General News Items. A correspondent to the St.John 7ele- graph, Who has returned home fron the United States, whether he went last sum- mer, writes us follows :— Tama mechanic that ean handle the | least once every week. The inconvenience | 36: tools of my trade better than a pen, but 1} take it up to wara our people against those | men who would lead them into such dan: | geras that proposed by Mr, Cudlip, 1) never siw guch ivisery in this Province as | [saw in Bdston among the working peo ple there. dtis worse in New York, as i was told by those who saw it. ‘There were | in Boston when I Jett it, 349 families re- eeiving support from public soup kitchens, | and it was sad to see respectable people thus reduced to beggary, Our} cople can get their food and clothing for their libor, anal same money too, but there 1 saw neither. Tam back again, have learned wisdom by sad experience, and the man that wonld advoeate such folly as to join that country Lonly hope that he may be the first to have to be ted by the soup kitchens.” The St. John News eall attention to the | fact, that the debate on the dis-establish- ment of the Irish Chureh lasted only four nights, and asks “What do the tiresome twaddlers of our Legislature think of that? ILere was a great measure involving the disposal of £16.000,000, and touching interests held to be of the most sacred character by large sind influential classes olthe British people, “th it was expected to be discussed for four long nights in succession—but which it was thought of afterward might be exhaustively debated in less time, asin point of fact, we believe, it was. ILlow long would it take our copions men to exhaust them- selves and everybody else in a measure correspondingly important to { Pro- vinee? Four nights! They would searecly the half done in four , judging by the interminable talk on the want of confidence | ‘motion, Oh! gentlemen, time is short and precious; pray condense yourselves | nud cultivate the blessed ait of silence) when you have liltle to say, ond that has been already said.” The same language might be applied | to the members of our Local Legislature. | Tur Ilupson Bay Ciaims.— The pro- | positions to which the Canadian ministers | ‘in London have agreed are as follows:— ‘ - 41. To pay the H. B. Company £300,000 | $1,500,000) ter all their territorial claims | and rights in Ruberts Land, or what is co nmonly called the North West Terntory, 2. Lhe Company to retain all its stations and the land around them, note i in all 40,000 acres. 3. The Company mayelaim a twentic part of every township or district laid out} in the fertile part of the ‘Territory. 4. ‘The Company shall not be subjected to any exceptional taxes. These terms were to be submitted to the stockholders of the Company on the 24th, and ifaccept- ed by them, the Canadian Minister will endeavor to secure the assent of the Cana- dian parliament. In our view, the Ins three conditions would have been amply suflicient, and perhaps more than sufficient, avithout the first, which is altogether un- necessary and unfair. Why a compary ia London should be paid for land which it never owned nor occupied in America, is what we cannot understand. -If any one shonld be paid, it is the Indians,—J/ontre- al JWitness. Yorarp Bank Norrs —It is said that altered 85 and $10 notes.are in circulation’ here. It becomes our people ‘to be very careful in looking at the money they re- ve, so that these inipositions may be de- ected at once-—S8t, Juin News. Tus St ‘ey or Lire —The intelligence from the great wheat growing regions of this continens is encouraging. Vall sown wheat in thé United States and Ontario 2 survived the perils of the winter, and gives promise of an abundant harvest bye and bye. In Wurope, particularly in Eng- Jand, the winter has been an exceedingly wet one, and fears have been entertained that the wheat fields would suffer material dlamage in consequence. But we believe these apprehensions have not been verified to any great extent. If the spring sown wheat should do as well proportionately as that sown'in the fall, we may salely anticipate full gvanaries iu the au- tumn. Should that prove to be the case, as we hope it may, it will be a boon of great value to they working man, both in the old world and the new; for the price of bread would rule low.—/d. Tho potatoe fever rages. Tt is reported $a. farmer in Vermont has ‘been offered 320,000 for from forty to filty bushels of a new description of potatoe — being five- sixths of last year’s crop of that particular Kind. It was lately stated that four Europeans had become Mahommedans at Madras, The report is confirmed, and it is also ex- plained by the further statement that they are all about to marry Mahommediun wives A Connecticut rogue stole a horse and earriage, and then borrowed money of the Jitehfield county Sheriff, to pay the expen- ses of pursuing an immaginary thief Minnesota isin luck. © It has inexhausti- ble springs of mineral paint, which most obligingly flow red, green, brown, white and yellow paint at the desire of their owners, i Melbourne, Australia, has a newspaper thatis printed in Chinese characters edited hy an Algerine; and corrected by a native ol Buenos Ayres, ‘ London covers 122 sqnare miles,contains 400,000 dwellings, with an average of eight persons to each, andhas a population of nearly $3,200,000, A Georgia editor, to make delinqnents 4¢nuy up,” ollers to distribute by lot among those who settle, A gold’ watch’ and otker pr Sugar planting has heen very successful in Louisiana this season, and the crop is estilnated at from 250,000 tu 306,000 hogs- heads. Queen Victoria wears her hair as she did 25 yeurs ago. Coiffures, waterfalls, chig- nons, curls and Wack hair are naught to her, A married woman, aged 13, was divor- ced recently in New York trom her hus- band. A New York paper, the World. is envious ol the financial position of this country. In issue of Tudsday it says:—** The reve; ot the Dominion of Cannda for the month of March last was a trifle Jess than a mill- ion; expenditure something over half a million, So much for bloated despotisin, Woult that ‘our despotism woald bloata little 4uthe same way.” There ‘id abdut, $2,000,000 worth of groods in the bonded warehouses in Port- land, ‘busite®: a Jaige amount of sugar ejsewhere ‘stored, Ww al'ing Wwansportation tu the Canadas. ; : DoNNer has engaged Mrs. M. K, Dallas fo write exclusively lor the N. Y, Ledger, a 81,000 a year, jas in ordmary s jmiserable hay crops, last yenr, in conse- }qnence of the dronght, and the severe, | March prevented them obtaining supplies | from more fortunate localiti jin this St. Lawrence district, the owner: j being unable to pay such prices 14 to {4 SUMMERSIDE JOUR TAL, THURSDA Y, MAY 6, 1869, N FROM Capp ‘on. — Lhe Cape Breton News says: Bu j**Itis to be hoped that arrangements will be made so that the Pictou and Prince} Edward Islind steamer may ke Ship| Harbor the place of arrival and departure, | instead of Port Hood, as formerly; at the r | and difficulty of travel between Wycoco- | magh and Port Llood were the grounds of unceasing complaint from travelers by the Lake route last year. Il the proposed change be adopted, passengers would be conveyed to’ and “from Ship Harbor ‘to West Bay, to which latter Point the Syd- ney steamer would proceed weekly or semi-weekly as the trips of the Gulf steamer would render nece Since the with- drawal of the Newfoundland Steamer this is the only route by rail and steam avail- able to travellers to and from these parts | to Nova Scotia, and it is right that every improvement contributing to. their con. fort and the publicgood, should be adopted without delay. A newspaper published in the Ottawa county, the Carleton Place Herald, regrets thatsome of the farmers of Rentrew County are killing their cattle to save them from starvation, it being impossible, owing to the length of the winter, to obtain proven- der for love or money. Matters are bad now, but willbe much worse, according to our contemporary, before the grass has begun to grow. It suggests a special meeting of the County Council, to devise means whereby the cattle may be pre- served, and the farmers enabled to carry on their Iabors for the present year. A similar story might be told of several other parts of old Canada, In the district west of Montreal, as far as Cornwall, and in other border focalities, the cattle have sul- fered terrible this wiuter for lack of fodder, which has been three or four times as dear asons., Farmers gathered musal snow blockade of February and *s. Fine cattle have thus been | Legislation, $443,86: Very Latest Telegrams. Ottawa, April 30. The estimates in part for 1869-70 were brought down to day. Tnierests charges and publigt debt $5,25' 3; Civil gevern + ¢ $7TOL.05105 Adu inise n of Justice, 8665 Police, $43,4405 Geologival Survey and Arts, Agriculture and 82- } tratio Observatory, $39,700 Statistics, $6,000; Iinmigratioy ang paaran- tine, $55,870; Marine Lospitals, §34.500; Pensions. 855,072; Pyblie Works ar Y Builds ings, $3,638,385; Ocean ‘aid River Steam Packet Service, B252,941) Phe expenditure under these heads is nearly $160,000 less than | 1863-"U9. | The salaries of Chicf Justice of New Bruns- | wick, and Mr, Justice Parker are made $4,000 | each; Puisne Judges ‘in New Brunswick, $3 200 each. $750 is set down for an Observa- tory in New Brunswick, and $4,000 for Emi- gration agency at Miramiehi. London, April 29. In House of Commons this evening, lton. Chichester Fortescue, Chief Secretary for | | and Londonderry. Every endeavor had been made by Government to supress riotous proceedings, and the peace preservation Act had been fully enforced. He also stated that further explanations at this time were im- politic, The Trish Church Bill was further consid- ered and three divisions taken on proposed amendient in whick the Government majority was froin seventy to ni¢nety. It is reported that the Swiss Gove nment has ordered Mazzinito leave the’ country, The Austrian Government has religved Pra- gue from a state of siege. The ajority in the Spanish Cortes is growing impatient at the delay in going upon a form of Goyern- ment. ait Advices from New Zealand to Feb, 15, state that a terrible massacre occured there, dur- ing which Lient. Gascoyne, wife and fiunily, and six settlers were killed.—The settlers arriving in the town report that the stores are closed and ensigns flying half mast. New York, April 30. Money coutinues plenty on good busin- ess papers. Gold closed at i24, Ottawa, Canada, April 27. | #16 per ton for hay.” In some cases the animals killed, for want of feed, have | proved a total loss, their flesh being in a} joyjed in C conditi unfit for food. It is also a faet that the ill fortune of the farmers in some | Inthe Tlouse of Commons to-day, Mr, Keeler asked wether the Goy't intended to ‘enforce similar taxes and duties upon Amer- icn vessels tradine at Canadian Ports as nadian vessels trading at America Yhe Jlon. Mr. Rose said the matter consideration. Gov’t dots not | Ports, under Ireland deplored the recent outrages in Cork } districts last year, and their necessities) pledge itself to any partidulur line’ of policy. and hardships, this winter, hhave enused | Mr. Coffin inquired wether the Goyern- a pretty extensive emigration to the United} ment intend to place an armed, foree on the States, © Many who have not left the coun- ry greatly discouraged, and anything jbut resignad to the prospects which a | longer stay in it presents. Exrraorpinany CAse or InuNess aANp th) Praxce.—A remarkable ease of suspended | }animation has occurred at Millom, in the |ncighborhood of Whitehaven, in West Cumberland, It appears that some 18 or 19 weeks ago, a girl, about 11 or 12 years of age, residing with her parents at Millom was ill, and the medical attendant advised a removal for change of air, ‘The patient was taken to Old Hall arm, leased from Mr. A, Brogden by Mr. W. ‘Toughton. She was attended to with every care, but mude no progress towards recovery, and | in ashort time fell into a lethargic state | resembling that of a person in a trance. condition she remained for many but at length woke up to a state of} vusness,and calling upon her mother | who was in attendance upon her, related how she had been in heaven and seen nu- merous angels and her brother, who died sometime avo, On being questioned to that effect, she expressed a desire not to recover from her illness, but to go to the happier land of which she had had glimp- ses. At that time she is deseribed by her attendants as having a most ‘* heavenly expression of countenance,” and although she had been for many weeks without one particle of solid food, ner face was plump, her cheeks suffused with a lovely hue. the lips alone being devoid of the colour na- tural to ange when in health. The power of speech remained only for a short time, and the girl then relapsed into her former state, or nearly so. She liesin a lethargic condition, but when a question is put to her, she manifests her powers of under- standing it by a slight moving of the head, or some motion to indicate that she is sen- sible to the sound of human voice, ‘The only sustenance, il it can be called by that name, the girl has received for fully 15 or 16 weeks has been the occasional moisten- ing of the lips with brandy and water or ten, Within the last few days the girl's limbs have become gradually more rigid, as though foretelling of no very distant dissolution, | | IIow to ride a yelocipede—straddle a saddle, then paddle, and skedaddle, Naples was recently covered with a yel- low dust, brought hy « tempestuous soath- east wind trom Africa, A newspaper in Southern Tlinois notes the passage of a Virginia family en route for the far west, consisting of the old man. the old woman, fourteen childien and eleven dogs! by A beautiful’ Jallaby. I I Song and chorus, Sacred Returnina.—The American boat brought back from the United States yesterday, large numbers of Proyincialists who had sought in vain their fortunes inthe dominion of Ungle Sam. -About fifty of these lefé last night by the Hmpress for their old homes in Nova Scotin. More will leave by train this morn-. ing for Prince Edward Island, and not a few go to Fredericton by the Steamer. ‘They te- present the ‘fimes” as even harder abroad than at their Globe—despised homes.— Saint John Telegraph. 4 Co.inctare HWonors.—Mr, James Inglis, son of Dr. Inglis, recently carried off the eighth prize for junior Latin, and the fourth for junior Greck, inthe Edinburgh University: Mr. ‘Thomas May, son of Thomas May, Esq., Glen Stuart, obtained the first prize—a med- al—in the second class of mathematics in the same institution. We chronicle these honors with pleasure. The young men who have dis- tinguished themselves at one of the first Uni- versities in the world commenced their aca- demical career in Prinee Kdward Island, ‘Mr. Inglis, we believe, attended a session at Dal- housic. Halifax, but Mr. May received all his mathematical education in the Prince of Wales College. Our youthful friends have our best wishes for their future success, We hope they | will achieve yet higher distinction, and reflect still greater honor upon their Alma Mater. The distinguished position which the students frown the rince of Wales College have hither to taken abroad, affords satisfactory evilence of the thorough training in that institution, — Patriot. Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry, whose value in curing Coughs, Colds, Bron- ehitis, Whooping Cough, Croup, Asthma, Palmonary Affection, and Incipient Consump- tion is inestimable. FROM A, HOOKER, Esq., Paescort, C. Wi “I with pleasure assert that Wistar’s Balsath of Wild Cherry is, in my belief, the best remedy before the public tor Conghs and Pulmonary Cont plaints, Having tested the article with my self and family, in cuses of severe Coughe and Colds, for yeurs, with uniform and unexceptionnble suécess, 1 unhesitatingly recomend it with full coutideuce im its merits.’ : “Having ezperienced the beneficial resulté of Dr. Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Qnerry, in any owt person and with other members of iny family, in cages of severe Couge and Colds, [ unhesitatungly give you my testimony, believitig it to be the re- medy “par excellence’ for all disenses of the throut aud chest, wand L would siscerely recommend it us such.”’ None genuine unless signed 1, Burts on the terapper, Prepared by SETH W, FOWLE & SON, 18 Tre- | St. John’s News, April 2 WET FROM J, TANNER, Esq.,Connwanrr, Gi Wu! 4 There is another point on which Mr, SuMNER, who has been all his life a strong anti-slavery man, pours out’ the vials ol his wrath against Bngland. He tells us, | in substance, that it isan enormity—a crime against civilization—that the coun- trymen of Wilbertoree should have sym- thized with a slave-holders’ rebellion in the United States. The countrymen of Wilberforce do. not love any form ol slav- ery, and they did, what the United States never attempted,—never even seriously entertained—poured out their treasure by niillions to remove that évil frem> every spot of tht earth’s surface where the flag floated. But they never, recognised the issue of the late war of sections on this continent as between alavery and anti- slavery. ‘They saw that the Contederacy attempted te be set up witha slave pow- er; but they saw also that the constitution sought to be maintained was a slavery- protecting one. And yet further, formal proclamation, that protection to slavery was offered asa reward for re- turning to obedience, and its abolition made the punishment of continued disobe- dienee, itis quite true, as was stated by General Averill on a public occasion in this city, that the ‘mills of the gods grind fine,” and that by a great convulsion the anachronism of slavery has been crushed out of North America. It did seem to us, too, that the infatuation of the South in favor of this * institution” was the cause of its punishment; for long after the blacks had been wsed with great success in the Northern armies, the South, up to the very last, reluscd to take one step in fa- your of emancipation, or using them in their armies. Had they proclaimed eman- cipation and made soldiers of (he blacks, they would have won more sympathy from the civilized world, and they might have maintained their cause, All these, however, if curious, are idle speculations now. ‘The simple point that we wish to establish is; that the men whom Mr, Sumner so violently assails had no more syinpathy with the cause of slivery than he has, and made much more practical sacrifice, instead of mere mouthing, to re- move the eyil fromthe world, Many of them also saw that if the dissolution of the United States had taken place, ard the South set up a purely slave republic, the chances of nbolution would have been sooner and nearer {rom that state of things than with slavery protected and sanetion- ed by the tree North; and that, being di- rectly. brought, faee to fuce with the civil- ized world, without any buffer or shield afforded by connection with free institu- tions, it would sooner fall before the uni | versal opinion of mankind. At any rate all these were opinions which might be held without giving just. eause for any national rancour; and we think itis greatly to be regretted that, for any reason what- ey Myr. Sumner should lend his services in any so unworthy a yocation,— Mon- | treal Gazete, Change in the New York School Law. A School Bill isnow pening in the Legishuture of New York, similar to the one introduced by the Mon, Mr, Flynn into our ITouse of Assembly last session It provides that were any demonation en- rolls two handred scholars. the ** Chamb- ferlin, County Treasurer, or other officer who-may have charge of the school monic to pay over cight dollars a head for an number of schollars the ssid Manager. Head or Superintendent may make it ap- peur that he has taught.” The people of the United States are beginning to lose faith ia their boasted Gvodless school system.—//e Leporter, Tne Country Froopnp. — We stop the press this morning to announce a serious cilamity, that has fallen upon a great'portion of the county of Missisquoi and neighbering The valley and low lands of the whole county, so far as we can learn, are submerged, und the suffering, misery and loss entailed upon the community are beyoud pre- sent calculation. In all directions we hear of mills, bridges, factories, and other yaluable property being swept away by the flood. In this village of Ireligsburg the water lies in some yarts six feet on the land. All the bridges in the neighborhood, except the cover- ed bridge, leading into the village, have been carried away by the irresistible flood. It is impossible to move about at all. From Cowansville we learn that the river there is very high, and that Smith’s grist mill has been destroyed. Further damages also feared. In Wast Highgate, Vt., the butter tub factory, two.seythe factories, and two saw mills had been washed away. ‘The water in the Riche- lie opposite to St, Jolin is likewise very high and still rising, though with the exception of warehouses of grain &¢., on the river's edge, no ftreat damage is to be feared in the town, A Ciry Swerr away by A FLoop.—The San Francisco Lulletin, gives the following particulars, written by an eye-witness, of the destruction of the Mexican city, Alamos, Sonora, by a flood:—* On the 15th Decem- ber, it commenced to rain, and on the 16th a genufne wind and rain storm set in, lasting until the 18th, During its continuance it ap- peared as if no human being could live within its reach. The Alamos river was swollen to a great height, and in its wild, headlong course, carried everything before it, Ilouses were swept away like so many straws, and the whole block of buildings were thrown down like so many rotton trees. ‘The wind was no less terrible than the water, Jouses were unroofed and blown to shutters; tiles and like material were blown through the air like chalf; and strong trees were uprooted as if they had been cornstalks, ‘The best part of the city is wholly destroyed. About the only buildings saved worthy of mention are the Mint, the ehurch and the old State College. These stood on high ground, and this advantage, with their solidity saved them. ‘The loss of life has been quite larges Sixty ‘dead bodies have been picked up; some of them were mangled fearfully and could scar- cely be recognized. Many of the bodies were found miles down tho*river. Undoubtedly the number will be largely increased, ‘lhe ruined city of Alamos was the Athens of North West Mexico, or at least, had that re- putation, At the time of its destraction it contained a populition of about 7,000 souls, The Legislature of Nova Seotia met on ‘Thursday. ‘The speech of the Lieutenant Governor is « mild document, and must be sadly disappointing to those violent repeaters who believed that it would contain something very formidable and startling. It states that the Windsor and *Annapolis Railway will be open for traffic before the en | of the year, It mentions that the additions to the Hospital for tlie insane are completed; makes reference to Agri¢alture and the Fisheries; and con- gratulates the country on the success of the Provincial Exhibition. It has a word to say of gold discovery, and regrets the depression of the coal trade, It states that the expendi- tures have Leen kept within the estimate ; that the revénde for Crown Lands was greater than was estimated; but reccommends a re- tiction in the Crown Land Staff. It regrets the depression of trade, and the exodus re- sulting from it; but hopes for a large emigra- tion to the Province during the year, It pro- inises a Dill in amendmeut of the Mining Laws. Aynivensany Oration —The anniversary oration of the Mount Allison Alumni Society is to be delivered tuis year by the Rey. Ilaward Sprague ef Milltown, Subj “Poetry and Kloquence in America.”.—N. 2. nont St. Boston, and for sale by dmyuies genemlly i Paper, SSS Summerside Journal. ne een: eg. ss THURSDAY, MAY 6, 18 No notice can be taken of annonynious com- munications. We must know the momes and addresses of our correspondents aga guaranty of their good faith. We cannot undeitake to return communications that are not used, ~ THE NORTH WEST TERRITORY. — Tn New Dominion has lately received a large accession of territory. ‘The Hud- son Bay Company laid claims to an im- mense tract of land north and north west of Canada. ‘Their title to it was at least questionable, but they held on to it with grat tenacity as long as they de- cently could. Very little was known about the Hudson Bay Territory until lately. ‘The policy of the Company seems to liave been to keep people ignorant of the nature and resources of their poses- sions. Most persons imagined that those possessions were of no great value to any one except the owners, ‘They were thought to be cold and sterile, fit only for the habitation of foxes and other fur yielding animals, and their hunters, white and red, ‘The Company, as we before hinted, were well pleased to keep the world:in ignorance ef the true. yalue of theirimmense preserve. , They well knew that colonists are the great enemies of wild animals of all kinds, Experience told them that the hope of their gains would be gone if the country were once opened up for settlement. ‘They were therefore content to allow millions of acres of some of the best land in America to remain the abode of the wild beast of the forest and the plain for an indefinite number of ycars, in order that they might draw a large yearly dividend on their in- vested capital. ‘They had a legal title to the land, they said—a charter given them some tivo hundred years ago; and had they not aright to do what they liked with their own? If they saw fit to keep land which was capable, if settled, of yielding a comfortable subsistence to millions of human beings, in a wild and unimproved w hundreds of | | state, supporting only a fe half-starved, degraded Indians, and an in- definite number of minks, martins, bea- yers, foxes, squirrels, and the other wild creatures, big and little, whose business was it to interfere with them? Could they not show their parchment, with its great scals, leaden or waxen, as the case might be, also duly signed and delivered ? What better title was required? Could any English landlerd produce a better one for his preserves ? Canadians found out that this North West Territory was a }goodly land, well watered with broad streams, and containing fertile yalleys and extensive plains. ‘They bogan to grumble and to find fault with the impro- vident Mother Country, and (the greedy dog-in-the-mangerish Hudson Bay Com- pany. They asked one another the ques- |tion always asked whena land monopoly s established on this American Con‘inent. What right have these British traders, stock-jobbers and noblemen, to deprive the people of the realm of this fair por- tion of their heritage? Are these prai- ries, and yalleys, and woods, and streams to remain forever unimproved and unused, jexcept hy a few traders for the benefit of ja few monied men? The monied men, when they heard of these questionings and murmurings, set up a great cry about vested interests and the sacred rights of property and _all that sort of thing. Spoli- ation was a word continually on their lips. ‘The Canadians, however, did not pay much attention to the clamor, but kept on sturdily declaring that these capitalists had no right to the land, and that it was a sin and a shame to keep good land, ca- pable of yielding food for man, in a state of pristine wilderness, just to please a few rich men who would ncither cultivate it themselves or allow others to cultivate it. The Dominion Government took the matter in hand, and sent Delegates to London to see if terms could not be made with the Imperial Government and the Company. ‘lhe Downing Street officials were, it appears, much more civil and obliging to the Canadian ¢cclegates, rep- resenting some three millions of people, than they ever were to delegates from this little Island, who were sent there more than once on a similar errand. ‘The North West proprictors, like the Island proprietors, made a dreadful fuss, and us they were numerous, rich and influential, they had a pretty good prospect of suc- cess. But the Canadian delegates, keep- ing in yiew the three and a half millions at ahome, werefirm, An offer was made of $1,500,000 for nineteen twentieths of the land. ‘This offer was scouted by many of the memlers of the Company. ‘They declared that they were going tobe rovbed. ‘T.e meeting of shareholders convened to consider the proposal was a most unruly one. Such language as was held by the indignant landholders on that afternoon, is not by any means un- familiar to the ears of landlord ridden P. LE. Islanders. ‘They have heard the.same arguments and the same protests a theu- sand times in almost precisely the same terms. But it was all of no avail. ‘The proprictors had powerful Canada to deal with, and not weak little P. 1. Island, The Colonial Minister was inflexible, The screws were tightened, and the pro- prietors were for once obliged to ‘ cave in.” Something that looks marvelously like a compulsory sale was effected. Take what you are offered, says Marl Granville, or it will be worse for you. The shareholders, if they had their own way, if they were not afraid that a worse thing would befal them, if they hold out much longer and insisted on better terms, would not have sold a foot of their highly prized territory. ‘lhe Canadians on their part say that they ought to have got the land for nothing, that the company had no right to it; but all things considered, they concluded that they might have done worse. ‘The land which thay have thus purchased amounts to 50,000,000 acres of good land, be the same a little more or less. It is watered by the Saskatehewan, Assiniboine, the Red River, and their tributaries,and contains numberless lakes, large and small, The climate is by «no means so cold as one would imagine, A Methodist Minister, the Rey. Mr, Camp- | | the 30th of December, says that up to that time there had been hardly any snow,and the cattle and horses fed on the plains, The winter has been mild. The country is healthy; ali sorts of vegetables grow well, and wheat yields from 40 to 60 bushels to the acre. Coal is plentiful in that region,and gold has been found there, Altogether, the country is a very fine one, ‘The worst thing about it, however, is, that like a great many other good things, it is pretty’ hard to be got at. “There is no good road to it from Canada as yet, but one is being made, The best route to to this new land of promise is through the State of Minnesotta. “When you get there, you are are from 500 to 1000 miles from a market, whichis not a very plea- sant consideration... We do not think that this North West Territory will be made ayailable for the purpose of coloni- zation as soon as same people seem to think, There is too much unoccupied land in more accessible situations on the continent,to render it likely that intending settlers will choose a home so very far out of the worl. as the banks.of the Saskatch- ewan, tho’ that country be the earthly Pa- radise which its admirers declare that it is. LOUVICOAL VERY, Tw order to convince his readers that the Gdyernment of the Mother Country keeps the people poor, the editor of the Huaminer abuses the Jounna, ard ma- ligns a gentleman who, he supposes, con- tributes to its columns. | This is charac- teristic. As it requires some knowledge and some ability to reason, (any block- head can scold), and as it is much easicr to string falsehoods together than to con- struct an argument, the Haaminer’s anti- British scribe replies to our article in fa- vor of British Institutions, by a ‘violent and an unscrupulous personal attack. We accused the Haaminer of having in its editorial columns violated every rule of good sense, good taste and good manners. The yeracious editor, by way of proving that our strictures were unjust, inserts an article in his next number, which any man possessing either the honor of a gen- tleman or the morality of a christian, would scorn to indite. It is very unfor- tunate that the newspaper which claims to be, par excellence, the advocate of a religious education, should be~ mainly conducted by men whose writings prove them to be wholly regardless not only of the amenities of civilized society, but of the restraints and sanctions of that relig- ion for which they profess so unbounded areverence. We do not know who the writers for the Hxaminer are, and we do not want to know. We judge them sole- ly by their writings. We frecly admit that there is one among them—though we differ widely from in opinion—who writes like a gentleman and a scholar, and we have no doubt that he is heartily ashamed of the company which necessity forees him to keep; but the rest of the motley crew are rapidly achieving for the Heaniner a bad pre-eminence among our newspapers, for vulgarity, scurrility, venemous malice and unscrupulous false- hood, Mr.idirwan’s Valedictory Address, As editor of the Progress, appears in the last issue of that paper. Though i. con- tains much that provokes discussion, we will not argue with him now ; we are not in the mood. We wish our parting with him to be without the faintest tinge of acrimony or ill feeling. We have had our little disagreements and bickerings, it is true,—on review they now seem very small indeed,—but for rival editors in a small town, we have jogged on, side by side, without in any very unusual degree disturbing the peace of the community. This was no doubt in a very great degree owing to Mr. Kirwan's good sense, geni- ality and forbearance. He possesses a kindly and sympathetic nature, and by far the greater number of those who dif- fer most widely on public questions with the journalist, cannot withhold their res- pect and esteem from the man and the citizen. For our part, we cheerfully bear testimony to Mr. Kirwan’s many private and social virtues. As a neighbor, he was everything that could be wished for, and his zeal in every work of improve- ment, and his public spirit, made him a very useful member of this community. THe will be much missed in Summerside. Modesty no doubt induces him to say that the Progress will be conducted with great- er ability under the editorship of his suc- cessor, than while under his control. We very much doubt it. Mr. Kirwan pos- sesses, as a journalist, many good quali- ties which but very few public writers cun boast of, It is quite’ possible that our contemporary over the way may fall into the hands of more profound and learned men than Mr. Kirwan, but such a genial, witty, independent, off-hand,and withal sensible editor, the Progress will, we believe, nevér have again. We heart- ily wish Mr. Kirwan success: in whatever project he may engage. ‘ We learn that the Schr. Jane Bell, which sailed from this port last week, grounded on the bar while going into Cascumpee harbor, and shortly after took fire and was compictely. burnt, ‘The origin of the fire is not known, but is supposed to have originated from a quan- tity of lime which was on board. ‘The whole of her cargo was lost, the most of which belonged to the owner of the vea- sel. We regret to learn that the vessel was notinsured, The cargo of the owner was insured. Our readers will remember that the Jane Bell was built last summer at Alberton by Herbert Bell, isq., for I. GC, Hall, Esq., who meeté with this heavy loss, Tit heavy rains of the last few days have made the roads yery bad. It would be much’ more to the credit of John Williams, if he would make that piece of road near Charlottetown even passable, than to be displaying his fiery temper in abusing a gentleman who'came out with his views on road making in the Jslandér. The first five miles of the Malpequo Road, leading from the city, is o disgrace to any man pretending to know how to make roads or keep them in repair. We hope the Board of Works will at once discharge bell, writing from Tort Bdmonston, on all incompetent Road Commissioners.