ati ee ie me Ms: TRMRINLE THRACEDY IN SINTH AVES, SEW Yom & POLEOR OFFICER pteaNeINATE® A DOE CAPT Shab ol ol SCPTONL Tas cares, About 3 o'clock on Saturday eventug bret the inmates of the house, Corner of Twentieth ty he street and Ninth Avenue, eccapied ty a Mrs. j Bot unlikely that ingide ot six months par- ‘chases of rails ~@ double diecherge of a pistel, imarker, for parts of the Dniter-colanial Burke asa boarding howse fer females, were otartied byt) Followed hy sliricks app inthe last agonics of ently from sume one ath. §=Beture the af- drighted Inmates could rogaia their conosure | suflcivatly to evimprehend te gause of the terrible outeries. a thir Trepert reverborited the bailding, quickly followed hy a dug to the first store. Alarmed atthe stran Bproar, the inimaies rushed to Che apartinents from whence issned the shrick seene of horror met the gaze of the behulders Stretched upon the floor lay the lifvless body of ane of the female boarders, Mrs. Frances Willard, the gaping pistol wound in the z 4 the violent ny divath, A sh Mrs. Will: lay the lifeless boy of he murdorer, his head and face covered with gor trom a bullet shot in the right temple. Brom Infurmation clicited by a Sun reporter, visited the scene of the melancholy ehortly after its occurrence, it appears for some time past Mrs, Willard have been receiving the attention of Roundsman ‘Thomas M. Burke, of the Seventh Precinct Police, a # young niin of fine presence, who loved the murdered woman with all the intensity ef his heart, but whose affections were not recipro- cated, Ibis stated that Mrs, Willard had on several ocgasions been heard to remurk that Burke had made proposals of mire to her, bat that she had invariably seorn@® the offer, ‘The refusals, however, seem not to have dis- fiedirtened the lover, who P d his suit with increased ardor at each succeeding interview. On Saturday rnoon Just, Mrs, Willard, who was forewoman in the femate department of the World composing room, left the office tor the purpose of returing to her boarding house. While on her homeward ride in the street car, she encountered a male acquaint: un ance-—a rival of young Burke for the band of the lady —who, upon reaching Twentieth sisee » courteously a ted her from the car, and passed on. Ti is supposed that this act of | were rece ‘is, we think, below the arerago for some it § uf a heavy tall upon the stairs load-| € Bee {nia, and here aj years, soll ia Liverpool tor £4 per ton,— in which she had met her} distance from the body of sU\ The somivercial wivdees trom Knecland iodivate Inenssaedl dqniny for ships, thorigh « prites hoop low. The #taek of worl in the Kaglish gnaphets ds low, yet prices have nol fieen propertionstely, Bar iron ard dren by very 2} The latter ly quoted £5 1s a £5, which cen ae ea sma te are Ww, vears past, As matters now look, it is ay be made, ina favorable | Radlooad, per cent, Money is alen low, irom died) We subjola some quotations; \ ais.—There is rather wore enquiry; for new ships. March 1204 tons register, + it at St, John, N. Boi ton; Ele : hut at Qaehe: 6 tons register, bn Quebec, 7 Uireulur af Gibbs, Bright & Co, | ‘THomas.-Up to} Mth ult. the cholera had not diminish- | fed its ravages, still it had not grewn j Wor { Tar Cuorena tn Sr. lithe I ont of whose heart, and the bloody stains which auurked the flow of the life current indicated Beuveen the days 16th and 18th, | were LOT deaths, making a total since ithe commencement of the malady of 471, Iwing to the intervention of the Spanish ‘onsul permission has been given by the} Captain General of Porto Rico to) vessels} trom St. ‘Thomas to touch at certain points | ‘tor the purpose of purchasing cattle, Compulsory Edueation of youth will ;soon be the order ot the day in: England. Manchester is moving camestiy in the jmatter, and England feels that in this age \ofintelligenee aud meedse-guns, the law ol solf-preservation requires hep not to per- init-an ignorant, not to say weviminal pop- tation to grow up without praviding for their education and votermation. Vhe Pree Church of Scotlaud are about to gpen a station at Veniee, which, as in all othey parts of utside of the Papal States, entive relis and freedom af worship now exist, The death of Alezandra Smith, the Scot- | tish poct, is announced, LHe sveme.! to be in the zenith of his power, ont A Stincina Rerroor.—Don Anenatine G, Tturbide, who recently died in’ Phil: delphia, and who was 2 son of the lw Iturbide, had a great aversion to meddling | ) Well ae America, impassable. Hof the Haase of Commons, with a yie the Bank of Rnglind of its present power of j issue, and place it in the hands of Government, ‘This is a subject of the utmost importance to lthe whole commercial community, and has IMERSIDE JOURNAL, a RT Te ee Latest trom: Europe. ARRIVAL OF THE APRICA,” cod } ; Snow storms abound Throaghont Purape as very where the winter ap- polars to be universally sever The tines of railway inthe Sonth of Franee have been Tu the South-Eastern districts of Eagland the tals of snow have been hear On the 16th the railways between Leadon ai Dorer were quite blocked up. j The tnowstorin in the North ef Scotland! has dismayed even the Highlanders, as noth- | ing like ithas been scondoriaanys years. "The! railways have been blocked ap, and commu: | 24) nication between towns almost cut off Sove-| be loft ay free as possible, al cases of persons being frozen to death are | reported from various parts of the country, | ‘The near appro@trof the meeting of VP. ment is creating some stir in the geeat world of London. Cabinet Councils are frequent. ‘There is still the same uncertainty as to the steps which will be taken about Reform. Whether a bill will be introduced to getile the question, whether the \dininstration will pre- ter to gain time by procceding by resolution * to is- suing a Royal Conission to prebe nalyse the subject in all its bearings, er whether, in the absence of these two gourses, the Opposition will Le lett to initiate their own plan of proceedure, are matters gbhoyt which the public ganas yet get no Hyht. In the meantime, the Legders of the Liberal party, scattered over the Continent during the recess, are making their way to the British metropo- lis. Tf tho present Government are permitted to remain in office they will deal in some way With the Bank Charter, if one of their ofgans in the press is entitled to belief. {tis not in- tended, according to this authority, to repeal the act of ISM, but to discuss certain improve ments which are deened to be necessary. Amang-t these will be a proposition to relieve never received the degree of attention it de- Burvas, The first sound of the finpending conflict comes, strange to say, from Florence, from which city Mr, Gladstone has addressed a cir- cular to the Liberal menjbers of the House of Commons, asking them 4 be present at the ence THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14 1867, Sunmerside Journal. ‘THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1837. bor No notice ean be taken of anonyinous communications, We mast knew the naines and addresses of our correspondents asa gua | ranty of their good faith. We cannot wnder- take to return conmaunicationsthat are nothsed | havo ow Mae nent ovo ech ON BOUNTIES. sm aoe Iv is now pretty gencrally acknow- ledged by thinking men, that trade should It has been found impossible, by means of yover- mental cneouragement, to cause an branch of trade or any mode ef industey to flourish in a country unguited to it. Political economists assert that private enterprise and the instinct of self interest are, of themselves, quite suflicient to support every kind of industrial effort which is suited to the situation and natural resources of a country, It has been genevaily found that the policy of monopolies, protective and prohibitive duties, and bounties, have the effect pf encouraging men to abandon occupations which are profitable, and to embark in those which are unprofituble, We think that it will be admitted by every one that that business cannot be a profitable one which requires the uid of the state to support it, If, foy instance, farmers could not afford to cultivate potatoes without Government's taxing the whole community in order to pay them a bounty of say, twenty shillings on every hundred bushels of potatoes raised by them, will any one have the hardihood to say that the country at large is profited by the cultivation of the potatoe under these circumstances? Would it not be much better for the country if the farmer eulti- vated some crop which would pay, then thus to tax the whole community for his support. What do the tax payers get ic jarticle from the writings ‘of one of the mete i saat Island, ts hardly frit to expect a Tew, vivdividuals toembark in an aneertain jenterprise from which, if succossful, the | whole community will reap a benefit, if! there is to be a loss we think it bat just) that the people in general should bear part of Chat loss, Lest our readers should think that we no authority for what we have written, we append to this article a few short paragraphs on the subject of our | profoundest thinkers that any age or any country has yet produced. We mean Adam Smith, the author of the ** Wealth of Nations,” “When tho undertakers of fsicries, aiter such liberal bounties have been be- stowed upon them, continue to sell their comniodity at the sume, or even a higher pie than they were accustomed to do be- ove, it might be expected that their profits should be yery greats and ii is not impro- bable that (hose of some individwals may have been so. [yn genera), however, Lhave every reason to believe they have been quite otherwise. ‘The usual effect af such bounties is to encourage rash undertakers to adventure ina business which they do not understand; and what they lose by their own nevligence and ignoranee, more than compensates all that they ean gain by the utmost liberality of government. But though it can yery seldom bo rea- sonable to tux the industry of the great body of the people, in order to support that of some particulir class of manulieturers, yet in the wantonness of great prosperity, when the public enjoy a greater reyenue Unan it knows well what to do with, to giv h bounties to favorite manufacture vethaps, be as naturalis to ineur any idle expense. In public, as well as in private expenses, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly. But there must surely be something anore than ordinary absurdity in continuing such profusion in times of general difleulty and distress, Premiums given by the public to. and manufacturers, who excel in their par- ticular occupations, are not liable to the : * ae “MEETING IN CHARLOTTE TOWN, PUBLIC Alarge and influential mecting of the Citizens of Charlottetown, was held in the Temperance Hall on Friday evening last, for the purpose of discussing the propriety ofthe Legislature passing a Loan Bill to enable the Government to pay for the lie hands purchased by them, aid yy 2 the drain of mowey from the Colon The question of a bounty to encourage the fish- eries was algo dischgsed. | The mectiay was presided’ over by Fy Brecker, sn who addressed it, and stated that he wou ct most eheertity support ay medsare that would tend to benefit his constituents ait the Island generally, but at the same time he wonkiujake no pledges; ithe was sent to the Legislature he would do thie Dest ho could for them, : C. Palmer, Esq., Hon, Geo, Coles, PW. Hyndajan, Esq., Hon. James Duncan, An S. Carvell, Hsq., and) Mr, Archibald) Me- Neill, also nddvessed the meeting, Mr, Hyndman thought that the present seareity of money was caused by the Gov- ermuekt purchasing public lands, and having to send away a lurge sum of money to moet engagements, Ile was in favor of a Loan being obtained from tho Home Goyernment,- Mr. Duncan said he thought that the purchasing of the Iands had not so much to do with the seareity of money and the hard times, as was stated, Le thought that the lange number of vessels remaining unsold now lying in Great Britain, and the fuct that many merchants had imported a heavy stocks of goods, were more the cause: of it. UY) said he, the times are hard now, What will they be when we go into Con- federation, and when we we heavily j taxed? This last remark brought My. A. Me- Neill to his feet, who, in an’ eloquent speech defended the Confederation Scheme and said he would: avlyays do su even if he stood a unit on the Island. ce Ara recent examination.at Harvard College, Boston, Mass., the livst: prize, gold watch, worth cighty dollars, was awarded to My, Ewen Craneron,of Sea gallantry was witnessed hy Burke, who, stung | 11 Mexican politics, and but a poor opins OPER” it b ae Mirae ein important bitsi- | 1M eerie ior thee TRANS a Shey DRY sine objuchons ag bountias. by encour: | town, We as A se ill ti madness by jealousy, followed her to] ion ot his countrys, On one occasion | 8¢%s Will be brought forward. ‘The Ministry} the farmer for raising this hundred bush-| aging extraordinary dexterity andingenu-| tion. Ve loarn that My. Cameron wi oe Ge MUP anlar ns at aa have already named the gentlemen who are to the ope ‘i i by eae on Heat a {move and second the Addvess in the Lower Ol VME CILY OF NRENICO, JG iLOSC | flouse, the first task devolving pon Lord aud adivessed them as tollows :— }Holisdale. one of the members for West “ Mexicans, you wanta speech from me. | Kent; and the second ugon Mr. 8. R. Graves, Ais, Willard buing hautdito oxaiulmvescitedly, vary well, you will get one, You wish (ite dues maples for Liverpool—an honor * Tom, you aan have the rooin to yourself; 1 that t should Beets Ie tho son of the Aa ce ‘Ti rege ane ae a Melk ROT OnnE have no thought of remaining with you.” | mortal Torrbide, the Hbarator ol Mexloo ea EE ONS ae) While uttering this remark, she opened the} You choose him for Emperor, He was the | 28 Preud. door of the room in a somewhat excited man- | only hone, man ia Mexico, and you shot { Phe Government has resolved not to com- ver, leaving her rejected lover by hinsel ne fn doing this you aeted ke robbers ; bly with tha request made to it in favor of nod proceeded to the cellar for the purpose of} und ¢ ssi s Yuu ure, as you haye al-/ouspension of the regulation. for searching the ebtalning cou, Retuining, she had ascended | ways been, and as you always will be.” | useage of persons returning fram france tathe top of the basement stairs, when a1) The ervow d confounded by these truths, j while he Great Exhibition in DP _Was contronted hy Burke, who, doubtless! did not reply to the speaker, to whom no-| Tho refusal ling given great dissatis sto frenzy by her coldness towards him, | thing Was more xerceable than to bo at a! more s0 us the memort Lin which the request ached her, and levelling a revolver to! distanve {rom his ainiablo and his pative (Vos breferred waa signed by that influential her breast, discharged the contents of one} jand m ,class inthe Stite whose wishes are usually chamber, Notwithstanding the fearful charac-| ) 4" : " { law, tur of the wound, the terrified woman sprang Tho Globe says many of tho St. John) The Court News Mmntorms us that Prince past hor assailant and fled ecreaming to a| Merchants taking the Montreal line of) Arthur has ‘most satistactorily” passed his rear parlor, where lay, upon a bed of sickness, | Steamers for Europe this winter, the Ca-!examination for admission into the Royal a daughter of the landlady. As she entered} Mard Company having raised the rates of! Military Academy at Woolwich, and that he am on se Wie H wed ae sly be-;] assage from £22 to i stg. will enter that institution as a cadet on the hind, aysin discharged lis pistol—this time r A fete ules february. uLdualitiie door which the We he eloued " a pele Hie we ay Hg progene ay a Sir G M Gate: 6) immediately as she passed In, tle ball barely Hersie HOU, ote Uy MAY PALS Ot hoi tad | j aie aiee ae iy ‘ re imissing the body of Mrs. Leeds, who sat Hie ito yince ang still when Nyy seni bt eas iy vaie Ha we ARNG Of aD: watching by tho bedside of her sick child, | #ot & better state of things for St. Stephen | (a as convuauderin-oliel of the North Am- Issuing from the roomis a smaller apartinent, He Oe, Srstuitously inturieting: In omy Te as mets acu probably be one of the cleyerest practition- ors that have graduated in Marvard Col- lege. We wish him success zuullook upon this as iurther evidence of the ability and tulent of the young nen of P, 1, Island, hier residenee. About ten minutes after their ival, Miss Leeds, daughter of the landlady, on prasing the room to which the two had re- paired upon catering, noticed that the couple wore engaged in an animated conve jon, when pr els of potatocs? ‘They get simply one hundred bushels of potatoes, for which they have to pay as high, and perhaps a little higher price, than would be de- manded by the merchant for imported potatoes. ‘The pound paid the farmer for raising them is so much money taken out of their pockets and put into h Besides, there are many ways in which the farmer could employ his time, and many uses to which he could put his land, which would yield him a_ profit oyer and above the capital and labor ex- pended. ‘The country loses besides the bounty, this profit, for we need hardly tell our readers that every shilling’s worth of property acquired by the farmer, the merchant or the mechanic, is so much added to the general wealth of the conn- try. But objects some one, ** Nobody is mad enough to think of paying farmers a bounty on potatoes. ‘The idea is pre- posterous.”” We agree with you, sir, But is it not quite as preposterous to ask ity, they serve to keep up the emulation of th ‘Knen actually employed in’ those ye occupations aud re not con- siderable enot to turn towards any one of them a greater share of the capital of the country than what would go to it of its own accord, Their tendency is not to overturn the natural balance of employ- ments, but to render the work whieh is done in cach as perfect and complete as possible, The expense of premiums, be- siles, is very triflling, that of bounties very great. The bounty upon gorn alone has sometimes cost the public in once year, more than 800,000 pounds.” : {00 Tbs., ta” A large bear, weighing over at Remont was killed, aboutten days sinc ay. ‘The carcase was sold in Sumnrerside last week. ‘The tat on it measured five inches in thickness. Good foed for bears up there, vor Mr. D. Crawrorp will preach in the Christian Meeting House, on Sunday hext, the 17th inst., at LU o'clock, a. m., and 64 p.m, rpm A Granp Somer came off under the auspices of the “ Birch Hill’ Division, on | the evening of the t6th ult. The tex was got up especially forthe purpose of fur-. thering (he cause of Lemperance, and of | i ving friendly feelings between the Sister Divisions and ‘Temples. Alter the company had done justice to the good things prepared for them, the chairman, the Rey. J.D. Murray, called upon the to Tus Rey. Mr. Freeman will preachy (BD. V.) in the Summerside Grammar school, on Sunday next, at 11 ovelock, a. m., and in the Court House at St. Elea- hor’s at 3 o'clock, p.m. oe Line bie thaw of Sunday last has left the fields entirely bare of snow, which will tend much to injure the ass. ‘The roads are very bad, but there is. splendid - oecupicd as x bedrooin, towards which apart- local affairs, holds out the bugbear ofdebt} The Army and Navy Gazette understands GAG Te DUCES OF 4 COUN i Pe Ke) Sareea 4s Rodepasclling onthe ice. Several persons inent the wounded woman continued. hur | Defore our peoplo, jut as if parish muni- | that in the forthcoming pary estimates a aum | bounty to manufacturers OwAP Hidmbers Lsudviben 2] blessing on the meeting, ‘The following |came from Casctiingyvngyerside ‘ flight, and the threshold of which sho had|¢ipalities -cannot incur debt as well as/ Of £10,000 will be taken for “experimental {Ula oxo sthe same in both cases, | gentlemen then briefly addressed the meet- | this week on the ice. principiy $ are ag ‘ ; ARTA MA Lan tits Cli pay purposes,” with a view of testime-+h> > ptt «ting, the choir diseoursing sweet music be- thingeeeded in reaching, when uttering, in af town corporations.—sS¢. Crotx Courier. ce si bs fos if a sn Ing, the choir discoursing swe E Se l\is ane : 5 Ling volco, 0; my Gui, Tn alot! andl tare powers of turreis. 4 esistit Men will be taken from employments LE tian! thre speeches; vizi—Mussts. Mont- ON W edness last, the fast trotting : happy oo i 1 oxiin ie We are pleased to learn that throarh tha peg ete ot ERM ES WV eRL. a ft: which they are carning an independent mae sairbairn, of ( Banner” Diyi- | horse Sweep Stakes,” owned by Mr. sy te Moor and expired, Fora moment} my, . ress i re RS, . e ay gomery and Fairbairn, of Banner? Divi Wtcs ee + echo IN Cyt gas Hay alieaiinyteoin my ataris.of ted aet ) “cable or a hae marine disastora anngimeed on) jivolihood, and increasing the wealth] ion. Rey. Allan Fraser Benj. Rogers andj John Smith, of this place, trotted a mile . hétac, Coo. = a * one | Cvs aaog., Lhe New cabielthe Lith ult. were the losses pants hi 4 ¥ EOI CALe a mane " ey yy fl Oy. i i i sere sympathetic, 6005 Beaman eel sunken 1s e ere the losses of tho Ane of the country, to engage in a business | J, Forsyth, Esqrs., of & Pionver” Di ision; | i three minutes and three seconds, on the ‘oss the Strait of C anso has Tiger, wading between Liverpool and Irene ees * dye he = ‘ 4 earaie tile ne been sne- c Me i 3 aa Ge | vA) foo! '@ « that with practice he would dic When aia HEE aS ‘ ai cessfully nid. Tt stretches between Auld’s | ports, with, it is feared, all hands, and the! in which they cannot make a living with-| Mr. Wim, Ills, of ** Forest” Division iB ‘i My Sie hat with pees. Wey over NISQOO ss oa when he returned to the young lady'y | Cove and Plaister Core, and is the third| American ship Vhomas Mwaphreys, which! out drawing upon the general resources | Mr. N. Huestis, of Birch THY Diy hee ] every faculty and again drawing his ravolver, placed cable that has been Iaid in the Strait. ef! sailed trom the Mersey for New York some} of the country. ‘There will be more Lhe inusie and the addresses jWarolyory | far Lun Patriot of the 9th inst. con- Jaughing 11 ieee to. his own head and. discharged a | Canso, tha tive former having been des-|days before. The former was wrecked off anonnenc Tho the Gountes, bub fewer good, and Sry evening Shades tains 4 nunie rously signed sn b--keno bullet through his right temple, When. dis-|treyed by vessels’s anchors. It is to be; He coast of Cornwall, and the latter off the Buanera, davis Inuorene) antl: moclianion: oft vory pleasantly ‘without the aid: of! yiting T. Dodd, Esq, to become caannclic ate hoped tie one just laid will not meet with | Corstof Angles, Nine of to crew af the) AUNTS» oe Se H wine,”—Con, at the approaching election, for Charlotte- covered, although unconscious he was not dead, and lived to be borne by the police to St. Luke's Hospital, where he died after the lapse of one hour from the time he fired the fatal shot. SEAL FISHING OFF NEWFOUNDLAND. A tleet of three or four hundred vessels, chiefly brigs, go out every spring about the fivet of March from St. John’s N. F., to on age in the business of catching s The tield of operation the flouting ice that comes down from the North at thut season. ‘The men advance upon the fiells of ice in couples -—s30 that one may assiot the other in case of necident. Thoy keep to the leesrard of the ship, else they might loose ler, as indeed sometimes happens in the dense fogs. About the 7th of March the young seals are found about the size'of cats, mewing on the ice. They are not yet fit to bo taken, but hy lying in the sun and sucking the ice until about the middle of March they gain three inches of fat. Then commences the slaughter. The men walk up to the white coats—as the young seals are then called—and knock them over, by striking thein on the forehead with a long pole, stick them with a knife, cut them down the breast, and the carcass rolls out, leaving the skin and fat which are all the seal-catcher is after, the earcaes being lett on the ice —Usually in about the last week in March the seals begin to dip, they take to the water, and are then only to be Gaptured by shooting trom the boats. Old seals are invulnerable unless shot in the forehead, and nature has provided them with a means of defence, even here, in the shapo of a “hood,” which they drop on occasion—hence their name, ‘fold hoods.” So the season of catching them ia about three weeks duration. ‘Then men ofien go five or tix miles fromthe ship on the floating te They get one half they catch, sometinies mak- ing » good trip, at other times muking nothing. One spring « crew that were out three weeks and three days, shared $135 apiece. A brig oF 150 tons will take asa crew about forty mon, who are provided by the merchant fit- ting ont tho vessel with a full supply of pro- visions, and all things necessary for the pro- sccation of the voyage, in return for which each man pays a small sum, called “berth Tonoy;” and should the voyage prove unfor- tunate, the merchant has to stud the loss of tho entire outit. It is adangerous ovcuna- tion, for the brigs are liable to he crusted in the ice, though they are strongly built. The fatof the seal, after being brought into port. 49 cut into small pieces, placed in large vats, and loft to drain off to oil, which is an article of oommerco. The skins are used for vari- ons purposes.—Zreiange. The total loss by fires in the United States daring tho year 1866 is estimated nt 866,410,000 agaiust 822,139,000 im 1864, Sa, 2 and the loss in ten years, from 1846 to 1806 43 set down at $280,988,000. E.ection or PAntsn Orricens 1s Crat- wam.—On New Your's day the rate-payers of Chatham met for the purpose of clvct- ing Parish Officers for the’ ensuing year; but it appears from tho Gleaner's remarks, that the first work of the meeting was to inaugerate n row, which was carried fo muoh a pitch thatthe Lown Clerk and a fow of the well disposed parties vetived and broke up the meeting, leaving the task of appointyy the officers, ip the bands of the ‘oultg Sessions.—Globe. American ship perished. a Lieutenant Brand, the young fellow who wrote Mr, Charles Buxton such ollunsive and insulting letters from Jamuiea, has been re- called, and is now in Bngland. When he ad- such accidents.—“, Chronicle. A large number af the working classes in Liverpool, G. B., are al present in great distress, Tha Central Relief Committee ling veported that thera aro ut prosont mitted. tho authenticity of these rash and Ste Wag ae Heaypenn 9 seen i foolish communi ions, Sir John Pakington and 10,000 men implies the probably three find no alternative but to mark is sense of times that nureber of persons are at pros the outrage which had been committed on a sent without the ordinary means of subsis-} member of the House of Commons, Lieut, tence. Appeals are being made to the; Brand has thus blasted, by his own act, all publie for aid, and the local benevolent! chance of professional promotion, Ie is not socielics ave organising means ol relief—}to be tried by court-martial, but retires feom active serviee on a pension-of £125 — not you ex {® harsh punishment after atl, and yet ' Wants plenge to Fe ere Cane (sutnetently strong to prevent other ineon- DANnNih eotads Srepbny age MRTG ae Cady i Lea Lua a ty AE ¥ Al tample. destroyed by fire on Saturday Jast. OF 2 : ; ; ra this sum 8360 have been paid to him, and The steamship Le Plata. just arrived if the remainder will be handed over as soon | Ongland trom the West Indies, Ins had uA as collected. Suveral parties in’ New Peet a ee al on it ee 1 Glasgow with whom Mr, Dunham lind | oors eae ete MOMUOE: Revers been dealing, and to whom he was indebt- ae ed at the time of the calamity, genorously | Its not long sinee the American war ter- scored off the sums on their books Mr. (minated, and cotton in lirgely inercased quan- Duncan Ross received contributions at Al; tities foundits way to Boglind; but, short as bion Mines to the amount of $22,12§.—Jb. | the Une is, thas been sutiiciont to glut the market with manufactured goods, which is . At Pen meeting, held recently in| producing itsnataral consequence in the work- New York, to denounce Stephens, thejing of short time and the reductionin the chairman said that great Anni and yobs wapel of the operatives. ‘The eotton manu- bery had been perpetrated upon the Irish facturers, in this condition of things, have people for the last four or five years—frauds | found it neo 'y to reduce wages to five per the most gigantic What had ever oecurred | ¢eht., and, seeing no remedy, the workmen since the creation of the world. have Accepted the alternative.—There was a " ) ey ve | meeting of delegates at Blackburn on the 13th, The Pope is pr inting at the Propaganda | when the evil of over-production was debated, afie smile of the famous, manuscript of} and it was resolved to agitate for a limitation the Greek Ha ae Msp which is tet factory labor to nine hours for five days in more ancient than that of Mount Sinai’ he week, and six hours on Saturday. ‘The The fac smile ts to compete with the Bible | truck is, that machinery has been so improved, of Tischendoriff, and the Holy Father in-j and its increase in the country so great, that, tends to send it to the Paris Exhibition. with an adequate supply of cotton to work on The Herald's spocial Washington des- Anat a Nhe We Gur ane Ane rekon patch aie tho. Judiciary Committee 18) state of things is the more remarkably when daily taking tostimony in the idinpeachment | ie i. remembered that a couple of yenrs. ayo case, and one of the: members said that) the markets of the world were all bare. Surratt will be brought before them as 2 witness as to President Jolinson’s com- plivity with the assassination of Mc. Lin- coln. ; A Washington despatch says that on the 25tD inst., the United States Senate work- hours in Committee of the whole on wious Amendments proposed to. the bill by differcut Senators, and the ¢ several lively discussions. No Sen-| ator advocated free trade, and all of the} speakers admitted the propriety of framing | arevenue tail! which should incidentally protect such branches of American indus- About one thousand of the Freneh troops have arrived from Mexico, and a telegram from Trieste gives a glowing account of the prospects of the Emperor Maximilian in the country which he still hopes to govern. It is declared that he has become so) populir that, if a yote were taken on the subject, the dec- laration of the people wonld be for the Bin- pire. ‘This is evidently not the feeling of the Emperor of the French, who has given up the Empire as hopeless, and is ansious to wash his bands of the share he had in erecting it. The Rastern question is still giving uncasi- ness to the diplomuatists, as the relations be- uy as need the fostering aid of the govern-| tween Greece and ‘Turkey are growing more ment, But on questions of detail thore!) and more unitiendly. It is now as rted that was a wide difference of opinion, and the ptle latter is preparing n great armed force, Senators, to use the words of Mr, Grimos, | With the AL ea wey to te disagree as to how mueh money shall be |S" from interference between the Christian * . subjec! » Porto heir or. tuken from the pocket of Peter to support jesce oF oneal Aha dh The French Government is said to be very and enrich his brother Paul. New Eng ; ; y land interests were not especially cared for | AN81OMS to bring ubout the mecting of a con- Hk oe sane . aM Met ea he | the apprehension of arefusal renders itaverse Cape Bituminous coal, on W hich ie ito tuking upon its own shoulders the burden comnittes recommended filty cents per lof a proposal ton, to please the Maryland and Peunsy1- Ta Fi i bls areoel Auer sania niluing interests. _ La France publishes a harrowing descrip- MOM As tion of prevailing distressin Ttily, In Venice In thousands of eases, Mrs. Winslow's | 80,000 out of 110,000 inhabitants are recciving Soothing Syrup, for all diseases with which {relief from public charity. sip has com- children are afflicted, such as teething, griping | menced at Verona, In Sardinia tho peasants in the howele, wind colic, &e., has Veen used )are reduced to the necessity of eating herbs with perfect and never-failing success in thdfi- fant roots like wild beasts. The Unt Cat- Sanda of eases. It softens the gums, reduces | folica characterises the present situation as ference respeetiug the Eastern question, but While these men pursued the avoca- tions from which they were drawn by the bounty policy, they paid money into the reyenue, and none of them were a burden on the community, but when they became fishermen, a certain number of them became pensioners on the public bounty, as completely as if the eharity of the community were their only means of support, It would, by no means, fol- low that fish would be any cheaper in the country if a bounty were paid on every barrel or on every quintal caught. ‘The recipients of bounties do not calculate upon any lowering of the price, for then they would lose on the price of the fish what they had gained as bounty, and they would consequently not be bene- fitted by the aid given them by the State. ‘The laws of supply and demand would regulate the price then asnow. — If there were a large number of unemployed men in the country, for whom no work could be found, we do not know but that it would be « good plan for the State, since it would be obliged to support them in any case, té send them a fishing rather than to allow them to live in idleness; but as long as every young man in the Island ean find work cnough to do, we think it very bad policy in the government to sct them to work ata job that wont pay without public assistance. ‘The working man would not pocket any of the bounty, the whole of it would go into the hands of the dealer in fish. If he worked for half his hand, he would be obliged to sell his fish to the merchant, who would take good care to pay him as low a price as possible for them, If the bounty took the shape of a tonnage, the fitter out of the vessel would receive every farthing of it—if'a bounty were paid on the fish exported, then the whole of it would go into the pocket ef the exporter ; in either case the actual catcher of the fish would not be in the slightest degree bencfitted. The fallacy that lies at the root of this policy of bounties is, that what is apparently advantagcous @one ‘lass of men, is advantageous to all s. If a prohibitive duty were put upon axes, and if no one could purchase an axe for less than fifteen shillings, the blacksmiths of the Island no doubt would think the duty a capital one, but the axe using part of the community would, we opine, entertain quite a different opinion. It must be always borne in mind™that governors should legislate for the beftclit of the many, and not for the advantage of the tow. Free trader though we be, we think that the aid of the state can be extended to untried branches of industry with considerable advantage to the com- munity in general, but we wotfd’ not continue that aid one day longe® than would be necessary to decide the success or nonesuccess of the experiment. Wo ‘iadamation and allays all pain, Mothers, do fa IY is ‘hungary’ from the Alps to the _ abt fail to procure it. _ Adriatic.” would, for instance, by direct pecuniary nn ret ee We leara that a contract for provid- ing the New Brunswick Government, or rather the Railway Conmissioners with thirty-five thousand sleepers, containing one 1,179,000 fect of Hacmatae and Pine, to replace the decayed sleepers on the HE. & N. A. Railway, has been taken by Archd. MeKay, Esq., of Moncton, He has alse secured the contract for constructing 50 miles of fencing—that 26 miles on each side of the road—between Moncton and Shediae, which will require sixty thousand fence poles. Mr. McKay is an Tslander and well known lo the shipbuilders of this locality. By dint of perseverance and enterpr has attained his present not unenviabe position, Ife has undertaken some of the heaviest contracts of the EL. & N. A. Rail- road, and is the party who performed the contract of building the imimense ware- house of O yen Connolly, Esq., Charlotte- town. Ilis card ean be seen in another column, cers Who addressed the Charlottetown last Ox of the publig imeetug in Friday eyening, on the subject of a loun, sf sitid the best way to get it was to AGir ! AqitarTk! AGrrars! Wetully agree with him, and we intend to aqreat AGITATE ! aqivate! fora better mail arrangement in the Western part of this Island. We want a mail direct from Summerside to New London, to Freetown, Bedeque, and to Cape Traverse. We want a mail bag made up in Summerside for Cirupdelton, KLot 4, one for Miminigash, and a Post ONice at Gavin's, Bloomfield, and not have the Postman obliged to earry papers out- side of the mail bag. "There are a umber of places to the Westward where Way Offices should be kept. In settlements which we could name, where there over twenly fiunilies, there is no post offic accommodation rer thanAten mile, The consequence is that newspapers are sometimes three weeks old or more before they can get them, : We copy the following from the S¢. Croix Herald, every word of which is appropriate to the rural disttiets of this Island :— “We who arein the habit of hearing daily by means ot the telegraph what is transpiring in the Old Worldas well asthe New, can scarcely conceive in its fullest measure the hardship of being shut out as it were from the world in this way, We maintain that the hardy industrious tar- mers who go and settle in the woods, re- claiming the forest from the wild beast and make it the abode of civilization are the real bone and sinew of the country, They are the germ ofa country’s prosperity, and as suck wre entitled not only to special protection but to all the facilities it is in the power of the Government to bestow. Cortainly the very least they can expect is postal aecommodation once a& week, 80 that in the midst of their pérsevering toil they may know what is passing inthe out+ Ride world. Tho extra’ expense to the country isa mere bagatelle and not worth mentioning. The settlers necd not ask this as a boon, it is their priveloge to de- manmLit asa right, and no Government is town & Royalty. The Hon, Daniel Davies hag expressed a desire that he should not be again phieed in nomination, andas Mr. Dodd has accepted the invitation tendered him, he is now before the public as a Candidate with Mr, Brecken, Mr. Dodd is a mereantile man, and we believe will make a good representative if the electors see fit to confide their trust in him, We copy the following highly im- portant despatch from the Royal Gazelle, of the.7th instant. We recommend our readers to peruse it very attentively. ‘The Union of the Colonies, is by far the most important question ever submitted to the decision of the people of British Ame- rica, and every man in the community should endeavor to make himself master of the subject. It is only by pursuing such a course, that’ the people of any Colony can come to any rational decision in the matter :— DowninG Siren, 19th Janunry, 1867. Sir— : The negotiations respecting the proposed Confederation of the British North American Proyinees have reached a point at which L think it right that yon should be generally apprised of the modo in which that proposal is viewed by Her Majesty’s Government. ‘They are not unaware of the difficulties which must attend any attempt to consolidate in one body politic, a variety of Provinces whose habits, laws, and interests must be, in many respects, different, and in some perhaps not whooly compatible. By fir the most important part of those difflculties has been removed in the present instance by the wise and loyal foresight of the public men of Lower Canada, who, in their treatment of this subject, have shown thensclyes able to reconcile a manly support of Cheir hereditary entstonis®and Insti- tutions with a generous confidence in the jus- tice and tricudly feeling oftheir nore mumer- ous fellow subjects of British origin The questions which remain in controversy willbe approached by her Majesty's Government witht anxious and cereful attention, butyl niust add, in no spirit of indifference. ‘That in tinue of war and tumult the armed force of British North America should be one, under one Supreme Command—that in time of peace, their commerce, their post, their ureat lines of communication, and, with due reward to local use, their civil and criminal jurisprudence, should be governed by the sme rules; that an extended public opinion should be brought to bear on the settlement of narrow local controversigs, and that the most important mfairs of British North Ameri- ea should be adminstered by a combination of the @blest men whom it can furnish—these benefits appear to me so indisputable, so per- yading, and so permanent in their character, that 1 should be wanting to my duty if 1 did not express to you, and through you to the community over whieh you preside, my earnest hope that no trifling obstacle will be allowed to interfere with their full attainment. As my objoct ia not to express jany opinion on the details of this meastre, but to give to the principle on which itis founded, thatfrant support which Iler Majesty's Government con- sider to. be duo from them, I shall oly add, that you are abet) riberty to conimunicate this despatch to your xecutive Councile 3 I have, &ey &e., &e., © ) (signed) ~~ 7 CARNARVON, Lient. Govérnot Dundas, races & ke. ht, jad, encourage the culture of flax on the - e « * . ¥ . justified in withholding it fron them,” ‘ .