishery; two vessels and one
life in the shore fishery; two vessels and
ine lives in the freighting busine six

ment of the losses of liteand property that

sels and twenty lives in the George's fish- |

| Vesuvius has since been witnessed daily in
‘its fiery grandeur, ‘lo day a perfect river of
| fire is seen to flow from the mountain, running
ina westerly direction. The fiery flood: is
nearing the townofCereala. ‘Te upheavings
of the volcano are attended with shocks re-
sembling those of an earthquake, and loud
de*onations as if a battery of heavy guns were
in full play are heard.

| Latest by Telegraph !

Florence, Jan, 15.
A large class of the Catholic population
of Italy, which, since the consolidation of
{the kingdom under Victor Eumanuel, has
steadily refused to recognize his Govern.

. . ' oe j " as re. vu Di
we publish, our aunual recapitulation ot} ment by voting, has resolved to abandon

jits policy of inaction, and will take an ae-
tive partin the next Parliamentary elec-
tion,

| London, Jan, 15,

tote te reported that Lord Bloomfield,
{British Minister to Austria, and Lord
| Clarendon, have gone te Rome to request
the Pope to use his influence with the in-
habitants of Ireland for the suppression of
nian agitation.
| ‘The aggressive policy of the Russian
Government causes much alarm in ‘Lure
key. Phe Northern Post ot St. Petersburg
has a noticeable letter on the subject. Lhe
in does not de-

het
life, to|

in the Grand Bank, and one in the; Writer declares that R
Western Bunk fisher Of the sixty-five | sire an extension of territory, and her only
men lost, twenty were known to be mar-| aim to secure the sulety of the Christian
Hried, leaving deenty widows and thirty-six! subjects of the Porte,

children, The value of vessel property | The St. Petersburg Gazette erts that
and outiits lost is about $104,000, “Lotal) both England and France urged the
Famount of insurance, $79,499, Sultan to make extensive military and na-
tions in the Mediterranean,
gence of the death of Maxi-

ars ago acoupls in Zanes-; ’ f
‘i toc haa if S Gnt he ie in
ville, Ohio, became tired of each other and); ae tate Hise Hine G re 1
were divorced. Both parties re-married, and | ee at ui ve ean Sc attereat
hoth lost their new partners. Recenuy they | to Carlotta tour days go, ie cllect 0
forgot their grievances, revived their old ati: | the announcement upon the mind and
got fq ’ j ¢
ection, and became husband and wife. health of the Archduchess is not known,
The re-appesrance of the Trichina plague | : London, Jan, 16th.
atthe West, occurs simultaneously with an} Considerable excitement was oceasion-
alarming discovery at the East. A Boston’ ed in this city to-day by the announcement
gentleman reports to the Post ofthat city that | that Fenian Deasey, who, with Kelly, was
that a multitude of little snakes—like worms! roseued from the custody of the police at
have been observed in a sound codfish, and 80) Manchester some weeks ago had been
| tenacious were they of life that an hour's boil- | captured, ‘The police late yesterday al-
ing was not sufficient to kill them. ternoon overhauled aman near Waterford,
The old custom of preaching by the sand-| Ireland, who answers completely the dgs-
glass has been revived in an English church. | cription of Deasey, ‘There are other strong
It needs turning every twenty minutes. Itis| circumstances with these which warrant
stated that many old churches still’ have the! the beliet that the authorities have not
highly wrought iron stands on which the old) been mistaken, The prisoner, under a

hour-glass used to stand, mostly of the age of strong guard, started for Manchester this
;morniog, Where he will be contined with

the Commonwealth,
There is something yery singular in the in- | the fellow-prisoners of Deasey for receg-
cidents attending the death of Mr, Lyle, Chief, nition, ‘The Government officials are very
En.ineerofthe Philadelphia Fire Departinent. | vigilent. Yesterday p.m. two Americans
On saturday afternoon he was alone counting | named Barrett and O'Neill, were arrested
| some moncy in his office, when he suddenly | at Glaserow and imprisoned. Papers found |
{died in his sitting posture, from an attack of | on th person indicate beyond doubt that |
Japoplexy. AM Saturday night, Sunday, and (hoy belong to Penian organization, ‘Lhe |
j Sunday night, he sat there dead, holling some | nyoiion recently made in the Court of |
United States bonds and ills in his hand, and / Queen's Bench tor a change in the place |
not till Monday morning was he found by the | - |

Hinals he Fenians Burke, C
POTN RHHIIG GAINS ys > Oflice. ot the trials of t L ke,
vomany Weio cue ty siveen out te Cilice I shaw, and Mulloney from Warwick to

JourNatisM IN Jaranx.—The people of the, London is likely to be granted,
Sandwich Uslands are just now extremely | London, Jan, 17,
interested in Japan, as there is some prospect | ; ;
of a sugar trade springing up between the two Information has been received here that
countries. “his interest seems tobe recipro- | avery violent hurricane recently preyail-
eated. The official journal at Honolula) ed at Teneriffe and vicinity. Ships were
Siys i— | driven to sea, houses unrooted aud blown
“We saw, Inst week, among other articles, down, and damage very great, though no
from Jupan, which arrived by the Comet.three | mention of loss ot Tile.
numbers of a Japanese newspaper, published

ink 1 Poet Cork, Jan, 17th,
in Kanagawa, They were in book form,— | ay ; esa tiid ena nie Clnnnle
stitched, und contiiu some forty pages of! A viol of explosive fluid known as Greek

closely printed matter, no doube interesting | Ae Was thrown instantly at one of te |
and instrnetive to the Japanese publie.— witnesses lor the Government in the Fe-
There is a division of the matter, apparently | Nhu t Is here. but the miaterial failed to
into uppropriate heads- the commercial and | ignite, and no injury was done. No clue
shipping being headed by a wood cut of a/ tits been obtained to the perpetrator,
small steamer; the foreign news by an chabo- Dublin, Jan. 17.

rate cutof the ocean steamers of the China Fy . ‘ Hae
line; and Agriculture by « horse or a pig,and At the examination of Lennon yeste is
* day, Sergt. Kelly, the survivor of the two

soon. In one of the niuml appe. | poll , ane ay ib
article on target shooting, which is illustrated | licen, Who were shot at Shepside,

by a rest, and mathematical lines showing the | and a woman both swore that they fully
course of the bullet to the target. The editor, recognized the prisoner as the man who |
is evidently d ding to his readers the; fired the pistol shots which wounded one
rules and practices of correct shooting, and) policeman and killed another,

the manner of holding the rifle, as another London, Jan. 18th.

iilustration shows the amateur with his piece Won Hie die a ae
in hand. ‘The numbers also contain articles hen the Cunard steamship Scotia trom

upon Hawaii. These are quite lengthy. and New York for Liverpool enterod the port
we are told treat upon our geographical | 0! Queenstown last evening for the usual
position, productions, people, and other topics | Wiuster of the London and Jvish passen-
relating to oar Islands.” gers ind mails, a strong Police force quiet
nt aboard and arrested Mrs, George
wicis Train, Grinnel and Gee, three ot
the passengers who sailed from New You

a

Gen. Garibaldi had by letter expressed his | A

thanks to the citizens of Glasgow for the!
Huta WAGES one wee Shenae | [tis understood that these gentlemen we
adyocites peace upon the earth, but he con- taken into custody on a charge ol being
tends that peace is incompatible with the ex-| tetive members of the Awerican wing of
isting state of affairs in the Papal States, and the Fenian organization, These proceed-
especially in Rome, which he regards as the | ings naturally enough cause considerable
rightful capital of Italy. jepeuenic ny both here and elsewhere
An‘experiment has been made upon the! throughout the Kingdom and especially
steam fire engines in Detroit showing that by | tmong the Avacrican residents.
keeping hot water in the boiler steam can be} The Prussian Dict has passed a bill for
gencrated and water thrown in four minutes. / a Railway loan of filty millions of thalers.
With cold water it requires about eight min-| ‘phe party of the leit has been defeated
utes. in the Iutlian Parliament on a motion to
Anornen Exoci Anpry Oxsr.—At the! adjourn the debate on the Budget for this
beginning of the war,as we learn from a) year.
Rochester, N. Y., paper, two young men re-| Count Sartigas, the French Ambassador
siding in that city were very warm friends.) to Rome, attended the New Year Sele ol
One of them was married, but went to the | Pr: s, the ex-King of the two Sicilies.—
war, previously exacting from his friend a} plo t speeches were mado and there
promise that should he fallin battle the friend) was much tecline
would marry his wife, and give her a perman- fi : al
ent home and support. With this assuranee} “4 strict search of the person. and bag-
that his wife was provided for, the soldier, S4g@ Of George Francis Train disclosed no
went tothe war, After a while report came Proots of complicity with the Fenian move-
that he was killed in battle, and his wife; ment, or justilying his arrest by the British
mourned for her lost husband. He did not| Police on suspicion of being concerned in
return, atall events, even at the end of the Fenian plottings. Train asserts he came
war, and after a due space was given to! over to Lngliud as the special correspon-
mourning, the promise given to the absent) dent in Ireland ot the New York World.
and supposed to be deceased soldier was ful-| [lu has form uly protested through the
filled; the widow became the wife of the|s, Consul against his detention, and dt
husband's friend, and their joy was crowned) clares that he was arrested upon no other

by the birth of a handsome boy, on which the] vround of suspicion than the finding of an

parents donated. A short time since the long Thish paper in his trunk: wal

absent soldier reappeared, explained the M treal, 18th
Montreal, h.

reason of his long absence, and claimed his
wife. ‘The sccond husband was loth to sur-} Great distress is reported among the
render his wife, who was the mother of his! working elasses of Quebec, ‘Che Montreal
child also; and he declined to give her up.| Board ot ‘rade met to-day to devise means
a question as to wie Ane ee ta Wh jot relief,
to the woman was submitted to a legal tri-
bunal, and on the last day of 1867, ie court ‘ : ; London, Jan. 19th,
decided that the first marriage was binding, The Police of Limerick have mado a
and the wife must pass to the former husband , Seizure of guns and ammunition found in
—a decision which all parties are nnderstood | the shops of that city, to put them out of
to wbide. What becomes of the child is not, the reach of the Fenians,
stated, but of course the futher will have the; Dr. Waters, another Editor of the Dab-
best right to its custody. lin Zrishman, has been arrested, but the
a eetiasaaaRtmatanapanaraamemare particular charge is not stated. It is sup-
The Eruption of Mount Vosuvius. posed, however, to be complicity with the
Fenian movements.
The following isa special despatch to the! Mike Manat, who itis now claimed is
New York Horald:— positively known to be the party who fired
Narre, Jan. 4.—The eruption of Mount, the fuse at the Clerkenwell explosion, has

now boing organized in yarions parts of
Europe afford but little encouragement to
the leyers of peace, and appear to coutra-
dict the assertions of some who believe that
humanity is progressing in the arts of
reace and tarning away from tho arts of

Vesuvius, describod some months since as| been arrested at Glasgow and brought to
beceming still more intensely graad, is just| London in irons,

now quite alarming. ‘Che whole of the vel-/ A man named Clancy has been arrested
cano is in violent action, and the flames issue | in this city charged with firing upon the
not only from the old crater and many new! Police.

openings, but it continues to blaze after its} A Penian manifesto was found this

usey, | C

|with the living, ‘The remains were for-
limally received by the Imperial Family at
the Palace. ‘The manifestation of popnlar
feeling is generai and intense,

| Montreal, Jan, 20th.

Further developments in regard to Hen-
ry, the liquor dealer, who absconded to
the States show that the loss to the Cus-
toms through his operations amount to
$120,000. A portion of his cellar was set
apart. as a bouded warehouse, and it is
supposed that he drew liquor by means of
a suction pump, disposing of it in the
ground floor, subsequently substitating
water for liqnor, ‘There aro nearly two
hundred similar bonded warehouses: in
this city, und some reform in this system
is loudly called for, ;
Washington, Jan. 14.

The Senate yesterday, by a vote of 85
to 6, adopted the following: ** Resolved,
‘Phat the Senate do not consent to sustain
the President in his suspension of Edwin
M, Stanton as Secretary of War.”

Gole 1804.

Summerside Journal.

| JANUARY 80. 1868.

No notice can be taken ot anonymous com-
munications. We must know the names and
addresses of our correspondents as a guaranty
of their good faith, We cannot undertake to
[return comiunigations that are not used,

SWINDLING,

Crvimizatron has brought in its train
particular and concomitant evils. It
found man in a savage state, living in
leaves and dens, unasquainted with the
higher delights of society, and writhing
under the cruelest tyrannies ; it has put
him in possession ot arts and sciences :
has built*him towering palaces and cities,
fund has evolved from him humane and
enlightened forms of Government. But
it has in its very midst social and moral)
sorés for which it affords no remedy—
| for such a panacea we must look to the
benign influence of Christianty. Despite
all its pomp and polish it nurtures in its
bosom hideous crimes and horrid vices.
True, they may be to civilization as
warts or wens to the body, still they |
draw their nourishment from it, and
could not exist without it.

Man in a state of civilization doos not
indulge in the physical crucltics peculiar
to barbarism, but has recourse to subtle
and more refined jnodes of inflicting pain,
yet none the less aggravated,—being
“the iron hand in the silken glove.”
tivilization has interdicted bodily tor-
ture, but indirectly supplics weapons
with which to pierce and wound the
spirit,

Nor yet has man whentnder its influ-
ence recourse to open and lawless spoil-
ation as in days of yore, still we have
the most systematic fleecing and swind-
ling practiced upon the honest and in-
dustrious. The man who has labored
patiently in the paths of honest industry
to acquire enough of this world’s goods
to support his family and keep him from
want in his declining years, is often
beggared by having all he possessed
suddenly wrenched from his hands by
the intrigues of some graccless knave.
Byery large town in the civilized world
not only swarms with individual specu-
lators in fraud, but has its clubs and
societies that study and follow cheating
az a fine art, and whose members fatten
on the acquisitions of their vicious and
criminal calling. They prosceute their
trade in the most indefatigible and per-
severing manner. Every day we have
revelations of new and move artistic
modes of operation. With the eye ofa
connoisseur they single out their victims,
and their modes of attack are planned
and carried into execution, with a fore-
sight and gencralship worthy of a better
cause. In order to elude suspicion they
manceuvre long and plausibly with the
wary man of money; petiently attending
to all the details of politeness,and mani-
festing the strictest punctuality in the
minutest business transactions, until a
suitable moment arrives to make a dip.
Again they make bold and merciless
raids upon the purses of the credulous
and unsophisticated. ‘There is not a
nook nor cranny of the world where there
is anything to be obtained by fraud, but
what is smarting under the machinations
of these pests of socicty. ‘They brave
all dangers, act every conceivable char-
acter, and assume all the contortions of
the sibyl, in order to effect their pur-
poses.

Notwithstanding our much yaunted
honesty and simplicity, we have to de-
plore that we have of late. somewhat too
frequently produced from among our-
selves no mean amateurs in the art of
swindling. Men who engage in mercan-
tile and commercial transactions, finding
that the just profits of trade neither
realized their brilliant dreams of wealth
nor keep pace with their irrepressible
strivings for gain, pocket ail the money
they can get a hold of cither by foul or
fair means, flee their country, and leave

|their creditors and dupes to comfort

i

themsclyes over empty coffers. Nor do
our isolation and pecuniary unimportance
protect us from foreigners of this stamp.
No sooner are the barricrs of ice removed
from our harbors, and the first steamer
arrives, than we are infested with these
bronzed money-catchers. They some-
times operate in particular localities ; at
other times they travel over tho whole
country, each playing his own fayorite
way of extorting money from the unsus-
|pecting; and all of them speculating
jimmensely on our credulity and love of
the marvellous. Some will insinuate
themselves into the good graces of the
public under the pretence of developing
some latent resources of trade in our

be instantly translated from poverty to
affluence. Another will sound in our
ears the praises of a universal medicine,
which was obtained by the incantations
jof some magic art, and in the many
| thonsand cases in which it was tried,
| having failed only often enough to prove
its unrivalled virtue, But it is beyond
our ability to point out the innumerable
means and agenci¢s they make use_of to
become possessed of the almighty dollar.
‘Through their importunity we too often
subscribe for these things ; and when we
get them, we generally find the book to
lbea trumped up affair, with gaudy covers
to entrap the curious; the lottery a sham
and an imposition, and the medicine a
picce of unmitigated quackery.

All such mon merit the outspoken
denunciation of every honest member of
socicty ; for when we encournge them
we ure lending the support to vagabondism
which is justly due to our men of busi-
ness; encouraging scoundrels who are
too lazy to work as other men, and have
toy little principle to be honest. Let us
in future nei her be gulled by their syren
speech nor spurious and dazzling promises.

THE MEBLING OF THE LEGISLATURE,

Ture meeting of the Legislature ought
not to be looked forward to as the time
for sending in petitions praying for ap-
propriations of money for Roads, Bridzes,

reply to one recently published in the
sume paper, alleged to have been written
by a ‘Son of Temperance,” who com-
plained of not being able to finda Tem-
perance Tfotel in Charlottetown, The
letter is too lengthy for us to insert it, but
we yery cheerfully endorse its sentiments,
und give our humble testimony to the
mannerin which the ** ROCKLIN HOUSE"
is conducted. We have frequently had
oceasion to put up at Mr. Fraser's, and
we have always received the greatest at-
tention and kindness from both him and
lis partner. We have found his table
well spread, his rooms clean and beds
eomfortable, and his house a temperate
one in the strictest sense of the term. For
our horse we have always found a good
stable, and a boy to care for him. More
than this we believe vo reasonable man
wouldask, It isa pity that such a house

rias Mr. Fraser's, and similar ones kept by
others in Charlettetown, do not receive
more encouragement. But people will

grow wiser bye and bye, and so: will a
+ Son of Temperance” too, perhaps, before
he aguin rushes into print,

te Tue cry of “hard times” seems to
come trom all parts of the United States,
A friend of ours writing us from Deer
Isle, M-ine, says:—t The times here are
dull,—net much doing in the way of
business, and money scarce. Tho Rail-
road business appears to be the chief topic
in the Stutejustnow. In political matters
things remain about the same. General
Grant is talked of as eandidate for the
next Presidency. The weather jas very
rough here through December, but this

month, Jannary, hus been very picasant,
and good sleighing.”

to Tin Zion's Herald and Wesleyan
Journal” comes tous in an entirely new
form and dress, It is now printed in’ an
pamphiet form, giving 16 sol yery
choice religious and secular reading — Tt
h ne ig an excellent family paper, and we
sometimes petitions are sent to the mem=/ Would advise those who may be desirous

bers of the House when the Legislature | of obtainizg such a religious Journal, to
is in session. It may be that in some/at once subscribe for it. The price is
instances people are not aware of the) $2 b0 per year in advance, — Persons
position in which they may thus place| W g to subscribe can leave their ad-
their representatives. ‘The Government d money with us and we will for-
may have arranged their appropriations
in accordance with the Revenue at their
disposal ;—-a claim, and. it may be an
important one may come in, to
attend to it may disarrange the whole
scale of appropriations as agreed to, and

Wharts, or any other public use. ‘The
initiation of money votes is now very
properly vested in the Executive, and
all such petitions should be forwarded
to the office of the Colonial Secretary
this month. We know that such has
not always been the case, and as a result,

ward it.

fa The case of Jolin Maszard, Esq , vs.
the Mutual Five Insuraace Company, was
tried on ‘Thursday last. A> verdict was
given for the phantiff to the tull amount
chimed, with interest, :

te George Nicoll, who skedaddled

cause much more trouble than many from this Island last sumy i] rl
: eee rom this Ish ‘st summer, has opene:
suppose; dg ) attend to it, espe- cE) > . fs
wal a ee ee hae ’ y ». Upa large hotel in San Francisco. ‘That's
cially if the Representative is a supporter the way the money goes.

of the Government, may be to place him
in an unfavorable view before his friends,
—indeed we have known such to be the,
case,

We are pleased to sce that the people
of Crapaud are up and doing, and are
glad to notice that a public mecting has
been held * for the purpose of taking] @y-
into consideration the necessary improve-| Mr. James I) McEwen, of Morell, is in
ment of Crapaud harbor.” Nothing) the field us a Candidate for Legislative honors,
gives us more pleasure than to see proper) een Havant eye isq., for the second
and timely attention given to any local) nee ee uy ;
improvement which aims at a general) | R= We havo had all’ kinds of woather

: i as 1, | during the past weck. Snow, rain, a thaw
good, Be WE BTC sng will prove to be the and now hard frost. A strange country this.
case if our friends in € rapaud succeed in ape (Che WCanndlan foe TAnuhee Hae
their laudable efforts, We are 0 con-) just come to hand. [tis well filled with very
stituted that no man can say that he is/interesting matter.
wholly independant of his fellow man, on baz The lines sent us by M.S,” will
the contrary, every man from his cradle} @ppear next week,
to his tomb is dependant upon the aids
derived from his fellow men; and the
same is true of all branches of trade and
industry. ‘The one is more or less de-
pendant upon the other. None can do
alone, Our Island is not large, but it is
capable of improvement. Let every one
then, we say, cheerfully aid in every
legitimate way he can, any movement or
enterprise calculated to promote the in-
terests of trade and commerce, no matter
in what nook or corner of our land the
movement is made,

ter We are informed that Oats are sel-
lings in) Charlottetown for 38s. 14d. per
bushel. We pity those who will have to
buy their seed next spring,

ho’? ‘Trotting matches are advertised to
take place on the ice in Charlottetown harbor,
every second Fridsy, commencing next Fri-

pa The Legislature of New Brunswick
will assemble on the Ith of February,
a
Public Meeting at Grapaud.

Pursuant to public notice, a large and in-

uendal meeting took place in the new Hall
at Crapaud on New Year's Day, for the pur-
pose of tuking into consideration the neces-
sary imprevements in Crapaud Harbor, and
more especially for deciding “upon a suitable
site from which to extend a public wharf.
The meeting was largely represented from
Lots 28, 29,80 and 67, The undersigned
having been called to the chair, the meeting
entered into the discussion of the matter, in
which Messrs. B. Locke, D. McQuarrie, Wm.
and Richard Lea, Wm. Dawson and othe!
took a prominent part. 1). Cameron, Esq,
one of the Representatives of the District,
being also present, spoke in favorof the con-
templated project; after which the following
resolutions were unanimously adopted, viz :—

Ist. Moved by Mr. E. Locke, seconded by
Mr. Alex, McKay— .

The people of Crapaud in their resolu-
tion, which will be found in this day's
issue, says that ‘the dredging of Cra-
paud harbor has failed to afford the
facilities for shipping that were antici-
pated.” We coniess this takes us by
surprise. We approved of the action of
the people and Legislature, with respect
ee, H u Visi f i Te |
to the dredging of Crapaud harbor, and Wherons the dredying of Crapand Harbor having
are sorry t> hear that the hopes then| tailed to give the facilities to shipping tat were
formed have not been realized. Perhaps anticipated; and the present condition of the Har-
Say ‘ y bor being such us to admit of only a small class of
these were too high. We would be glad} schooners loading at the whurfs.thereby subjecting
to know how far the dre ring of that the country to serious toss and incouvenicnce, and
‘ ‘ Ne tr . | Mehrrding tho general trade and progress of the
harbor has been a success We know GorntMiiuity | UleeurOre
that many are of the opinion that JE WOS | Fedsuocds Dub tiiordar to mast the urow lie rer
quite a success, and would like if such) quirements of a place Crapaud inn
i: Hy ; KA 4, f Fi iY ‘4 ar. | Position te comipete with its ister ports, it is ne-
efforts to improve small and shoal har- |? wry to construct a Bridue conecting Victoria
bors could be extended; but if the oper-} with Sandy Point, and thence extend a wlirf into
ations in that direction at Crapaud have | #1 aro of the Basin, a distance of 100 yards, where
bee tishk ‘ 1 ‘ fed a sufficient depth of water can be obtumed for the
een MNSi tis uctory, other means for 1M- | qccommo tation of a steamer and general shipping.
proving them will have to be adopted. 2nd. Moved by Mr. Donald MeQuerie,
We hope to hear from some of our friends | seconded by Mr. Francis Malene—
on the subject. Resolved, That, taking into consideration the
embarrigsments to our trate, resulting from the
put wtate of our Harbor, and the very great

TELEGRAPH COMMUNICATION WITH il sevions losses sustained by this vast community
THE OUTSIDE WORLD. in the absence of the veces: sccounpodation for

cuca a large class of ships; and being also compelled to

Ww ‘ " { i pay w heavy export tax to whieh no other port in
Wins Telegraphic Communication | this fxland is subject, we enroestly solicit the grave
gray and | : ) Nidle|
is once established in any community, | tention of the Executive Goveruiment in our be-
fo ue ’ *) halt, and also that an application be made to the
it very soon comes to be, not merely a] General Legislature of this Islnd for a specint
public convenience, but a public neces-| grant in favor of the improvements mentioned in
sity,—one which commercial men, the Kea A Ate Chiles atatiigtun
Rae a ee ; . ad. oved by r. Charles Harri ony
Pr dis and RAN als te he ia think seconded by Mr. James Gormon,
Oe een Mau ni Ui Ws he SCIVICES | Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting
of a regular mail carrier, ‘The all but| be forwarded to one of the Churlettetown papera
periodical inconvenience to which the/ fer publication, with a request that the others will
; A : pleawe copy.
public are being subjected by the fre-|? Les
quently recurring accidents which are so
often happening to the sub-marine cable
which connects this Island with the
main land, seems to imply the necessity
of laying down a second one. The subject for last Monday Evening’s de-
The place from whence another should | bate—** Should a Decimal Sysiem of Cur-
. . + ney Hi , oy i Ot
extend is of no consequence to the public, |rency be adopted in P. E. Island in’ prefer

, 4 i se?"—was opened b
but as the nearest point-to the neighbor- | once to that now in use lis y
a Drovines win staat eis ae, it Lemuel Vickerson, Esq., who epoke in favor

; : of adopting a Decimal system, not only on
is probable that the next nearest will be} account ot the facility With which calcula-
selected for the laying of the second. | tions can be performed in it, but also of the
I'rom the West Point to Richibucto is

convenience of having our currency assimila-
1, " rs] B i i

but a few miles further than from Cape rit: Nori AWMYEL ter tte Seton
Traverse to Cape Tormentine ; and as| was discussed, it was decided in the. aifirma-
the West Point has a soft sandy bottom, | tive.
and similar ground cin be found on the} ‘The subject for next Monday evening will
opposite shore ut a convenient point,it is | be" Would Woman's Suffrage be a desi-
probable this place will yet be selected Aucx. McRae Seo'y.
from which to extend a second. Summerside, Jan. 290, 1868. :

WILLIAM INMAN,
Jan, 13, 1863,

Summerside Debating Society.

rable Reform?”

We are not aware whether the tele- - rr
graphic operations of the Company on} The Ion, Peter Mitehell, who recently
this Island is paying or not; byt as the returned from Ottawa to his home in New

Brunswick, met with a most enthusiastic re-

cludingyenrmy of 1,248,000 mew, in-| almost quiescent, ite sides being covered to a)

Wh | Under the terms of the new French
arsijl the empire will be defended by

motion had taken place, and on Monday, the
9th of December, the mountain remained
g hes’ | Gaurd, Austria is great extent with lava. A heary, colored,
army. to bring Op the effec smoke issued from what the savans term the
‘inre than, . The} amoke holes” oldand new. Tuesday night,
Whoiualian “| Dec. 10th, the eruption was resumed with

Th,
army “eto |
080 wi jevileiais gtomt fofvé and a mass of lava resembling »

*,

ai a,

ejection. A slight subsidence of the volcano) morning posted on the wall of the ** Mau- country. Asa catch-penny, one will be
sion House,” where it had been aflixed | armed with some lately published book,
he slg PA Sl sperrotenver Gt whe |the merits of which he will elaborately
daring act. cade detail to us, with a yolubility perfectly

Kutin has beea appointed Austrian Min- astounding ; invariably representing it
ister of War. as a proved remedy for the most chronic |

‘Fhe remains of the late @mperor Maxi-,ignoranec. Ono will assai! us to purchase

**New York, Newfoundland and London
Telegraph Company” alone have the
right to lay down any Cable for such a
purpose, we do think, all things consid-
ered, that the Company in honor owe to
this Colony a second cable; and we do
hope that it will be laid next summer,

ception on his return. On his arrival at
Chatham, escorted by a number of sleighs,
hie was niost enthusiastically received, and
passing on to Newcastle, where he resides,
an arch of evergreens, surmounted with flage
bearing appropriate mottocs were displayed,
and in the evening Mr. Mitchell was) enter.’
tained at dinner at Witherell’s Hotel,,

is