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* Because, I was not sute that I would!
be received kindly, and, morcever, 1
wished to gain something before I return-
ed, Well, ut lust fortune favored me, and
oi { did not get enough to be termed
wealthy, I got enough to satisfy me for

ithe time.”
* And that is suflicient, my son, for you
‘have wealth here at your disposal, God
bless you!” :
How often he had repeated the expres-
sion during the day—it seemed to comfort
ihis soul now, Oh! how proud he wasof
his boy, and’ what visions of greatness
.erossed his mind! He could sit back con-
stentedly, now, close his eyes and build
" ,¢astles on his son’s future happiness.
(Vo be Continued.)

JULESBURG, THE MODERN SODOM.
THE ‘FASTEST’ TOWN AMERICA HAS EVER
SEEN!

(Special Correspondeice of Toronto Globe.)
JULESBURG, Oct, 13, 1867.

Tn June last the Union Pacifie Railway
weached this point, which was made the
depot for distribution of supplies for the
yarious United States Military postsin the
West. Wells, Forro & Co., also establish-
ed their headquarters at this point, des-
patching their trains from Julesburg to the
yarious places in Utah, Colorado, and
Montana which depend on the overland
route for all the merchandise to supply
Ahese territories. Fort Sedgwick is also a
short distance from Julesburg, some four
jniles only, on the south side of the Platte.
‘his is one of the most important military
posts in the West, containing at the time
of our visit over a thousand soldiers. All
these circumstances combined to create a
down at this far off point in the American
desert. In a tew weeks about three thou-
sand people had congregated here on the
avid plain, and a phase of society was de-
veloped that has not had its parallel in
jnodern times—probably not since the an-
ient ‘cities of the plain” blushed in the
fullness of their iniquity.

Murder, TUENOL f vice and Just have
ran riot gud held high carnival, and the
scorched plain, with its moving hill of
granitic sand, fervid with the heat of a
aneridian sun, untempered by the interpo-
sition of a single tree or shrub, presented
mut x mild physical representation of the
moral and social Sahara that had so sud-
denly sprung into existence. ad I the

pen ofa Milton or a Dante, I might at-}

tempt a picture of this God-forsaken spot,
mearly four hundred miles west of the
Missouri; but I shall content myself with
a# plain unyarnished recital of things I saw,
and of what was told me by those who had
seen Julesburg in its glory,

And first, what is to be scen in this Oc-
4ober, 1867. A village composed of rough-
ly built Wooden, or wooden and canvass
houses, preserts itself to the oye of the
traveller, with its hundred of transporta-
tion waggons and mule and ox teams.
Here, toa, may be seen immense heaps of
army stores piled on the plain, and in’ the
warehouses guarded by a detachment of
soldiers from Fort Sedgw ‘The present
population of the place is said to be about
one thousand, at least ten per cent. of
which is of the class known by the ghastly
inisnomer of ** women of pleasure.” Eim-
ployees of the Union Pacific road, of
Wells, Fargo & Co., and of the United
States Government, together with some
traders, a great many saloon and gambling
hell keepers und‘ bull-whackers,” and
floating reprobates of all descriptions make
‘up the number, More than every second
house is, to use » mild term, a saloon.
Almost every saloon has in connection
with it the various appliances for gambling
in its maddest forms, and apartments
which shall here be nameless, but which
are the abodes of the class of females above

~ named,

The first object that met the eye of your
correspondent when the train halted, was
a specimen of the genus ** bullwhacker,”
—He was a tall lanky individual with a
very ill-favored countenance, long carrotty
dhair reaching to his shoulders, and a
slouched hut with enormoas breadth of
rim. In his band he held an ox whip—or
**bullwhack—a good deal longer than
himself; he was encased in a greasy
yolackened suit of buckskin or buffalo hide,
and at his quarter he carried a huge nay.
‘revolver in adgplster attached to a blac
leather belt tht encircled his waist. He
gazed for a fé¥moments, with a mixture
of halfconcerled curiosity and assumed
indifference, at the unwonted number of
‘passengers alighting trom the train, and
then shambled off towards his ‘* bulls”—
‘oxen are never so called, in the vernacu-
lar of the plains. These bullwhackers
-have, too, their ideas of-etiquette, as one
of the excursionists quickly learned; Our
genial Chicago friend was so thoughtless
as to eye one of them through an opera

lass. Bullwhacker bore the serutiny very
peared for a few moments, fidgetting
about and nervously jerking down the
flaps of his broad rim, first on one side and
then on the other, when suddenly drawing
his revolver he presented it st the as-
tonished gazer with a volley of oaths, ex-
claiming ‘very positively, ‘tif you don’t
** stop gawping at me with that ere thing.
+ DH shoot.” ‘The opera glass and the
head behind it, suddenly disa ane from
the car window. Another of these gentry
—under the genial influence of bad whis-
key at 25 cts. a glass—generously voltn-
teered to bring down a man some twenty
paces off, just to show him how he could
shoot; but the offer was declined, with
muny thanks for+she proffered courtesy.
this was carrying "politeness too far for
the Editorial visitors,

NIGHT ORGIES.

But it is only after the shades of night
have closed around this romantic spot that
its full features are disclosed. ‘I'he saloons
which during daylight present a kind of
“+ deserted village” look, are at once bril-
jiantly filuminated, and the denizens of
the buck rooms appear upon the scene in
gaudy plumes, Bullwhackers and roughs
of every grade flock in, and the dancing
commences ‘fast and furious,” the gay
charmers accepting as cavaliers any and
all who choose to trip the light fantastic
toe. Cotillions, galops, and waltzes now
ensue, with only momentary intermissions
to allow of the’ frequent changes of the
performers. ‘The scene presented to the
unsophistie gaze of your correspondent,
when he first crossed the portals of one of
these saloons, was a novelty, The dan-
‘cers were just finishing the last whirl of
‘the svt, in the presence of a large crowd
of onlovkers who thronged the saloon,
The manager was bustling through the
qowd, making an open way for the dan-
cers, urging the ‘* gentleman to make way
‘ss for the ladies to come up to the bar and
‘odrink.” The path fo the bar is cleared,
and, in all sorts of attitudes, from the
muost polite to the shanielessly indecent,
“the ladics” and their partners advance,
The men generally take whiskey; while,
perhaps, half of the ladies content them-
selves with cigars, The pause was very
brief. The manager again calls for one,
two or three couples, as may he required,
ty All the wep forming on the floor, the mu: |
;

SEUNT:

SUMMER

SIDE JOURNA

HS rca fh “Ways as

sicians strike up their liveliest notes, and
again the promiscuous company is whirling
madly to the music,

As the evening advances into night, the
**ladivs” get less whiskey and more cigars,
as many of them begin to show more or
less indications of inebriation, ‘The mana-
gers will ** politely snatch the 25 glasgof
whiskey from their hands and substitute
the 25¢ cigar, for which the dancer pays at
the close of each dance. Some of the poor
jaded wretches would look longingly at
the forbidden stimulants ; but the Saar
are inexorable, and the whiskey is admin-
istered only in such quantities as will keep
up the requisite excitement without ren-
dering the unfortunates prematurely unfit
forthe ballroom. Eleven o'clock, twelve,
one, two, and still no intermission in the
hellish revelry, Profunity, the most
shocking,and obscenity the most revolting,
are becoming more intense as the night
wears on; and, wearied with the sights,
sickened with the thoughts of the utter

| degradation of the wretched crowd who
|
| throng the hills of Julesburg, the excur-

sionists retreated to their homes on the
cars,

A couple of clergymen, members of the
excursion party, held divine service in the
theatre, which was granted tor that pur-
pose by the proprietor. A constant stream
ot the denizens of the place was entering
and retiring during the whole time. A
few remained decorously till the close of
the service, but the greater number would
come in, stare in open-mouthed astonish-
ment fora few moments, at the unusual
spectacle, and then resuming the usual
look of listless indifferenee saunter out
again,

An officer in the United States army in
formed me that afew weeks since, he Mies
self was in a saloon in Julesburg, and a
raffian came in and began to brandish his
weapons in a threatening manner, Ano-
ther who stood at the bar with a glass of
liquor in his hand, set down the liquor
quietly, but quickly drew his revolver and
shot down the noisy intruder, He then
drank his whiskey, set down the glass and
remarked coolly, ‘that d—d fool would
have shot somebody, if he had been let
alone,” and here the matter ended. Aman
was riding along the street at a gallop,
when the loungers about the saloons be-
gan to pop” at him, and he had to rin
the gauntlet to the end of the street. He
had given no offence, and searecly seemed
offended at the pleasantry of the citizens,
only blackguarding them a little for their
unskiltul shooting.

Incidents of a similar character might be
mu/!tiplied, but let these suflice. ‘The mo-
dern Sodom has passed its climacteric,
andis rapidly hastening to dissolution.
Soon naught but the railway buildings will
remain, of what was the ‘ fastest” town
America has ever seen, A few years hence,
and to wll bué the few who have seen it,
Julesburg will be amyth. A true history
of it will receive no more credence than
the **Arabian Nights Kntertainments.”
This fungus sprung up in the American
desert under the so. of a single summer
month, it flourished vor a single season,
and ere the winter's blasts howl over the
plains, Julesburg will have utterly disap-
peared forever, A single fact may ¢jrito-
mize its history. On the north side of the
railway track, seventy-five graves, hur-
riedly scooped in the sand, received their
tenants—but dio of the dead died a natural
death,

|

PoruLatron OF THe Pavan Sraves.—
The Correspondencia di Ruma publishes a
summary of the census of the Papal States
in 1867, just issued by the ecclesiastical
authorities, Rome contains 54 parishes,
of which 9 are outside the boundaries. —
Lhe total population, which is now 215,-
573 souls, Wits ig 1857, 107,952; 1859, 180,-
350; 1859, 182995; 1860, 184,095; 1861,
184,587; 1862, 197,078; 1863, 201,061;
1864, 303,876; 1865, 207,338; and 1866,
210,701, Since the previous census, the
inhabitants have inereased by 4872. ‘The

the Papal rule is as follows:—Rome 8265,-
500; Givita, Vecchia, 20,707; Viterbo,
128,324; Velletri, 62,016; Frosinone, 154-
559; or, in all, 692,112,

. Pierce, the senior editor of the Ma-
uchi Gleaner, died at his residence in
Cliitham, on the 29th instant, aged 64
years.

» Aman in Milwaukee made $49,300 the
other day by foreclosing a mortgage.

Lord Brougham says the child receives
its unchangeable bent of character before
itis five years old, Mothers, hear this,
and be careful how you shape the future
destinies of your children,

Mrs, Abraham Lincoln, the disconsolate
widow of the late President of the United
States, complains of poverty and hard
usage from the Republicans. She has of-
fered for sale, ey auction, shawls and
other articles for Which she has no use, to
the vilue af $20,000, simply, she says, to
procure the necessaries of living. She
has an income of only $1,700 a year, be-
sides a valuable estate. Poor woman! is
she not to be pitied ?

THE FINANCIAL OPERATIONS OF
**MAXIMILIAN’S SECRETARY.”

[From the Toronto Globe.]

Some weeks ago Gen. Doyle, Commander
of the Forces and Lieutenant Governor of
New Brunswich, was accosted in the streets
of Fredericton by a tall, gentlemanly soldier-
like individual. ‘“he Governor intimated that
the stranger had the advantage of him, his
features had either wever been scen before or
liad passed from his Excellency’s recollection.
‘The stranger was not slow to make himself
known. He was Colonel Graham, recently
Military Secretary tothe Emperoy Maximilian,
but he had served some years before in the
same regiment asthe General, he had been
present in the United Service Club when the
General had made a brilliant speech, which
he (Graham) had profited by many times
since. ‘To make a long story short, hy the
mention of: pergon and things, Colonel Gra-
ham managoght convince the General that he
wis a genuine individual who had served in
the same regiment; he was invited to Goy-
ernment House, and being a weil-informed,
agreeable man who had seen much of the
world, he became a welcome guest in the best
circles of the New Brunswich capital. Gov-
ernor Dundas, of Prince Edward Island, came
to Fredericton on a visit, and was so charmed
with Colonel Graham that he invited him to
pay « visit to Charlottetown. The Colonel
consented; but a serious difficulty presented
itself. The English mail had nob arrived, the
Colonel had been previously disappointed in
not receiving remittances, and expected all
deficiencies to be made good by the next
mail, Inthe meantime he could not accom-
pany Governor Dundas; he told General
Doyle's aide-de-camp, because he was afraid
that, as a stranger, no banker would cash his
draft. General Doyle was consulted, and at
once, with the generosity of a soldicr towards
an old comrade, told his aide-de-camp to in-
troduce Colonel Grahum to a banker; and
the Colonel, nothing loth made a draft on his
agentin England for £150 sterling, and so
was enabled to make his projected trip to
Pritiee Edward Island and visit to’ Governor
Dundas! But in Charlottetown, he became
impecynious again, and playing the same
geme skilfully, he made another haul of nearly
the same amount, He loft Prince Edward)

total population of the provinces still under |,

Island for Canada, bearing a letter of intro-
duction from Mr. Dundas to Mr. Gartier, who
was very polite, as befitted his station and his
disposition. He in turn gave Celone! Graham
aletter of introduction to His Excellency,
Governor Belleau, at Quebec, and there again
Colonel Graham felt the necessity of making
a draft on his London agents for £150 stg.,
whieh was cashed through the intervention
of the urbane Lieutenant Governor. From
Quebec Colonel Graham came to ‘Toronto,
But we have not heard that he obtained any
money here. We are afraid that Toronto is
not so hospitable to strangers as the more
retired capitals of New Brunswick, Prince
Edward Island and Quebec. ‘The hero of our
tale went from ‘Toronto no one knows whither,
and all that remains to be told is that the
drafts on the London agent have been return:
ed, and that no one has yet been able to find
atrace of Colonel Graham of Maximilian’s
army.

Mr. George Vhilps, Banker and Broker of
this City, had the extreme honor of making
‘Colonel Graham's” acquaintance, through
a financial certificate, howey trom Gov-
ernor Dundas which itis believed is excellent,
even if Governor Dundas were not a man of
honor, as he doubtless is. Colonel Graham
has made quite a raid on the New Dominion.

Latest from Europe.

London, Oct. 30.

ports go, from 4000 to 5000 men. ‘The
place is defended by tws companies of the
Antibes, Roman Legion, and about ene
hundred of the Papal gens Warmes, who

.j have been successtul in the assaults made

upon it by the Garibaldians. Deputies
Nicotora und Mosto were reported as bad-
ly wounded during the recent engagement,
‘The sale of Church lands have commenced,
and promise to add largely to the revenue
of the Italian government, Gen. Lamam-
era has been sent out ona mission to Paris.
The trial of the prisoners indicted yester-
day of Dublin will commence before a
special commission on ‘Thursday, when
the challenging of the jury will commence.
Prussia declines to. receive Bavaria into
the Zollverein on the terms proposed by
the Bavarian Government. A public din-

ner was giveu to D'Isracli, Chancellor of
the Exchequer, yesterday at Edinburgh.
Mr. D'Israeli, in answer to a complimen-
tary toast, rose and made a characteristic
speech,

IIe gave a history of the Reform
recounted the act’on of different

and closed with a strong. ar-
gument in justifieation of the tory party
for their course in advocating and carrying
through the Parliament representation ot
the People’s Bill, Lhe hon, gentleman
was frequently interrupted by expressions
of approval, and when he took his seat he
was loudly cheered.
London, Oct, 30th.

The French troops now oceupy Civitta
Vechia, and more are embarking at Tou-
lon for Italy.

Regarding the report that the Ttalian
army had crossed the Roman (vontier, itis
reported that the Pope has informed the
French Goyernment that if King Victor
Emmanuel entered Rome, he, the Pope,
will leave. Gen, Garibaldi has been or-
deved by the commander of the Italian
forecs to disarm and disperse his forces.

A new Italian Cabinet lias been formed,
with Gen. Menabrea at the head. Owing
to the serious aspect of the political affairs,
the National 1 ebt will be called togteher
atan early day, ‘he news from Rome is
exciting. '

Telegraphic despatches irom Romo to
Florence is broken, the insurgents having
cut the wires, ‘The latest dispatuhes Tre-
ceived from Rome before the destrucfioti
of telegraphic communication was highis”
important. The insurgents in the city
were actively engaged, and an Batorod
was momentarily expeeted. ‘Lhe victori-
ous army of Garibaldi was only six miles
away, organizing for an attack on the city.
Orsini shells were firee in the streets by
the party of action, who seemed to be im-
patient waiting the arrival of Garibaldi,
and the precautions of the authorities for
the preservation of order,

Liverpool has become the centre of Fe-
nian excitement. ‘The Volunteers ar-
mories are guarded, and the Police patrols
have been doubled. Digby Seymour,
Esq., principal counsel for the defence has
made another application for the remoyal
to London of the Fenian trials just coin-
menced at Manchester on the ground of
hostility of public feeling against them in
the latter city, but the Goyernment has
refused to grant the request.

London, Oct, 31.

The official statement of the Bank of
England shows the increase of bullion the
past week, £89,000 stg.

London, Oct. 31st.

The session yesterday of the Special
Commission for the trial of the Fenian
prisoners, a motion was made by the
Counsel for the defenee, that the accused
be tried bya mixed pannel, composed in
equal numbers of Protestant and Catholic
jurymen. ‘The motion was denied by the
judges. The prisoner General Warren
declined the services of the Counsel, de-
claring that he was a citizen of the United
States, and refused to acknowledge the
jurisdiction of the Court in hiscase, Two
policemen were shot last night and instant-
ly killed. ‘The murder is directly charged
upon Venianism, and energetic efforts are
being made to secure the perpetrators.
The Fenian Colonel Kelly, who was res-
cued at Manchester, has escaped from
England. Buckley, ono of the Fenians
captured at Dungarvon has turned Queen's
evidence. Ie appeared before a Special
Commission to-day and testified against
prisoner Warren. In his evidence he
gives a complete account of the expedition,
which landed at Dungaryon.

The International Exhibition will be
closed on 3d November,

Paris, Oct. 31st.

Semi-official evening journals say that
the advance of the Italian troops into Pa-
pal provinces, was ordered by the Italian
Government without the consent of France,
and this action, they declaic, has brought
a crisis in she relations between the two
countries, which is dangerous to peace,

Florence,' Oct, 31st,

The Pontifical troops have all been with-
drawn from the country, and are concen-
trated within the fortifications of Rome.
The Garibaldians have taken possession of
a portion of the Railway between Rome
and Civitta Veechia, and torn up the rails,
‘Tho army of King Victor Enimanuel is ad-
vancing in direction of Rome.

Latest from Mexico,

New York, Noy, Ist.
Intelligence from the city of Mexico says
at the present time Mexico enjoys more
freedom from petty internal strife than
she has done for a number of years before,
there being perfect quiet thronghout the
entire Republic—except in the State of
Guadlera, where Jumez continues the

Gen, Garibaldi, the elder is still in a pos}
sition before Montoratonda at the head of)
revolutionary force numbering, as ye-|

1 parties in England in relation to}

f. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 186

as been eondemned to
Through his Counsel he has asked

death,
to be pardoned and banished; a prayer

which the press call upon the President to
grant, declarivg that it would bea terrible |
act to execute the General, in view of
some of the good and yaliant deeds he has
performed for Mexico, and brutal to earry
out the sentence of death upon an old and
deerepid man. He will probably be ban-
ished on imprisonment for life.

Gold 1404,

Latest by Telegraph.

London, Noy. 4

Tt now seenis that the proposition to. settle
the Roman question by submission to the
popular vote of the Papal Provinces was not
suggested by Napoleon, but was the sponta-
neous idea ofthe Italian, Prussian and French

governments.

The Paris Moniteur of this morning con-
tains an nuthorative article asserting that on
‘the 18t November M. Moustier despatched a
note to the French Charge D'AfMuirs at Fler-
ence in which he said the Italian advance into
the Papal territory was a violation of law and
tres
‘The Emperor Napoleon will not approve it
by word or silence, and asks an explanation
of Italy,

Rome.

Large bodies of troops are continually leay-
ny ‘Toulon for C 1 Vecchia,

‘The Papal forces will assume the offensive
immediately.

Late despatches just received from Florence
say the yotes of the towns in the Province of
Romo was unaninious for Italy,

It is now reported in Florence that the Em-
peror Napoleon requires Victor Emanuel to
expel Garibaldi—if that is done, he, Napole-
on, will withdraw his troops from Rome,

Count Bismark says officially to-day tha!
the Government of Prussia is neutral at pre-
sent on the Roman Question,

‘The alarm about the Fenians in Liverpool
does not subside. ‘Truops have been sent
there and others are arriving.

Sir Alfred Uarstord who was so active and
eflicient in suppressing the outbreak in the
South of Ireland is in command of the military
forces,

At Manchester it is regarded as probable
that all the prisoners who have been tried and
condemned to death before the Special Com-
mission there, will have their sentences com-
muted, except the three most prominent ones
—Allen, Gould and Larkin, who are shown by
evidence to be the actual murderers of Police-
min Brett,

London, Noy. 4—eve

The intelligence from Italy is very import-
ont. ,

Garibaldi and his forve were attacked and
defeated on Sunday by Brench and Papal
troops.

Gen, LaMarmora who was sent to Paris by
the King of Italy on a mission, the nature of
which has not been divulged has returned to
Florence having failed in accomplishing the
objects for which he was dispatched thither.

The Ultimatum of the Emperor Napoleon
was presented by the French Charge D’A fluirs
at Florence to the Italian Government on
Sunday and an instant reply was demanded,

Riots have taken place at several points in
Paris but they have been suppressed.

Paris, 5th.

The Moniteu” of this morning publishes full
particulars of the battle in lily. ‘Lhe scene
of the battle was near Tervooli.

Bight thousand insurgents were killed,
wounded or made prisoners,

Garibaldi himself and son Menotti were
captured and sent to Florence as prisoners of
Wits.

Four tiousand Garibaldians while on the
murch to reinforce the insurgents were stop-
ped, dismissed and turned back

‘The greatest agitation prevails in Italy .

* ‘Phe ultimatum of Napoleon must be an-
swered by or betore Thursday.
London, 5th

Serious bread riots occurred in Exeter yes-
terday ind to-day. Every meat and bread
shop in uity were sacked at the date ‘of the
last disyaten Incendiary fires were break-
ing out in differ Cnt parts of the town. There
wis much exciteme.ot, and the local authori-
ties had petitioned the Guv@pment for troops
to quell the disorder,

Gold (N.Y.) 1403

[from the Islander, Noy. 1.]

During the past week there has been much
excitement in Charlottetown, caused by its
becoming known that Mr, W. B. Dawson, the
Propri¢tur of the City ‘Tannery, had abscond-
ed, leaving debts to a large umount, and by
the subsequent discovery, it is said, of ex-
tensive forgeries, by which severe losses are
likely to be sustained by a number of persons.
We understand that Mr. Dawson executed an
assignment of his Estate, in which preferences
are given to inlividual creditors. Debtors,
of late, are almost weekly absconding from
the Island, and in almost every case assiyn-
ments are executed in favor of privileged in-
dividuals. We hope that the glaring defects
in our Insolvent and Attachment Laws will
now receive some attention from those most
interested in them—the merchants—and that
the necessity tor theiramendment will be fully
considered by the Legislature during its next
session,

As the Insolvent Law now stands, an in-
solvent debtor is liable to be imprisoned,
Ile cannot obtaina discharge from his debts
without the consent of his creditors, and con-
sequently is prevented from again engaging
in business, by reason of his goods and chat-
tels over being liable to be seized at the in-
stance of any of his judgment creditors. ‘The
Law isa disgrace tothe Colony. Itis unjust,
alike to the debtor and to his creditors, It
protects neither the one nor the other, A
Bankrupt Law cannot, we think, be so framed
as to suit the circumstances of this little com-
munity; but there is no reason why the Law
relating to insolvents should not be so amend-
ed as to answer all the purposes of a Bankrupt
Law. The insolvedt debtor should. in the
first instance, be allowed protection from
process, on proper application to a judge of
the Supreme Court. His estate should be
vested in an assignee to be appointed by the
Court, in order that it may be fairly distributed
among all his creditors—andif it appears that
his debts have been contracted without fraud,
and that he has assigned all his estate, such
debtor should eventually be entitled to receive
an abso ute discharge from all his debts up to
the date of the assignment of his property.
All assignments or transfers, made in contem-
plation of Insolvency, should be held yoid.
Andin cases of absconding debtors, against
whom or whose property writs of attachment
mey be issued by several creditors, the effects
attached, should be rateably distributed among
all creditors who may obtain judgments and
sue out executions; andall assignments made
to defeat creditors or to give a preference
should be held to be void. ‘These are among
the provisions which we consider should be
introduced in our Insolvent and Attachment
Laws, and we trust that the subject will not
be lost sight of, We wre supposed to have a
Board of Vrade in Charlottetown. We would
suggest that this Board should bring the eaub-
jeet before the Legislature at its next session,
and in the meantime, determine upon the
nature of the provisions which they consider
advisable.

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The Needle Gun without a doubt
Is thought by some the best thing out;
Not so with others, they declare

That Grace's Salve will well compare
With anything that yet was known

broils. Sante Anna’s trial fins bee ¢

By humble cottager or king on throne.

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Summerside

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1867.

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munications. We must know the names

of their good faith. We cannot undertake to
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SKEDADDLERS.

Men and women leave their native
country for several reasons, Some, dis-
satisfied with their condition, longing for
change, filled with vague hopes and
expectations of obtaining riches and
happiness by some speedier and more
certain means than they can find at home,
go abroad to seek their fortune. Others

have become involved in debt, and who
unable to meet the demands of their nu-
merous creditors, fly from a country where
the law affords them no alternative be-
tween paying every creditor in full and
wasting their existence and weariny
| their hearts in a common prison scarcely
separated from the vilest criminals.
Some again—let us hope that they are
very few indeed—who atter having traded
upon a good name for a number of years,
and having wormed themselves into the
confidenge of business men, vilely abuse
that confidence and sneak from their
country with their pockets well filled
with honest men’s money. Of the first
class of emigrants we have very little to
say, only that we sympathise with them
and wish them good luck. ‘Phat the
young, the ardent, and the ambitions
should desire change, and should expect
the happiest results from exchanging the
narrow ficld that this Island affords them
for the wider ficld of the continent is but
natural. We see nothing to deplore in
the matter. ‘The same thing takes place
all over the continent of Ame A
continuous stream of emigration is How-
ing from the East to West of this con-
tinent. And we may add, that a stream
equally continous — but not nearly so
large—flows from West to East. ‘The
boundless prairies, the dense forests,
and the rich mines of the Western
portions of North America attract the
enterprising and adventurous spirits of
its HMastern portions. ‘There are very
few families in the Eastern States who
cannot count one or more of its members
in Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, or Califor-
nia, &c. It is true, that though the
wanderers are widely separated from the
loved ones at home they still belong to
the same country and live under the same
institutions aso those who have remained
in the place of their birth, They though
distant it may be thousands of miles, are
still ‘at home.” It is not so with the
great majority of those who leave this
Island. As far the greater number of:
these go to the United States, they be-
come dwellers and sojourners in a foreign
land, ‘They go to a country where they
are aliens, not citizens, But this, after
all, is no such very great misfortune.
The men of these provinces can never
long feel as aliens and strangers among
the people of the United States. Both
the men of the Republic and of the Colo-
nies are of the same race, they speak the
same language, and on most subjects they
think alike. In fact, when we t&k with
an American it requires an effort of the
mind to realize that we are not conyers-
ing with a country man and a fellow citi-
zen. Who can think ita great mistor-
tune for his sons or his fiiends to emi-
grate to a country in which they can,
without difficulty, preserve their man-
ners, their langueve, and their religion,
unchanged’ ‘They come back to us after,
years of absence as little altered in ap-
pearance and in mind as if they had
passed the intervening years within sight
of the homes of their childhood. Some
have prospered and have perhaps ac-
quired more property than if they had
remained at home, but many come back
no richer and scarcely any wiser than
when they left us. Very few indeed have
realized the hopes with which they were
buoyed when ‘they first bade their friends
good bye. ‘They know by dear-bought |
experience that every place has its draw- |
backs, and that hardships have to be en-
dured and difficulties encountered in
every country, even those most favored
by nature. ‘These men keenly appreciate
the advantages of our beautiful little Is-
land, and are by no means fond of en-
couraging either old men or young men
to leave it. But some of the former,and
a great many of the latter, are possessed |
With a passionate desire, ‘ strange coun-
tries for to see,’ and in spite of every
obstacle and every caution will sitisty
that desire, We don't see how this evil,
if evil itis, i, to be remedied, ‘The Is-
‘and is too small to afford scope and verge
enough to the thousands of high spirited
hopeful youths who claim it as the land
of their birth, and we have a notion that,
let its resources be developed as they
may, a very large proportion of its popu-
lation will ever endeavor to seck their
fortune in the larger countries from which
the sea separates us, It seems to us that
the fate of this Island is to be the Scot-
land of British America. The talented
and enterprising sons of P. E. Island are
we predict, destined to distinguish them-
selves in every country under the sun in
which the English language is spoken.
From their native soil and the pure at-
mosphere which eurrounds it, they will
derive sound constitutions and a store of
vital cnergy,and from its institutions they
will receive liberal views and healthy
mental discipline. With this capital they
will be able to win from the most favored
children of other lands the prizes which
the world holds out to the ambitious, the
intelligent, and the industrious.

The second class of emigrants—the
skedaddlers—is, we cannot help thinking,
much more numerous than it ought to
be. Misfortunes, we admit, will some-
times overtake the honest, the industrious,
and the cautious trader or mechanic,
but we have observed that by far the
greater part of those who fail in business
are sadly wanting in one or more of these
essentials to success. How seldom do
we see a hardworking and moderately
prudent man become bankrupt. ‘The
old saying of poor Richard

* He who by the furm would thrive,
Murt cither hold the plough or drive”

0th cte~ tt tater

and
addresses of our correspondents as a guaranty |

who through misfortune or imprudence |

sink

is ae true to-day as-it was ninety years
ayo. ‘The merchant, the tradesman, or
the farmer who attends to his business
himself, who does not leave a clerk, or
journeyman, or servant, to do his own
peculiar work, is, in this country pretty
sure of success, By success we don't
mean to say that he re of making a
fortune, but that he will be able to meet
all his obligations, will inake a decent
|living and will leave a little property to
| those who survive him. But the man
who is too indolent or too genteel to at-
tend to his business, who leaves every-
thing to his servants, who contracts idle
and expensive habits, is sure-—whatever
appearances for a time may indicate—
sooner or later to go to the wall. Any
man who wishes to succeed in this, or
indeed in any other country, must lay it
to his account to work hard and to live
economically, and he must not be in too
great a hurry to get rich, Over-trading,
doing more business than is warranted by
one’s means, is a fruitful cause of failure
in business all over America. Men can-
not be too careful of other men's pre-
perty. ‘The man who risks what is clear-
ily and honestly his own in an uncertain
speculation is simply imprudent, but he
who ventures another man’s property
without his knowle and consent in
such speculation, is positively dishonest.
The manner in which cretlit is abused in
these days is most deplorable. The
recklessness with which men specu-
late with money which does not belong
to them is something painful to witness.
The slow and painful gains of legitimate
trade are far from satisfying the desires
of those men who expect to acquire by a
few brilliant operations, an amount of
wealth which in the days of our grand-
fathers it took a lifetime of successful
toil toaccumulate. The law should make
a distinction between the honest and pru-
dent bankrupt, and the reckless and im-
prudent one. Whena man has failed and
has honestly surrendered his remaining
property. to his creditors he sould be al-
lowed to attempt to regain his lost posi-
tion without having his old debts hanging
like a millstone round his neck. The
law should, afford no loop hole for the
dishonest debtor to evade the payment of
his debts. All his rascally schemes
should be frustrated or made impossible,
and his refuges of lics torn from him, He
should be forced to disporge his ill-gotten
gains, and his knavery should be treated
as acrime, for itis nothing clse. We
would plead for every indulgence towards
the honest but unfortunate man, but we
would demand that the designing rogue
have the most rigid justice meted out to
him,

We regret to inform our readers that
Mir. Sampson, the trustworthy and ex-
ceedingly obliging carrier of the Western
Mai is found it necessary to discontinue
i ul but wearisome occupation. — If

is y seldom that any one whose busi-
ness it is to serve the public has given

stion, Tle is & man
that every one lik id every one trusts,
And itis our honest opinion that no one
ever better deserved to be liked and trust-
ed, ‘Though requested to perform num-
berless trifling commissions, hundreds of
which he would take no compensation for,
he always good humoredly undertook
them and was invariably as good as his
his word, and though entrusted with thou-
sands of pounds in sums varying from.
nine-penny bit to packages containing
hundreds of pounds, not a single penny
that we henrd of ever went ay—nob
the shadow of a suspicion tarnished his
reputation, ‘To passengers he was in-
yartably ciyil and obliging, thinking much
more of their conmertand their safety than
of his own. We do not remember of his
meeting with a single Accident during the
six years and a half in which he drove the
Western Stage. He made his trips with
uncommon regularity, It he did not carry
the mails to their destination on the right
day and at the appointed hour no other
man could, Ife could and did) perform

yerything in his business except impossi-
Ay. Sampson we look upon as a
model stave driver, and never expect to
see his like again. Weare convinced that
we have given utterance to no more than
the publie sentiment at this end of the
route, in what we have written of Mr.
upson. We wish him Jong lite and
happiness in whatever carcer he nay have
chosen,

OG Mr. Joseph Schurman of the North
Shore, will please accept our acknowledgment
for the big pumpkin, the big apples, and the
big turnips which he left at our residence tha
other day. ‘The country that can raise pump>
kins of thirty odd pounds weight, turnips as
big as a half bushel basket, and apples eleven
inches round, can’t be beat on this side of the
Atlantic for raising farm produce and ** garden,

Siss.”

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such general sati

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rWwoon's Macazine for October:
has been received, Wo have never read w
better number of ‘ Blackwood.” Lhe dirst.
part of what promises tobe a yery Deautiful
story appears in this numb r. ‘* Inroads
upon English’ is an amusing as well as anin-
structive paper. © At the Alps Again” isa
sparkling,well written article, ‘That on ¢ Mo-
netary Reform’ contains a fund of information
peculiarly useful to mereantilemen. ‘city
of the Plague” we intend to reproduce in the
Journal, so our readers will be able to judge
of itfor themselves. ‘* Work and Murder”
is an essay on the ‘Prades’ Union outrages. It
is an outspoken article for the times though
we fear that few of those who need to be in-
structed in the first principles of Christian |
morality. and political economy will” be
benefitted by its teachings ‘The last article
ofthe number, “The American Debt? and
the ‘Binancial Prospects of the Union”
is n crushing reply to a letter of Mr.
Wells, Commissioner of the Revenue,
Treasury Department of the United States,
inthe Zimes. Itis very severe but exceed-
ingly well argued. The Brownlows contin-
ues to be proyokingly interesting, ‘Phe mor-
sel whieh comes tO us every month only
whets one’s appetite for more of the story. ©
We dow't know how intelligent people exist
without ‘ Blackwood” and the Reviews.
They are a necessary of mental life to every
man endowed with brains. ‘Those who do
not read them cannot know a tithe of what is
going on in the world of intellect.

t@~ J. lt. Woopnrns, Esq., made a trial
of the fire extinguishing powers of the largest
of his portable engines, on the Drill House
Square on Thursday nightJast. Me built and
set fire to a large pile of tar barrels, packing
cases, and other combustible materials, and
when the flames were raging most flercely he
quenched them completely in a few seconds,
using not more than half the charge in the
operation. From what we have seca of L'-
Extincteur, we do not hesitate to pronounce it
a most efficient fire extinguisher. Quite a
number were gold to property holders in this :
town, . :

Tre notice sent us of the formation of a
Lodge of Good ‘Templars in Cascumpee Vil-
lage will appear next week,

Gant OF THAT.