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JANUARY 14, 1869.

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URSDAY,

The {nteroolonial Railway. Mu. 7. G, Wavatas, the proprietor of

: \the Masonic Monthly, published in Boston,
This long Denivcked work has at length | who visited our Island last summer, writes

BOE Deyo ne Eaton Ol Mar mpeeulss| Aye November nanlctaa tollows :—=

Mon, Commissioners have been appoivt- : ak
ed, and are now at work, Plans and spe-| _** Next morning I took the cars for Shediac,

cifieations of a considerable portion of the| Shi ton) ee saan ot eat tpl a
: Nae iy Feet yes \. are en.
speili Dots ey ita catia wan | two lodges here,—St. John’s, chartered by the
hen EERORNA y BUGS ae : sh it igs is 1 | Grand Lodge of Bogland, and Victoria, char-
een completed, and tenders adyertised | tered by the Grand:fiodge of Scotland. Ow.
for, to be sent early. fy February, . Phere ing to some little: reeling between : the; two,
is, at last something practical -here, and they occupy separate halls, which is very un-
. tough we could haVe’ wished that ali this fortunate: Bro. A. Murray had the kindaess
had taken fase a year ago, We must Not) to show me through the hull occupied by St.
be too ready to blame, without knowing

late Lodge, which is well furnished. I had
the particulars of the many and serious} a very p'easant interview with Bro. Douglass,
ditticulties which beset the Government| W. M, of Victorian Lodge, a well informed
on every side, in deeiding upon the route | and enthusiastic mason, Bro. Starbird, W.
to be ndopted, ‘The coming summer pro- | M. of St. John’s Lodge, is a native uf Boston,
mises to be a busy one in this Province, | but has been doing business in Charlottetown
so far ds railway construction is concerned, | fr several years, Bro. N, P. Stramberg is
-and we doubt not will have the effect. of | Organist for the masonic bodies, and is one of
intusirg new lile and activity into the, the most genial and accomplished of masons.
iy St. George's Lodye, Georgetown, has for
Master Bro, Aitken, who is agent for the
Montury. He is said to do the best work of
| any Master they have had for some time, but
I did not have an opportunity to see them
work,
Mount Lebanon Lodge is located in Sum-
merside, where I met several masons, and
among them Bro. Joseph Bertram, publisher
of the Journal, who didallin his power to
make my short stay in Summerside agreeable.
While there T appointed him Agent for the
Moystuty for his lodge. ‘Vhe other lodges on

general business of the Province, by giv: |

‘ing employment to many hundreds of}
people, and putting in cirenlation some
hundreds of thousands of pounds.—llx.
Ex,

SOUND ADVICE.
“At the late annual opening of the Ilis-
‘ torical Society of Dublin University, Sir
&. Napier in the chair, the Author in his

'Very Latest Tel

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Great Britain.

Londony dan) 4.

A writer in the Lunton * Tithes*vof to:
day discussed the resent “siuation ol
France, He says the-year ends’4vith the
most peace the world ever sa onoun-
ces M,-Ravther aimere Maitye dit Pichrig—
notices the growth of Democratic senti-

Emperor must cifher check tho Press or
abandon personal Government.
f.ondon, Jan. 5,
Tt is asserted that Prussia urges a nicet-
ing of the Conference, now that Crete is
quiet, with the view to prevent the expul-
sion of the Greeks from the Ottoyan terri-
tory. She inthmates that the representa-
tive of the Porte will leave the Couterence
if this point is introduced for discussion,
and warns Russia of another Crimean war.
It is said th t Greeee will introduce the
claims ot the Cretans into the Conference
about to meet in Paris, and demand that
they : hall be allowed to deelare by plebis-
citwm who shall be their rulers.
Plymouth, England, Jan. 6.

A vessel putin here to day which reports
that the British ship ‘Southern Enjpire,”
Japtain Dunlap, foundered at sea ina
heavy gale on the 3rd inst. The Captain
and every one of the crew were lost, The

ments in France, and dechwes, abat the |

health-destroying influences of bad ait)
and bad water, How ¢an you, my friend,
expect those delicate little creatures to
develope into healthy men and woman,
when they spend the greater portion of
their lives within smelling distance of
that festering cesspool,the drainings from
which and from hundreds of others like
it, are slowly but. surely, percolating
: through the pores he the earth to polon
a 5 the water which they use every hour o}

MATTERS BANATORY. the day? No, ites tty friend, if you
A very Rasen: i not a very pro- don't want to have them grow un mete
found truth, is contained in the old saying able sickly beings, or peroans aA Baths
*+an ounce of prevention is worth a pound | Ng left toremember some 0 ‘ antl .
of cure.” ‘The universal experience of) cept little green mounds in att pase ‘t
mankind goes to prove that it is much | yard yonder, remove Uy a uy ae
easicr to adopt means to prevent discase possible speed from ee nelg ae ho :
than to eradicate it after it has taken root | and take good cure that no such store
in the system. Modern research’ has | houses of disease be allowed to Any:
shown that many of the diseases and late about your Heese AN ae oUt
much of the suffering which afflict man- | than that, as you love your own Ge your
kind, are: preventible. Indeed, the ten- neighbor's children, segs value ae
dency of modern science has been rather| OWN health and that of the Pa Ay
to discover the causes of disease than to| Which you live, use every exertion to have
invent new remedics. Men are fast losing| #!! such abominations cleared out and
their faith in drugs. The intelligent| carried away to where they will not only
physician is now content, when he meets| 0 no harm, but ee tae he ee
with an intelligent patient,to allow nature of doing a great deal o g00d; for suc ae
to effect the cure. And nature, if allow-| the beautiful economy of nature, that she
ed to pursue her operations without hin-| Can, in the proper place, male nourish-

Summerside Journal. -

1869.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 14,
No hotice can be faken of antionymots com-
munications. We must know the names and
addresses of odr correspondents as a guaranty
of their good taith. We cannot undertake to
return communications that are not used,

inaugural address said :—
'** It is not our bane in this country that
wwe are so often banded into hostile camps,
and seldom imeet on neutral ground—that
- our opinions are formed for us, and are
associited with old rancours and old
crimes—that we were made to fight under
Oanners which were hostile once, but
which need not be so longer, and to shout
angry war cries which in our heart we
Joathe—that the speetre of a guilty past
should haunt us at every step, ard’ check

our efforts towards hearty union, throng-
-dng the brain with the memory of wrongs

4ong since abandoned—tearing the heart
by the agony of a dire mistrust—paraly-

ving the energies by the thoughtof old in-
justice, and clenching in anger, or paraly-
zing in fear, the hands which should be

joined in work and clasped in friendship
Let us ea

of our country, we ought not, if we be
vincere, to differ angrily upon the specia
means by which that good is to be worked
out. Above all, le¢ us remember, from

silt yet not hostile; rivals
ny Os “eioss and that differences o
»pin i :
cities! barriers erdetined to keep mer
apart, but sre rather pl
to evoke that small efforts ¢
which is all it takes to overlea,

rye

molous,

atti

~t sympathy
» them.”

ppl

The City of St. John con ios. cause

losses. Mr. Langley’s oper:
st loss of about a quarter of a nm)
4iollars. The stockholders ©}
mercial Bank have Just halt aon
The loss through Mr. Scovil’s misfor' ir
‘was about $300,000. | Transactions
Marine Insurance have been a source
yumerous losses. It is said that not Me
than a quarter ch AY ee ot eae HN
been lost through this channe e. In-

Lividuals here sank $1,000,$2,000,83,00),
to premiums,

bear it, being in peosperous circumstances,
‘and conducting a flourishing business.
Such numerous and heavy losses aud fail:
ures must seriously retard, for some time,
the commercial progress of St. John. but
adversity has salutary lessons which only
those who suffer it can learn.—Hx. Ex,

aWlion.
une

The British cabinet consists of filtecn
members the oldest of whom is Lord
Clirendon, who is 67; Mr Gladstone 59;
Mr. Bright and Mr. Lowe each OCs MMi.
Cardwe. ; Mr, Bruce and Earl Gran-
ville, each 53; the Duke of Argyll and Mr.
Chichester Fortescue, each 465 the Earl
ut Kimberley, 42; Earl de Grey and Mr.
Childers, exch 41; Mr. Goschen, 37; and
the Marquis of Hartington. 35, ‘The Lord
Chancellor, Mr Bright, Mr. Lowe, Mr.
Bruce, Mr. C, Fortescue, Lord Kimberley
and Mr. Childers, are respectively new to
the duties ot Cabinet Ministers.—In.

The Rey. D, Rogers, the Episcopalian
ritualist. of Memphis, was recently re-
cvived into the Roman Catholic Chureh of
St. Louis, and publicy participated in the
geremony of the taking of the veil by a
Miss Clara Peters.

Austria at last permits Free Masonry.

Bombay is sending hay to England.

Garibaldi is sick at Caprera,

Engenie is just the least bit bald, and
covers the * damned spot” with a trizzle
and a rosette,

A Paris miser was recently found dead
in a garret with $70,000 in securities ina
alrawer,

The Atlantic Cable earned $3,
last month.

Tndiana is the home of an individual who
has lost three wives by death and four
divorce, and is now happy with his e'
kpouse,

In Western New York lives a man
named King who has thirty-one children |
by one wile.

The French ship Bonne Amelie, with
emigrants, for Buenos Ayres, was lost
during October, at the mouth of the Rio-
dle-da Plata, and all on board perished,

Perbaps the highest mines in the world
fre those at Elizabethto:n, New Mexico. |
‘They are 9000 feet above the level ot the
seu, and itis claimed that $200,000 worth
vf gold has already been taken from them,

Spain has an army hardly ¢
175,000 men, ‘There are one hundred and |
twenty vessels in the navy carrying about |
twelve hundred guns, and manned by |
nearly 15,000 men, Only six ot its vessels
are armor plated,

St. Petersburg is to have a hovelty,—-a |
locomotive on ive, ‘Lhe only difference |
between the new engines and curs and
those now in use will bo that the wheels
will be m: de very broad and so construct. |

ud as to bite the ice, If the new plan can |
be made to work the results will be very |
valuable to the trade of Russia, |

The ** Fisehretto, in order to illustrate |
the present peaceful state of Europe, re. |
presents the ope, accompanied by ser-
eral of his Clergy, it to hold the lid
over a boiling Cauldron (rebellion), on
which is seated Napoleon, who is assisted
by Prim. The motto is, ** The more
they press the lid down the stronger will
be the explosion.” ‘

Jeff. Davis is travelling in Wurtem-

burgh,
‘The London: Ritualists claims to have
converted | rince and Princess of Wales,

850a day

200

Xceeding |

|

Paralysis threatens to make eighty ha
widows in Utah by taking Brigham! t,
Mines, to a church ia Canada.

Young.

the Island, three in number, were so far apart

“Southern Empire” sailed from New Or-

'Yy Withus from this hall, and
from this society, a habit of calmer judge-
ment,of more tolerant consideration, larger
view, and more liberal compromise, re-
membering that, as we all seek otter the
sume noble end, in the greatest happiness

y experiences in this society, that men
el between us
Me .

ins of its

d
illion of

Iders of the, Com-

he parties Were able to

by

ighth Catholic” has replied to Mr. O'Farrel's ap-

| 28th and 80th Decembér—we counted no less

that I did not visitthem, Verhaps I will have
in opportunity to do sv at some future time,

After spending several weeks in the health-
ful recreations with which Prince Edward Is-
land abounds, I started on my route home-
ward, vita Nova Scotia,”

leans on the 13th of November for Liver-
pool, laden with cotton, at which ‘port she
was owned,

Greece,
Lond.n, Jan. 4.
The Gteek Government asks: ‘for the

The late Archbishop of Canterbury has} Postpotetient of the meeting of Wie Con
jleft a charge, not quite completed, pub-| erence on the Eastern difficulty until the
lished by the Messrs. Rivinaton of Lon-|&rrival at Paris of the Greek Minister to
don, in which very strong ground is taken | the Sublime Porte,

in the Ritualistie controversy. ‘The late Persia,

Primate has denounced the Ritualists London. Jan, 5.
NEA Cs ne ey Pree june Telegraphic reports have been received
any with which they have yet been assail- | ,, (Sad nea aay ae :

ae and this, it is Ay be noted has come} from aD at eure a ake. Wy uy
from 2% man who, in his lifetime, took feebeorieo . CE : i oe ee ht
rank as a decided HighChurchman, The NONE ee Barta i ek te oie eeenih th
charge comes as it were, as a voice from last. WOVE MUD BBOUnS  WOlO Cesclibe
the grave, and from this, as well as from
its } ower, its clearness, and the decided
stand taken, cannot fail to produce a great
effect in the Church ot England. He
shows that the practices and the teachings
of the Ritualists are quite inconsistent with
their position as members or ministers of
the Church of England. We before show-
ed that the leading organ of the Anglican
party in the Church of England denounced
the Ritualists, and this course is followed
by the leading American Church papers,
suchas the Church Journal, the Gospel
Messenger, and the American Churchman.
Contemporancous with this strong tide ot
public opinion comes the decision of the
’rivy Council against Mr. Macuonocuie,
—Montreal Gazelle.

Mr, Iutehinson has been elected to
Parliament in Northumberland by a ma-
jority of 249 votes over Mr. Gough, ‘This
is rather a reyerse to the Minister of Ma-
rine, who used hisinfluence and all the
vigor and energy of which he is master to
secure Mr. Gough's return, The friends
of Mr. Mitehell consider it untortunate
that he should have taken such a promi-
‘nent part in the canvas.—St. Croix Courier,
4

of life is so far known to have been caused
by the phenomenon, |

t
Cuba. A
New York, Jan. 4.

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rival at that port of the new Ciypttin-Gen

morning. His reception was yer.

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n

There is nothing important re
progress of the Revolution.
New York, Jan. 6.

General Lersundi, ex Captain General o

not known,and his inaugural pro
is awaited with much anxie

Press, and has allowed full liberty in the

ic news despatches,
United Siates,
“New York, Jan, 5.
There was considerable excitement it

Sratistics Or Masonny.—Itisestimated; Phe :
ene Washinetoan.tondax aan ih th

| patbesneb oulvwe peesvae tnereule; ni
\' numbers, about 1,250,000 Free and
scopted Masons scattered upon the face
Acceptee | Of this number some 150,-

| youn: !
he,
fogland. 100,000 in Scotland,

she

rey

house. Repoits were circul
were cither suffocated or
Skimmer still re
unable to be at his desk at ‘Tre
partment,

| of the gloly,

OU iG a0 Lot There are about 600,-

60,000 in Trelanwé .
+ : inentee! Europe, 800.000
000 on the continent-«,, 10.000 iho oihen

in the United States, ante trannies
parts of the world. Tn Englaifawltte we
two er three thousand persons initimed),, Wed ae NG
} every year, esate AY

and the Masonic body is said | tec®
| to be everywhere increasing —Borderer,

poisoned. Gen,

Washington, Jan, 6.
Tn the Senate, yesterday, Mr, Ferry of-

|

dent totrayseait 4 copy of his late Amnes-
lite i i i ty proclamation, Sith a statement ef the
able eres at HOO UN tee a | ace Wy whol is wsdl lewd
article on manufacturing enterprise as) a : ik Wa ive : i ae Sear ae eet
evinced in connection with Mr, Graves] Ulotea in lavor of Auinesty, he veut ed
<e Factory in Miltown, Charlotte Co, N_ | the tight of the President to geynt itin this
Axe Factory in Miltown, Charlotte Co. N. | sweeping way, andhe wished to have the
B. In this establisement upwards of 300! 4 NeRGBRE Bele d The Treaulae & aw iM
axes are produced every working day or! Uuppted a ey
an aggregate of nearly 100,000 a year giy- | © Tow Yorke dine
ing cmployment regularly to 40 mon. | a Ay Mila’ Gs
The quantity of iron used amounts to 170} 5 Messrs. Cambleng & Payney:t4 Wall
tons a year, and steel 82 tons; the amount | Street, had $135,000 in Bonds mit: Car-
of coal consumed will reach nearly 30) tency stolen trom them during the inter
tons whilst the consumption ot borax, Me between New Year's Eve 4 sl
jemery, &e., forms items of some import: |‘l#Y- A confidential clerk who is missing
| unce.—Amherst Gazette. j 1s suspected of the robbery,
| The St. John Journal states that an- Ontario,
other addition isxbout being made to the New York, Jan, 5,
| manufactories of that city: a coffee, spice | The Whelan case came up yesterday be-
[and a AA mill, yd driven ay fore the Court of Error at ‘Toronto, Cana-
steam. The proprictors who have estab- da, on appeal. ‘The Judges unanimousl
| lishments of « similar kind in Boston, St | decided That a Writ of Error was pgs
Louis and Chicago—are Messrs. Flint & per course to bring the prisoner before the
| Dearborn.—Jb, Court. Hon. J. HW. Cameron maile an able
The recent fire at Lynn, Mass., will, it| and elaborate argument on the side of the
is said, throw 1000 persons out of employ-| prisoner. Messrs.Robinson and Anderson
| / } Pioys | DMSO ;
ment. “Lhe total loss by the conflagration | replied tor the Crown. Prisonar was: re«
wats $300,000, about half of which is coy-| manded till 22d iust., when a decisicn will
| be given.

/ ered by insurance.—Hx. Ex,
Twelve men aud two women are now
awaiting trial for murder in Massachusetts,
Response To Mr. O'Farnet.— An Irish

Spaia.
London, Jun. 5,

A Carlist conspiracy has been discovered
in Barcelona, with ramifications in Sara-
gossa and other places: Many persons
have been arrested, implicated in tip eon-
spiracy, among them Costello, » noted
Carlist. ae

‘The peasyntry of Andalusit, press&d by
poverty, have organized into plundeying
parties, and are pillaging the rich Jand-
holders.

peal ‘lo my Countrymen,” in tha columns
of the Quebec Chronide. Ie says -—

“It is with mingled sorrow, shame, and in-
dignation we see that he is making the cause
of Ireland ridiculous and despicable, by coup
ling with it the cause of Patrick James Wha-
len, the convicted assassin of ‘Thomas D'Arcy
McGee. If Mr. O'Farrel, as an advocate,
has any interest insaving Whalen from. the
gallows, lethim work while loing so, I re-
fuse to believe that he is at the s»me time ad-
ding to the honour and glory of Ireland,”

* * * * *

London, Jan 4,

Advices from Spain report quite formid-
able republican demonstrations at. Seville
and Jerez De La Trontera, At the latter
city, the insurgents made a fatile attempt
|to seize the arms and ammunition from
the Arsenel, General Roado immediate.
ly sent a strong force of soldiers to hold
the town and remove arms to Cadiz tor
safety, aes

A Proclamation has been issued raising
tho state of Seige at Madrid,

Gen. Prim, it'an official circular, declares
that the Provisional Government does not
iutend to disarm the Volunteers, /

Senor Fagarto, of the interior,has issued
a olreularin which ho asoribes thestBeent
troubles in Cadiz and Malaga to the in-
trigues of the Reaotionists, and heswhayges
that their object in tomenting thos aia t
bances, is tu prevent the rally of a plebis-

South America.

“Tn fact this assassination business has
nothing whatever to do with Irishmen or
their country, further than it is their interest
to see the murderer brought forward and
punished. Irishmen are strict lovers of jus-
tico—not sympathisers with crime; and will
not shield criminal because he happens to
be an Irishman, any more thanif he were a
Turk. Therefore, these appeals to our
sympathies, in the niuch-abused name of Ire-
land, aro not only insulting but injurious to
us as body: lot us hour no more of thom."

Cate ts tre Staths.—Scaroely ever have
we noticed more frequent mention of horrid
crime in the States than during the past few
months, ‘Taking up a file of papers, dated

than 23 murders, reported by telegrams, from
various parts of the States, some were hor.
rible ones, « Men were vompelled to see their
wives ravished by masked fiends. ‘l'hem-
selves shot down like bonsts—veaten in some
cases to death, with hot shovels—stubbed with

jeitum.

|

aval,

». London. Jah) 6,

l. Later Pate d have been ‘reovived kom
bowie knives—hanged; every known plan | **tguay. PM ical PN 1
for destroying broman life Seams to have | and unimportant. — Mr. MeMahon, the
been compresed into the work, A_ regular Atnerioun Minist'r to Paraguay, had an
carnival of crime seems to have been kept | interview with President Lopez, nd the

as very violent, no serious disaster or loss

An Mavana despatch announees:tho ar-

eral of Cuba, General Dulce, *yesterday
quict.
General Lersundi held a grand-review ol
troops in the vicinity of Havana on Sunday
garding the

Cuba, sailed for Spain yesterdiy. ‘The
policy of his successor, General Dulce, is
lamation
y. The Lib-
erals draw favorable conclusions in this
connection from the fact that he has al-
ready relaxed the rigid censorship of the

preparation and transmission of telegraph-

ny
beds at the residence of the Frenel’ Minis-
ter, Large crowds were surrounding the
ated that they

nuins very uuvyell, and is
asury de-

solution, requesting thé Presi-

Satur. /

drance and opposition, in ninety cases
out of a hundred of all curable ailments,
will testore the patient to health without
the least of what is frequently very im-
properly called ‘assistance,’ But men
and woman tuke a very great deni of
trouble to contract diseases. ‘They vio-
late the plainest laws of nature habitually,
land complain that Providence afflicts
them with disease. ‘They put on all the
airs of martyrs and lay their sufferings at
the door of a Merciful Creator, whose
beautiful and delicate handwork has long
withstood and yainly striven ta counter-
act the effects of their persistent folly and
ignorance. How many of our readers,
think you, have given nature fair play in
the marner in which they have treated
their bodies since they came to years of
discretion ? How many among us have
becn intelligently cared for in the days of
our infancy? We are quite convinced
that if the diseases of Providenee’s in-
fliction were compared with those which
‘we have foolishly, ignorantly, and wick-
edly contracted ourselves, the latter would
outnumber the former a thousand to one.
We daily suffer from colds, influenzes,
fevers, indegestion, scrofula, and many
other complaints which we haye brought
on ourselves in spite of the many indig-
nant and emphatic protests of nature.
She does not ailow us to break her laws
with impunity, and if we go on transgress-
ing in spite of her warnings and her
punishments, we have no business to
murmur at the consequences or to throw
upon Providence the blame of our own
transgressions, Our constitutions are
subject to certain laws which must be
vbeyed if we wish to enjoy the perfection
of good health—*a sound mind in a
sound body.” Every farmer knows that

Rg SPSoRSEEWal YoiN°CS aloe’ properly
prepared, and if the growing plant does
not receive an abundant supply of moist-
ure, air and sunshine, its developement
will be hindered, and it will never arrive
at full maturity. As itis in the vege-
table world, so it isin the animal. — If
the conditions of health are not complied
with, it is both unreasonable and pre-
sumptuous to expect to enjoy that great-
est of all blessings—just as unreasonable
and presumptions. gs for tte husbandman
ph Expeet'a good crop from land which he
had not tilled, and from which he, by
some means had kept the supplies of
light, air and rain which nature had pro-
vided for its nourishment. The man
who persists in eating improper food at
improper times, who exerts hiv mind or
his body beyondits strength, who exposes
himsclf to the inclemency of the weather,
without taking due precautions, who
breathes vitiated air, who drinks impure
water, who indulges in stimulating beve-
rages, has no business to complain of ill-
health, IIe, as long as he does these
things, is doing his very best to be un-
healthy, and he will be so toa greater or
less extent, just as sure as fire burns or
water moistens, As long as he keeps on
violating the laws of his’ nature, it is
worse than idle for him to expect to re-
gain his lost health by swallowing drugs.
Better, perhaps, for him to do as men
used to do in old times, wear some caba-
listic charm round his neck; or as they
do in the interior of Asia, swallow the
doctor's prescription instead of his medi-
cine. One of the first conditions of
health is cleanliness. Nature is cleanly
in all her operations. Byena pig, which
is supposed to be the filthiest of all crea-
tures, thrives best when he is kept clean.
It would actually pay our farmers to wash
their fattening pigs and to scrub their
pig stye—we are not joking. Let some |
one try the experiment, and he will be
astonished at the result. No animal
thrives if kept in an uncleanly condition,
Whoever wishes to enjoy health, should
keep himself and all his surroundings
pertectly clean. Dirt is offensive to the
eye, and it is no less injurious to the
health. ‘The cholera which men in old
times used to consider an unpreventible
mysterious visitation of Providence, is
now known to be a punishment on man
for living in dirt. Its home is in the
filthy, undrained, unscaveneged cities of
the East. There it lingers and thrives,
and when opportunity offers it travels
West with the rapidity of wind,
death to the impure abodes of men who
aro congregated in cities, It docs co:
ratively little
the bre
Water is free.from impurities, but in the

a

damage in the country where

téring heaps of filth,
around them,
with nameless
a field prepare

poisoning the air t
and loading the streams |
impurities; there it finds
; d for its dreadful wark—-|!
there it commits its most fearful ravages.

during Christmas week, What the causes | result was understood to be eminently ant.
are would be hard'to tell, The Chief one, | istuctory, tull atonement to thy redéntont-
no doubt, that these men have become. in the | rages to the American flag having been

civic war, fearfully used to the sight of killed | guaranteed, she
men, and have become ealous to the enormity Athens, Jan, 4,
of the crime.—J/2, Reporter. Tt is stated that the Turkish Admiral, Ho-

The Rev. Mr. Clarke, of Shelburne, N. 8
8 received « call to a con
n,and the Rev. Mr. St

+y| bart Pach
eregition in Bas | ber of th
ewart,

ha has formaliy demanded the surren-

w great Stoamer Krosis, ‘Me dot

of Acadia! patch adds that war is
js Athens.

considered inevityble | 98 \
Children are peculialy suse

It has been found that cleanliness is its
greatest enemy. ‘The cholera may be
said to have been driven out of England

y the shovel; the w
white-wash ‘brush. The same
have boen used with good effe
the typhus, the typhoid and
8 well as the many forms o

ca

Weapons | t

slow fevers, ’
f dysentery, te

oring establishment of
want * perfect fit's’ ta got

carrying | Question asked

butitis one whi
Mpa. |
. 4 £
eze 18 untainted and where the!1
We donb not but

tgwns where there are suffered to lic: fog. | OXPitation of the 7
ok from Charlatte

more, ‘This,shawever, will remain
l85O!

understands the

received the |
Q

ater pail, and the) when he
© publish the aveoun
ct against | wall, No such native

ment and beauty spring out of those un-
sightly, unsavorily, pestiferous aggrega-
tions of nastiness. ‘I’o do this effectually
organization is necessary. ‘The disunited
efforts of a few well-meaning men can do
very little. They know what ought to be
done, but they have not the power to do
it. They can only persuade and expos-
tulate, they have not the authority to
compel. But in every town men should
be compelled to be clean. If some are
too ignorant or too lazy to remove nui-
sances, it should be done for them, and
they should be compelled to pay for the
removal. The health of the whole town
is not to be endangered on account of the
ignorance and wrongheadedness of a few.
It is of the utmost importance that the
people of Summerside should kaye pure
air to breathe and pure water to drink ;
but they cen have neither the one or the
other without some measures are taken to
prevent filth from accumulating on the
surface in and around their premises. We
all know how much sickness there is in
this town every Summer among grown
up people and among children. Why
are there more stricken with fever and
other diseases in Summerside, in propor-
tion to our numbers, than in the surround-
ing country districts. There is no drain-
age to this Town, The noisome sub-
stances deposited upon the surface are al-
lowed to fester about our houses for

falls conveys the drainings to our wells,
or to the springs which supply our wells.
It is no wonder that this state of things
is beginning to tell on the health of the
people. In Charlottetown matters are,

are here.

3 ae en

eaf tha ill effaota af tha ase

so

and

months, and every shower of rain that

if possible, in a worse condition than they
Dr. Jenkin’s letter, which we
publish in another column, points out

Dr. Jenkin’s Letter,
Dec. 27th, 1868,

1o the Chairman of the Board of Health;

c ;
Sin: ’
T beg to report to the Board the prevalence

of a low form of fever, which appears to, be

confined to a portion of the City within a short
distance of the intersection of Kent and
Prince Streets. I haye, in my own Practice,
16 cases in'tha, vitinity, and‘ am awite of
several others. On finding so many’ chses of
the same type, within so limited p. space, L
cume tothe conclusion that there-must be #
local cause for so marked a resiilt; I, there-
fore, instituted enquiries, and discovered that
the pump from which these people drew their,
water, was in the immediate neighborhood of
an old well which ad been used as a Privy;
this well is situated on the premisesof. Mr.
Paul McPhall. Phere is also on the premises
of Dr, Johaston an old well, which iy used as
«4 sink, and is a receptacle for the fe-
fuse of the house, of all descriptions. » ‘These
two sources of pollution are suflicient to con-
taminute the water of all the wells in ghe City,
were'they subject to them.
I have no Iresitation in stating that the fever
is due to this cause, both from positive and
negative reasons ; it is a positive tact thatthe
fever is gonfined to that locality, and this ev
dence is strengthened by the circumstance of
a workman of Mr, G. Dogherty, who lives at
a distance, but who drinks of the water from.
the suspected well, being laid up with fevers
On the other hand, the negative evidence is,
that there can be at this season no attospher-
ic cause for the outbreak; nor can- surface
filth have any effect in that way when the
earth's crust become impenetrable from frost,
as it is at present, and also from the surface
being covered with snow. It is impossible to
have the water analyzed here; only in the
States or in Europe, or the large. cities of
Canada, can Chemists be found who are suf-
ficiently expert to make such an analysis. I
would, therefore, suggest to the Board the
necessity of stopping the pump for the pre-
sent; and also of prohibiting the parties above
named, from any such use of the wells on
their premises. It is well known that the
water from wells at a considerable distance
from the beach becomes impregnated with the
saline matter from sea water, and tastes brack-
ish. How much more readily then may nox-
ious matters from wells immediately adjacent,
and probably fed from the same stream, find
their way into the water used by the people of
this neighborhood, ‘That water polluted by
liuman excrement is productive of disease,
has been placed beyond a doubt by researches
made during the prevalence of Asiatic Cholere
and other epidemics, ie
I would,take this opportunity of drawing’
the attention of the Board to the very bad
state of the water supplied gencrally.
I have, &e., &e.,
J, ‘Tl. JENKINS,

Health Officer.
os
We publish in this day’s paper Mr,
Beers yery sensible and well written Jet-
ter on salmon culture. We recommend
the subject to the attention of the men ot
enterprise and reflection amongst us.
The subject of pisciculture has oecupied
much attention both in the new world and
the old. Ithas been proved by experi-
ments that itis almost as easy to raise
pond and river fish, as itis to breed Sheep
and horses. ‘To re-stock our numerous
rivers and bays with salmon, is quite o
feasible enterprise. Our American neigh-
bors have undertaken to breed salmon
quite as cooly as our farmers manage to
raise eatlle. It was only the other day
that some of them imported a quarter of
a million of Salmon eggs all the way from
New Brunswick, where it seems that a
salmon culture establishment is already

The Doctor gives but a g
evil consequences of the w.
system of drainage and an abundant sup-
ply of water for Charlottetown, No per-
son who is used to drinking the pure
water of country places can bear to taste
the impure water of the City pumps, it is
so nauscous and unpleasant. ‘The water
of this place will soon be ny Setter.

Now wwe would suggest that means be
taken to make Summerside a clean, well
drained Town, ‘The expense necessary
to effect this desirable end will not be
nearly so great as many people imagine.
A small outlay for drains and a few sim-
ple regulations, rigidly enforced, are all
that is required, Bur ruere's rie run,
Who 4s to undertake the business, and what
power ts there vested in anybody to enforce
the regulations ? We may depend upon
it that until we establish some. kind of
Municipal Government in this Town, its
sanatory condition will not be in the
slightest condition improved.

We were shown the other day a beautiful
set of plans, drawn by Mark Butcher, Esq. ,
and intended for a residence to be erected on
the north side of King Square, for George R.
Beer, Esq. We do not profess to be much of
a judge of Architecture, but if allowed
to express an opinion, we should say that the
set of plans above ‘nentioned were equal if
not superior to some once shown us that had
been drawn in the United States.

The weather during the past week has
been very changeable. On Sunday it rained
and thawed until the roads were bare in many
places, on Sunday night it froze hard, and
on ‘Tuesday a real old fashioned snow storm
set in and continued all day and all night.

Those who have not yetreceivedan Island
Almanac for 1869 will do well to call at our
Bookstore and get one at once, as they are
going very fast.

The North Star makes its appearance in an
entirely new dross, from the olive of its pro:
prietor on the corner of Pownal and Rich-
mond streets, We wish Mr. Ross all the suc-
cess his enterprise deserves,

Judging from present Appearances,

will not be much good ive on the Mea tit
winter, ‘There is, as yet, scarcely.” Hy

any tra-

velling on the ice tu’ the west ard or the

eastward,

ba Those persons wh y e
ed with Bills up to Qet, any

&c,, who have not Yu pai
v paid us, w!
and pay or remit he nis PO ag ae

ka The Ooat furnished us from the ‘Tail.
Mr. MeSween on New
t fit” We advise all whe

here,
Ostmaster General ® This is a
Uy nearly every one we meet,
ich we are unablo ta answer,
ay we focl somewhat interested in
Almont. ‘Tho late Postmaster Gen-
Faldono nwch for the Western part of the
sland in rogard ta Mail canvenience, and,
that had he lived until the
present tenders of the mails
Mattetown to Sammorside and from
Tignish, he would have done much
for his suc,
or todo, Whoever he ma he, oe tenet
he will be a man up to the times, and one who

: wants af the country.

Chief Justice Young, of Nova Scotia, has
Nonor af Kaighthdod fram the

n furnish-
fast, for advertising,

Year’s,was a ¢ perfec

Who is to be P

Ve must s
he appoi

hence to

meen,
‘The editor of tho Patriots was

stated that the mistaken

tof a murder at Corn.
Appeared in our paper, |
f the Supreme Conrt|
was opened on ‘Taesday
nd that there js q great

The January term o
bt Queen's Count
iat, We understa

eptible to the | d

eal of business this term,

apathy of the people of the Capital.
limpse of the} ,,
apt of a good! Brunswickers were y

Journal was the first | ¢

set up, and they expect them to be hatch-
I sume time in this month. The New
ery unwilling to part
with the spawn and did so only on con-
dition thatone halt of that takem from
the fish be kept us the property of the
Jominion Government, and that the Ame-
ans should have them hatched out in
Miramichi for the benefit of the river!—
Patriot, Jan.9th,

Georgetown harbor was perfetly ‘clear
ofice on Wednesday last. Next tall, wo
hope arrangements will be made to keep
up Steam communication between that
place and Novae Scotta.as long as possible,
atter the harbors of Summerside and
Charlottetown are closed. ‘Lhis would
bea great public convenience, and the
country would cheerfully bear the ex-
peuse.—Lb,

_ TEMPERANCE,

Mr. Epitorn:— A ae

In consequence of the Quarterly Session of
the G. 1), Sons of ‘lemperance meting early
in this month at Crapaud, which Mr. Barratt
desires to attend, 1 have agreed to make some
changes in his published appointments, and to.
add to them as follows:

Plat School House, near James Wiggins’,
Town Road, Saturday, Jan, 19.

Searletown, G.Samaritan Division, Monday
Jan. 18,

Crapaud, Tuesday, Jan. 19.

Canoe Cove, Albert & Victoria Te
Thursday, Jan, 21.

Clyde River, Guide of Youth
day, Jan, 22.

Bonshaw, Scotia Lodge, Monday, Jan, 25.

North Bedeque, ‘Tuesday, Jan. 26.

Cascumpee Village, Wxcelsior Temple,
Wednesday, Jan, 27,

I trust you will be

mple,

Lodge, Fri-

i good cnough to publish
the above in your first issue, und that the
gentlemen to whom handbitis are sent will
make the best use of thora,
Yours truly,
Rozent Lainp,

au. 6, 1869...
dur, 98 Greevty
p 4g the year 1869, an

vlitical economy, wherein the policy of
Protection to Home Industry will be explain
ed and vindicated. This work will first bo.
given to the publig through suegepsive issues
j of Tain New Yorx Tripuxg, and will appear
in all its editions—Datty, 910; SemeWeen-
Ly, $4; Week y,g2 per annum,

We have received from the
“Star Spangled Banner”
this number it enters upon its seventh vol!
ume. and is enlarged and improved, giving
nearly double the former awaunt of matter.
Itis 4 rich,rare and racy sheet af 40 te ng col-
umns and 8 large pages, illustrated, and is
really the cheapest paper in the country. Its
publishers present, &ratis, (0 every subsdrtber
a splended engraving, and the price of all is
only 75 cents, Specimens can be seen at
this office, or will he sent tree by. addressing

Stan Srananen Banner,” Hinsdale, N. H.

Newerarnr DIRECTORY. —G, Pr Ror 1 &
Ca, the New York Advertising Keone
about issuing 9 complete American: Nows-
paper Directoyr: - Ht iv a Compilation much
heeded, singe nothing of the kind having any
claims ta comploteness has ever been pubs
lished, ‘

Mesars: Ixowell & Ca, have »
or mie a make the fort
complete,” We understand th book
wound ithe Mpc volume of aboot 300 plies

din dark cloth
ber tort! ott, and sold far five, Dollars

As the publishers are Advertising Agonts,
iy eo Duchy ime
jealously guarded by
t business, shows that ‘they aro
confident of their ability ta be of servive to

advertisers, or they w not s i

place in their a eal a oan ~
every One to communicat me *
liseers if they so desire, co oe vo

me
Princetown, J

Hor: purposed té write,
elementary work on

"publisher, the
for January, With

pared no pains
hvoming ‘ work

Usuassly