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“Thad not been very provident, and|
my stock of money was soon expended. |
1 then bethought myself of the money left
me by my f r, Which had been deposit. |
ed in a Londgn bank. On writing for it 1)
received a draft for one-fortieth of the
amount due me, with the information that
the bank, having become insolvent, had
gone into bankruptcy, had settled for six
pence on the pound,

m which I recovered to find that
was all gone, my health shat-
my mind ill at ease. Forsome
time past I haye been earning a miserable
living by doing sewing for the stores. 1
am tired of life, and feel that [ will be
relieved from its burdens, Iam thankful
that Providence has sent you here, for 1
believe Lucy will find in you afriend. As
tor myself it matters little what becomes
of me.”

fev
my mone:
tered, ron

(To be continued.)

Mliserllancous.

“THRKEATENINGS AND FILLIBUS-
TERISM.

(From “the New York Scottish American
Journal.)

Mr, Greeley on the Mexican question,
as wellas on that of setting the Richmond
State prisoner free, has shown most dis-
tinctly that his disposition is. towards
mercy. His denunciations of the murder
of Maximilian were as vigorous and as
healthy as it is possible to conceive. His
appreciation of the private worth, gentie-
ness, and courage oj the unfortunate Prince
was alike manly and correct. How nobly
did his words compare with the fierce ap-
peals ot Chandler, in the United States!
Senate, and of Steyens in the House of
Representatives! The latter gave loud
thanks, amid the cheers of members, to
the Juarez Government for their prompt
execution of ‘pirates and murderers.”.
He said: ‘‘I think that while Juarez has
** gone far enough, though not half so far
«‘as he might be justified in going, yet
‘there is no law nor poliey ace heayen
“and no sense of justice that will condemn
«that real heroic, much enduring mun,
«* who for six years was hunted with a re-
“*ward upon his head; has been driven
*‘ from one end of his empire to another,

** until he got to the very border; who has
“no parallel in history that I know of, ex-
** cept it be William of Orange, who was

*¢ driven from island to island, and from| from it enough to feed their families, and
**sandpatch to sandpatch, by just about as| to live until better times.
‘‘ bloody a persecutor as was to be found] penniless. he negroes, mistrusting their
‘*in Maximilian, when he decreed that! good faith, were unwilling to work for
“every man warring against him should] them, and w.

_ and anxiety brought on a)

——

-—

SUMMER

who hositates to assert the claiins of
United Staies to a dominion and aathority
so extensive with the American Coatinent,
fails to come up to the full stature of a re-
constructed American statesman, France
and Austria meanwhile are sending out
large fleets to protect the lives of their
subjects, to demand the body of the mur-
dered Prince, to avenge his death, and to
sustain their own honor. If, therefore,
Chandler and Stevens and their party de-
mand a new war, they may possibly
gratified. We doubt if Mr, Greeley av
the party of peace can do much tostay the
| passion for fighting which rages through-
| out the ranks of their party. The fillibus-
ters are already fast organizing in’ New
York. We have the best authority for
| stating that thirty thousand men who have
| seen service were enrolled in New York
within the last three weeks, They are
not of the rag tag of the city either. Many
ef them are professional men and men of
| business. Their action will compel the
| Government to act, and we shall see the
armies gathering anon upon a new field,
It the Emperor Maximilian had not been
interfered with, this state of things would
not have had existence. But ambition
rules, und we shall by and by see where
it leads. Already United States securities
ara very considerably depressed; and the
prime influenge of that depression cat only
be sought for in these fillibustering
schemes, and in the general dispogition of
Congress to prolong strife,

TRACES OF THE WAR,

I know of no more saddening spectacle
than that which is prosonted to the voyag-
er who sails down Mississippi river from
Memphis to New Orleans. He passes
through the best cotton and sugar country
of the entire South—a region that once
blossomed as the rose. He beholds a de-
sert, a land desolated by war, stricken by
famine,.and inhabited by a broken-hearted
and broken-spirited peeple. Wheu the
war ended, the owners of the vast and rich
plantations that line the shores of this
great river on either side returned to the
homes from which they had been ex-

pelled, and endeavored to re-build their
waste places. ‘Their hou: barns, and
mills had been in many cases burned, and
their negroes had dispersed, but their land
was left to them, and they hoped to raise

But they were

ait until the sale of the crop

the |

SIDE

Late English papers contain a report ree-
pecting an interview which recently ton
| place between the Duke of Buckingham an

an influential deputation of members of Par-
| liament and other gentlemen interested in the

North West Territory, ‘The principal point

which the deputation brought under the no-|

tice of the Colonial secretary is, that there
was danger the Hudson’s Bay Company would
trausfer the Red River Territory to the
' ted ‘To prevent that, the depui
that the Imperial Govern
proclaim the Territory aC

| ifax Express, say
| rable quantity of gold has been*drough to
this city from the several districts during the
present week, An ingot, weighing upwards of
211 ounees, was brought from the Ophir Com-
pany’s Works which is the second instalment
since the first month, Another lump, weigh-
| ing 64 ounces, was afew days ago, brought
from the Union Gold Mining Company's
Works, at Montague. The amount last named
was extracted from 36 tons of quartz, being a
yield of nearly two ounces to the ton.

Gorres

pondence,

LETTER FROM BOSTON.

Boston, July 23, 1867.
Frienp Bertram: —

An error occurred in the first paragraph of
my last letter, which I take this opportunity
to corect. Your printers made me say
‘ Bourbons Parliament,” instead of ‘ Bare-
bones Parliament.” The latter your readers
will recognise as being the nickname given to
a celebrated Parliament in England during
the Stuart Revolution.

The poet says that ‘* To err is human,” and
it is especially sg with regard to printers;
| and those of Summerside are not supposed fo
be exempt from the errors so common to their
profession.

Congress has metand adjourned after a
very short session ef seyenteen days. They
so amended the Reconstruction Act passed
last April as to preyent the possibility of its
being again misconstrued. Nothing was done
on the impeachment question, though a fey
hotheads, such as Butler and Boutwell of this
State, Thad. Stevens of Pennsylvania,
and others,—labored hard to have President
Johnson impeached; but it is better for the
country that such extreme legislation was not
tolerated,

The President's term does not expire till’
March 4, 1869; but already a score of names
have been mentioued in connection with the
office.
man.

A conside-

Gen. Grant appears to be the leading | =

urlating in all kinds of berries.) Here, they
ate all the way from twenty-five cents to a

dollar a quart. “Cherries are ¢ conta a
pound; who but a Yankee woul er think
of selling sach a thing by wei Pand at

I would like to.gpend one
beds and aspberry
gone day. Your
wiently reciate
t, that is the opin-

8. R.N.

such a price too.
day among the strawberr;
bushes, as I used to in

TUE JOURNAL,

If you will permit me to occupy a short
| space in your valuable paper, [think T can
/ give your readers & more correct: account
fof thé * Interesting affair” that took place
last week, called Bazaar & ‘Tea, than they
have before seen. And I may first say
that if there were some who did not much
admire the site upon which the tables were
ereeted, there were hundreds whose tastes
led them to differ from them, and who
could find both pleasure and enjoyment in
the leafy tent of boughs in Which the
tables were set. And | may say more, the
attractions within that tent were so strong
that not less than 1600 persons sat down to
tea, and what was still better for them,
found plenty there to refresh them. We
do indeed regret that the room where the
Bazuai Was held was so small, for there
were inany fine articles there that deseryed
a better fate. Some of them are yet un-
sold ; and bye and bye, when money be-
comes a Hittle more plenty and folks get
their appetites whetted for roast geese,
the good people of Margate who have the
reputation of knowing how ‘to do things,”
may give theirneighbors another opportu-
nity to enjoy themselyes. Now in refer-
ence to those speeches. I, too, expect they
were good, for they were quite private in
their character. The fact is, Sir, that ere
the business of the day was completed
hundreds had left the grounds, and there
wis no opportunity afforded for public
speechilying. I suppose all such efforts
are measured at last, by the numbers em-
ployed and the amount realized. Now
here there were but few to give a helping
hand. Itis true that we obtained some
help from other localities for which we are

very grateful, but Margate manifested a
disposition to help itself betore it called on

Hereules, and it was fayored with upwards
of £160 as the result,
Yours, wW.G,
Margate, July 30th, 1867.

seer

Summerside Hournal,

THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1867.

notice can be taken of anonymous com-

RSDAY, AUGUST 1

, 1867.

parted with his freedom. © He dared not
work for a lower wage than that deter-
mined upon by the Union. The hours
of work were also fixed, and the amount
of work to be done in each hour. The
expert workman must me! his hand in
order that his less skilful co-worker
may be as sure of employment as he.
His superior skill and quickness availed
him nothing. The ordinances of )the
Union were enforced by fines and penal-
ties of different kinds, The horrible
revelations before the Sheffield Commis-
sion, about which we informed our read-
ers a week or two ago, show that the
executive officers of some of the Trades
Union were not very particular as_ to the
means which they took to enforce obe-
dience to their decrees. ‘Tools were hid-
den or destroyed, houses blown up, men
and women mobbed, maimed, and even
killed. The same measures may not
have been taken by: all trade combina-
tions. Itis to be hoped that they Have
not. But sufficient of the hidden work-
ings of some of them have come to light
to prove that they can be made the means
of the most intolerable tyranny. From
making laws for their own members,
these Unions took to making laws for
those workmen who did, not think proper
to join them, and for the masters them-
selves. Masters were not permitted to
employ any but Union men, and conse-
quently a man who was not a trade
unionist stood very small chance of ob-
taining employment. This was going a
little beyond the mark. Workmen had
not the shadow of a right to dictate to
their employers whom they should or
or should not employ, and they certainly
had no authority to punish them for
disregarding the rules of the Union. The
laborer here put himself in the wrong,
and society should for its own safety step
in and shew him that hv was outstepping
the bounds of law and justice.

Men of capital, finding that they could
not carry on the branches of trade and
manufactures in which they were en-
gaged with profit, threatened to engage
foreign workmen or to remove their places
of business to foreign countries. ‘The
employed, in order to meet this move and
check mate the capitalist, agitated for an
international union among workmen in
every part of the world. By means of
this organization they were quixotic

‘workman who joined a Trade Union! cau

ache

ght fire several times, so did Ness's
Hotel, and the small building attached to
it was literally scorched. The Ware-
house, five or six yards in the rear of
Haszard & Co's Store, was by the strenu-
ous and unwearied exertions of a ve
few persons, saved, The manner in whic
both labor and water were economised
is really marvellous. There could not
have been more than fifty persons, ntale
and female, on the spot at the time of
the greatest danger. A persOf was des--
patched to Summerside for assistance,
but though great exertions were made,
the engine, owing to there being no
means of attaching horses to it could not
be taken to St. Eleanor’s in time to be °
of much use. was, it did not get
there at all, a p' being sent from
St. Eleanor's when it was well on the
way to stop its coming,

The loss though considerable, is not
nearly so great as was at first supposed.
Mr. Fraser has lost his shop, but nearly
the whole of its contents were saved.
Heszard & Co's building and stock were
insured to the amount of somewhere
about £1200 currency. The value of
the stock alone we were assured, amount-
ed to over £1600. The books of the
firm were recovered, but in a very dilapi-
dated condition, and many valuable pa-
pers were totally destroyed. It was at
first thought that no insurance had been
effected on the property.

ta@"_Mr, James Wutrenrap of South
West River, New London, while digging
a well about two or three weeks ago, found.
his labor facilitated in the most singular
and unexpected manner. After digging
through one foot of vegetable mould, he
came upon a bed of pure shore sand.
Piercing this for about six feet, he came
to some flat stones very neatly laid. Tra-
cing them, he found that they were ar-
ranged in the form of « hollow square, the
space in the middle being filled with sand.
Shovelling out the sand, he was surprised
to find that he had struck upon an old well
regularly and neatly stoned up—the marks
of the pick being distinctly visible on some
ofthe stones, Myr, Whitehead found water
at about two and a half leet from the first
course of stone. The spot whee this
singular relic of past times was discover-
ed is about three hundred yards from the
river, and perhaps two hundred from a
fresh water stream that runs into it. The
farm was settled upon in the year 1822.
It was then covered with forest, There

**be shot down without further trial. I| should enable the propvictors to pay them
**am not going to shrink from saying that] their wages. With great difficulty a sean-
‘‘I think such punishment proper. I do! ty and ill-managed crop was planted late
‘‘notsay, nor do Task, that anybody should] in the season. It failed to produce any-
“‘ be executed in this country. There has| thing, and the first year was lost. This
** got to be a sickly humanity here, which! season, the river, swollen by heavy rains,

was not the slightest trace upon it of wv
former settlement. We intend one of
these days to pay the spot a visit and ex-
amine it for ourselves,

People generally seem to regard him
as being merely a soldier; but his currespon-
dence with Lee at the time the Jatter surren-
dered bis "army shows that he is an able
and pertinent writer; and his remarkable re-
ticence as to his political and other opinions

munications. We must know the names and
addresses of our correspondents as a guaranty
of their good faith, We cannot undertake to
return communications that are not used.

enough to expect that they would suc-
ceed in establishing a uniform rate of
wages all over the civilized world. They
did not stop to think that it was impos-

eee eee

«I dare not get alongside of for fear I
“might catch it (laughter) ; and it is now
‘theld by one of the most liberal and en-
‘lightened gentlemen in the county (1
**mean Gerrict Smith) that we should even
** pay a portion of the damages inflicted on
“the rebels and pay a portion of the rebel
“debt. (Laughter.) I shall come some
“day to have an argument with Horace
‘Greeley about that, therefore I nced not
“say anything further. Ibelicve I have
‘said enough to explain my views on the
** subject, and now I ask for a vote.”

One can conceive, just from reading
such a paragraph as this,to what sort ol
influence Mr. Stevens owes his position as
Leader of the House. The ‘* laughter”
and the ‘‘ cheers” accorded to the uttercr
of such sentiments as we have quoted,
show what sort of policy the majority of
the House consider righteous, just and
beneficial. ‘Lhey cheer on the savage
hordes of Mexico as if they were enlight-
ened patriots. They make no acoounts of
the brutal threats of Juarez and his men
to hunt down every foreigner on the soil
ot Mexico; to institute a universal reign

of terror; to drive the oucupants of con-| rows and their real or fancied wrongs, and
adil fresh fuel to the fire beneath the poli-
sacre at pleasure until their thirst for blood | t
and their greed of plunder haye been|1]

vents into the street; to pillage and mas-

satisfied. Mr. Stevens and his Congres-
sional following only see in Juarez an
apostle of what—for want of a more ex-
pressive name—we must call ** Brownlow-
ism,”—that sort of government by threat-
enings, penalties, unlawful executions,
&c, which prevails in ‘Tennessee under the
administration of Parson
Juarez and the Governor of Tennessee are
noble in the eyes of the Congressional
ruling party and we should not wonder it
a formal vote of thanks is moved and car-
ried to the Mexican President for having
dispatched Prince Maximilian with such
promptitude, and thus defied the public
sentiment of Europe, and the protests of
good men of all nations,

Turn we to the Senate.
aa look for some degree of moderation
in dealing with a matter which has shock-
ed the civilized world more than anything
that has happened since the murder of
President Lincoln. Instead of that we
have a Senator (Chandler of Michigan)
thus venting his brutality;

‘The Mexicans made a mistake in the

“mode of Maximilian’s death. The man
«‘capable of issuing that decree ought not
«to have died by the bullet; the officers
««who captured him ought to have
«hung him to the first tree. ‘That
“‘this was not done showed the Mexicans
**to be a chivalrous people. The course
«+ of this Government towards Mexico had
** been cowardly.—The Secretary of State
«had aided Maximilian by giving permis-
**sion to buy arms and munitions of war
«in the United States, while he denied to
‘the Mexicans a clearance for a vessel
«‘Joaded with a few smooth-bore muskets
‘‘ofno value to us. Mr, Chandler said
** those who were shocked at the execution
‘‘of Maximilian might be divided into
«three classes: First, the humanitarians,
«- under the leadership of Greeley; next,
*«* those who see something wouderful in
“troyal blood, who might be called flunk-
**ies, who, under the leadership of Ray-
«mond of the Zimes, hope to stand wed
«with foreign despotic gouernments by
«* denouncing the Government of Mexico.
«« The third class is composed of the men
«+ who, four years ago, were crying, ‘* On-
** ward to Washington” the rebels of the
‘South and the traitors in the North.
« They were now crying ‘On to Mexico.’
««In conclusion, Mr, Chandler hoped Con-
** gress would not adjourn without expres-
** sions, not only of sympathy, but of aid,
“‘ifneed be, to Mexico,—-If any European
“‘monarchy determined to fight Mexico,
* it must fight the United States also, and
«‘the whole world would not whip the
“« United States on American soil.”

‘Time was, in the days of Clay and Web-
ster, when a Senator who should have
a expression to such sentiments would

yave been formally censured; but we
doubt if Chandler has not done a thing just
as jikely as aot to elevate himself to the
first rank as a patriotic statesman in the
eyes of his fellows. It is a great thing to
be able to threaten ‘the whole world.”
and aman who does not believe in the

There one

}to those who asked for it.

Morning Post.

death we quote from the Boletin Republica-
Brownlow. | ">

swept away the enbankment raised to re-
tain it in its channel, and which had been
suffered to remain unrepaired during the
whole of the war, and poured its waters
over a thousand plantations, driving the
people from their homes, and putting an

end to all hopes of a cropthisyear. Star-
vation stares these unhappy people in the

face. The few steamboats that now come

since the war was closed, prove that he is as
shrewd and calculating as he is brave and
modest.

The trial of John H. Surratt for participa-
tionin the murder of President Lincoln. is
about concluded. There is no doubt thathe}
is as guilty as any, and more so than some,
who suffered for the crime. But I hardly
think he will be hanged. ‘There has been
enough blood shed already on that account.

down the river are laden with corn and
pork, brought from the North to this im-|

poverished land, which once laughed with |
fatness, and sold at exorbitant prices to

thase who can bug avalalod out gecberity

The govern-|
ment, which paid 7,000,000 dollars for |
Russian America, refuses to appropriate |
the one million which would have repaired
the levee along the river, and enabled the
people to raise their crops, and is now
compelled to expend more than that sum
in supplying them with food. But little
cotton and less sugar can be raised in all
this river region this year, and its people,
driven from their plantations and com-
pelled to enforced idleness, haye little
better to do than to brood over their sor-

ical cauldron that is now bubbling fierce-
yall over the South,—Correspondent of the

;

THE DEATH OF MAXIMILIAN,

The following account of Maximilian’s

the first newspaper published in Mext-
co under liberal patronage:

‘©On the 19th of the present month, at
7 a.m., ceased to exist the Archduke of
Austria, Pernando Maximiliano. ‘The few
incidents thus far learned relating to his}
trial, sentence and execution, we give to}
our readers. The Archduke oecupied an
humle seat upon one of those benches
where so many of our unfortunate coun-
trymen were sentenced to death by those |
ferocious court martials of the intervention. |
Ife answered with calmness three ques-!
tions put to him by the Consego de Guerra |
and begged as a special favor that his}
body might be borne to the resting place
of Carlotta, and also requested that on his
mother’s account they would not shoot him
in the face. ‘This his last-expressed desire
was complied with, as also will be the
other. Le died serenely, and without a
struggle, as also did Miramon and Mejia.
Napoleon IIL. ought now to be satisfied in
this his work. ‘The victims of his assassi-
nation of the 2d of December multiply in-
cessantly, and the flag of France advances
covered with glory and blood. The death
of this Archiuke, ‘and all those who have
adhered to his cause, ought to call atten-
tion to the famous Sovereign of France,
who desires to govern the world. The
Republic has done justice.” Neither the
first paragraph of the above, nor the se-
cond, demands comment. ‘The exultation
of the first over an inhuman, needless and
uncalled for act, is only balanced by the
sarcasm ofthe other. Napoleon should be
satisfied at these cheering words from his
poor Mexico. It is midnight, and the
Seraglio cries:—*'A la doce g todo esta
bien”—Twelve o'clock and all is well.”
No,Jall is,not well. Beating, anxious
hearts, for the threatened living, and for
the already dead, are to be numbered by
thousands in this ‘* Republican” eapital to-
night. The padres and the monjas (nuns)
fear the promised blow in the name of
Libertad, which will be pronounced to-
morrow. A despatch from Galveston.
Texas, has the following additional par-
ticulars of the execution of Maxiinilian :
When leaving the convent, Maximilian
exclaimed, ‘* What a beantiful, clear hea-
ven. Itis such as I desired for the hour
of death.” All three were dressed with
scrupulous care. The officer of the firing
party begged Maximilian’s forgiveness,
saying he disapproved the execution, but
was a soldier and must obey orders,
Maximillan replied: A soldier must al-
ways comply with his orders. I thank
you with all my heart for yeur kind senti-
ments, bot exact that you comply with the
orders given you.” Maximilian gave
Miramon the centro as his post. Mejia’s
wife ran distractedly through the streets
just before the execution, carrying a new

ability of the United States to do that, or

born babe.

+e

{would most likely get whipped,

People do not hesitate to say that his mother
was murdered. It is an everlasting disgrace
to the United States that they should have

hanged that old lady. And it is more_aston-
: gehen er tore ee wae VTE Z aT MUU
> hit

g mself up, and thereby save his mother’s
life. Had he been as devoted a son as she
was a mother. he would certainly have done
so; for when Mrs. Surratt was offered her
life if she would tell where her son was, she
heroically refused. And who that remem-
bers the devotedness of his own mother’s love
will blame her for so doing?

I had almost forgotten to say a word about
the ‘*Glorious Fourth.” It was an unusually
dull one; and I hear the opinion expressed
in some places that the ‘‘ Fourth” is dying

CAPITAL AND LABOUR.

i Bon between capital and
labour 18'@ subject which is at present
engaging the anxious attention of think-
ing men on both sides of the Atlantic.
The labour market has hardly ever in any
country been free from restrictions of one
kind or another. But most of these res-
trictions have hitherto been made by the
employer of labour, Having the com-

mand af manne and a-g-72—o th pe nTAE=
tion and favor of government, he has been
able to make his own terms with the la-
bourer who was compelled cither toaccept
those terms or starve. But the subject
has of late year$ assumed quite another
complexion, ‘The labouring classes, be-
coming more intelligent, have combined
for the purpose of dictating terms to
their employers, and of becoming in
their turn masters of the situation.

out. ‘Che cause I will not pretend to explain.
The best feature of the day was the Rowing
Regatta on Charles River, and that was di: |
terrupted by a tornado, by which several
boats were capsized, but tortunately no lives |
were lost,

Speaking of Regattas, I cannot let the op-
portunity pass of expressing my gratification
ut the result of the racesin Paris, in which
the New Brunswick oarsmen carried off the
leading prizes. The day after the news re-
ceived here, the Boston Journal, in an edi-
torial, admitted that the Provincial beatmen
were the best in the world; and advised the
Ward Brothers of New York, who contem-
plate challenging the victorious crew, to con-
sider carefully before they do so, for they
So the
Bluenoses, as Provincialists are contemptu-
ously termed, are in one respect at least su-
perior to ‘our nice Anrerican people.”

I would like to see an International Shoot-

ing Match come off. Perhaps the superior
marksmen of the ‘‘ tight little Island” might
carry off some of the big prizes, and then we
would have a chance to blow. But as it is,
all Provincialists ought to rejoice over the
success of the plucky fellows who left their
homes in New Brunswick, travelled several
thousand miles to row ona strange river, |
among strangers, with few, if any backers to!
cheer them on; and who wrested the laurels
from the picked men of Oxford, London, and
Paris, and indeed ofthe world. They deserve
allthe praise and all the receptions which
will be given them.
The death of Maximilian has caused con-
siderable regret among all classes of people
here. Now and then you may hear a reverse
opinion expressed; but I think that the gen-
eral feeling is that Juarez overstepped the
bounds not only of humanity, but of publi¢
policy as well. During the horrors of the
French Revolution it frequently happened
that the victorious leader of to-day was the
condemned culprit of to-morrow. It may
happen so in Mexito; for already strong op-
position to Juarez exists among his chiefs,
and there is no knowing what day he may be
hurled from power. But ‘ poor Carlotta’s”
husband was a braye, andI believe a good
man; and if anybody was executed» we can-
| not help thinking that it ought to have been
the designing knave ef the Tuilleries whosent
him there.

Reports from all parts of the country are to
the effect that better crops were never known.
‘This fact has a cheering influence on business ;
for although times are dullin Boston now,
yet everybody seems to think that there will
be a rushing business done in the full.

Rents continue enormously high, notwith-
standing ‘*To Let” may be seen in many
stores and dwellings. I verily believe that
the landlords of Boston would sooner sea
their stores and houses vacated and business
driven from the city, than lower their rents a
particle. As rents are now, it is almost im-
| possible for a mercantile man to do a paying
business. ‘Io give your readers an idea of
the enormous rise in this important item of
every man’s expense, rents in this city are
Sour hundred per cent. higher than they were
five or six years ago. A large number ot
new buildings*are being erected; and if the
present dullness of business continues, land-
lords will soon be compelled to lower their
rents.

So far, we have had avery cool summer.
The wateFing places are almost deserted.
The cause is said to be that there are not so
many greenbacks floating around now,—they
are harder to get and harder to keep than
they used to be.

I suppose the Island people are now lux-

They came to the conclusion that
they were not allowed a fair share of
the produce of the labour of their
hands. ‘They saw the holders of capital
hecoming richer and richer each year,
while there was little or no corresponding
improvement in theircondition, by whose
labour those riches had been created.
‘They very'soon became convinced that
they could not as individuals maintain the
contest with their employers. Power
and wealth were arrayed against them,
while they possessed neither the one nor
other. ‘The sellers of labour were both
poor and disorganized. ‘They must sell
the only commodity they possessed on any
terms, or be reduced to utter destitution.
They formed themselves into organiza-
tions, and by means of these, from being
insignificant and powerless they suddenly
found that they had risen into considera-
tion and had become powerful.

By means of hundreds of thousands of
small contributions large sums of money
were collected. Higher wages were de-
manded. ‘These were in most cases de-
nied them. The men refused to work, and
this constituted a strike. ‘The men on
strike were supported by the funds which
had been for some time accumulating,
and by the voluntary contributions of
sympathising workmen. Combinations
of workmen were the cause gf combina-
tions of masters. The men refused to
accept their masters’ terms, and the
masters would no longer supply them with
work, This * strike’ of the masters is
called a ‘ lozk-out.” So far the contest
was a fair ene. ‘The labourer was not
legally compelled to work on any other
terms than those with which he was
perfectly satisfied. He had as good a
right to refuse to sell his labour for the
price offered as the farmer has to sell his
oats for a price which does not please
him. In that same way the master had
as perfecta right to refuse to purchase
labour at a higher price than he consid-
ered fairas the labourer had to refrain
from buying tea or sugar at what he con-
sidered an unreasonable price. Whether
it was good policy to force the manufac-
turer to give more wages to his workmen
than he could afford without greatly in-
creasing the price of the article produced
anil so diminishing its consumption, and
making himself liable to be undersold
and driven out of the market by foreign
competitors, is quite another matter,
What may be perfectly legal may not be
perfectly expedient. Indeed a course
may be quite legal which may at the
same time be absolutely ruinous. But
as long as neither workmen nor masters
infringed upon the rights of others, they
were, as far as the rest of the community
was concerned, at liberty to act as they
deemed best. But the contest did not
long continue within these bounds. The
trade combinations made laws which their
members were bound to obey. The

sible for them to regulate the demand
for the produce of labour all the world
over. ‘The ratio that population bears to
capital is not equal everywhere, and con-
sequently it is the silliest thing imagin-
able to expect that the same money can
by artificial means be made to purchase a
a given quantity of labour in widely
separated countries. In the Western
States, where men are scarce and the

necessaries of life abundant, a man’s labor
awsll peecbee- awa MOL OF TNOSe wseovco-

saries than in the over peopled countries
ofthe Old World. he agitation is not
confined to the struggling populations
of densely inhabited Europe. ‘The con-
test is now raging among the well fed,
well paid workmen and_ enterprising
capitalists of this big continent. ‘There
is some very strange talk among the
‘reformers’ of America about the equali-
zation of property and the unequal dis-
tribution offriches. How this struggle
is to end it is excecdinly difficult to
predict. One thing is certain, the con-
test is but beginning. Some philoso-
phers think they can find their way out
of the maze, and the clue is called Co-
operation.

ANOTHER FIRE.
Eanty op the morning of the 26th
inst., we were awakened by the alarming
ery of fire! fire! At first we thought that
some drunken fool was trying to play a
very bad practical joke upon us. We
however got up, and on looking towards
St. Eleanor’s saw what appeared to be
the whole village in flames. How we
bundled on our clothes, and how we got
to the fire is still a mystery to us. We
found ourselves in St. Hleanor’s somehow
among a crowd of men, women, and chil-
dren, all busy either in carrying water to
the fire, or in carrying goods and furni-
ture out of the buildings in danger of
being burnt. We could not see the
slightest prospect of saying a single
building on the side of the strect on
which the burning houses were situated.
Haszard’s store was then a pile of blazing
ruins and the fire was rapidly consuming
that belonging to Mr. Fraser, It seemed
indeed a forlorn hope with the means at
command, to attempt to save Mr. Mc-
Fadyen’s Uotel, standing as it did within
twelve or fourteen feet of the blazing
houses. Slender as the hope of success
was, the attempt to save it was being
vigorously made by some half dozen ac-
tive courageous young fellows most ably
and energetically assisted by nearly the
whole population of the village, male and
female. A friend last night while talk-
ing about the accident charged us to give
every credit to the women, ‘ for,” said
he, ‘if it were not for the women we
could never have stopped that fire.” The
ladies of St. Eleanor’s, young, middle
aged, and old, worked with an energy
and a coolness that was truly wonderful.
There was no fuss, no confusion, no un-
necessary noise, no waste of labor.
Delicate young girls and grey-headed old
women might be seen carrying loads
which on ordinary occasions would try
the strength of full grown men. The
boys too behaved admirably, As for the
men, all that we need say of them is,
that they did their work right manfully,
There was a great deal to be done with
very slender means. To save Me-
Fadyen’s building alone, one would judge
to be work enough for at least one hun-
dred men supplied with every needful
appliance, yet some half dozen resolute
fellows on the building assisted by twenty
or thirty others—chiefly women below—
did the business most effectually. The
other houses in the immediate vicinity
of the fire had to be closely watched.
Dr. Jarvis's house was for a long time in

great danger, Mr. Anderson's shop

Tur Crops, generally: aking, look
well along the Western Road and other
parts of the Island the JourNan man has
visited during the past week, ‘Che wheat
is very good—the best the people say that
Hy have had for many years. Very
little weavil is yet to te seen, If the
wheat crop is good it will be a great cause
for thankfulness. The oats look well,but
rather short. The root crops are prett
fair; the potatoes especially look well.
All the farmers want, they say, isa good
market this tall.

ty Tue merry song of the hay maker
can be heard in almost every direction, as
one pisses along the road now. In some
places the noise of the mowing machine
greets the ear; in other places the sound
of wetting the scythe. The hay to the
Westward appears very light, although
here and there may be seen a good piece.
The cause of the hay being so light is at-
tributed to the dryness of the season.

A Man named McMahon belonging to
aschooner from Richibucto, fell oyerboard
off Sea Cow Head, on the 29th inst, and
was drowned. He was, we learn, a mar-
ried man, nnd leayes a wife and children
to lament his fate. The name of the ves-
scl we haye not been able to ascertain.

ty Some sections ote West liave been
visited by a severe thunder storm, accom-
panied by hail. ‘The hail stones we are in-
formed were of considerable size, but we

did not hear that much damage was done
to the ‘crops,

tar Joun Luvunaey, Esq.; left here for
England on Monday 1: We understand
that he will be absent from home for about
twomonths. We wish hima pleasant time
and safe passage.

_ Ee Sermons will be preached (D.V.)
in the Wesle yan Church next Sabbath, both
morning and evening, at the usual hours.

For the first time, we are able to-day to
send our papers direct to many parts of New
London. Mr. Glover, of Kensington, has re-
ceived the contract for carrying the mails.
We believa.that he is the right man in the
right place, :

rd

Any of our subscribers who wish ‘heir pa-
pers sent to Burlington will please notify us.
Weare always most happy to make any
change for the convenience of our patrons.

Tun Bridge on the Western Road, near Al-
lan's, Wellington, is now undergoing repairs,
and is impassable. Passengers and horses
are conveyed over on a raft at the moderate
charge of sia-pence per head,

Many thanks for the nice cake sont us by:
our good friend Mrs. John Clark, Cascumpec.
We ure glad to learn that there was quite a
nice sum of money realized at the Cascumpee
‘Tea, by her disinterested exertions in & good’
cause,

ba@" We have received a report from
the Journal man of his visit to Cascumpec,
Tignish, and the other parts of the far West.
We must lay it aside this week for want of
spice. He says the codfish are very plenty
this year, and avery large number have been
taken, The mackerel too are being caught
pretty plenty.

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Troches is appreciated, and they are kept
always at hand, to be used as occasion re-
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