Summerside Bournal, AND WESLBRN PIONSBER. DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, SCIENCE, COMMERCE, AGRICULTURE, TEMPERANCE AND NEWS. Vol. 4, Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Thursday, March 25, 1869. No. 26. THE Summerside Journa', 18 PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY EVENING, BY JOSEPH BERTRAM, AT HIS OFFICE, CENTRAL STREET. TERMS: 1 copy for ene year, in advance, 6s. 8d. «6 i half advance, 7s. 6d. 46 bi atthe end of year 9s. Persons getting up c.urs of ren Subscribers will be entitled to the Journat for one year. ADVERTISEMENTS. inserted at moderate rates and in good style. Spxcian AcregeMENTS may be made on]. reasonable terms for a whole, a half, or quar- ter column, or by the year. Job Printing of every description, performed with neatness and despatch, and at moderate rates, at the Journat Office Almanac for March, 1869. MOON’S PHASES. Last Qtr., 5thday, 1h. 81m. morning, E. 8. E. New Moon, 18th day, 4h. 84m,, morn., E.N.E. First Qtr. 21stday, 1h, 42m., morning N. W. 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March 25, 1869. ef perlb Sd a 4d rice 8d a 4d Mutton per lb Oats per bush Potatoes per bush 2s Gd a 2s 7d 1s 5d a Is Gd ‘Turnips per bush 10d a Is Butter per lb by Tub 18d a 14d Lard per lb 9d a 10d Tallow per lb. 9d a 10d Eggs per doz 9d a 10d Hides per lb 44d 2s a 3s Mackerel per doz Jodfish per qt 18s a 19s Pork per lb by carcass _ Ada 6d Flour per bbl 458 a 47s Island Flour per cwt 208 to 21s Oatmeal per cwt. lisa 18s Hay per Ton 50s a 60s Pine Boards 10s 4s ads Spruce Boards Charlottetown Markets. Ch. ‘Town, March 25, 1869. Beef per lb 44d a 8d ean per lb 34d a 7d Pork per Ib., by carcass, bd a 64d Ham per lb 6d a 7d Geese 8s a 3 6d Fowels Isa 1s 6d 1s 3d a 1s 6d Ducks each 20s a 218 Flour per 100 lbs Oatmeal per 100 18s a 198 Buckwheat Flour, per lb 2d a 24d Codfish per quintal 183 a 208 1s 8d a ls 6d Butter per 1b Do. by the tub, Is 3d a 1s 4d Cheese 3d a bd ‘Tallow 9d a 10d Eggs per dozen 1s 3d als 4d Potatoes per bushel Isédals . rle * “ s ria A 289d a 2s 10d Hay per ton 70s a 753 Hides per lb 4d Sheepskins each 4s a ds Gd Spruce Boards per 100 ft, 4s a 4s 6d Hemlock “* We 3s 6d a 4s iness Qurds, Bus BANK OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND Corner of Great George § King Streets, Charlottetown. President—How. Daniet Brenan. Uashier—Witiiam CunpDat, Esquire. Discount Days—Mondays & Thursdays. Hours of Business—Fom 10a,m. tol p.m. from 2 p.m to 4 p.m. UNION BANK. Graften St., Queen's Square, Charlotietown President—Cnaries Parmer, Esquire. Cashier—James Anpenson, Esquire. Discount Days—Wednesdays & Saturdays, Hours of Business—From 10 aym to 1p m., from 2 p.mto 4pm. SUMMERSIDE BANK. Central Street, Summerside, P. HB. Island President—James L. Hotman, Esq. Cashier—E. L. Lyptarp, Esquire Discount Days—Tuesdays and vigees ts Notes for Discount must bein before 11 o'clock on Discount days, tours of Business—10 a. m., to 1 p.m. from 2 p. m., to 4 p.m. eae " “The Hand-writing of God FEW COPIES of this celebrated work have been received by the Agent for P.B. Island, the Rev. ALBERT S. DesBRISAY. Library Edition $4; Cloth Extra $3.50, N.S. Carrrency . Dee 3, '68. Business Gards. CARVELL BROTHERS, AUCTIONEERS, Commission Merchants, AND GENERAL AGENTS. BANK BUILDING, - - QUEEN STREET, OHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. I, R. & W. T. HUNT, Gommission Merchants, GENERAL AGENTS AND AUCTIONEERS. SALESROOM AND OFFICE Head Queen's Wharf, Summerside, P. E. I- (opposite the Store of W. T. Hunt & Co.) April 2, 1868. ly J. H. 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HP Proprietor of the above HOTEL takes this opportunity to return thanks for the liberal patronage hitherto received, and most respectfully solicits a continuance of the same. This HOTEL is very pleasantly situated, and commands a view of King Square, and other parts of the City. In connection with the Hotel, is GOOD STABLING, and a careful Hostler in atteund- ance. Parties coming from Prince Edward Island with horses will find this establishment the most comfortable in the City, and a per- son a'ways at the Cars on their arrival, Bt, John, Sept. 10, 1868, ly ROCKLIN HOUSE, KENT STREET, CHARLOTTETOWN, SIMON D. FRASER, PROPRIETOR. Permanent and Transient Boarders wil find the above House to give satisfaction. Clrtown, June 13, 1868, North British and Mercantile Ausurance Gompany, FIRE AND LIFE. CAPITAL: TWO MILLIONS, Sterling. CHIEF OFFICES: 64 Princes Street, Edinburgh. 61 Threadneedle Street, London, Risks taken daily, in Townand Conntry, at the office of the Agent, Reading room Building, Dorchester street. G. W. DeBLOIS, General Agent for P E Island. Charlottetown, June 20, 1868.—ly* CRAWFORDS HOTEL. No, 9, King Square, ST. JOHMIN, N. B. HE subscriber having thoroughly reiitted and enlarged his HOTEL and STORE, is now prepared to accommodate Permanent and Transient Boarders on the most reasonable terms. ALS9,in connection,sa GROCERY STORE, where every article required for house use may be had, J. CRAWFORD & SON. Sept. 10, 1868. ly A. W. ANDRES, Marble Worker, Point Du Chene, Shediac N. B. MONUMENTS, TOMBS, GRAVE- STONES, &c., &c. AMERICAN AND ITALIAN MARBLE con- stantly on hand. Can furnish Grayestones and Monuments ata Jess price than any other establishment in the Provinces, and pay a duty besides, i Onrvers can be left at Berrram's Book Store and at D, Enman’s, Esq., Summerside, or sent to A. W. ANDRES. Point Du Chene, June 11th, 1868. Established 1845. NEW YORK LIFE INSURANGE COMPANY. Over Ten Million Dollars } PRESIDENT: MORRIS FRANKLIN, ESQ., Vice President and Actuary: WILLIAM H. BEERS, Jr. HEAD OFFICE 112 & 114 Broadway, N.Y. General Agent for the Dominion of Canada: WALTER BURKE, Esq., Herald Buildings, Montreal, The New. York Life Insurance Company), Is ONE OLDEST Of the kind in America, baying been chartered in the year 18di,and menced business in Muy,1846, During he twe -three years of its existence. it has issued policies upon the lives of more than o iy 4 ore Kitty Thousand Persons, and has paid in losses $5,000,000 to the families and Fepreseitatives of those who have deceased while members of the Company. Annual Income EXCEEDS Four Million Dollars. A SAFE INVESTMENT. The instances are many Within the experience o every Life Lusurance Company, in which the pro- ceeds of a Policy las saved from poverty the sur- vivore of those who have thus made provision for their wants in times of prosperity and health. A wife may insure the life of her husband for her own benetit, and should she survive him, the amount of the insurance will be payable to her free from any claims against his estate; and in cuse of the death of the wife before that of the busband, the amount of the msurance may be made payable to her children, : THE COMPANY DECLARES ANNUAL CASH DIVIDENDS, which are available in payment of each Annual Premium. All the insured in this Company receive dividends which can be used in part of the second and euch subsequent Annual Premium thereafter; or the dividend may be allowed to accumulate, and subsequently used in whole or in part inthe pay- ment of Premiums. The business of the Company being PURELY MUTUAL, euch monber pays only the average cost of imeurance, all ne being annually returned to the Policy holders. Jompanies having a Stock Capital usually retain a lurge portion for the Stockholders.) The Divi- dends paid to Policy holders exceed $3,000,000, Endowment Assurance Policies. These Policies are coming into general request As a sure and profitable investment for one's de- clining years, they deserve the attention of all. The sum secured by an ordinary life polley becomes available upon the death of the assured; on the Endowment plav the amount is received by the assured bimself upen his attaining a specitied age, while full provision is made for death occurring prior thereto, THE NON-FORFEITURE PLAN, This company originated and introduced the val nable feature known as the Non-Forfeitaure Plan which is rapidly superseding the old system of life lony payments, and has revolutionized the system of Life Insurance in the United States, and which has been adopted (generally in a less favorable form) by all Life Companies, A party, by this table, after the second year, cannot forfert any part of what has been paid ine tw Tables of Rates, Circulara, Examples of Divdiends, Forms, &e., cau be bad by applying to the Agent, at Charlottetown, MEDICAL EXAMIMERS: Dr. MACKIESON, Dr, R, JOILNSON, Agent for P. E. Island: HENRY A, HARVIE, Ch’town Nov 19, 1868, Hews Summary, THE CONVENT CASE, From the European Mail. In the Court of Queen’s Bench, on Thursday, February 26, the Solicitor-Gen- eral resumed and concluded his address for the plaintiff’, in the action brought by Miss Laurin against the late and the pre- sent superior of the Hull convent, He minutely examined the basis on which the defence was founded, that the plaintiff was hot suited for a Conventional life, and, in arguing against it, quoted portions of the evidence to prove that, under proper man- agement, she would have become an ex- cellent nun, The Lord Chief Justice en the following day proceeded to sum up the ease to the jury. Friday was the 20th and last day of the hearing of this extraordinary case. ‘The interest was intense. ‘The crowds around the entrances were greater than on any former occasion, and the court was well filled before hall-past nine o'clock, and as soon as the court was filled the Coors were fastened to prevent any disturbance during the summing up. The Lord Chief Justice, in commencing his summing up, congratulated the jury most heartily at their having arrived at the closing day of this monster case. He re- gretted that so much valuable time bad been lost by them, and on public grounds that so many cases of importance had to be postponed in order Lo investigate the miserable jealousies of conyent lite, which he thought might have been better and ought to have been investigated by the visitorial powers of the convent; but the case wis here, and they must put aside all religious feeling, and recollect that that question was not at all mixed up in it. The parties were all members of the sime religious body, and they had bound them- selves by certain yows, 1ules, and regula- tions, ‘he question was whether in car- rying out those rules the defendants had acted wrongly. ‘The trial, he thought,nad acquired a tactitious importance, and they must take care that neither party derived any undue advantage from the religious element that was mixed up in it, The plaintiff complained first of an assault in the stripping in May, 1865; then that she had been illegally imprisoned; that the defendant had converted several articles ol hers to her own use; fourthly of a libel; and lastly of a conspiracy, whicly was the most important of the whole—first to force her from the convent by ill-usage; and, secondly, having so fuiled, have her ex- pelled. ‘To assist them in coming to a Just conclusion it would be his business to give them a history of the case, which ex- tended overaperiod of 15 years. He should commence with her entry into Bagot street, in 1850, dividing the period from that time to her leaving the convent into several ¢ 1861 to 1864, when she was translerred from Clifford to Ilull, when, as the plain- uff alleged, the conspiracy and the acts complained of commenced ; from 1864 to the time of the commission; the next, what took place under the commission ; and then the last closing chapter in the history of this painful case—vyiz., the mat- ters of which she complained during the period which interyened between the bish- op’s sentence of expulsion and her final gone through in detail the main features of jury the points to which they would have U he told them that there had been strong evidence with reference to the plaintill being imprisoned within the convent, and that if they believed that portion of the evidence he would ask them to award her damages in respect to her imprisonment, irrespective of their verdict upon the other charges. In dismissing the jury, he said with regard to the popular feeling (the echoes of which ma been heard within those walls) of an unthinking populace, cheering and hooting withouy any know- ledge of the real merits or demerits ol the case, ought to find and would find a pro- per reply in the breasts of twelve honest, intelligent men, who had come to dis- charge, and would discharge, the most solemn duties min could be called upon to discharge. The jury retired at twenty-five minutes past five, the Judge haying taken over seven hours in summing up. Verdict for plaintiff, Damages, £500, The proceedings in Parliament from its very commencement have been unu ually tame, The grave question which is soon to occupy the attention of the House, and the contlict so close at hand, seem to have stiiled all minor differences, and quieted smnaller dissensions: only . . « “Creeping murmer, and the poring dusk, Fills the wide vessel of the universe: From camp tocamp, « . . « The hum of either army stilly sounds.’’ In a very short time Mr. Gladstone will make his first motion towards the dises- tablishment of the Irish Chureh, by pro- posing the appointment of a Committee of enquiry. It is not likely that this will be seriously opposed, ‘The public decision upon the question has been so plainly de- clared, that itis hardly probable the op- position will court the certainty of defeat by a direct motion on the main question, pure and simple, as to the expediency of disestablishing the Irish Church; they are much more likely to set up a guerilla war- fare, which may prove harassing to their adversaries, and perhaps may enable them to obtain some slight advantage at an un- guarded point; but, as the 7imes has said, the Irish Establishment may even now be almost reckoned among the things that have been, The proposal to entrust Marshal Serrano with the formation of the new Cabinet in Spain, alter an animated debate, hus been carried in the Cortes by a large majority. Serrano’s speech, announcing his assump. tion of the Executive power, and appealing to the consideration of the Republican party, has been well, some say enthusias- tically, reeeived by the Opposition, He expressed his desire “to walk hand in hand with the Cortes,” and seemed to have our spoke of the Opposition, the minority, acting as the legitimate censor of the Ministry.” Lelegrams of February 25 an- nounce it as probable that the contemplat- ed modifications of the Cabinet will intro- duce politicians ‘of more Radical opin- ions than the public have been led to sup- pose,” but our latest information is to the effect that all the lute Ministers are to re- tain their posts. Spain is promised relief of her pecuniary difliculties from a very extraordinary and romantic source. A company has been formed to recover the bullion and treasure said to have been lost inthe Spanish gal- leons which were sunk by the English in the harbor of Vigo, in the year 1702. The vessels are believed to have had on board, when they sank, treasure to the value of upwards of fourteen million pieces of eight, According to a contemporary, the ‘* piece ot eight” is the escudo of eight ochavas, worth at that time ds. 54d. Colonel Gow- en, who was so successlul in raising the Russian fleet at Sebastapool, has examined the vessels, and reports that he ‘is com- pletely satisfied as to the practicability of recovering the treasure.” The Spanish Government is to receive 25 per cent. of all treasures recovered, The extraordinary case in which a Sister of Mercy has claimed damages from the Superiors of her convent for assault, im- prisonment, libel, and conspiracy to drive her trom the conyent by ill-treatment, has at last, after a trial of twenty days, been brought to a conclusion, Late on the evening of February 26 the jury returned a verdict for the detendants on the charges of assault ond imprisonment, but for the plaintifY on the accounts for libel and con- spiracy, and they gave damages to the amount of £500, including £300, which it appears was the plaintiffs ‘ dowry” when she entered the convent. No cause ever occupied so many days in trial as this, and though all concerned it—judge, jury, and counsel—were heartily tired of it, the pub- lic interest in the case was unflagging. The verdict was received with loud cheer- ing outside the Court. The Consolidated Chambers of Commerce held their annual meeting on February 23. Sir Stafford Northcote, a member of the late Government, was among the guests; but the chief interest centred in the speech of Mr. Bright. Among other matters he referred hopefully to the question of Ocean Penny Postage, and said that he had ‘*no doubt whatever that as between here and the Upited States, and probably between this and almost every other country, it wonld be possible for the Post Ollie to negotiate a system by which letters should cross the ocean fora penny,” Mr, Gladstone and the Welshman, The Liverpool Courier tells the following- read so much of the great statesman, he be- came very desirious to see—only to see—the great man, One day last summer he set out carefully a small basket with him, he walked up to the house; for, having but an exceed- nglvy small stock of English at his command, ne feared it would) avail him but little with he servants, on asking to see Mr. Gladstone, he was in- formed by the maid-servant first, and by the withdrawal from the convent, Having} putler afterwards, that their master was then c very busy and cold not be seen before night. pressed his readiness to call again at night. he more directly to turn their attention, | Just then another maidseryant, a country- woman of his, came to his residence, and led him to Mrs. Gladstone, ‘The kind lady was much amused to see the Welshman’s determi- nation to see—only to see—he s id—Mr, Gladstone. ‘The object of his admiration was old of this singular visitor, and coming to him langhed heartily to hear the enthusiastic Welshfian say that he only wished to see Mr. Gladstone, of whom and of his great services he had read so much; and, thereupon, he begged Mr. Gladstone to accept the small basket of eggs he had brought with him, and which were placed together in a very artistic style. Mr. Gladstone took them kindly from the simple man, presented him with a book in return, asking him to take some lunch, and making kind enquiries after the Welshman’s family, It was with great reluctance that the visitor partook of food, for he frequently as- sured them that he came there not to eat any- thing, but to see Mr. Gladstone. However, this warm-hearted son of Wales left highly pleased with his successful visit, and bearing with him the book he received, und a portrait of the great liberal chief, which Mrs. Glad- stone gave him, with kind assurances that he would be always welzomed there,” G. P. Saneton has written a long letter to the St. Jolin papers, on the subject of the Commercial Bank. He states that the Presi- dents of the Bank were as ‘deep in the mud as he was in the mire.” Overdrawing ac- counts were, according to him, the order of the day.” One man, afterwards a president, owed, he states, at one time, the large sum of $116,000, in the shape of an overdrawn ac- count; another person owed $39,000, In 1855, the total of overdrawn accounts footed up $300,000. An Illinois clergyman on the way to fulfil an ‘fexchange” appointment, made an ex- change of carpet bags with some one, and in- stead of two sermons found $8,000. St. John N. B. purposes to starta company for the purpose of manufacturing woolen goods, machinery, and woodware. A lady visiting London for the first time, found a ragged, cold and hungry child gazing wistfully at some cakes ina shop window. She took the little forlorn on by the hand, led her into the shop, bought her a cake, and then took her elsewhere, supplying more needed wants, The greateful little creature looked the benevolent woman fallin the tace, and, with artless simplicity, inquired, ** Are you God's wife?” : Of the 2.447,865 electors in Great Britain during the recent elections. Wales there voted 1,077,281 Liberals, anc Liberals, and 28,959 Conservatives; and in Ireland, 53,967 Liberals, and 41,863 Con- servatives. The total number ot constitu (counting the tie at Horsham) 887 Liberal and 272 Conservatives are returned, Richmond has a negro Colburn, who, thoug English desire in his mind when be further curacy. and Ireland, 2,184,281 recorded their votes $55,251 Conservatives; in Scotland, 126,819 | RECIPROCITY, One of the favorite arguments of the pro- tectionists is that without a high tariff it will be impossible to compcte in America with the ** pauperJabor” of Europe. The friends of freedom of trade have been traduced and denounced as the enemies of the laboring people. ‘They have been cbarged with a purpose of reducing the American workmin to a level with the * ill- requited serls” of the old world. the very moment they proposed to lesson the heavy Lurthens which the protectionists are con- stantly imposing on the people, But when the protectionists and monoplists oppose a peelpear ity treaty with Ounada they are compelled for a little while to abandon their refuge of fulsehood ond deception, The object of the reciprocity treaty with Canada is to exchange the products of the two countries tree of duty, or at a very low rate. The effect of such a measure would be to quicken and develop a great trade between the two countries which is fettered by the present iniquitous protective tui, In opposing reciprocity with Cana- da, all the wash about ‘* pauper labor,” **famished serts,” ** ten cents a day,” which has served the radicalsso many good turns, tails of application, The people ot Canada who have valuable products to exchange, are as intelligent, and well paid as those of America, They are more free and better governed, Their industry is net oppressed by unjust restrictions. A-grinding tariff does not levy tribute on all their industri- ous coal miners and hardy lumbermen is as well rewarded as that of the miners and lumbermen of the United States, But the monoplists clamor against the reciprocity treaty because it will deprive the coal and lumber interests of their share of **protection.” In 1867, Nova Scotia coal to the amount of 480,7394 tons was imported, paying a duty of $1.25 cents per ton, The value of the coal we 68 per ton, and the duly more than forty-tive per cent. of its value! It needs no arguments to prove that the consumer pays this tariff, and not this alone, but nearly that amount on all the coal which enters into Competi- tion with it. The price of the foreign coal which is admitted subject to this enormous tuiff, determines, to a great extent, the price of all the rest. He who consumes the Nova Scotia coal pays as little tavilf as he who buys the article mined at home. ‘The only difference is that the latter pays his duty to the coal speculation, and the former pays itinto the coffers of the govern- ment, Under a reciprocity treaty with Canada, and this enormous duty taken off, the price of coal would be materially dimi- nished. What argument not founded in the greed of the speculator can be urged against it? Why should the laboring poor ol this country be outrageously taxed for one of the prime necessaries of life? The advocates ol this iniquitous measure must C ‘ rome out from their harbor of lies about * puuper labor,” since the miners of Pictou spochs, ‘The first would embrace from | story of a Welshman’s visit to Mr. Glad-| coal are as well paid as any on the face of 1850 to 1860-61; the next would be from} stone:—'* The Welshman says that having|the earth. On lumber imported from Canada in 1867 the duty amounted to overa million dollars, for Mr. Gladstone’s house in Penmwnmawr. A just reciprocity would materkuly dimin- It was with many misgivings that, carrying | ish this impost, Among the items in this tax on lumber is one of $46,676,24, duties. levied on fire wood! ‘The monopolists did not stop at Jaths, shingles, boards and staves, but actually laid a duty of 20 per = In that fear he was right, for,| cent. ad valorem on Canada firewood, It was not enough that a duty of more than forty-five per cent is charged the people on oal, but another duty was put on the wood they consume. ‘The monopolists were de- P evidence a i i a ‘§ j A » ve Fi aK. : : the evidence adduced, pointing out to the| Nothing daunted, the sturdy Welshman ex- | torpyined to regulate the price of fuel, even if it must be dragged from the forests of Canada, But the advocates of this policy will hardly contend that in this instance they must have ‘ protection” from the ‘*illpaid Iubor of the serf.” The opposition to a just reciprocity with Canada is founded in greed and rapacity. The present system rewards a favored few at the expense of the great mass of the people. It lays burthensome charges on the neeessities of life under the pretence of encouraging home industry, It tosters monopoly, and discourages trade, and the people who are oppressed by it should de- mand its repeal in tones ot thunder,— Harrisburg, (Venn.) Patriot. A method of sewing boots and shoes* with copper wire, instead of common thread, has been patented, the advantage being that at a very small increase in ex- pense the strength and durability of the work are much improved, The New sacre has deve- loped some latter day martyrs for religion's sake. The natives captured by the Miori rebels were offered their lives if they would bow down to the Hannan god, but they refused, and filty of them were put to death, : N We (Mechanics’ Magazine) have already mentioned the iavention of a sewing mua- chine driven by electricity, Such a ma- chine may pow be seen in actual tise in Paris. ‘The footis now no longer needful; the ‘* hand” has only to direct the work of the needle. Theinvention, although the machine can only be adapted for the light- est work, may be worthy of attention here, We do not know whether or not it is pro- tected by a patent; but in any case the ar- rangement for producing the movements. will be familiar to every electrician, A man named Ilolman, at Wine Har- bor, engineer of the steam drill, fell down the air shaft in a tunnel, 45 feet, and was badly mangled. He is expected to re. coves. , At Isane’s Harbor, on March Ist., aman named Wm. Harkness was blown, up by the explosion of a blast, and very. badly mangled. He is not expected to, live —Lastern Chronicle. Civilization is a plant of very slow growth, and one that does not stand much loreing. Th. re’s no use taking a wild crab, In England and | nailing it scientifically against the wall, land bidding it bear good fruit, : It must be grafted first and allowed time, The preliminary business of Now York -|Common Council Committee is to order a encies in the United Kingdom is 420 for whom | bottle of whiskey and drink all round, and | then the people's money is appropriated in « spirited manner, h} Alnnatic in Badlam was asked how he blind, uneducated and only seventeen years | came there? Ho answered, * Ry adispute.*— of age, solves the most intricate mathmatical | What dispute 2'-The Bedlamite replied, problems with asionishing rapidity and ac- |The world said Lwas mad; I said the world was mad, and they outwitted me,” . apa l 1