PERRY

by the prisoner were wet, the result evi-
dently of a recent washing. The tront of
the waistcoat was splashed with blood,
and the wristbands of the shirt were satur- |
ated with blood. The prisoner's beots
were sodden with wet, Jeading to the sup-
position that he had washed them in the
yivulet near the scene of the murder, Jn
his pockets were found the sum of £1 6s,
tad. in money, and two pen-niyes, one
of which contained three ‘jades and the
other two. Neither ef these appeared to
be of sufficient stvongth for the committal
of the atrocious crime, and no sign of
bloed could be discovered upon them, The
prisoner was asked if he could account for
the state of his clothing, and he answered
that he could not; but as to his trousers
legs, he had, when out, a habit of stepping
into the water. In searehing the prison-
er’s desk at the oflice, a well-kept diary, in
the prisoner's hand-writing, wns discover-
ed. Under the date, ‘* Saturday, Ang.24,”
the following was written in a bold and
unfaltering hand: ‘ Killed a young girl;
fine and hot.” The prisoner is a thin,
spare man, about 28 years of age, and
possesses 2 countenance of much mildness
and benignity. He bears but an indiffer-
ent character in town, and has always been
looked upon as aman of great animal pas-
sions, Although every search has been
made for the weapon with which the crime
was committed, it has not been found.
Baker underwent an examination before
the magistrates on the 29th. ‘The prison-
er, who looked extremely careworn, was
brought up in the charge of Superintend-
ents Cheyney and Everett, and having been
placed in the dock, several fresh witnesses
were examined, and each of them spoke
to the identity of the prisoner as the man
they saw in the locality of the murder be-
tween one and six o’clock on Saturday the
24th.

Miscellaneous,

RECIPROCITY BETWEEN THE UNIT-
ED STATES AND THE DOMIN-
JON OF CANADA.

The tone of the commercial portion of
the press of the United States clearly proves
that experience is teaching those who
clamored for the abrogation of the Reci-
procity Treaty the folly of their course, It
was an excellent illustration of cutting off
ones nose to spite the face. The UVommer-
cial Buttettin,one of the ablest and most
infiuential mercantile organs published in
the city of Boston hopes that the costly
blunder will soon be repealed, and sug-
gests that the present isa good time to
imitate {the negotiation. nh course of
an article commenting on this subject the
journal designated says :—

We should be glad to know whether
anything is going on between the diplo-
matists, at Washington, to the end of res-
toring reciprocal trade with Canada and
the Maritime Provinces. This is a ques-
tion vital to the interests of New England,
which, almost withous exception, have
been strictly compromised and injured by
the inconsiderate repeal of the treaty of
1854.

The experience of the last two years
has fully Hiimondrited the eogency of the
reasons urged by this and other commer-
cial papers against such political action asa
matter of policy and sound political econ-
omy. Ifit was designed as a punishment
to our neighbors, for their misplaced sym-
pathies during our demestic struggle, it is
one which has recoiled on our own herds
‘The injury has been to some exten’ muta-
al, but circumstances connected with our
currency and foreign commerce have af-
forded them a greater compensation for
the loss of our trade than we haye been
able to obtain in other quarters,

We presume the government of the Do-

minion of Canada is alive to its material} quehy of Austria, surrounds the north-

CAUSES OF BRITISH PROS

SRITY,

We commend to 46 thoughtful considers |
atlon of pil the subjoined extract, from the}
London Mining Journal of Augustd4, We}
believe the Dominion of Canada to be as|
rich in mineral resonrces as Great Britain;
in the precious metal we are greatly richer,
It follows that we have only t6 use the
same intelligence, industry and perseyer-
‘mce, to advance the newer country in the |
same path of empire followed by the)
elder:— —~

« Byer since the revival of mining dis-|
covery, industry and adventure, England |
has grown -in commerce, wealth and}
power, She tecds her own furnaces and
engines, sheathes her ship with her own
copper, and builds them with her own
iron; and fabricates from the howels of|
her own rich realm the tools and the e |
gines which change the forms of so many |
substances, erect so many structures, and
fabricate so many articles of utility and
beauty. “ * * These used brought
brought out her practical aptitudes, her
intellectual capacities, her indomitable
will; and rewarded her with the wealth}
which fills her multitude of cities with in-|
dustrions crowds, and makes her eapital
the metropolis of the world, As mining
is, sois the civilization of ages and nations,
He, therefore, who assists by his skill,
energy and capital, in developing this
great industry, is adding to the comlort,
wealth and power, of the British people,
and building up for Britain a still more
glorious and lasting renown.”

‘he New York
Police have in operation unique and
simple form of mutual assurance, which
has been doing much good of late amon
the families of the deceased officers of tha
city. Every pay day each member of the
association pays into the hands of the
treasurer, who is appointed by them and}
is one of them, halt a dollar tor each po-
liceinan who has died since the preceding
pay day, and this is, as soon as may be,
handed oyer to the widow of the deceased.
There is no complicated arrangement of
constitution, by-laws, rules and regula-
tions, or vexatious machinery, that char-
acterizes more elaborate associations or
socicties. ‘The scheme was originated by
a imember of the force, and put into effect
by his brother officers so quietly that but
few people outside of the force knew of
the existence of the association. ‘here is
no compulsion in the matter; the men join
their association and pay their money, or
do not, just as they please. This arrange-
ment amounts to a perpetual life assur-
ance for each member for at least $1,000
as long as the society numbers two thou-
sand and more, which, in ease of his death,
is sure to be paid, without délay, to his
proper representatives. At present 2,149 |
policemen have their names enrolled. |
The receipts for the quarter ending July
13 were $5,345, and were disposed of
among the {amilics of five deccased ofli-
cers.

SArzpuna.—The tellowing is a briel
geographical description of the place lately
brought into notice by the meeting of the
Emperors of Franee and Austria, and
whose name has proved such a puzzle to
telegraphic scribes and compositors
Salzburg—Salsburg—Salseburg
burg—Salisburg—
still Sulseburg—so variously
been spelt in recent European teleg
Salzburg, the ancient Jovavum, ind the
birthplace of those master minds of melo-
dy, Haydn and Mozart, is a walled city,
occupying © most romantic situation amidst
lofty mountains, 1 whose base flows the

Salza, a tributary of the Inn and Danube.
Haydn is buried here in the Church of St. |
Peter, and Mozart's house is still shown as |
an object of interest to the curious,

The Provines of Salzburg, in the Arch-

interests, which the sanction of the mother] tern corner of Bavaria, forming a portion

country, would be glad to renew a com-};

yf the northern slope of the Rhotin and

mercial relation with the United States, | Noric Alps.

whieh has proved so mutually advantag

The city of Salzburg is remarkable for

ous. The present is a great time to bring | the lolty and commanding position of its

up the subject for consideration, when | ¢
home politics are growing stale, and both |;
governments are looking around for ex-
tended commercial alliance,

We have just concluded a new_ postal
treaty with England, 2 commercial treaty
with the Sandwich Islands, bought a slice
of territory from Russia, and the port of
Samani from Hayti, besides establishing
telegrapbie communication with Cuba,
We should now do well to turn our atten-
tion to the Northern border, and shake
hands with the enterprising Cannucks al-
lowing Fenian plots and Confederate raids
to vanish among the oblivious shades of
by-gone things

JIOW THE BOSTONIANS DODGE THE
LIQUOR LAW.

All sorts of schemes are resorted to by
liquor dealers to furnish their customers
with the proscribed beverages, and al-
though the members of the constabalary
have proved vigilant, they have thus far
failed to detect many of the ingenius tricks
practised upon them. A gentleman who
knows, states that he has scen barrels of
flour apparently taken away from stores,
which, in reality, were casks of liquor,
with enough flour placed at the top and
bottom of the barrel inside to give it that
appearance when moved, one cask being
firmly wedged into eah flour barrel.
Great care is manifested in giving ord
to teamsters: ‘* Call at and get——
barrels of flour,” but after the goods are
loaded, if not prepaid, the driver is aston-
ished to find that he is not transporting
flour, but rum or whiskey.

Sewing machine cases, boot and shoe
cases are also called into requisition by
the dealers and it is asserted that the ecl-
lars of some dry goods stores'are leased
for the purpose of concealing liquors, the
same being carried in large square cases
generally used by dry goods dealers so

sitadel, and for one of its gateways cut
hrough 300 feet of solid rock, 30 feet high
and 74 feet wide. Salzburg is 72 miles
from Munich and 180 from Viennh.

A Curr ror Hyprovita.—Counsellor
Lawschin, of St. Petersburg, well known
in Russia for scient attainments, states
that in the yillage of Sokoralotewo, in the
circle of Belewski, there lived an old sol-
dier, who enjoyed the reputation of being
able to cure hydrophobia, is remedy, it
was said, consisted in reducing a sort of
onion to powder, strewing the latter upon
a piece of butter, and thus adininistering
it to the patient. Counsellor Lawschin
did not at first credit the story, but a cir-
cumstance which occurred among his bro-
ther’s servants soon forced him to change
his opinion. It was the case of a hunts-
man, who, having been bitten by a mad
dog, was cauterised as usual, and appear-
ed to be beyond all danger, when, a few
weeks later, unequivocal symptoms of the
terrible disease was observed, and the pa-
tient had to be secured. There being no
cian in the neighborhood, the soldeir
ent for, who applied his remedy, and
with two doses effected & complete cure.
The patient lived eighteen years after thai
euent, and the recipe has been constantly
used since with success in the district. The
water plantain growsin marshes and stag-
nant water; it has a bulbous root, consist-
ing of thick fibres. It remains under wa-
ter until the begginning of June, when
some of its new shouts protrude above the
surface, It blossoms throughout the
summer, but should not be gathered until
the end of autumn, The reots must be
well rinsed, and left to dry in the shade
until they be fit to be reduced to powder.

Enousn Nations Dent,—From par-
liamentary returns just issued it appears
that the total fundal debt of the United
Kingdom ‘on the 31st of March last was
£769,541,004, involving an annual charge
of £25,890,422, and showing a reduction

that liquor might be loaded before the eyes
ofan officer without exciting his suspi-
vions. ‘A few days since, an expressman |
received an order to call for a box of cur-|
rants. While carrying it across the city, |
the box was rather roughly used, and a}
cvlored liquid oozed from the cracks be-

tiveen the boards. The odor that arose

from the bos was similar to that of Madeira

wine, although the driver delivered the

hox as one containing currants, and re-

ceived pay accordingly. In one instance,

it is said, a barrel of whiskey was conceal-

ed in a molasses hogshead, und had stones

packed around it to make up the usual

weight of a hogshead of molasses, and

it was then sent to a grocer, who deals in

the ardent on the sly, probably keeping a

small amount in his store and secreting

the vest in his or some friendly neighbor's

house.—Boston Traveller,

» Sherbrooke, Ontario, Gazelle says
that the hay crop in that district had been |
generally gathered in good condition and |
ol superior quality. e wheat haryest |
had been commenced antl the crop was)
generally good.

ie. “as

of debt during the past twelve months of
£3,772,225, but an inerease of charge to
the amoent of £54,470. ‘The unfunded
debt amounted £7,966,800, of which £6,-
656,800 consisted of Exchequer bonds, in-
volving a charge of £87,250. Compared
with the preceeding year, the unfunded
debt shows a reduction of £230,900. Ot
the Exchequer bonds £700,000, bearing 34
per cent, interest, become payable on the
8th of November next, £1,000,000, at 4
per cent, on the 27th of March next, and
£600,000, at 84 Meh eent. on the 18th of
March, 1860. The total amount of the
national debt, funded and unfunded, is
£777,496,804.

The troops in this and the adjoining
Province of New Brunswick have recently |
been supplied with Snider breech-loading |
rifles, which ave splendid weapons. In}
loading them there ave but four motions, |
while (he Enfield required no Jess than!
vighteen, In the Snider the cap is within |
the cartridge, and consequently the eap-
ping motions are entirely done away with. |
The becech movements aré wonderfully
simple, yet al sliay correct in their Aes

tien.--J/e. Enprees,

| is not regularly paid, and is paid in currency,

} such encouragement very loudly, as well as

OURNAL, TL
THU DOMINLON FISHERIES.
(From the St. Johy N. By Fi

Under the Fisheries Act a bor
ton was paid on vessels of 80 to ls of |
smaller or larger tonnage are equally eligible |
for fishing) engaged for four months in the
year, inthe deep sea-fishing: the tackle of
such vessels is admitted duty free, and there
are other exemptions in their favor, ‘The

nadian fisheries have realized about one}
million of dollars annually, which is equal
we believe, to half the value of the Nova

Scotian fisheries, and a fifth of those of the

United States as prosecuted on our borders.

The French population on the South of the

St. Lawrence, inhabiting the districts; of

Kamaraska, Temiscouata, the Saguenay and}

Gulf Counties, go largely_into the jishing

surnal.)
{ per|

business; and so do the Sersey and other
houses on.the North and South const. Lini-

grants from Prince Edward Tsland and the|
Magdalen Islands.are constantly flocking into |
the Canadian fishing distticts and settling
there. ‘Though yetin their infaney the Ca-
nadian fisheries doing well. The system
of bounties, to which strong exception might
be taken on theoretical grounds, is found to
work well. It enables the Canadians effect-
ually to compete with the Americans in the
same market; the American bounty is $4, it

though the fishermen claim in gold; the Ci
nadian bounty is promptly paid in gold and it
is divided equally between the owners of tlie
nage and the fishermen, if they be different
persons. ‘This law of course only applies to
Canada and does not apply to New Brunswick
or Noya Sco Moreover many of the fish-
ermen in the latter Province go more into the
coast than into deep fishing. ‘The ques-
tion now engaging the attention of the De-
partment of Marine and Vishing is us to the
shape the law should be made to assume in
adapting it to the interests and wishes of the
Maritime Provinees. Would they be willing
to ethe bounty system extended to them
fora time, until the Fishing interesis acquir-
ed greater strength? Would they be iiore
willing to do so than Ontario and Quebe¢e
would be to have the system abolished? ‘These
are important inquiries, and it is with a view
to answer them in a way satisfactory to our
fishermen, and our shipbuilding interests, in
so far as they are connected with the fishing
interests, that Mr. Whitcher is now collecting
information, at the instances of the Minister
of Marine and Fisheries, It is evident that
the bounty system must cither be abolished or
extended to the Maritime Province, and adapt-
ed to the circumstance. Some of our fisher-
men correspondents have demanded some

an increase of the cost ef license, paid by Am-
ericon fishermen, and we find that the feeling
of the department is in favor of meeting their
views so far as’ possibie. Mr. Whitcher in-
forms us that the system has worked well in
Canad Addressed to an acceptional state
of things, he is favorable to it, looking at it
from a practical point of view; our fishermen
will generally agree with him, though some
interests may not. ‘The subject is one of the
rreatest importance to the entire Dominion.
It may be very well for our oarsmen to be the
champions of the world—to have their names
mentioned and their photographs circulated
all over the Dominion—Ontario and Quebce
pluming themselves on the aquatie powers of
St. John—but it will be still better if we fur-

nish our oarsmen and seamen with profitable |,

work; if we stimulate them in taking pos-
session of the teeming wealth of our seas and
estuaries, and bays and riyers. Itis to this
congenial department of labor that the
thoughts of the Minister of Marine and TVish-
eries are now turned, and we have little doubt
that, with his usual energy, he will soon im-
part such an impetus to the fishing interests
of the Maritime Provinces, as will inspire
our fishermen with fresh ardour and lead
them to redouble their efforts in search of the
** spoils of the ocean.”

Mexico.—Mexico went through the cere-
mony, not enti novel, to be sure, of cele-
brating the establishinent of its independence,
on the loth of July, rez was the hero of
the occasion. ‘Lhe streets and public build-
ings of the City of Mexico were gaily decorat-
ed for the reception of the President. The
whole course of the procession was under
festoons of Chinese lanterns, between decor-
ations of flowers and draperies of flags, while
huge censers gave forth clouds of incense.
Juarez and his ministers were brought into
the city in carriages, and seated on a sort of
throne or platform, where the inevitable ad-
dress was delivered to him, ‘hen—strange
coincidence—a youth named Maximilian read

a laudatory poem, and a girl named Carlotta
crowned the President with a golden coronet,
emeralds and diamonds, the

responded to these
h, in which he spoke

set with rubi
national colors. Ju
attentions in a brief s
of the final establishment of the Mexican Re-
public among the nations of the earth, and of
his intention of advancing its welfare and
enlarging its prosperity. ‘The cavalcade then
passed,to the palace, through undemonstrative
erowds, where much talking of the same sort
was done.—A heavy storm destroyed the pre-
parations for the festivities, and thus the
Mexican Republic’ was again established.
The country not in a pleasant state.
Highway robberies and murders are of more
than daily occurrence, and there is disaffection
among those officers who expected pickings
from confiscated property and are now disap-
pointed,

Bus rs or tin Wrsr.—The
crops throughout the West, with the single
exception of corn, are the best that have been
known for at least three years past. Wheat,
rye, barley, and oats were rarely, if ever be-|
fore, so abundant, Tor several days past, the
receipts of wheat in this market—all of new
crop, too—have averaged nearly one hundred
thousand bushels per day; and the supply of
corn and oats has ex d the expectations
of the most sanguine. But, so far as the
West is concerned, thisis not the best feature
of the trade. Not only are the receipts heavy
but high prices are well maintained. ‘The
truth is, the wheat markets all overthe world
fre quict bare, and it will take some time for
dealers all over the country to have such a
surplus on hand as to justify former quota-
tions. In New York there is scarcely a boat
load of spring wheat to be purchased any-
where, and as long as this state of things con-
tinues, the West cannot but prosper.— Chica-
go Republican.

re

Prat epy,—On Thursday, last
week, a frightful tragedy cccurred at Kensing-
ton, London, which stands out from among
the current cases that illustrate the evils of
the drinking system witha hideous prominence
that demands some passing attention and res
flection, Mrs. Roberts, the wife of a well-
to-do master pluinber, killed two of her chil-
dren, a girl of nine years of age, and a boy of
seven, and would have done the same, if she
could, to the only remaining child, a boy of
twelve, but, by almost a miracle, he contrived
to escape out of her hands. She then con-
summated the tragedy by putting an end to
her own existence. ‘The unhappy father, who
was away on business, on being sent for,
swooned away, and was with difficulty restor-
ed, ‘The maniac state in which alone a mother
could perpetrate such desperate nets, was
clearly traced to drink, Lt transpired in the
evidence at the Coroner’s inquest, that the
poor woman, “had been given to drink for
two years past,” and that she used to be un-
der the influence of it for three days at ‘a
time.” — English Paper.

The schooner yacht Kate Darling, wns
stolen from Hogan’s wharf some time during
the night of Monday last, and has not yet been
recovered. It is supposed that she was taken
by a sailor who was recently heard to say that
he should like to haye possession of the little
vessel ia order that he might proceed to PB.

jare

RSDAY, SEPTEMB

- Simmterside Bownal.

“THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 26, 1867.

No noticeean be taken of anonymous com-
ions«, We must knoay the names and
addffesses Of our correspondents as a guaranty
of their good faith. We cannot undertake to
return communications that are not used.

‘Miss SULLIVAN'S VISIT WEST.

Were were informed. that Miss Sullivan
ed through Summerside a few days
ago on her way to visit her, possessions
in the west. We are also informed that
Miss Sullivan is very much pleased with
the appearance of thos’ possessions, and
that she refuses just now to part with
her lands on any better terms than those
of the Fifteen Year's Purchase Act. We
sorry to hear this, We were in
hopes that when Miss Sullivan saw her
estates on the Island, and was made ac-
quainted with the past and present con-
dition of her tenants,she would cheerfully
sell them to the Government or to the
tenants themselves on much more favora-
|ble terms than those fixed upon in the
Act mentioned above. We do not
wonder that Miss Sullivan yalues her
lands very highly. She has seen them
at the most favorable season of a very
favorable yea’ She knows nothing from
personal observation of the great amount
of labor performed by the tenants, and
the many weary years of hardship and
suffering undergone by the settlers on
her lands cre their farms were brought
into the thriving condition in which she
now sees them. ‘The large settlements
through which her carriage rolls, with
their wide ficlds of waving: grain, their
comfortable houses, their well-filled barns
and grazing flocks and lierds. were but a
few years ago a large extent of unbroken
forest.
prosperity which she sees around her
have been produced by the unaided labor
of the industrious tenantry. Very few
indeed know at what cost of toil and
suffering the wilderness has thus been
made to blossom—to become the com-
fortable dwelling place of civilized men.
And what has Miss Sullivan or previous
proprietors done for those who -haye
with infinite pain and labor conyerted
the wild unproductive forest into a fertile
country yielding abundant sustenance for
man and beast? Simply nothing. ‘They
have reccived neither moral nor material
aid in their long and hard struggle from
landlord or landlady, On the contrary,
they have been required to give part of
their hard carned money for the poor
privilege of forcing a miserable livelihood
from a soil which had to be cleared of a
thousand encumbrances cre it could be
made to yield an car of corn or a hill of
potatoes. Is it any wonder then that
people in such circumstances should look
upon a proprietor as an oppressor, as a
hard man who reaps where he has not
sown and gathers where he has not
strawed ? Is it any wonder that they
consider that they have a better right
to land which by energics of a life-
time they have redeemed irom the wilder-
ness, than the proprietor who has spent
neither labor nor money to bring it into a
state of cultivation. No reasoning, no
instruction will convince the people of
this Island that parchment titles given
by the mightiest potentates on earth can
give any man or woman a better right to
land than is his who clears it by the
labor of his hands anid those of his chil-
dren. They deny the power to any king,
prince, or government, to grant or to sell
to any man a greater quantity of wilder-
ness land than he and his family can cul-
tivate. There is, a deeply rooted con-
viction existing in the minds of our rural
population that the proprietory system
is an unjust and iniquitous burdenimposed
upon them by unfeeling, inconsiderate,
tyrannical rulers, a burden which it is

justifiable to get rid of by any means

whatever. It is only because the country
is so small andits people so few in num-
ber that they have not long ago attempt-
ed to obtain free lands by raising the
standard of rebellion, so deep and violent
is the hatred of the people of this Island
to landlordism. ‘Twenty-five years of
close and intimate intercourse with the
tenantry on many estates in the Island
haye given us ample opportunity of know-
ing the minds of our people on this ques-
tion of the land tenure. ‘Though our
respect for law and the rights of property
has caused us to disapprove of many of
their theories, and our reason and desire
for their welfare, have forced us to oppose
with tongue and pen the mad scheme of
resistance to the law of the land, yet our
sympathies have from our early boyhood,
been with the tenant. We have seen
with our own eyes how hard he has
worked and how hard he has lived,
and what sacrifices he has been obliged to
make in order to satisfy the claims of his
landlord. We have seen him struggling
and sometimes struggling in vain to rear
his fumily in comfort and respectability.
We have been long convinced that the
man who settles in the woods should
have no rent to pay, and that the system
which compels him to do so, however it
may work in the highly cultivated parts
of the Old World, is an unmitigated evil
ina new eduntry. The people of this
Island have determined to abolish this
system as far as their country is concern-
ed. They have determined not to entail
the miseries of absentee proprictoryism

vate bargain or governmental agency—~
since an appeal to physical force is so
evidently hopeless—they are bound to ob-
tain free land. Miss Sullivan need not
expect to hold her lands long, ‘Lhe tea-
antry will sooner or later become the
possessors of them. She need not expect
to remain long in the relation of landlady
to any considerable number of the sturdy
yeomanry of this Island, By the opera-

books, if compulsory legislation be not
resorted to, her broad estates will inevi-
tably become converted in shreds and
patches of the worst lands oecupied by
her poorest and most thriftless tenants.

Island, and there ship for Mngland. ‘This
supposition is strengthened from the fact that
the sailor in question is missing. ‘The yacht |
is of about seven tons, with Llack lyll, andJ
raw colored dick. —Lalifaz Bxpress. i

If she consult her own interest she will
follow the example of the Cunard family,
whose representative here is one of the

shrewdest business mon in the colony, 4

All the evidences of thrift and,

on their children. Either by means of pri-,

tion of the law already on our statute |

lS SS
and one who, by personal observation,
is well acquainted with, the feelings of
the people and the cireumstances of the
jcountry, and now while on the-spot make
ithe best bargain she can either with the
tenants themselves or with-the, Govern~
ment. \By pursuing this ‘course she will,
while doing what is best for her own
interest, cause her visit to this Island to
be long and gratefully remembered by
he# tenants.’ If on the othér thand) she
resolve on keeping possession of thé lands
she has so lately inherited and on ten-
aciously holding out for her strictly legal
rights, she will,while not benefitting her-
self pecuniarily, incur the dislike and
lasting ill-will of every tent on her
cstates.

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Tite Patriot. takes exception at our
stating that the citizens of thé Dominion
of Canada are to the full as free as are
the inhabitants of P. E. Island. He says
that the people of New Brunswick have
lost the right or privilege of raising
their own taxes and of. regulating the
appropriation ‘of them. This we submit
is not a fair statement of the case. ‘The
Noya Scotians and New Brunswickers
have in fact, not only the privilege of
regulating the taxes of their respective
countries, but also of regulating those of
Quebee and Ontario, It is all very fine to
talk of the tyranny of Canadian majorities
and of shameless bribery and all that sort
of balderdash, but every one knows that
in countries, no matter how extensive as
regards territory they may be which en-
joy free constitutions and equal rights,
substantial injustice is never done to
any detached portion no matter how re-
mote it may be from the centre of gov-
ernment. ‘The idea that the provinces of
Quebec and Ontario will in the divisions
of the Legislature, join to oppress coun-
trices so important as regards situation,
wealth, population and intelligence, as
New Brunswick Nova Scotia, is
simply absurd, he probability is that
in the Couicils of the Confederation, the
maritime provinces Will exercise an
amount of influence altogether dispro-

We cannot sce for the life of us wiiat the
writer in the Patriot would be at. Will
he be kind ¢nough to give us his idea of
the exact: size of a country which a
smaller one may join without danger of
losing its rights and privileges and other
priceless blessings. Has little Rhode
Island become completely enslaved and
exhausted by the immense Californian,
Minnesotian, New Yorkian, Pennsyl-
yanian, and Other Stateia:. majorities in
Senate and Congress, procured by shame-
less bribery, ballot stuffing, and the other
fine arts of American politicians? Have
all the other states of the Union con-
spired to overwhelm and overtax that
spunky little state. Do the inhabitants
of the Isle of Skye and of the Orkneys
groan under the intolerable burdens
which crushing majorities in the Imperial
Parliament obtained by bribery, intimi-
dation, and goodness knows what other
means have imposed upon them? Does
he not think that King’s County ought
to agitate for a separate government and
for the priceless blessing of regulating
and appropriating its own taxes, secing
that the majority from Prince and King’s
Counties—corrupt no doubt as all majori-
ties are—can outvote its representatives
in both branches of the Legislature of
united P. Ei. Island. We would really
like to know his wishes and hopes with
regard to the future of British America.
We would then have an idea of what he
is working for, and would have something
to say to those who accuse him of being
a pure obstructionist with no other object
‘than the pleasure re chan othors and
of making mischief, #Does he think the
time has not yet arrived for these North
Amcriean Colonics to make some adyance
towards an independent national exist-
ence? Does lie want them for an in-
definite time longer to be dandled on the
maternal knee, fed with the maternal
pap administered with the maternal
spoon? Does he believe the proper im-
personation of British America to be a
big dough-faced, blubbering overgrown
baby clinging to his mother’s apron ready
to cry himself into cpnyulsions whenever
she attempts to go out of his sight, and
screaming with frantic terror when she
coaxingly asks him in the tenderest tones,
to go his loneys.’ Or is he at heart,like
nine tenths of the Antis in the other Pro-
vinces are, Annexationist ? Is he tired
of British connexion, and does he sigh
for Union with the American republic?
If so, why docs he not honestly express
his views. An annexationist is to our
mind an infinitely more respectable
character than an aimless, snapping,
snarling obstraction Prin does-the
editor of the Patriot Expect to gain by
snecring at the Confederation of the
British American Colonies as at present
established, and by doing his utmost to
frustrate the endeayors of those on the
| continent who gpish to give Confederation
a fair trial? JTF British Americans elect
to join the American republic, there is
one thing they must lay to their account,
and that is they need not expect to re-
ceive any petting or coddling from the
cold and stern repuicann gg cl Sam
insists upon all his childxef doing their
share of the work of the houschold, and
upon every one of them, big or. little,
rich or poor, paying his full share of the
family expenses. ‘Ihe wiry old gentle-
man permits neither shirking nor loafing
within bis family circle.

We intended to give our contemporary
a word of friendly advice ig return for |
his well-meant caution, but we don’t see
the use.

te Tie Tea Meeting in connection
with the Wesleyan Church came off yes-
terday, It was a grand and a suecessful
jaffair, Full particulars will be ‘given
j/next week.
ty Denine the past week we have}
jhad some heavy gales. On Wednesday
morning it blew vory “hard,!and the
jsteamer Princess of Wales had to en-
counter a heavy sea on her way up, ds
some of her passengers who cast up their
| accounts can testify to.

(@ Tre Rev. Mr. DesBrisay has re-
quested us to announce that there will}

jot be any service in St. Eleanor’s on
Sunday next,

portioned to their extent and populations

IE WEST.

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Ir is pleasant to leave the corrupt air of
Summerside. and go where we can enjoy the
pure and bracing breezes from the sea,which
are felt as we near the settlements on the
coast ofthis ‘‘sca-girt Isle.” Whether one
be benéor pleasure or business,lic experiences
a feeling of relief, and anticipates a pleasant
change of scene, on entering the country.

Tiphving here a couple ef wecks ago, ona
collécting find> Canvassing“ tour for the Sum-
merside Journal, I passed through Lois 16
and 14 onto Port Hill, All along the road
the farmers were busy as bees gathering in
the fruits of their summer's toil and anxiety.
And never had tffey cause for greater thank-
fulness to the Sovereign’ Lord of the Universe
than they have’ this year, for the crops haye
altturned out-well. The wheat crop is the
best.for many years., The weather, too, has
been all that could be desired for harvesting
operations. The finely cleared farms and
the commodions barns are evidences of com-
fort and plénty,—for a farmer’s barn is the
trae index of his circumstances. ‘The enter-
prise and industry of the Port Hill farmers is
only equalled by their intelligence and love
of literggure. They do not belong to that
class who have so much fo do that they
‘can't find time to read papers,” although
they work! a hard as any. In every house
‘may be seen one or more Island papers, The
Journalenjoys a large circulation here, and
I found in all cages that it was highly appre-
ciated, as much for its intrinsic worth as for
its being the Pioneer newspaper of Prince
County.

The Western Road from Port Hill, about
twenty miles, is as lonely and dreary as
one can well imagine. ‘The desolation and
solitude which here reign supreme aptly sug-
gest travelling over some vast prairie or de-
sert. The road itself is none of the best, and
a series of round poles laid crosswise at an
elevation of six* or nine inches, placed there
by some kind philanthropist, seem admirably
adapted to keep the weary traveller from
falling into the ‘arms of Morpheus, by the
peculiar motion which they give to the wag-

on. ‘The longest night, we are told, has an
end, and so has the longest road, and we
emerged again into the abode of civilization
juet in time to find a welcome for the night at
Mr. .John Dignan’s. The country around
Mr. Dignan’s is fast being cleared, The
“primeval forest” is now rapidly succumbing:
to the march of civilization, which will in a
few more years have converted’ the extensive
woodlands of the interior into fertile fields,—
such as are seen passing throtigh Bloomficld
on towards the Metropolis of fhe far West—

ALBERTON, }

In this smart little village Ps to be found
as great a variety of business establishments
and as large a number of clevé® business men
conducting them as can be founddin any
village of its dimensionsin P. E.I. Itaffords.

grain, ete. The chief stores are those of
Hon. G. W. Ilowlan, Herbert Bell, Reid
Bros., Benj. Rogers, and Arthur Ritchie,
Esqrs. I had only time to visit that of I.
Bell, Esq., which is on a pretty extensive
seale. Ile gives employment to a large
number of men in various branches of busi-
ness, including ship-building. (Persons doing
business with him Will find him cleyer in his
dealings.) During my short stay here I re-
ceived great kindness from R. Gordon, Esq.,
and family. The Presbyterian Church is
under the ministerial charge of their popular
pastor, the Rey. Allan Fraser. The subse
scribers here were remarkably prompt in pay-
ing their respective amounts; and after add-
ing some names to the already larg, Yist there
{ moved on to Montrose, a very picturesque
settlement on the banks of, the’ Kildare
River, on this side of which Messrg, W. & G.
Montgomery keep for sale a large varicty of
Merchandize suited to the requirements of the
country. On arriving here I heard the stary
of a sad accident which occurred on the
previous day, résulting in the deatliof a young
man named Ahern, who, in company with a
friend went, as they said, to “ have their last
bathe”—meanirg forthe season. It appeared
that the unfortunate lad swam cross the
narrow channel twice and attempted fo re-
cross when a cramp seized him, and he sank
to rise no more on carth. :

Mr. D. Petrie keeps a fishing station on the
Kildare Capes on the road to Tignish. As
night was fast drawing near I was fortunate
enough to find Jodgings for the night under
the hospitable roof of Mr. Hugh Squarebridge,
who with his amiable partner well sustain the
character for hospitality ‘of their native place
—New London. Mn S. has a fine farm and
garden, and everything about his premises
wears an air of tidiness and gomfort, “Lhe
land along here seems to be fertile, but the
majority of the farmers appear to attend too
much to the uncertain fishing business. ‘This
is the only place along the const where the
Journat is not oxtensively ¢ireulated,

The towering dome of the R. C. Chapel in
Tignish is seon at a great distance ut and
gives a look of importance to the place, as it
is approached. It is a noble structure, of
beautiful architecture, and would well re-pay
any one to visit it.- It seems as if everything
required to add beauty to the edifice was pre-
cured regardless of costand trouble.’ Tignish
is emphativally the seat of the fisherios in P.,
KE. 1 The largestfleet of fishing craft in the
Gulf are seen from here, extending as as
the eye canreach. Alarge number of fishing
establishments are scattered along the coast,
but Dhad not an opportunity of visiting any
but that of Messra. Hall & Co., probably tho
largest on the Island. ‘This firm keeps in
emyloyment during the fishing months 75
bouts of all sizes, each manned by 8 to 5 men.
They ship annually about 4000 qus. of fish,
and about 2600: bbls. mackerel,—the most of
the dry fish being sent to the West Indies and
the mackerel to the United States. They
have their casks and drums manufactured on
the premises, atid they have alsd machinery
for packing and screwing the fish, ‘They give
employment to 7 or 10 coopers making fish
barrels, casks and drums. | ‘The whole is
under the “personal superintendence of Mr.
Myrick, one of the firm.

Miminegash is situated directly opposite on
the Western side. ‘To the disinterested oxer-
tions of Mr, Thomas Costain, jr. , the agent of
the Journal in’ that plied, is dive the fact that
its cirttlation exceeds double that of any
other paper in that locality. Mr. William
Stiggins, an ingenions mechanic, turns out
ships’ wheels and threshing machines of a
superior kind. Around the village of Camp-
bellton, Lot 4, the crops look well, and the
fine wheat fields in thé Neighborhood promise
abundant employment to the mills of Andrew
Beil, Héq., for some tinié to come.

Lot 7 is a splendid farming settlement.
There is a great contrast between the farmers
along this coast and some other places where
people neglet their firms and attend to fish-
ing, rom here I took thé shortost way prac-
ticable home, by no meats regretting my firss
‘visit to the West.

J.Mct,

Sop. 18, 1867.

one of the very best markets in the Island for —

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