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SDAY, J!

NUARY 9, 1868.

now he came back, bringing a heavy
heart, to muke himself a home in the new
world,

He laid out a manor of a thousand acres,
plan..ed a manor-house, and christened
the place **Greenway Court.” But the
mansion was never built. A long, low,
stone building, with dormer windows,
wooden belfries, chimneys studded with
swallows and martin houses, and a roof
slopiag inthe old Virginian fashion, had
ones been tenanted by his steward, and
there the British peer took up his abode,

Out-houses for his servants were scattered,

about, together with stables and kennels
foz horses and hounds,

“indians paddling down the river in their
birch canoes, stepped and gazed at the
grim huntsman, who came and went with
the air of a master in the hunting grounds
that had once belonged to them; and
wood-men, clad in deer-skin, lingered
beneath the old trees; but they were not
the only ones who were interested in the
exile. He, at whose name our hearts
threb avith admiring reverence, he who
auterwards guided our army through years
Of struggle to victory and peace, was a
‘frequent visitor at Greenway Court.
Washington was then a mere youth, and
the Conversation of Thomas Fairfax was
® source of much profit, since his hew

‘friend’s intercourse with the best seviety |
- of Europe, his cultivated talents and liter-
avy tastes, rendered hip. not only enter-

* taining, but instructis 9,
Lord Fairfax. Loweyer, avoided mixed

society, ane, no maneuvring dowager
could Vring abont an alliance with the

English nobleman who dwelt like a hermit
in the yalley of the Shenandoah.
(Lo be Continued.)

HMiscellanvous,
THE RECENT MASSACRES IN FIJI.

The Wesleyan Missionary Record publish-
es the following extract from a short note
written by Mr. Carey, announcing the
massacre of the Rey, Thos, Baker, a Wes-
leyan missionary at Fiji, together with an
assistant missionary and six natiye teach-
ers:—

“T am sorry to inform you that tho
whole district has suddenly been thrown
into the deepest sorrow by the death of
my esteemed colleague, the late Rev.
Thomas Baker. Le lett his home on the
18th of July to visit some island tribes;
and on Sunday the 21st he and a native
assistant missionary, Shadrach Seilieka.
together with six others, were all brutally
murdered by the natives of an ialand tribe.
Two of Mr. Baker's party haye escaped
alive. One of these teachers we have ex-
amined, and the other, who ran for his
life right across ‘Na-Viti-Levu,’ coming
out at Ba, we are hourly expecting here.
Mr. Baker has indeed fallen, and fallen—
my heart sickens while I write it—among
the vilest cannibals. You will imagine
our gricf at this moment, and that of poor
Mrs. Baker and the three fatherless girls,
who are now with us. Ie set out on the
27th October for Soloira, After journey-
ing fer three days, and taking advantage
of various opportunities of delivering his

espel message, Mr. Baker, (witha native
ussistant-missionary) arrived at Korobal-
avu (Longtown). The kind of human
beings among whan, Mr. Baker labored
may be judged of by the following des-

cription of an individual living in the place | ¥

in which he pevished:—*tIn this town
(Longtown) there lives a notorious can-
nibal, with whom I had a little convessa-
tion. Ie pointod me to a pile of human
bones in the fork of the orange-tree under
which we were sitting, and assured me
he had eaten the men of which each bone
there was # representative, and that he
had kept these bones as a momento of his
cannibalism, Many other things did this
inhuman wretch make known to me; and
his countenance, and move than ordinary
worn teeth, only helped to conyinee me
that he had literally been a human bone
crusher! ‘To huve listened to this nian’
statements, and told, too, in the presence
of thase who could have contradicted them
it false, would have removed forever from
the minds of some the idcathat Fijians are
not lovers of human flesh. ‘This vile ean-
nibal affirmed that, as for eating, nothing
was comparable to human flesh, not even
fowls or pork. In different parts of this
ton we saw human bones hanging on
the trees, which told of very recent butch-
ery. We made an orrangement that as
soon as their teacher should arrive all
theso bones should be collected and
buried.”

Mr. Baker's efforts to Christianize the
siwagages of the Fiji Islands were crown-
ed with great success, and whilst making
further efforts to evangelise the inland
tribes he and his brethren were ruthlessly
massacred,

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BRUTAL HOMICIDE OF A WIFE.

[From the Norfolk (Vu.) Journal, Dee. 11.]
We have to record this morning the
murder, by menns of a process rivaling
the most diabolical contrivances of the in-
quisition, of a young woman and mother
by the name of Johanna Moore, by a fiend
in human shape named Edward Moore,
whoin it was her misfortune to call hus-
band. The brute literally kicked his wife
to death, a torture which he inflicted by
degrees, and, in the language of one of
the witnesses betore the jury of inquest,
**danced her body until her breath went
out.” Cries of the dying woman brought
sever of the neighbors to the door of the
domicile, but they were prevented from
entering by the man-monster, who stood
in the doorway with a dirk knife in his
hand and threatened to ‘trip open” the
first whoentered. This bloody affray took
lace at the residence of Moore, on Sugar
tri, that part of Newton adjoining Gos-
port. Moore is known to have been
abitually addicted to the ill-treatin
his wife, and this assault, maddened by
an excess of drink, proved to be the ‘* fin-
ishing stroke,”

When we entered the building where

the tragedy occurred it had the appearance,
we may say, of a slaughter pen. Blood
was bespattcred in every direction, and
signs of a struggle, as if the deceased had
attempted to defend herself, were very
apparent. The appearance of the carpse
was truly ghastly, and evidences of the
terribléMeating to which the victim was
subjected were apparent on every portion
of the body. The skull alone was frac-
tured in seven places, and one large hole
found in the back of the cranium was said
to be the result of a stamp ofthe boot heel.
‘This man, or monster, Ned Moore, wasa
laborer in the navy yard in the ordnance
department, and knocked off work on the
day of the murder at dinner time and went
on atvolic, He is said to be a very pleasant
man when sober, but when drunk is easily
_ provoked to a perfect frenzy, when he
: ly grinds his tecth together and ex-
tite, ‘other symptoms of a ferocious na-
when often carried a dirk knife, and
frequently figurea’ Nn. He has
principal in cromenyahe Mayor's court as
ubout thirty years of # Ile is
MEET ie,

of

The wite and victim, Mrs. Johanna
Moore, was a pleasant looking lady, about
tlwenty-five years of age, and was the
mother of one child about six weeks old,
She was very much devoted to her husband,
uotwithstanding his brutality to her, and
bore her sufferings with singular fortitude.
When he gave her a black eye she would
stay in the house and retuse to show har-
self until the mark disappeared, to sereen
him fem public censure,

Storms at Home axnp Aproap.—The
coasts of the British ishinds have this week
“been visited by a violent storm, and the
list of wrecks and casualities is alarmingly
great, Last Saturday the storm broke in
all its fury over the whole extent of the
coast from the English Channel to the
Pentland Firth, and when morning dawn-
ed on Monday the shore was strewn with
wrecks, and in too many cases the lost
vessels had involved their crews in the
vortex of destruction,
of Wales and on the equally dangerous
east coasts of Scoland and England gal-
lant ships went down with all on board,
and in One case move thin twenty lives
were lost by the upsetting of a lifeboat.
Amid the narierous list of wreeks and dis-
asters, ii is pleasing to read of the gallant
“eeds performed by the crews of lifeboats,
who dared all the dangers of the angry
deep to rescue poor fellows who were in
peril. Although little is thought of the
services rendered by lifeboats und their
gallant crews, the courage shown by the
crews of lifeboats is ot w higher kind than
that of the soldier who yolunteers on a
forlorn hope, as there is no stimulant of
glory and reward to urge them on, and
although there is at the present time an
order established for rewarding those who
have saved life at sea, it seems to be nig-
gardly bestowed, as we hear of {ew who
have received it. The Albert Cross, the
order referred to, ought to fulfil the object
of its foundation. and the men who ¥
their lives to save their fellows from a
watery grave ought to be rewarded the
sume as the soldier, who, in face of the
enemy, rescues his companion from death,
is rewarded by the Victorian Cross.—Glas-
gow Sentinel, Dee. 7,

A terrible storm swept over Bengal on
the first of last month. At Caleutta up-
wards of 1000 persons were killed, and
about 20,000 huts of the natives destroyed.
Immense damage has been done to the
shipping, more than in 1864. The force
of the cyclone seems to have been greatest
round wbout Caleutia, but away from the
city great damage was done in the coun-
try ; and it is ferved that many lives have
lost in the towns and villages along the
course of the Ganges.

Tn a recent discourse, Rey. envy Ward
Beecher made the following excellent
points: **Some men will not shave on
Sunda nd yet they spend all the week
in shaving their fellow men; and many
folks think it very wicked to black their
boots on Sunday morning. y et they do not
ate to black their neighbors’ reputa-
tion on week diys.”

An experiment has been made upon the
steam fire engines in Detroit, showing that
hy keeping hot water in the boiler steam can
be generated and water thrown in four min-
utes. With cold water it requires about
eight minutes.

Lighty-iwo new vessels were building upon
the Wear on the 80th of September, under
Lloyd's survey. ‘Thirty-three new vessels
2 building on the Tyne at the same time
of which sixtecn were iron; of the latter, five
were over 1,000 tons cach,

The re-appearance of the Trichine plague
at the West, otcurs simultaneously with an
alarming discovery at the East. A Boston
gentleman reports to the J’s¢ of that city that
a multitude of the little snake-like worns
have been observed in a sound codfish, and
so tenacious were they of life that an hour's
boiling was not sulficient to kill them.

Two ship yards in Quebce have been re-
opened—their proprietors having provided
against interference by the Ship Uarpenter’s
Union.

The old custom of preaching by the sand
glass has been revived in an English church.
{t needs turning every twenty minutes. It is
stated that many old churches. still have the
highly wrought iron stands on which the old
hour-glass used to stand, mostly of the age
of the Commonwealth,

It has been remarked in New Orleans that
not one of sixty workmen employed in laying
pavement there, and working all day amid
the fumes of tar, has caught the yellow fever.

Kk

Hight or ten years ago « couple in Zanes-
ville, Ohio, became tired of each other and
were divorced. Both parties re-married,
and both lost their new partners. Reeently
they forgot their grievances. revived their
old affection, and became husband and wife.

Washington has a papulation of 100,000, of
whom 75,000 are whites,

There is something very singular in the
incidents attending the death of Mr. Lyle,
Chief Engineer of the Philadelphia Fire De-
partment. On Saturday afternson he was
alone counting some money in his office.
when he suddenly died in his sitting posture,
from an attack of apoplexy. All Saturday
night, Sunday and Sunday night, he sat there
dead, holding some United States bonds and
bills in his hands, and not till Monday morn-
ing was he found by the woman who came to
sweep out the office,

Serrction ror a Nuwsparer.— Most
people think the selection of suitable matter
for a newspaper the easiest part of the busi-
ness. How greatanerror! It is the most
dificult, ‘’o look over and over hundreds
and hundreds of exchange papers every week
from which to select enough tor one, especial-
ly when the question is not what shall but
what shall not, be selected, is nu easy task.
If every person who reads a newspaper could
have edited it, we should hear less complaints.
Not unfrequently is it the case that an editor
looks over all his exchange paners for some-
thing interesting and can find nothing, and
yet something must be had—his paper must
come out with something in it, and he does
the best he can, ‘lo an editor who has care
about what he selects, the writing that he has
to do is the least of the labor. Just as many
subscribers as an cditor may have, 60 many
tastes has he to consult.

The following extract of a letter from
Ottawa, bearing date Dec, 12, the Morning
News says was received in St. Jo in on 'Thurs-
day last.

‘Ata meeting of the Exccutive yesterday
the feeling was intensely in fuyor of the pure
Northern route, so much so that Robertson,
Steeves and Gray urged Mr. ‘Tilley to agree
with Mr. Mitchell, and go forthe Northern
Central, or that St. John would lose all,—and
this is pretty sure to be the ease, if Tilley is
foolish enough to hope fora Frontier. The
Committee on Printing yesterday recommend
1000 copies in Nnoglish, and 600 in French of
Mejor Robinson's Report, to be printed for
the use of the Commons, and refused to sanc-
tion the reprinting of Fleming's ax not of
sufficient importance to justify the expense;
and thus it is everywhere, the press, the
House, the Government, all in favor of the
North, and Mitchell really the best friend of
St. John, because he is strong for what is
feasible, while Tilley is grasping at a shadow.
The mail is jus. closing, and I hasten to tell
you this, You may rely upon its perfect
accuracy, not as a matter of opinion, but as
one of fact. Now for my opinion. It is just
this. ‘Tilley will never get the Frontier, and
in trying for that he will lose even the Com-
promise, Our members sce that plain enough,
and hence the disposition to urge him to join
\With Mitchell to get what Is feasible.”

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On the wild coast |

The New Postal Arrangements,

Referring to the new postal arrange-
ments the Liverpool Journal of Commerce
says:—

“With the year 1868 the new postal ar-
rangements recently entered into between
the Post-oflice authorities and the Cunard,
Inman, and North German Lloyd's Com-
panies, will come into op ion. Alllet-
ters nddressed to the United States, and
specially directed to go by any ps !

teu

steamers, and all letters having no special
direction will as at present, be sent by the
first aac despatched atter they are
posted or received, whether such paces
belong to the Cunard Company, Inman
Company, or the North German Lloyd's.
The articles of the Cunard contract states
the subsidy isto be £30,000 per annum
(in quarterly payments), dating trom the
Ist January 1808. ‘The vessels are to leave
this port on Saturdays, and New York on
Wednesdays ; to coal at Queenstown ; each
boat to be provided with « medical otlicer;
the Postinaster-General to be at liberty to
alter the times of departure, and to delay
the departure for any period not exceed-
ing twenty-lour hours; nitroglycerine, and
other specially das gerous articles, not to
' be conveyed; a limited number of officers
and men in the army, navy, or civil ser-
vice to be accommodated as passengers on
board, if required by the Postmas
eral, at certain rates, which are specified ;
the contract not to be sub-let; boats to be
chartered or purchased by the Admirality,
if necessary ; penalties varying from £100
to £400 to be paid tor delays or diversions ;
not unavoidable; and the contractors tu
be bound in £25,000 for the due_pertorn-
ance of the contract. The details of the
Intan contract haye not yet been made
public but we understand that the subsidy,
so well-cained by this line, hag been
awarded.”

Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry.

Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, Asthma, Croup,
Whooping Cough, Quincy, and the numerous
as well as dangerous diseases of the ‘Throat,
Chest and lungs, prevail in our changeable
climate at all seasons of the year; few are
fortunate enough to escape their banctul in-
fluence, Tow important itis then to have at
hand a certain antidote to all these com] aint.
Experience proves that this exists in Wistar's
Balsam to an extent not found in any other
remedy; however severe the suffering, the
application of this soothing, healing and won-
derful Balsam at once vanquishes the lisease
and restores the sufferer to wonted health,

Mr. JOUN BUNTO,
Or Barswin, Curmune Co., N. Y.—writes:

“T was urged by a neighbor to get one bot-
tle of the Balsam for my wife, being assured
by him that in case it did not produce good
effects, he woujd pay for the bottle himself.
On the strength of such practical evidence of
its merits, I procured a bottle. My wife at
this time was sv low with what the Physicians
termed Seated Consumption as to be unable
to raise herself fiom tie bed, coughing con-
stuntly and raising more or less blood. I
commenced giving the Balssm as directed,
and was so muct pleased with its operation
that [ obtained another bottle, and continued
giving it. Before this bottle was entirely
used, she ceasdd coughing and was strong
enough to sit up. ‘I'he fitth bottle entirely
restored her to health, doing that which seve-
ral physicians had tried to do but had failed.”

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Gorrespondence,

Mr. Epiror:

Sir,—Having noticed in your issue of last
week that the Summerside Debating Society
have decided that an Act of Incorporation
would henefit this Town, [begleave, through
the columns of your Journal, to offer a few
remarks on this important subject.

I think the time has not yet arrived for
Summerside to Lecome anincorporated Town,
for this reason; that it is too small and too
poor to bear the expenses consequen? upon
the healthy working of all the paraphernalia
connected with a City Corporation. It may
be a very nice thing to be able to say that we
live in a city corporate; have our Mayor,

City Council, Policemen, &c.; and at state-
ed intervals our Civic Elections to fire our
ambition; all this may~seem very fine, but
let us sit down and calmly count the cost,
and perhaps we may be led to very different
conclusions; let us then count the probable
expenses of a City Corporation. Tirst, we
have a Mayor with a salary of say one hun-
dred pounds, Recorder one hundred pounds,
City Clerk, eighty pounds, three policemen,
say eighty pounds each, two hundred and
forty pounds, Here we have the snug little
sum of five hundred and twenty pounds to
begin with, and still we want u Police Station
and Lock-up, which would cost at least two
hundred and fifty pounds more, to say no-
thing of the various improvements needed in
the shape of Side-walks, Ornamental Squares,
&e.; the sole object of Incorporation by its
advocates. Now the question arises where is
this—to us large ameunt—to come trom?
‘The answer is from tavern and distiller’s
licences, whurfages, &c.; the balance to be
mide up by taxation. And suppose the
necessary amounts is raised, how, 1 ask will
we be benefitted by it? It will take the very
last penny we can grind out of ourselves and
neighbors to pay three or four officials, and
not one penny will be left for the many im-
provements which we all admit ure so much
needed. We are now paying a yearly fire tax
of fifty pounds. To raise this amount an
assessment of one per cent. on the yearly
value of all the property in the Town 1s levied.
This is considered a grevious burden, and is
loudly complained of by many.

One half of the names on the Collectors
books are poor people, living by their days
work, who, with difficulty puy from one shil-
ling and sixpence to five shillings per annum.
How then can we expect such persons to pay
five times as much tax, which is the very
lowest figure we may expect when ome we
have this much coveted Act of Incorporation?
‘The fact is potent to any observing mind that
the burden would have to be borne by some
forty or fifty persons. A burden which would
soon become ruinous in the extreme, and
from winch perhaps we would in vain try to
extricate ourselves.

Yours, &e.,
PRO BONO PUBLICO:

Summerside, Jan, 8, 1808,

steamer, will as at present, be sent by such |

Summerside Journal.
AY, JANUARY 9, 1868.

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 undertake to
return communications that are not use

— _ — —— -
THE NEWS.
By the late English papers received
here on Monday last, we learn that the
Abyssinian war and the Fenian outrages
are the principal topics of the day. Two
million pounds have been granted by
Parliament towards the prosecution of
the former, which two millions have been
emphatically dsscribed by a certain mem-
ber of the House of Commons as * the

postage of King Theodorus’s unanswered
letter.” This, however, is denied by Mr.

Layard, who maintains that it was
jealousy of English favors supposed to be
shown to the ‘Turks which has led to the
captivity of the British subjects. Be this
as it may, the war is now on the hands of
England ; one, in which the honor to be

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ained can at the best be but small, and
the vexation very-likely to be great. “It
appears that there are not only British, but
Prussian subjects held in durance vile,
and the question of their liberation has
come before Parliament. Lord Lyyeden
in the House of Lords has put the ques-
tion, ** Was it meant that if King Vheo-
dorus gave up those prisoners who were
subjects of her Majesty, the war was still
to be continued for the ‘sake of those
Furopean missionaries with whom we
had nothing to do, and that this country
was to be taxed for years to come for the
purpose of liberating those persons ?”
‘Yo which Earl Derby replied, ** We are
not bound by international law to demand
any but our own subjects, but I hope Sir
R. Napier will not lose the opportuuity
of rescuing from captivity all who may be
detained.” Meanwhile Pru says net
a word, Count Bismarck makes vo offer
to bear any of the expenses; doubtless
hoping that John Bull will, as has been
his custom in past times, both to do all
the fighting and pay all the expenses,
Prussia will then very politely say ** thank
you,” and the Pritish tax-payer will very
quictly * fork over.” Meanwhile the ex-
pedition itself goes bravely on. Tour
thousand Hgyptian troops have volun-
teered their services, and on the 6th Dec.,
the advance brigade had reached Senafe,
all well.”

The Ienians seem determined to leave
no stone unturned to exasperate the pa-
tient yet powerful English public. They
adopted the other day the truly Hibernian
method of attempting to rescue some in-
carcerated companions by blowing up the
prison in which they were confined.
Twenty bodies were removed from the
ruins of the wall of the Clerkenwell

houses. Three persons were fatally in-
jured and a number of others badly burn-
ed, including several children, Three
persons have been arrested. It also ap-
pears that an unusually large number of
letters addressed to Government officials
have lately passed through the Dublin
Post Oilice. These were found to con-
tain some fulminating material arranged
to explode and kill the openers. T’ortu-
nately no one was killed, but a policeman
has been horribly mangled with one of
them. The people of England seem now

summary justice will be meted out to the
Fenian traitors and assa:sins, Attempts
have also been made to destroy a gas

were made to destroy a Nobleman’s man-
sion in London, by dashing bottles of
Greek Fire through the windows.

society, and keep their cyes wide open

principles.

deeds as took place at Clerkenwell.

except when we put authority in motion.

or hatred. ‘The very life of socicty is at

determines to act against barbarism.”

Tt appears that the British Government
have concluded to withdraw its legation
from Mexico. Nothing short of war can
justify such a step.
issue with considerable interest,
British subjects in Mexico are

stated that all the railways in the country
and some of the mines are owned by
British capitalists. Mow much better it
the monicd men. of the British Empire
sought investment for their capital in these
Colonies, where the returns would We as
great, with less risk attending the outlay.
In the Island of Viti-levu, one of the
jjian group, has been perpetrated one ot
the mosteold blooded massacres on record,
The Rey, Vhomas Baker, one of the mis-
sionaries of the Weslyan Church, was at-
tempting to explore the interior and carry
the blessings ot Christianity to its tribes.
On Sabbath, the 21st July, the missionary
with several of the native students were
attacked by the canhivals and murdered,
with the exception of two natives. Mr.
Baker received his death blow at the hands
ot the Chief, Nakatakataimosi, who from
behind struck him on the lower part of the
back of the neck with his axe. He tell
dead on the spot. The bodies were after-
wards stripped, cooked and devoured.
Verily the dark places of the earth are
full of tho habitations of cruelty,

The United States has purchased the Is-
land of St. Thomas in the West Indies,
from Denmark, for the sum of one million
five hundred thousand pounds. sterling.
‘This has long been the terminus of steam-
ers from diferent parts of the world.
Among others the Cunard liner #* Alpha,”
from Halitax via Bermuda, visits St.'Thom-

as once & month, carrying the correspon-

Indies. This Island was lately visited by

House of Detention, and three adjoining

thoroughly aroused, and it is hoped that

manufactory in Scotland, and between
Saturday and Monday, three attempts

The
News of the World calls upon the people
to ‘texert themselves in the interest of

to the acts and cxpressions of the men
who scarecly cffect any disguise as to their
With great watchfulness on
the part of the public, and great activity
on the part of the police, who fecl them-
selves sustained by the public, we need
not fear the recurrence of such unhappy
We
must act for ourselves, and not trust too
much for what authority can do for us,

In a case like this it is war in a barbarous
fashion which we have to meet, and it can
only be met by weapons such as the Ung-
lish people can wield without vengeance

stake ; but it will not be so when society

Wo shall await the
The
il to be
“ina high state of excitement.” Itis also

dence of these Provinces with the West

a dreadfal earthquake, which was imme-
diately followed by a tremendous waye!

fourteen feet high, which the terrified
inhabitants beheld rolling in trom the
ocean, As itupproached they feared the
town would be submerged, but the waye
being broken by some outstanding reefs
failed to utterly destroy it, As it was the
ocean poured in upon the streets and
houses to the depth of several feet.
The Ame as seem determined to ae-
quire territory, perfas ef nefas, in different
parts of the world, to be used as points of
rendezvous for war ships, in ease of hos-
tilities with any other country, Notwith-
standing the affected murmurs and outeries
of their p there is doubtless deep de-
sign in the put eof Russian America,
and also of an island in the Mediterranean,
}Sceretary Seward does not, however, in
his territory negotiations, seem very happy
in his choice of plices. Russian America
is one vast lump of ico and snow, and the
Island of St. Thomas is so noted for the
prevalence of yellow fever, that it as
been in contemplation to abandon the
harbor of St. Thomas in fayor of some
other port of call, At this time last year
three diferent pestilences were sweeping
over that Island—yellow fever, sniall-pox,
and cholera, And what the plague lelt
seems to be well nigh destroyed by earth-
quake and deluge, so that altogether
Denmark has made a pretty good bargain,
The Dominion Parliament was adjourn:
ed on the 20th of December, to meet again
on the 12th of March. ‘The Legislatures
of Quebee and Outario opened on Friday
the 27th ult. The Hon. Ferguson Blair,
President of the Privy Council, died at his
lodgings on the 29th ult., and the Hon
Mr, Llowland is seriously ill at Toronto,

OUR ICE-OLATED CONDIT.ON.

Oxcr more has winter fairly encircled
us with his rough embrace! ‘The long
day of business with the rest of the world
has come to an end, and a fesv months of
comparative inaction are before us. In
fact we have just turned the frost-keys,
and shot the ice-bolts of our Island
dwelling, put on our night-cap, tucked
us up in our white counterpane of snow,
nodded, ‘* good night,’ to the Maia
Land, and, like sensible people, are pre-
paring to make the most even of disad-
vantages, and, on the light-out-of-dark-
ness principle, educe comfort out of our
discomforts. And who is there to say
that the sleigh bells will not ring out as
merrily, and the fires blaze as chceerily,
and life pass as pleasantly, on this side
the fearful ice-gulf, es on the other?
Have they ‘* fair women and brave men,”
over in the New Dominion? So have
we! lave they fast horses? So have
we! Have they Lecturers, Debators,
and others that prepare ‘the feast of
reason,’’ and adyocate the flow of soul?
So have we !

How shall we make the best of our
winter? ‘There is no lack of internal
resources, but are we going to use them?
And have weany particular aim in view?
Suppose we suggest! Hus it never oc-
curred to any of us, that the circum-
stances of a young and struggling Town
hke Summerside, where every man with
vigorous strokes, is striving to push him-
self forward in gain-making, have a ten-
dency to cause intellectual pursuits and
interests to be overlooked? It is only
likely that mind may be forgotten in the
race for money. Now this is a disad-
vantage peculiar to all new places, and
one that operates against their influence
and respect abroad. Intelligent strang
ers visiting any locality, and finding that
the higher part of man's nature is for-
gotten in the care uf the inferior, a fact,
evidenced by an absurdly small pat-
ronage of literary assemblies, by indiffer-
ence to the sublime and elevating truths
proclaimed in the sanctuaries, and by
other usually accompanying signs, can-
not but carry away with them opinions
not over flattering to the inhabitants.

Now our winter months, with their
respite from  business-haste, present
every opportunity for us in Summerside,
to rise in this respect aboye other places.
What more favorable season for mental
improvement could we desire, than the
few weeks of pleasant time which are
now we trust, thro’ Providence, before us ?
Suppose we devote them to rubbing off
the metallic dust!

We are glad that one of our enterptis-
ing citizens has lately projected, and
brought into vigorous operation, a De-
bating Club. Lectures in connection
with it are mooted. ‘This is well; and
in view of these assemblies and others,
comprising ‘Temperance and Prayer Meet-
ings, held during the winter, we would
respectfully urge upon our merchants
and mechanics, the propricty of adopting,
till the spring, the early closing system,
so beneficially tried in other places. We
do not think that when the spring ships
arrive, our clerks will work with any
less freshness and vigor, because of a
little relaxation this winter ! x

So much for the town, which the poct
tells us ‘man has made;”’ but what
about the country, which he adds, ‘* God
has made?’ There are hundreds of our
farmer youth, whose evenings this winter
will be equallylong and valuable, Some
of them can attend Mutual Improvement
Societies, and others cannot. To cach
of these classes we would say, that no-
thing is better for any youth, than a
simple course of private reading and
study, quietly, yet energetically pursued.
We even know one who used to prefer
an hour with a book, to an hour at a
lecture. Books are yaqur best friends,
let them be few, but well chosen, and
well studied. First, make yourselves by
review, thorough masters of English rudi-
ments. It is more natural and easy to
speak and write correctly, tan incorrect-
ly. Acquaint yourselves gradually, and
carefully, with Englisa literature, with
the works of the historians, ‘poets, and
stutesmen, of your own country, and then
read—all you can get! .An eminent
writer says:—* You cannot read a good
book without being stimulated. The
dream of Clarence, and the speeches of
Mamlet, in Shakespeare; the speeches
rof men in the Senate; the addresses of
men from the pulpit; and aboye all the
overwhelming torrent of clear thought in
burning language, which the masters of
aucient times potired out—will swell the
bosom, rouse the soul, and call all’ your
own powers into action. ‘This effect of
books will last through life ; and he who
knows how to read to advantage, will
ever have something as applicable to his
mental powers, as electricity is to move
the animal system,”

esbyterian

The Pr ea in the Drill Shed.
As we were on the eve of going to press
when the above Tea came. off, we had
ncither time nor space to give particulars
respecting it, but promised our readers to
do so this week, ‘The Tea was a most
successful one, The sleighing on New
Years was excellent, and the weather all
that could be desired. The tables were
arranged and furnished in a style which
reflected much credit on the ladies ef the
Summerside Presbyterian Congregation.
And wthough fully 1200 persons sat down
to tea there was still enough to spare.

‘Tea being over and some cake disposed
of, Rey, W. R. Frame gave a short speech,
alter which he introduced Rey. M.P. Free-
man, of Bedeque, T, Kelly., Esq., Barris-
ter, Dr. Homer, F, McNeill and YW. Law-

meeting. Besides the Speeches there was
also very good instrumental and yocal
music. The large sum of £87 103, was
realized, which amgunt together with other
available funds belonging to the Congre-
gation, for the purpose, will, we are in-
formed, clear all the remaining debt off
the Summerside Presbyterian Chureh,

A Cruise to tho West.

Wr had a short trip West the other
day ‘The roads were splendid, and we glided
along 2-40 We met many of our old eub-
scribers and added several pews ones to our
list. In settlements where we had passed
through only twelve months ago, we noticed
many improvements. Along the Western
Road, some thirty or torty miles from here,
the woodman’s axe has laid dense forests low
—-the low log huts have given way to com-
fortable framed dwellings--barns and stables
have tahen the place of camps and sheds—the
stumps, which studded the fields as thickly as
the sturs the heavens, are faust being rooted
out, and many clear fields are now to be seen,
‘The land in and: round Bloomfield, we are
told, is of an excellent quality, and the stal-
worth go-head Canadians who have settled
there ure just she men who know how to work
it. We were not a little surprised to meet
a number of persons who have removed from
the eastern and other parts of the Island, and
tiken furms west. We were much pleased
to see so many fine school houses along the
roads on which we travelled. There is no
better sign of the prosperity of a people than
to see comfortable school houses and churches
in their settlements. On Saturday we pitched

hospitalities of our triend Mr, Richard Costin,
On Sunday we had the pleasure of listen-
ing toan excellent sermon, preached by am
old acquaintance, at one time a brother typo,
who, we are happy to know,is very much liked
by those among whom he labors.

Coming home we passed through the Vil-
lage of Campbellton, where we found brothes
Matheson had opened up a store, and was
busy working, (not on the square) buying and
selling, and we hope getting gain. ‘Phe road.
from Campbellton tu the West Point was new
to us, but we hada good guide. As far as
the eye could see, looking out upon the gulf,
nothing but a mass of ice was visible.
All along the road there are good houses. and
the people are very comfortable and kind.
On remarking to one old gentleman, that we
could see the houses on the opposite shore,
he replied —" Oh yes, my son, that’s as near
to the New Dominion as eyer I wish to get.”
Unless some Island should drift in between
us, we doubt not but that he will always have
his wish. The frostand wind were very keen,
and we were glad when, at dark. we were
seated by the fire, and comfortably housed
for the night under the root’ of Archibald
Ramsay, Esq. A more interesting and well-
behaved group of little ones then were there, we
have seldom met with. The Messrs. Ram-
say's have a fine property there. Their grist,
saw and shingle mill will compare favorably
with, if not surpass, any on the Island. ‘They
have now some large contracts to fill for Sum-
merside. ‘This is a splendid place for fishing,
Mr. Ramsay having, at one time, taken 20
Salmon, some of them very large. ‘The in-
habitants in this locality are very anxious to
have a road opened up through trom the road
passing Messrs. Ramsay's to the O'Leary
road, being only three miles across, and
which, if opened up, would cut off several
miles travel. When the West Point Wharf
is completed, the farmers along the O'Leary
Road wil then have a shipping place, and as
this new road would save them such a distance
they ought at once to move in the matter.
There is no time to be lost, as all petitions
of this nature must be sentin bythe Ist of
February. If you want the road, agitate,
agitate, agitate, until you get it.

We left that part of the country with the
impression upon our minds that it was desti-
ned ere long to be the finest agricultural por-
tion of Prince Edward Island,

RO" As the holding of Charivaries is to
some exten! practised in different parts of this
Island—on the occasion of a weddiug—-at
some of which very ungentlemanly conduct is
resorted to, even by grown up persons, we
give the following extract froma Canadian
exchange, as it may prove a warning to those
who tike part in any sucha mean and con-
temptible practice :--

“A Canadian jury recently gave a verdict
of justifiable homicide in the case of a man
arraigned for shooting one who was partici-
pantin a charivari.’”

ha ‘Tue friends of Mr. Gorvon, of Ero-
manga, have received letters of as recent a
dute as the 1dthof September. The Mission-
aries were well. An idea of the loneliness of
the situation may be inferred from the fact
that he had not heard even from Anietam from
the 20th of December, 1866, to June 26, 1867.
‘The gliss falls sometimes as low as 70, when
woolen clothing is pleasant towear. Ie had
two lids with him from the Island of Esvinto
Santo, one of whom has embraced Christianity

ha" Tun weather during the past week
has been cold, but fine, A gentleman writing
us from Alberton, suys thet it was very cold
up there on Saturday night ast, the thermom-
eter being 88 below zero.

f@"" Gopry’s Lapirs Boox for January,
1808, has been received. We think it isa
model one. ‘The stecl plite ‘New Shoes! isa
home scene familiar to all, ‘There is a bril-
liant Fashion Plate, a colored patter of Ber-
lin Wool, and a large number of other pat-
terns. ‘The ‘Tales are good. Now is the time
to subscribe.

RG Tue Rev. Mr, DesBrisay will (D.V.)
preach inthe St. Eleanor's Court Room on
Sunday next, the 12th inst, at 8 o'clock, p.m,

ce Rev. R.S, Parrirson will (D. V.)
give an address inthe Presbyterian Church
here, on Friday evening‘next, at 7 o'clock,

Summerside Debating Society,

The question for debaigon Monday evening
last—" Should P. EB. Island be nade a Free
Port”—was opened by the President, Bink,”
MeNeill, Lsq., who, in a concise speech show
ed th advantages that weuld be derived from
making P, 1. Island a free port. He was for
lowed by Mr Lawson and others, who took »
different view of the matter. When thi
question was put from the chair it was de=
cided in the atlirmative.

Subject for next Monday evening will be
‘i AT a Railroad in P. i, Island be praot
tleablo ?” .

Aurx. McRax "y.
Summerside, Jan 8, 1868, : —

son, Esquires, all of whom addressed tho ;

our tentin Mimminegash. and partook of the