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DISCUSSION AT THE SOUTIL

A Heracer-Rexpine Episopr.—The Lon-!
don Nerang Herald's military correspon-
dent gives the tollowing story :— |

| A farmer, living in a hamlet near,
Possnitz, had a wife and two children, and |

We copy the following article from a/ such was the wonan’s terror of the Pros:

Northern paper—arpers’ Weebly, The
discriminating reader will be able from it
to form a pretty correct idea of the state
@. aTgirs jn the Southipa States iw

* The deprecation of political debate in
the last rebel States is simply silly. Those
States aro to be organized by equal suf
rage. A large part of the voters are newly
entranchised wad were lately slaves. ‘Lhe
old master class can not see with patience
the sudden elevation of the sk which
43 coincident with its own humiliation and
defeat in the field, The freedmen can not
at once huve all the moderation and wis-
dom of ahighly-civilized people accustom-
ed to self-government, But the Situation
is nevertheless simple. ‘The whole popu-
lation of the South is to be educated to
political power by possessing it. ‘They
are to become accustomed as soon as prac-
ticable to all the processes of a tree popular
farses, They are not to be arbitrar-

Hy trained or moulded or whittled into
shape. People can never learn to swim
until they jump into the water, ‘Phere is
no political education like political prac-
tice,

Now the first condition of political edu-
cation is pertect treedom of speech. Every
citizen is to say what he thinks, and why
he thinks it, whenever he can get any body
tohearhim. If he says it foolishly, so
much the worse for his opinion, Heé will
make no converts; he will repel them.
But other people have no right to be bru-
tal because he is angry or extrayagant.
They may go out ot hearing, but they
must not close his mouth. If he knows
his audience to be peculiarly sensitive or
excited, a judicious speaker will govern
himself accordingly. But if he be injudi-
eious his rights are precisely the same, and
the duty of the Government to protect him
is imperative. Our popular system does
Dot suppose every man to be wise.

The Southern States are as wholly un-
used to the spirit and the forms of a free
government as Du Chailu’s Ashango Land.

There has never been any freedom of

speech in that part of the country or any
tolerations of differing opinions upon the
most vital questions, ‘The word liberty
in its simple, broad sense has been utterly
unmeaning. Free speceh, and thereby a
popular government, can be established
there only by a force whose mere presence
will keep the peace. And with such a
force at hand the true course is to encour-
age men of every opinion to stump the
whole region and advocate their views.
We hope they may be discreet men, but
that we can not bargain for. Lf we ask
them not to go, in the hope that at some
indefinite future time there may be a
naie pacific moment and a ter wil-
lingness to hear, we forget ee peace-
able time is in the result of this yery frank
discussion, and that in postponing the de-
bate we postpone the peace. It is by
education, by enlightenment of every kind
that the temper of the disturbed section is
to be moderated, We canno more escape
the agitation than the disturbed electrical
condition of the atmosphere and the earth
can adjust itself without a thunder-storm.

It would, indeed, be extremely untair if
one side only were allow ed to speak; and
it is alleged that the Republicans alone are
alowed to say what they like in any manner
they choose, Lhe charge is totally untrue.
Wade Hampton has exactly the same free-
dom that Henry Wilson has, and Governor
Orr may speak as plainly as Judge Kelley.
Probably while the States are under mili-
tary rule none of these speakers would be
allowed to urge resistance to the Goyern-
ment. But the restriction would be im-
parti, It would silence Mr. Wilson as
well as Mr. Hampton.

For ourselyes we confess yee true

lan seeins to be to have a fope which
secures order, and then to let ev 'y tongue
wag at its will, Everybody feels better
when he has expressed himself, and a
great many listeners smile to discover
what v small matter it was. In no other
way than by absolute freedom of speech
will the people of the disturbed States
ever be politically educated, or the region
become sufliciently tranquil to allow the
withdrawal of the troops.”

CURIOSITIES OF THE PARIS EX-
POSITION,

The most attractive curiosities of the
French department of the Paris Exposition
isa newly-invented cravet pin. Hvery-
body has seen how bells are vungin all the
new hotels. Instead of pulling the bell
and making it ring by an exertion of me-
chanical force, we press & small button in
the wall; this is connected by an elec
wire with a lite alarm, the clappe
which keeps on jingling so long a
Joutton is pressed. Lilt the handy;
button, and the alarm ceases,
ciple a trench jeweller has adopted
cravat pins, The knob of the pin is of
various devices. It is a hare with atabor,
ora dyummer with his drum, ora death's
head with 2 loose under jaw, or a dog.
Whoever chooses to wear such a pin has
connected with it by «a wire a small elec-
trical battery in one of his pockets. He
puts his haud into his pocket, touches a
Lution there, and off goes the pin. ‘The
hare begins to patter on the tabor, the
drummer to beat on his drum, the death's
head to chatter and roll its horrid eyes, or
the dog to bark andsnap. When the hand
is lifted from the button, instantly all be-
comes quict.

In the British department a curious swan
attracts great attention. When we ap-

roach the bird we see him floating as if
in water, and resting his head behi..d his
wings. He is wound up, and he begins
to raise his head with ule rope motions
of the swan, He curves his neck in pride;
he espics some fish in the water before
him; be lowers his head to seize one; he
holds it in his beak for an instant; he then
swallows it, and, last ofall, returns grace-
fully to rest. ‘The uetion is yery pre
and calls forth loud applause. The bird,
however, is indeed very old, though his
plumage may be new, Its mechanism
was supposed to have been constructed by
a Mr. Weeks, who lived in the reign ot
Georgo IIL; but.it was lately discovirsd
that it formed part of the musuem of Mr.
Cox, a London jeivéller, who lived in the
reign of George IL., and whose collection
must have been of some importance, ashe
obtained an act of parliament to enable

him to dispose of it bya. Mr. Harry
Pmanuel has put tle clock work mechan-
jsm in order; and has given tho bird a new

and beautiful silver plumage ; but this is

all he had to do with the invention of the
toy, which proves so attractive to the mul-
titude, and which really seems to eclipse
all else in ite neighborhood.

A Minnesota man relized from his wheat
last year moré than twice the amount
for his farm the year before,

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‘shins, when she heard tacy were coming, |
jthat her husband, to satisty her, placed
‘her in an underground cellar with her two
‘title ones, and built up the doorway, leav-
ing some food inside. The Prussians en-
| tered the place, and among others, obliged
this poor man to accompany them, h
his horse and cart, for a day's journey,
they said. Butthe mau was brought on
from place to place, and at last, when he
Was suffered to return and reached his
own house, several days had elapsed. On
his way back he began to ealeulate how
little food he had leit with his wite and
children; and horror-stricken at the dread-
tul idea that their might not be heard,
his hair is said to have turned white on his
homeward journey, Lis tears were but
too real. He tore down the masonry,
searched for those so dear to him, but only
found three fifeless bodies halt devoured
by the rats. Reason left him atthe sight,
and he is now in the hospital a lunatic.”

SUM

ANTER-COLONIAL TRADE INCREASING.—
The product of the Charlottetown tanner:
ies has met with ready sale in Canada at
remuneratiye rates ; the Canadians are pur-
chasing leather in Ealitax also. ‘Lhe other
day a Ualifax merchant received an order
trom Canada for a thousand sides, at the
market price, and intimations have been
received from Canada that several orders,
equally as large, will be forwarded to Hali-
fix in course of a few weeks. Nova Sco-
tin coal is beginning to figure largely
among the imports of Canada, and the
Cape Breton Coal Mining Company has
opened agencies in Toronto and Moutreal
for the sale of its products. Our Ialilax
exchange tells us that ** there is a prospect
that this as well as other coal companies,
will do a large business with Canada, to
the advantage and benefit of all parties
concerned, —Siuce the establishment of the
Portland line of steamers trade between
Nova Scotia and Canada has largely in-
creased, and doubtless there will soon be
other channels for the profitable exchange
of commodities with all the Provinces
comprising the Confederation.”

In a certain school in Springfield, Mass.,
the lady teacher, a few days since, had
oceasion to punish a little boy for using
profane Iinguage. There being a knot
hole in the floor she conceived the idea to
make him think he had to stand near by
with a pair of tongs and watch until he
edught a rat that should come up trom be-
low. Stationing him, she gave strict in-
structions to remain until he accomplished
the feat; calculating, of course, atter he
had stood there a couple of hours, to: send
him to his seat. Judge of his surprise,
when two minutes after he fastened the
tongs to a genuine Jive fellow of the rat
kind, with enormous whiskers and tail,
and holding him up exclaimed By jingo
Pye caught him.”

The New York Times, lamenting over
the recent commercial legislation of the
United States, says: ‘* The abrogation of
the reciprocity treaty has increased trade
between Nova Scotia and Can and
there are now éwe lines of steamers estab-
lished between Quebee and Halitax, and a
line is to be put on between Quebee and
Pictou, Formerly Noya Scotia received
about 800,000 bbls. of flower per annum
from the United States, and 6,000 to 7,000
from Canada. Now the receipts are tra-
versed, and about 7,000 barrels are taken
from the United States and 200,000 from
Canada

A California story tells of a man who
resolved to quit drinking, and went to a
notary to get him to deaw up an allidayit
to thit effect. The document was drawn,
read and approved; the party held up his
hand and murmured the usual *ts’elp me.”
It was properly sealed and delivered,
“What's to pay?” asked the pledger,
“To pay—to pay,” exchiimed the party;
‘‘nothing of course—this is a iabor ot
love.”"—" Nothing to pay?” returned the
grateful but very fargettul afiant.  ' You
‘re abrick, Lets take a drink!” The
smile died from off the pleasant fice of the
notary, and he pointed with a look of aw-
tul meaning to the lately affixed signature
of his inviter, That forgetful individual
appeared conscience-stricken, humbly ap-
vlogised and left the office.

A New Bank For Sr, Joun.—As it were
almost spontancous movement on the part
of our merchants and leading men of busi-
ness, it has heen agreed to ask the Legis-
lature for an Act of Incorporation to a
Banking Company with a capital of $500,-
000, with power to increase to $1,000,000,
A petition with this object in view signed
by the names of many influential persons,
will be immediately forwarded to the Leg-
islature; and there is no doubt that the
prayer of the petition will be at once com-
plied with, The organization of the com-
pany will follow immediately. — Globe,

The Hamilton (C.W.) Times, says the

| fumous trotting horse Melton, the pride of

the Canadian turf, has been sold to leave
the province for the round sum of $8400
in gold, The purchaser is a lady of sport-
ing proctivities, residing at Kalamazoo,
Michigan, who is also the owner of the
American trotting horse Gray Eagle.

Advices from ‘Tahill, to May 5th, report
the loss of the Missionary bark John Wil-
liams, on Savage Island; May 8th, also the
total loss of the ship Christopher Hall, upon
Navigator's Island,

The Emperor Napoleon completed his
59th year on the 20th ult.

Tue Famiry Newsrarrr.—Dr. Franklin
rema that a man as olten gets two
dollars for the one he spends in forming
his mind, as he does for a dollar he lays
out inany other way, A man cats a pound
of sugar and itis gone, and the pleasure
he has enjoyed is ended, but the informa-
tion he gets from a newspaper is treasur-
ed up to be enjoyed anew, and to be used
wheney sion or inclination calls for
it. A newspaper is not the wisdom of one
man or two men; itis the wisdoin of the
age, and of past ages, too, A family with-
out a newspaper is always @ year behina
the times in general information ; besides,
they can never think much nor find much
to think about, And then there are the
1 étle ones growirg up without any taste
for reading. Who, then, would be with-
out a newspaper—such as the Summerside
Journa-—ind who would read it regularly
without paying for it, when it is only one
dollar n year?

The fire at Idaho City, May 17th, des-
troyed 542 heuses, including the Post Of-
fice and the Express Office. Loss estimated
at $1,000,000. A larger portion of the
town was laid waste thun by the fire of
1865.

‘The astern Express forwards its own par-
eels between Monct nand Amherst by its own
Express team and messengers, the better to
ensure rapid and safe transportation of valu-
ale pickages. There is quite a large busi-
ness done on that line,

stbieanieaiiaiibcantidia

ANOTHER SUCCK
ISLANDER.

Ir is with great pleasure that we give inser-
tion to the following essay delivered by Mr.
J. HU. Bell, ofthis Island, at the Terminal Ex-
amination of Albert College, Canada, Mr,
Bell is a very young man and a still younger
writer. First attempts are seldom worth
noticing publicly. In nine cases out of ten,
in kindness to their authors, the best thing
that can be done with them is to consign them
to the waste basket. But this essay of Mr,
Bell's is an exception to the general rule.
We have seldom read any first production
which gave such promise of future excellence,
We are very much mistaken if its author do
not prove both an able and an elegant writer,
Itis to usa pleasing task to record the sue-
cesses of our Island youth in foreign lands.
We have no doubt but that Mr. Bell will
maintain the credit of his native country
abroad, and demonstrate to the Canadians
that this Island can produce as good men as
ure to be found on the fice of the broad
earth :—

“Tho world is in progress. Ttis interesting
tocompare the past with the present,and to
contrast the condition of the ancients with
that of the moderns, that we may the more
easily understand that the motto of our world
has been ** Onward.” Our earth has not been
six thousand years in existence for naught.
Her life has been a continual struggle, and
the resultof that struggle has been a con-
tinued success. She has nurtured her children
with a parent’s care, and their present ad-
yancement is the reward of her industry,
‘The ancient barbarian, with his cloak of skins
and his food of herbs, is the enlightened in-
habitant of Purope to-day; and the litte bark
canoe, impelled by a single paddle, is not
the representative ot a nation’s commerce,
Theretore the world is in progress.

‘Two hundred years ago, and whit was Cana-
da? Where then were her thriving villages
and her industrious population,—her smiling
fields and extended commerce? Ask the red
Indian, as he pursues the beasts of the chase
among those trackless wilds. Ask the forest,
which once ruledtriumphant, with unmolested
grandeur. Ask the blustering winds and
brawling waves, which mingle their complaints
around our silent shores. hese ure they
alone who beheld the childhood of our national
existence, and witnessed the advent ot the
sturdy pioneer, But Canada has progressed
since then, ‘The Indian has given way to the
representative of a nobler and superior race;
the primitive forest has been cleared, and the
scene once so quietin its desolation, similes
with golden harvest; the wigwain of the sa-
vage has been supplanted by the bome of the
civilized white man; our lakes are covered
with the spvils of commerce,—that com-
merce which enriches both him who gives
and him who receives, and by its pulsations
keeps a healthy life in the great social system;
science and art have awakened and clothed
our land with their varied beauties; the tem-
ples of religion and institutions of learning
rear their lotty fronts on every hand; and the
success ef this our own beloved institution—
round which may prosperity never cease to
shine—is but another added to the many
thousands of proofs that the present age of
Canada is progressive.

And now, in our countey’s march of im-
provement, she has just entered upon a new
phase of existence; a complete change -of
goyernment has been affected, and yet how
silent has been thit chinge. Yet that change
we are apt to underestimate because it lias not
been forced upon our attention by the strites
of party fiction, or impressed by the terrors
of the battlefield. But those changes are not
the grandest which ure the most conclusive.
In the physical world the earthquake and the
volcano are not the sublimest of nature's eft-
orts What is more sublime than the gradual
transition from darkness to day, yet how few
admire the dawning of eastern light, or watch
with interest the sunbeams, stealing their
noiscless march across the face of na
ture. Important political changes have
recently takey place on the continent of Eu-
rope, but they have been darkened by the
sulphorous smoke of Sadowa. The negrovs
of the Southern Stites have been eman-
cipated, but the great republic of America
has been deluged with the blood of her noblest
sons. Butitis the glory and boast of the
British Constitution that it admits of changes,
calm in their commencement, silent in’ their
operation, and glorious in their results; and
where may we look fora more striking proof
of these assertions than in’ the consolidation
of the British North American Provinces?
We are now a unit in the sum of nations, an
actor, and a competitor for the world's history.
Our success for the past has been great, our
present condition is prosperous, and whether
we reason from the present or deduce an dosies
from the past, all point the insigfcant finger
of prophecy to a happy fature. It is true, the
horizon of our prosperity may soon be darken-
ed by the shadows of foes alike to our religion
and our country. Yet while we may rely with
implicit confidence that those shadows will be
quickly dispelled by the rising of the glorious
eaistern sun of our fatherland, may we never
forget that we are Englishmen, and as such
that our hearts should respond to the senti-
ment, which inspired the heroes of Trafalgar,
‘England expects every man todo his duty,”

A chemist of Marseilles has invented a kind
of Greek fire by which he imagines he can
successfully oppose the needle gun. In a
letter to the Progress of Lyons, he describes
this remuarkaole composition as follows:
“To give an idea of the efficacy of my dis-
covery I declare, and am ready to prove, that
L can, at a distance of 1000 metres, envelop
anarmy of 100,000 men ina sea of flame
within five minutes, Ifa town is to be taken
by assault I have no need of a Rotopachine,
as LT can setiton fire in very nearly the same
period. Ina naval battle T would run into
the enemy, and in fifteen seconds cover all
the deck of the vessel with a torrent of flame
which would burn the rigging, penetrate be-
tween the decks, and instantaneously stifle all
the crew. In an attack on a seaport I could
burn the town anid arsenals within range with
the rapidity of lightning. With such a means
ho war is possible, as neither victors or yan-
quished would return from the ficld of battle.
As to the fortress of Luxemburg, the subject
of dispute at the present moment, I undertake
to rid it of its garrison ina quarter of an hour.”

Such an invention would infallibly stop all
war.

AAA Rea

Newspapers just received from Rio Janeiro
give the details of the great scheme of eman-
cipation in Brazil. It is provided it seems,
that slavery shall wholly cease in thirty-three
years; that from the promulgation of the de-
cree all children born to slaves shall be free ;
that compensation ata fixed rate shall be made
to slave-owners; and that a certain number of
slaves shall be freed annually hereafter, ‘so
‘that few may be in bondage when the hour
‘of general emancipation is at hand,”

‘The Emperor Napoleon witnessed some in-
teresting experiments May 6 at Vincennes
with the Chassepot rifles. A regiment was
placed 600 yards from the mark. After pre-
cisely two minutes firing it was found that the
battallion of 500 men had fired 8000 balls, and
1992 had struck the line of object aimed at.
Not a blade of grass was Jeft in front of the
mark. ‘The Emperor, it is said, exclaimed,
‘Tt is frightful, itis positive massacre.” The
recoil of the gun is represented as insignifi-
cant.

The Now York Evening Post*gives a rather
dismal picture of the condition of the finances
of New York. The State owes fitty millions,
the counties seventy-five, and the city forty
more. ‘Taxation is now at the rate of $27.50

for every man, woman arid childin the State.

Gorresponden

ce,

For the Journal,

Ma. Eorror On the morning of the 24th
inst., we bade adieu to a few friends in the city
of Charlottetown, and stepped on board the
* Princess of Wales,” and ina few hours more
we were at the Wharf in Summerside, Char-
lottetown presents rather a nice appearance
from the water, and made us think, as we
sailed down the Harbor, that it was * beautiful
for situation.” The land around Charlotte-
town, and also all along the coast, has a pretty
appearance, and gives evidence that quiet and
content were enjoyed by those who occupy the
farins which we sailed past,which bore marks,
as we thought, of taste and industry. The
coast is nicely undulating; but there is an ab-
sence of towering heights, soaring high in
heaven’s blue air; and we did hope that al!
were enjoying the same calm, unruffled and
unpretending quiet, that the blue water, and
the whole of the coast, presented to our view
on that pleasant day.

The city of Charlottetown is increasing in
wealth and importance every year. There
are several small factories in the Town drive:
by steam, We had but time to visit one of
these, viz., that of Mr. Dawson, who very
kindly took us through hisestablishment. The
sales of that establishment amount to, it has
been said, £20,000 a year, and we believe the
statement is correct. Mr. Dawson sends
large quantities of Upper Leather to Canada,
where he finds a ready sale at remunerative
prices, and we believe he finds in his wares a
strong inducement for confederation. Every
part of his large establishment that requires
it, is heated by steam pipes supplied from the
Steam Boiler, which drives the engine. In
this arrangement, economy and safety from
fire, are Combined. ~

The public Cemetery on the Princetown
Road is being nearly filled up with the sleep-
ing dead, we took a stroll through it, and took
a look at the tributes of affection raised there
in memory of departed ones, and seen the
names of one, or two, whom we knew in the
sunny days of our youth when the blood
coursed freely through their veins, shone in
their countenance, and rang in their joyous
laugh. A graveyard is a place to remind us,
that we too have to die,

We saw no tribute placed in that church
yard, that so impressed our mind with the
gushings of true sorrow, as a flower, and an
ever green, which bore evidence of having
been planted by the hand of affection, and of
being watered with the warm tears of love.

A STRANGER,

May 30, 1867.

Summerside Gournal.

THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1867.

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

HARD TIMES,

Every day and all day long we hear
complaints of hard times—hard times.
These complaints are not by any means
causcless. ‘They are not the captious
murmuring of discontented, grumbling
churls, whom no times, however good,
can soften into contentment. Even
cheerful high-spirited men look gloomy
and disheartened. Money is tight; trade
is dull, and employment scarce and ill-
paid, Some attribute these hard times
to one cause, and some to another.
Many say that the large sums taken out
of the general circulation to pay for the
lands recently purchased by the Govern-
ment is the cause of the tightness of the
inoney market, and the dulness of trade ;
others attribute these evils to the large
number of new vessels remaining at home
un-sold ; others again say that over-trad-
ing has brought the commercial world to
the present pass,and a fourth party declares
that all our troubles would cease, if by
any means Reciprocity with the United
States could again be established. Where
there is such a diversity of opinion, it is
not for us to decide who is night; but if
we may be permitted to hazard an
opinion, we would say that the present
depression is to be traced to a combina-
tion of causes, among the most prominent
of which are all those we have named.
Perhaps the tardy sule of the ships now
lying in England has more to do towards
making the present hard times than any
other single cause. A ship of even
moderate size, fitted out for sea, repre-
sents a very considerable sum indeed.
There have within the last two years been
a large number of such vessels built on
the Island, very few of which have been
sold. These ships are every day deterio-
rating in value, he merchants and
others whose capital is thus sunk need
their money to pay their debts and carry
on their business, But the money in-
vested in unsold ships at home is not
available. A’ shipbuilder may be worth
ten or twelve thousand pounds in ships,
and yet may find very great difficulty in
mecting a note of one hundred or even of
fifty pounds. ‘The banks willingly gave
accommodation to shipbuilders when
times were brisk, and when there was a
good prospect of their vessels being quick-
ly and profitably sold; but they act very
differently when they find the ship market
at home in its present very depressed
condition, Shipbuilders them selves,see-
ing such a poor prospect before them,
have refrained from laying the keels of
any more new ships, and are in no hurry
to finish those that are already on the
stocks. Ship carpenters are constantly
out of employment, and to add to their
distress, provisions and most of the other
necessaries of life are unprecedentedly
scarce and dear,

Many who lok only at the surface of
things imagine that the life. of a mercan-
tile man is a peculiarly easy and happy
one. He dresses well, they think, lives
on the best, lias plenty of money, and is
not compelled to exert himself more than
is pleasant and comfortable. These no-
tions cause many a young man to become
disgusted with the quiet, uneventful and
laborious life of a farmer, and to be dis-
Satisfied with the slow and toilsome man-

ner in which he acquires his pi vs
Nor doce he awake tcom his delusion
watil, after having sold the paternal acres
and embarked in a mercantile life, he finds
himself struggling with difficulties and
immersed in cares of which he had no
previous conception, He finds ‘he bitter
mixed with the sweet quite as profusely
in the life of the merchant as in that of
the farmer, Dear-bought experience tells
him that a merchant cannot lead an idle
life with impunity—that in his business,
as in every other, strict economy is an
essential concomitant of success—that the
uncertainties and responsibilities of his
situation cause him sleepless nights and
anxious days, and that whatever of the
comforts -and elegancies of life he enjoys
are well carned and dearly paid for, The
furmer is the most independent man in
existence. His dependence is more im-
mediately and visibly uyon Providence
than any other member of socicty, If
health and strength are vouchsafed him ;
if the rainand sunshine come duly in their
ie :gon, he is sure of a gencrous return for
his labor, He knows, and the world
knows, that if Providence is favorable,
the blame of failure lies with himself
If, on the other hand, the all-wise and
all-merciful Ruler of the Universe sees
fit to send unfavorable seasons, it is his
to bow with unmurmuring submission to
the Supreme Will, knowing well that
such visitations are sent for his and his
fellow-mortals’ good. ‘The merchant is,
perhaps, the most dependent man in the
community. His welfire depends in a
great measure on the prosperity and in-
tegrity of men over whom be has no con-
trol, and in whom he is obliged to pluce
the most implicit confidence. — How olten
have we seen men deprived in a day ot
the fruits of long years of toil, through
the dishonesty, the extravagance or the
misfortunes of aman whom,perhaps,he has
never seen, Besides, much of the mer-
chant’s property is at times at the merey
of the most unstable and capricious of
nature's forces—the winds and the wayes.
Is it any wonder then that the merchant,
in these trying times, is consumed with
cares? Can that man sleep soundly and
onjay with zest his food. however dainty,
who feels that the little property he has
amassed with so much care and pains,and
upon which he depended for support
in his declinin, years, and which he foudly
hoped would be enjoyed and increased
by his ebildren when he is dead and gone,
is fast slipping from his grasp, and that
he will be compelled with” exhausted
energies and a crushed spirit again to do
battle with the world for a bare living.
The life of the farmer is subject to no
such vivissitudes. With common pru-
dence and industry, and the exercise of a
fair amount of intclligenee, he can main-
tain his family in comfort and respect-
ability, and be in no dread that his old
age will be embittered by penury, or
made miserable by cares.

Farmers’ sons should reflect well before
they change farming for trading. It is
not every man who is fitted for merean-
tile pursuits, and a large number of those
who do engage in them fail miserably.
The idea that a merchant is a more
respectable man than a farmer, is a super-
latively silly one. ‘There is a great
difference between respectability and
gentility. A man who can pay his debts
—who has a moderate share of intelli-
yence—who lives a moral life, and who
diligently and faithfully does his duty in
that state of life in which it has pleased
God to call him, is the truly respectable
man, no matter what his employment or
what his situation. Such a man will
command the respect of his neighborhood
whether he builds ships or makes shoes,
whether he sells tea or raises oats. But
this ambition to make a fine appearance,
to dress well, to live in a large house
expensively furnished, to drive fast horses
handsomely equipped, in short, to live
gentecly, is the curse of by far too many
in this and every other community, A
man can, and often does, possessall these
while he is at the same time the very
reverse of respectable, For those whose
means are limited, to endeavor to com-
compete in dress and equipage with
those who are rich, is mere folly and
madness. Such a course is sure to end
in sorrow, ruin, and very frequently in
disgrace. And after all no one is de-
ceived by the display.

Our neighbors in this small community
particularly, know a great deal more
about our affairs than we have any idea
of, and when they see us make any pre-
tensions or indulge in any expense that
our circumstances do not warrant, their
comments are such that,however distaste-
ful they may be,it would do us good to
hear. Their respect for us is by no
means increased, but rather the contrary,
and their confidence in us is very con-
siderably lessened. Respectability, good
old English respectability,is something
sound, serviceable, and substantial, and
may or may not be accompanied by
gentility, at any rate it is perfectly inde-
pendent of it and can exist and even
flourish amazingly well without it; while
gentility without respectability, is a
frugile, baseless, rickety structure, ready
to tumble about our cars at the first blast
of adversity. It must not be thought
from what we have written that we think
ambition of eyery kind mere folly, On
the contrary we are always glad to see a
man attempting to better his worldly po-
sition by honorable means. The effort
brings into play many of the higher capa-
bilities of his nature, and thus improves
him morally and intellectually, while at
the same time he elevates himself to a
higher position in society, and is raised
in the estimation of his fellow men.
What we deprecate is the ostentatious
display of the outward signs of wealth by
those who do not possess the thing signified
by those signs. While it is right enough
for a rich man, in his person, his family,
and his surroundings, to show to the
world that his possessions are ample, it
is far from right for the man who is not
wealthy to endeavor to deceive others
and to rnin himself by a foolish imitation
of his richer neighbor's expenditure.

The class on whom the present hard
times press most sorely is, perhaps, the
ship carpenters. Most of these men have

scarcity of employment and low wages
find them in a very deplorable condition,
indeed. Laboring men in this country
should as soon as possible purchase a
small farm, The ship carpenter, who
has been for many years in receipt of
wages, finds himself in his old age with-
out any means of support. Ile has spent
his money as he earned it, and when his
hair is turning grey and his strength is
failing him, he has a dreary prospeet be-
fore him, If he had a farm he could
spend the remainder of his days in culti-
vating it. His children would find on it
a healthful occupation, and if he died his
wife would not be left entirely without
other means of support. Many of those
who sold their farms or neglected them
when times were brisk, bitterly rue their
folly to-day, The holder of even a small
farm, which he has cultivated with mod-
erate skill, is in very much better circum-
stances in his old age than the man who
has spent the best years of his life in
working for others, and finds want at last
staring him in the face, when he is most
in need of case and comfort. Our advice
to all laboring men is: as long as land
can be as easily procured as it is now, for
your own sakes and for the sake of your
wives and children, buy or lease a farny
with as little delay as possible. You will
find that being your own master is much
better than being another man’s servant.

(er SEVERAL persons to the west com-
plain of not receiving their paper regular
ty. It is not our dauit, as they have been
tailed here by us, We expect: the chan-
ging of Postniasters throughout the coun-
uy has something todo with it. If Sum-
merside Wis made wv distributing ollice, as
i should be, aud mail bags were made up
here for the different oflices west, the mis-
lakes dud losses, now so frequent, would
hut the: take place,

te Quire a number wf vessels have
been discharging goodson Queen’s wharf
during the pilst week, among which was
the Bargue *t Ellen Maleolin,” from Great
Britain. A lurge lot of lumber has also
veen landed,

te Tne June Term of the Supreme
Court for Prince County, opens at Saint
iuivauor’s on Tuesday next,

ta Mr. Joun McLean, of our office,
is now cauvassing and collecting for the
Summerside Journal, through New London
and other places. We hope te be able to
add quite a number ot names to our sub-
seripuon list. We would liked to have re-
sponded to the many kind invitations we
have had of late to visit New Loudon, but
Want of time prevents us,

Farmers who want good ‘Turnip Seed
will call at Berrram’s Bookstore,

The ship Waneno, which was stranded
at the north of sais Island, was sold on
Saturday list to the Hon. J. C. Pope, tor
£85,

We received by the last mail several late
California papers. ‘The crops in that coun-
try seem ty be very good. ‘Lhe Sun Prancisco
Bulletin says i—

‘Under the influence of delightfully clear
and balmy weather, the surface of the entire
country has put on a more luxurient carpet of
vegetation than has been seen for several
years. ‘The mountains in the vicinity of San
Francisco are covered to their summits with
wild grass, clover and oats, and are golden
with a rank profusion of wild poppies. Gar-
dens, farms und orchards about the bay were
never ina finer condition. Strawberries are
coming into market more freely. And early
vegetables ure plentiful. Haying has already
begun on some of the southern hill slopes in
Contra Costa and perhaps Alameda county.

Prince Epwanp Istanp Distnicr Mrrt-
ina.—The Ministers of P. E. Islund District
Committce will meet in the Vestry of Char-
lottetown Church, on the second Wednesday
of June, at 9 o'clock, a. m.

‘The Cincurr Srewarns, whos special duty
is to care for and investigate the financial
wants of the work, are respectfully reminded
that their office requires them to attend the
miceting on the second day of its Session.

In consequence of my unavoidable absence
the duties of the Chair will devolve on the
Rey. Richard Smith,

Matruew Ricurr.

Island trade better than our spring Importa-
tions. ‘That a hard summer is before us it
needs no figures to demonstrate,
ports from Great Britain are fully 80 per cent
less than they were 12 months ago, and mer-
chants will find it difficult to dispose or even
this comparatively small stock. Of bread-
stutts, we imported in 186 up to the Ist June,
8584 barrels of flour, and 885 barrels of Corn-
meal. This year, for the same period, our
imports are 1952 barrels of flour and 1,160
vurrels of Cornmeal. The high price of flour
has checked the importation of the former
urticle nearly one hait, while it has increased
that of the utter 800 per cent. ‘The country
wants fully as much breadstuf? as ever it did,
but flour is so dear that the people must and
will do without it, and buy a cheaper and
coarser article of food in preterence.— Pat.

The Roman Catholics of arlottetown
have a grand Bazaar for educational purposes
advertised for ‘Tuesday and Wednesday, the
Tithand I2thinst, The Wesleyans will have ©
ong inthe month of July. We understand
both Bazaars will be held in the upper Halk
of the new Market House,—/d,

Exrorrs ror tie Werk. — Oats, 6,700
bushels; potatoes, 1,500 do.; salt, 820 do.;
meal, 5 barrels oysters, 58 do.; oil, 6 do.;
sugar, 12 hhds.; eggs, 6,260 dozen; deal,
170,000 feet; lathwood, 254 cords; timber,
871 tons; 6 rolls leather; 8 tubs butter; and
1 horse. —/0b.

We understand the //eather Bell will com-
mence her trips to King’s County on Wedness
day next. She will proceed from Charlotte-
town direct to Pictou, and from thence to
Murray Harbor, Georgetown and Souris.
Returning, she will call at Georgetown and
Murray Harbor, and from thence to Charlotte-
town via Pictou on Thursday. —16

If the Baby is Cutting Teeth, Use that old
and well-tried remedy, Mrs. Winslow's
Soothing Syrup, which greatly facilitates the
process, and is sure to regulate the bowls,
it relieves the child trom pain, corrects acidity
and wind colic, and by giving the infant quite,
natural sleep, gives rest to the mother, Offices
48 Day street, New-York, and 205 High Hol-
born, London, England.

Children often look Pale and Sick from
no other cause than having worts in the
stomach. Brown's ‘* vermifuge comfits " will
destroy worms without injury to the child.

Children having worms require immediate
attention, as neglect of the trouble often
causes prolonged sickness.

Thave been afflicted with piles for 25 years
and tried everything I could hear of but to
no effect until Tweed J. B. Fitch’s Golden
Ointment which has cured me,

D. M. CUMMINGS.

A Cough, Cold, or Sore Throat, requires
immeditate attention, as neglect oftentimes
results in some incurable Lung Disease.
“ Brown's Bronchial Troches” are a simple
remedy, and will almos} invariable give tm,
mediate relief.

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