== ce

Again, the merest tyro must pere |
that just in proportion as this branch of |
busi..ess prospers, other. industrial pur-|
suits will be correspondingly benefitted, |
Agriculture will be premoted by a greater|
demand for articles ef food. Manufactures |

will be encouraged, in providing the ne- |
cessary clothing for the fishermen and
their families, and the sails, nots, ¢ ains,
anchors, &e., necessary tor the carrying}
on the trade. The shipbuilding and lum-|
bering interests will proportionately pros:
per; the railways and coasting traders
would secure a fruitful source of profit;
the revenue would be increased; and all

the produetiv® classes would be atly
advantaged thereby. Viewed from a

commercial standpaint, the subject is one
of the first importance, and demands the
most attentive consideration.

But other and yet morp weighty reasons |
may be assigned why the iuture of the
Dominion of Canada will largely be de-
termined by the character of its fishery
legislation. We need not—we must not}
—isguise the fact that C nada has upov |
her border an aggressive and ambitious
neighbor, whos resolyed to absorb her
by annexation or conquest whenever the
opportunity offers. Annexed she will not}
be, and conquered she must not be. But)
in order that she may stand prepared for}
any great emergency, she must have #
navy, ang from the fisheries the men must
come to man her ships and defend her
coasts. Great Britain owes her nayal su-
periority to the fact that not a large pro-
portion of her sons, trained to maritime
occupations, are always ready tor service. |
France depends tor naval recruits upon |
her Newfoyndland fishermen, and a very |
large proportion of the officers and men
in the United States naval service are
drawn from the same source. Indeed,
each of the above-named pow
islating for the benefit of their
engaged in the business, are largely in-
fluenced by consideration of a national
character. If, then, Canadians would be
united and strong,—if they would play
with credit their part in the world’s great
diama,—if they would forever silence an-
nexation clamors,—they must profit by
the experience and example of others,and
strengthen and consolidate,-their power,
while they build up their industrial inter-
ests,

Tue Earruguake—Cunious Benter.—
The recent shock of an earthquake in
Montreal, visibly recalled an old prophe-
sy, and almost scared many French Cana-
dian families out of their senses. Several
years ago a nun, belonging to the Hotel

Dieu, if we remember the story rightly, | has been passed.

predicted, while on her death-bed, that)
an earthquake would overwhclm that city,
and engulf itin the St. Lawrence. ‘This

srg, in leg-|
subjects |

UNITE) STATES, |
The impeachment of the President seems
to be the principal topic in the exchanges |
received, Articles of Impeachment have |
been presented in the louse of Represen-

|tatives at Washington, and they have!

passed the House 125to 41. Gen.’Thomas, |
who was appointed Secretary ef War, ad)
interim, and who was arrested on com: |
plaint of Secretary Stanton, Las sued the}
latter for $150,000 damages. The gold
market contthues quiet, with small tran-
sactions, t quotations 141.

Advices from Mexico state that the!
Mexican Government has recognized the |
English and Spanish debts, and that a

demption of conserted bonds.

The N.Y. Tribune has the tollowing:—|
In a populous quarter of a certain large}
Western city, it is asserted, on medi
authority, that not a single Anglo-Ameri-
ean vhild has been born alive for the last
three yenrs, This is incredible ; but mak-
ing all due allowance for exaggeration, it
is plain cnough that the murder of infants
is a common thing among American wo-
mene

A liquor law in the Pennsylvania Legis-
lature provides that any tavern keeper
who shell sell adulterated or impure liquor
shall be liable to a fine of not less than
lifty dollars, nor more than one thousand,
and be imprisoned at the direction of the
Court,

NEW BRUNSWIOK.

The Ifouse of Assembly have had before
them a bill to facilitate the settlement of
Crown Lands. Would not the Legislature
of this Islund do weil to take into con-
sideration some such means to encourage
emigrants here? ‘he subject of Educa:
tion is also to come before the New Bruns-
wick Legislature. ‘The Union Advocate
says ‘* it is one that is being very freely
discussed in all parts of our Province, and

ingan_ reflecting mind, and demanding
solution,” The authorities ut Ottawa
have decided to abolish the St. John and
Shediac Railway Commission. It is re-
ported that L. Carvell, Esq., has been ap-
pointed manager of the Railways in Nova
Seotia and New Brunswick,

NOVA SOOTIA,

In the House of Assembly an address to
Her Majesty, embodying the views of the
Assembly, in rence to the manner in
which the Proyinee had been forced into
Confederation, and praying that the Act
be repealed so far as concerns Nova Scotia,
A resolution was pass-
ed, providing that in case the Provinee,be
permitted to withdraw from the Confeder-
acy, they would bear a just and fair pro-

belief is very current amoug the lower!
classes, who believe that the earth under- |
neath Montreal is uollow, and liable to
‘‘cave in” at any moment. Strange to
say, a very similar idea is generally ene |
tertained in the city of Moscow, and vee |
cently led to such a popular agitation that |
the authorities were obliged to institute a
series of bcvings in order to prove that
the city did not rest on the roof of a large
cavern, as was g nerally supposed.—
Quebee Chronicle.

NEWS SUMMARY.

In the Heuse of Lords on the 25th ult.,
at the beginning of the Session, the Earl
of Malmsbury announced that Lord Derby
had tendered his resigmation to the Queen |
on account of ill-health, and that Her}
Majesty had been pleased to call upon the |
present Chancellor of the Exchequer, the |
Hon, Benjamin Disraeli, to form a new}
Cabinet. In the House of Commons the ,
announcement of the resignation of the}
Prime Minister was made by Lord Stanley,
and was responded to by Mr. Gladstone,
who expressed his sorrow for the cause |
which compelled the noble Lord to resign |
his high office. It is thought that Mr. |
Disracli will resign his position as Chan-|
ecllor of the Exehequer, and that Sir Staf- |
ford Northeote will take his place. ——Th
Daily News, in an article on the resignation
ot the American Minister, says: ‘* All |
England will lament the departure of |
Charles Francis Adams.” The London}
Times says the Ameyiean who will succeed |
Mr. Adams could not haye had a more
easier or gracious tusk than the settlement
of the questions which have arisen con-
cerning the rights of naturalized citizens.
——llis Majesty Louis, King of Bavaria, |
died on the 20ch February. Te was only |
23 years old.——T rue bi!lshave been found
against a number of Fenians.——Prince |

Napoleon has left Paris on a visit to Ger-|

many.——A French paper says it has rea

son to believe that the Emperor ot Russ
is massing troops near the Danube.

Having get his army bill, the French Em-

peror wants to have hisarmy, and orders

are already out to enroll in the National

Guard 100,000 of those who escaped the

lastconscription, Except for this,though,

the war symptoms seem subsiding in Paris
and the chief subjects of agitation there
now arise from internal politics.

Official despatches from General Napier
say that the Enyoy sent by him to Prince!
Kassai was well reccived at a council of
2000 warriors, with their chiefs assembled,
by whom he was heartily received,

All persons charged with complicity in
the Clerkenwell explosion have been com-
mitted to trial for murder. Tho Prince
of Wales will visit Ireland in April. Fit
teen thousand copies of the ‘* Queen's
Diary” have been sold in England,_——_"A
pound of meat without bone” is to be the

" allowance of the British soldier.—the |
new treaty between the United States and |
the North German Cenfederation provides |

that natives of Germany must obtain a!

portion of the st of the Intercolonial
Railway. ITalifax has recently been the }
scene of disastrous fires. The handsome
Wesleyan Church on Grafton Street, in
that city, has been totally destroyed by
fire. The fine organ, books, &e., in the
chureh were burnt. Large sums have al-
ready been subscribed towards re-building

it, Some gentlemen have given $2000,—
this is something like giving. The

Merchants of Halitax have got up a me-
morial to the Dominion Government on
the subject of the Tariff,
Li
Latest by Telegraph !
London, March Ist.

Tn the eave of Gen. Nagle, now on trial
at Sligo on the charge of Fenianism, the
motion for delay of trial made by William
Heron, counsel for the defence, was re-
fused. On the announcement of this de-
cision Mr, Heron moved to transfer the
ease to the Courts of the Queen's Bench,
in order that the trial might take place
elsewhere. The chief ground for this mo-
tion, Mr. Heron said, was the fact that
there were not six Americans in the whole
City of Sligo, and therefore it would be
impossible to select a mixed Jury,

Mr. G, F. ‘Prain, who happened to be in
Sligo, rather unexpectedly appeared be-
ore the Court and offered to become one
of the American jurors, but the offer was
eclined. Mr,Ieron’s motion was argued |
at length, when the Court refused to trans-
fer the trial to another place; the case
was then procecded with,

True bills have been found against
Messrs. Nugent, Kean, Fitz Simmons,

KitzGibbon, Leonard, O'Connor aud Lea-
hy, and prisoners will be accordingly

brought to trial without delay.
London, March 2d.

King William of Prussia formally closed |
the Session of the Diet on Saturday even-
ing.

In the usual speech on such occasions |
the King congratulated the Members on
the succes t{ their Inbors.

The efforts of the Diet te ensure the
peace of Lurope had been promptly and}
powerfully sustained by the other Great
owers. ‘The confidence thus restored
will aid in the spiritual and temporal wel-
fare of the Nation.

Later news from the English captives in |
Abyssinia has been received. They were!
still sate and well at Magdala. The ad-|
vance of the English army had arrived at
a place near Antalo. The Tigre people
were everywhere friendly, There was
no sickness among the troops,

Sclater Booth, M. P., for North
Hants, will succeed George W. Iuut, as
Under Secretary of the Treasury,

W. Johnson, a Grand Secretary of the
Orangemen’s association, was tried in
Dublin lust week on a charge of heading
an illegal procession in the County Down,
and found guilty and sentenced to impris-
onment and the payment ot fine,

New York, March 2d.

Money market continues easy. Gold
closed 140% a 141,

One of the most violent snow storms of
the season has prevailed to-day.

Mrs, A. Allen’s Worlds Hair Restorer and
Zylobalsalum or Worlds Hair Dressing are
unequalled, and so acknowledged by all whd
use them for restoring, invigorating and
dressing the hair, rendering it soft, silky and
glossy,and disposing it to remain in any desi-
red position; quickly cleansing the scalp, ar-

UMMERSIDE JOURNAL,

+ . ' TI am glad to meet yon at the commente-
sinking fund has been created for the au 5 ’

| During last Session you past an Act to

one that is forcing itself upon every think- |

ot the President,
pelled from the
lin guished,

Jicense to emigrate.——A great explosion | resting the full and imparting a healthy and
is reported in China, by which 800 liyes/natural color to the hair, They never fail to
wore lost. It was occasioned by the piy | restore grey hair to its original youthful col-
ofa workman in the magazine, who, con-| ot, ‘They act directly upon the roots of tho
trary to orders, returned to his work with | hair giving the natural nourishinent required.
his pipe alight.——At the last session of No lady’s tuilet is complete without the Zylo-

A * : mum or hair dressing. It cleanses the |
Pa Sh ve sous: 1 tT E _ clea
renoh Legislature, during the discus- | and imparts to it a most delightful frag- |

sion ‘ "0: ati i :

Havin, ty Lill lor ‘ gulating the pross, M. jrance, and is suited to both young and old, |
to read the te Siecle, rese nud commenced | he Restorer Reproduces. ‘The Hair

merating diiinself act of the Court exon-/ pressing cultivates and beautifies.

ornnen ee ous hy SE Nee a ane If your hair isthin try it, if scurfy try it,

him to THO Prisidene ny) tHe GOV") it hatek try it, if lustreless try it, if none of

roading "ie ent refased to allow
. ~ Afavin insiste
and confusion 2cument, Much Sa

President duclareylowed, wh

teoeed. i these try it, for all who use it will preserve
ON | their hair through life. Worsale by all Drug
ler | gists.
sreupon the

dissolved. The @2@ sitting of : — nnnnnn picid
then retired, the Linekeenmene membos| Many suffer, rather than take nauseous |
ly protesting against the “maining, loud- Medicines. Al such, who suffer from coughs |

and colds, irritation of the bronchial tubes,
ard tender ‘y to consumption, have in Dr.
Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry, a remedy as
agreeable tothe palate as effectual in remoy-
ing disease,

They werittary action
building, and (mally ex-
Sy And the ite ox.

House of Assembly,

Wepnespay, March 4, 1868.
At 3 o’elock His Excellency the Licu-
tenant Goverror was pleased to oren the
Second Session of the Twenty-third Gen-
eral Assembly of this Island with the
following

SPEEOH:
President and Monoratle Gentlemen of
the Legislative Council;
Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of
Assembly:

Mr.

ment of another Session, and to have recourse
again to your assistance and advice.

authorize the raising of a loan. It was decm- |
ed advisable that, during the recess, a Dele-
gate should proceed to England to carry out
your intentions in this matter; and also to|
apply to the various Proprictors gf ‘Township |
Lands resident in England, with the view of}
ascertaining from them the terms upon which |
they would be willing to «dispose of their)
Estates,

I regret that the negotiations with these

| Proprietors have not, thus far, been productive |

toany results. Nevertheless, tie efforts of
; the Government continue to be directed to a
{full and final settlement of all questions con-
| Rected with the land tenures. *

As one of your principal objects in passing
the Loan Act was to enable the Government
to make extensive purchases of Land, it has
not yet been deemed advisable to proceed
with that Loan,

Papers on these subjects will be laid before
you.

I have recently received a Petition from
certain Persons who haye purchased their
Holdings on the Selkirk Estate. ‘Vhe peti-
tioners allege that the amount paid by them
|as Inst Iments, have already been more than
| sufficient to pay for this Hstate, and that it
| was not the intention ef the Legislature, iu
‘passing the Act under which this Property
|was purchased, thata larger sum should be
| exacted from the Tenants than would render
| the Purchase selfsustaining,
| I deemed it necessary to refer this Potition

for the consideration of the Law Officers, and
iI have directed that their opinion should be
{laid before you, in full confidence that yon
(will mature snch Measures as may be deemed
equitable and convenient on this subject.

A Bill will be submitted to you for relax-
ing the provisions, enacted by the Land Pur-
chase Act for the sale of wilderness lands on
Public Estates. with the view of encouraging
their speedy settlement and disposition.

Mr, Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of
Assembly :

The Public Accounts for the past year will
be laid before you. ‘a

I am glad to observe, that notwithstandiig
the commercial depression of the past year,
the Revenue was larger than could havesbeen
anticipated, and, including that derived from
the sale of public lands, was in excess of the
expenditure.

T have directed that estimates for the cur-
rent year be submitted to you, and I ask with
confldence such supplies as may be required
for the public service.

Mr, President and Honorable Gentlemen of
the Legislative Council :

Speaker and Gentlemen of the Louse of
Assembly :

When released you from the Leyislative
duties of last Session, I expressed the hope
that you would, at your next meeting take
into your considcration a measure, calculated
to impart to your system of Education a de-
gree of efficiency and practical benefit more
commensurate with your liLeral provision for
that service.

A measure for consolidating the present
Laws on this subject, and for amending them
in certain particulars, will be subusitted for
your consideration, "

The Committee which you appointed last
Session, to report the best method of improy-
ing the highways throughout this Island, has
concluded its labors, and its report wili be laid
before you,

I would direct your special attention to a
subject of such manifest importance to the
people whom you represent.

I venture to hope, that the success which
attended the exhibition of articles of local
in lustry during last autumn, will encourage
you to repeat snd extend the stimulus which
such exhibitions undoubtedly give.

T now leave you to the performance of the
duties of the Session,

Mr.

Hon. Members of the Assembly having |
returned to their seats, His Excellency’s |
Speech was again read from the Chair,
alter which the llouse proceeded to busi-
ness.

Ifon. Mr. Coles, Col. Seeretary, laid on
the table the Writ of Election issued’ for
the election of a Member tor the Second
District of King’s County, in the place of
Bdward Rielly, Esq., who had accepted
the Office of Queen’s Printer, md
Sheriff's Return thereon, which was r
by the Clerk,

KE. Rielly, Esq., Queen's Printer, re-
elected « Member for the Second Distrigt
of King’s County, appeared at the Bar,and
having been introduced, took the usual|
ouths and his seat.

The following Committees were then
appointed, viz:

Committee to prepare and report the
Draft Address in answer to His “xcellen-
ey’s Speech—Messrs. Rielly, MeNeill,
Ilon, Mr. Kelly, Messrs McCormack, Dr.
Jenkins, Bell, Kickham,

Committee to receive Tenders for Print-
ing the Debates of the Tlouse—TIlon.
Messrs. Hensley, Howlan, Haviland.

Committee to receive Tenders for Print-
ing the Journals of the House—Hon. My.
Hensley, Mr, AleNeill, Hon. Mr. Ilender-
son.

Committee on Public Accounts-—Messrs
P. Sinclair, Bell, Hon, Mr. Kelly, Messrs.
McNeill, MeCormac's, Owen, Yeo.

Committee to provide stutionery—Messrs
Bell, G, Sinclair aud Hon. Mr. Laird.

The usual standing Committees were
then appointed; and, on motion, it was
lordered that Mr. John Griffith be Door-
| keep: r to the Honse, in the place of Mr.
Purlong, who, owing to illness, was un-
able to attend to the duties of that office.

Oa motion of the Hon. Col, Secretary,
Mr, Archibald MeNeill was appointed
Summary Reporter to the House, his duty
being to furnish each Member of the House,
daily, with a printed Summary of the pre-
vious day's proceedings,

House adjourned till ten o'clock to-mor-
row.

Tuurspay, March 5,

IIon. B. Davies submitted a Resolution.
seconded by the Hon, Mr. Lflowlan, to the
effect, that Robert Gordon, Benj. Balder-
sion, and Isaac Oxenham, be xppointed
Reporters to the House during the present
Session. ° i
Lo which the Hon. Mr. Haviland moved
an amendment, seconded by the Hoa: Mr
McAulay, namely, that the names of Robert
Gordon, Benjamin Balderston, and Isaag
Oxhenham, be struck ort, and the names
of David Laird and Peter Stainforth Mae-
Gowan be inserted in lieu thereof.

A debate on the subject of the appoint-
ment of Reporters then followed, an ex-
tended report of which will appear in the
Parliamentary Reporter.

After debate the amendment was lost on
the following division, vize

| ed to prepare and report the dratt Address

THURSDAY, MARCIL 12, 1868. _

For it—Hons. Haviland, McAulay, Hen-
derson, Messrs. Ramsay, Prowse, Yeo,
Brecken—7. :

Against it—llons. B, Davies. Howlan,
Calbeck, Laird, Atty. General, Col. Secre-
tary, Kelly, Messrs. Bell, Arsenault, Rielly,
MeNeill, P. Sinclair, Kickhim, MeCor-
mack, Dr, Jenkins—15.

Hon, Atty. General, from Committee
Appointed to receive tenders for printing}
the Debates of the House, presented their
report, to the effeet. that they had received
tenders {rom Messrs. F. W. Hughes and
Malone, and from Mr, David Laird, upon
the consideration of which the said Conts|
mittee recommended the tender of Messrs. |
Hughes and Malone be accepted.

Report adopted.

Hon. Atty. General also presented the
report of the Committee appointed to re-
ceive tenders for the printing of the Jour-
nals, which was to the effect, that said
Committee had received tenders from
‘Thomas Rielly, Hughes & Malone, and D,
Laird, and that having compared_ the
speciinens of paper submitted, the Com-
mittce recommended the acceptance of
Messrs. Hughes and Malone's tender,

Report of said Committee was then also
adopted, 1
Mr. Rielly, from the Committee appoint-

in answer to His Ixcellency’s Speech,
nted said draft Address which is as

Lieutenant Governor, &e., &e.
May it please your Excellency,

We, Her Majesty's dutiful and loyal
subjects, the House of Assembly of Prince
Edward Islind, beg to reciprocate with
your Excellency the pleasure which we

experience in meeting you again at the
commencement of another Si
assure your Excellency that our ass
and advice will be cheerfully given when-
ever you shall have occasion to require
them,

With your Excellency we regret that
the negotiations entered into during the
recess of the Legislature, with non resident
Proprietors of Township Lands in this Is-
land, have not, up to the present time,
proved successful.

Although your Excellency has not, as
yet. deemed it advisable to proceed with
the Loan, yet the provisions of the Act
authorizing it still remain available in case
any Proprietor shall hereafter, as we trust
they will do, see the advantage and pro-
priety of meeting the ws of the Goy-
ernment by accepting a fair price for their
property.

Any papers upon the subjects which
your Excellency may lay before us shall
receive our due consideration,

When the opinion of the Law Oficers of
the Crown on the subject of the Selkirk
Estate shall be laid before us, your Excel-
lency may rely upen our giving the seve-
ral questions involved in it our serious and
earetul attention, and maturing such mea-
sures on the subject as may appear just
and equitable upon a full COHAIGGIAHION ol
the whole question,

Tt will afford us much. satisfaction to
give every encouragement to the settling
of wilderness lands, by passing a bill for
relaxing the provisions of the Land Pur-
chase Act, ov devisivge such other mea-
sures as muy best promote that desirable
object.

We thank your Excellency for the assur-
ance that the Public Accounts tor the past
year will be laid before us.

It is gratifying to learn from your Ex-
cellency that the Reverue for the past
year has been in excess of the expenditure,
notwithstanding the commercial depres-
sion to which your Excellency has alluded,
and also the unusuxl demands upon the
public Treasnay to repair the damages
caused by the gales of last autumn.

We shall be prepared to give to any
measure which may be submitted to us,
having for its object the improvement of
our present system of Education, and the
amendment and consolidation of the laws
by which the same is regulated, our care-
ful consideration, believing as we do that
the subject is one of paramount import-
ance to the people of this Colony,

The system of Road making hitherto |
adopted in this Island has been alnost uni-
versally condemned by its inhabitants,
We hail with pleasure she prospect that
some feasible scheme will be devised by
which our highways will be improved
without trenching too much upon the pub-
lic revenue,

The Report of the Committee appointed
Jast session to consider this important sub-
ject will receive our special attention when
laid before us,

As Agriculture must ever form the prin-
cipal business of a large proportion of the
people of this Colony, it will be our duty
to stimelate, by every means within our
power, an occupation upon the successful
prosecution of which depends, to a econ-
siderable extent, the material well-being
of the Colony.

The Local Industrial Pxhibition of last
autumn having proved a success, we can
assure your Excellency that it will be a
pleasure for us to extend to every section
of the Island the benefits which such ex-
hibitions ave calculated to conter,

On netion of Mr. Rielly, it was resolved
that on Saturday next the House resolve
itself into a Committee of the whole to take
into consideration the said Dratt Address,

House adjourned till 10 o'clock to-mor-
row.

A. McNett, Reporter,

Worrespondence,
To tue Eprror or rue JourNAL.
Sir :—

Having noticed an article in the Journal

of the 30th January. on the improvements of
Crapaud Harbor, in which you express a de-
sire for information respecting the dredging,
and I being one of the party engaged to survey
the harbor, would therefore beg leave to offer
afew remarks on the subject; and also to
make a short comment on a resolution which
appeared in several of the papers, said to be
unanimously adopted by a meeting held in
Crapaud Hall on New Years’ Day, and at
which Lots 28 and 29 were largely represent-
ed. 1 would merely say, in order to be brief,
that the meeting was called by Mr. G. Lock,
and not more than six or nine persons from
T ot 28 were present. Mr. Lock was the first
to tuke the floor, and after viewing very
freely and fully our present condition, and
the need of improvement, hastily moved the
before mentioned resolution, which was sus-
pended until further comments were made.
Seeing as I did the bad policy in carrying a
one-sided resolution by a party meeting ona
‘sulject interesting the whole community, |
‘therefore moved an amendment omiting the
words Sandy Point, and read that the Govern-
ment be petitioned to extend a wharf into the
Basin; which amendment was carried but
néver appeared in print. Why the chairman
published his report as he did I have yet to
learn?

In regard to the dredging, I would say
though it may not bea total failure, still at
the present itis soto a great extent. The
wharf at Victoria lies n distance of 1000 yards

first deepened it would admit vessels of 12 ft. |
draft at ordinary tides, but by some questiona- |
ble cause, it has at the entrance into the

Basin filled up with sand a distance of about

200 yards; consequently the water inside is

of little value while this bar remains where it

is. Hence the cry forimprovements; and as

is always the case, a diversity of opiniun}
avises. A large majority are opposed to

lredging, fearing it should-fillin again; others

argue that the channel may be kept open by

moving it to the Westward, or near Paul's

Bluff.

But while the majority would prefer build-

ing a new wharfin the proper place, up comer

the question, where is that place? Mr. Lock

says he has found it on his side of the harbor.

IL say that if a wharfsbe built at all it must be

off of Paul's Bluff.

In the midst ot our disputes we were hon-
ored by a visit from the Hon. D. Montgomery,
and P. Sinclair, Esq... M. VP. ‘These gentle-
men went in company with several others,
and witnessed the depths of water, on the
Kast and West sides of the harbor, which if
you pleese I will give yonin plain figures
for the benefit of all whom it may concern.

Sandy Point or Paul's Bluff or

Eastern side, West side.

at 300 yds., Oft. at 200 yds., 7ft. 5in,

at 350 yds., 7ft.8in. at 260 yds., sft. Sin.

at 400 yds., 9ft. at 300 yds., Oft. Gin.
at 450 yds., ft. 2in, at 350 yds., 11ft. Gin.
at 500 yds. 10ft.

This was talen when the tide was about
5 feet rise. You will here see at a glance
that we have at Paul’s Bluff, decidedly the
best sight for a wharf. As in the same dis-
tance there is nearly four feet difference of
water, Not only so, but we are there free
from shoals. A vessel could leave with any
wind that blows except it be a storm. While
on the other hand, after we build a wharf a
distance of 400 yards, we still are hampered
in with shoals 200 yards more bcfore we
reach the Basin, and also exposed to a raging
Bea.

When this survey was over, we again pro-

eded to the Hall, where the subject was
freely discussed. ‘I'he members for the dis-
trict spoke several times, and finally Mr.
Sinclair drafted a resolution favorable to all
parties. It was to the effect that the Goy-
ernment be petitioned to granta sum suffi- |
cient for the necessary improvements, and a
competent person to survey the harbor, and
report what is the best mode to adopt. A peti-
tion to this eflect has been signed and sent to
the Government, Aud we sincerely trust
they will take the matter into their serious
consideration, and put us in a position to
compete with our sister ports. Why should
we, while we raise as good if not better pro-
duce than any section ef the country, be com-
pelled f.r want of shipping accommodations,
to sell ata loss of 2d, to 3d. per bushel, or
else carry it to Summerside, Bedeque, or
elsewhere. All we ask is fair play, and we
are determined to agttate, petition, and pray,
until, if’ for no other reason, but because of
our dmportunily, they will grant us redress.

By giving the above space in your widely
circulated Journal, you would much oblige
your humble servant.

W.C, LEA,
Tryon, Feb. 29, 1868.

Letter from Charlottutown. |

Dear Jounnat:—

Your readers will probably like to see an
occasional letter from the city. On the 4th
the Legislature was opened by His Excellency
the Lieutenant Governor. ‘The day was all
that could be desired, The attendance of
the Volunteers om the occasion was large,
and their drill and appearance highly eredita-
ble to officers and men. ‘There were six
companies out, two of them being Cavalry,
which would have looked much better if
horses of a similarity of color, had been ar-
ranged together, but as in some fow instances,
a white, grey, brown, and bay colored horses
were ranged abreast of each other, it was ob-
served by several, that it destroyed the effect
which would lave bee produced had they
il been of one color. ‘The fine apppearance
of these companies as they came up to the
Colonial Building, led sever .1to say that the
money spent upon that service ouglit not to be
regarded as a mis-apprepriation.

When His Excellency and suit entered the
Legislative Council chamber, it was so crowd- |
ed that it was with difliculty that the space
usually reserved for the members of the
Mouse of Assembly to occupy, when they
answer to lis Ixcellency’s command, could
be preserved from intrusion. ‘Chere were
quite a number of ladies present. When the
members of the lower house had returned to
their chamber, attention was given to some |
routine business, when the House adjourned
until Thursday. On ‘Thursday and Friday,
the members having been engaged in com-
mittees, and arranging their views on the!
several matters upon which they have to re-
port, no business of any importance was
transacted, ‘I'o-day two resolutions on ex-
piring Laws were agreed to in Committee,
and as these referred to acts respecting Sui-
merside, they called forth some complimen-
tary remarks in favor of your town, frem the
Ilon. Messrs. Howlan and Davies. Both
these Hon. Gentlemen expressed a wish that
the people would apply for an Act of Incor-
poration. Ion, Mr. Davies said that he was
sure that it would bea benefit to the town,
Hon. Mr. Howlan drew attention to the fact
that no public land had been secured for the
town,

I paid a visit to the fine Furniture Estab-
lishment of Mr. Douglas, on Kings Square.
Ile very kindly took me‘through all the de-
partments of his fine premises. Furniture of
wl kinds and of an excellent quality can be
had here, and I am sure that any one wishing
to purchase Furniture should give Mr. Doug-
lass acall. Iwas particularly ploased with
the great care which he has taken to guard
against fire. It would not be possible, under
ordinary circumstances, for a fire to spread
in his building.

1 also ran down to see one of the Founda-
ries, and was fortunate to enter when t
were handling the boiling metal. I have visit-
ed several Foundries, but was not so favored
on any similar occasion. ‘lo look upon the
melted boiling iron is well calculated to lead
to a consideration of the extraordinary pro-
perties of heat. Some of the Steam Engines
inthis ‘Town, Iam told, were made at this
Foundry—the name of which I cannot just
now recall. I believe this establishment is
well patronised, and that orders can be exe-
cuted, for all description of castings, to a
larger extent than is generally known.

T hope to be able, in my next, to give your
country readers some idea of the mercantile
and other establishments in the City.

OBSERVER,

Charlottetown, March 7, 1868.

LOCALITY NEWLY NAMED.

Clark, and seconded by Mr.Jalh Dougherty,
and

Resolved, That the Secretary be requested
to send notices of the proceedings of this
meeting to the Patriot and Summerside
Journal newspapers, for publication, with the
request that the other Island papers please

copy.
SILAS HODGSON, Secy.
Alexandria, Lot 6, March 4, 1868,

Summerside Gournal.

No notice can be taken ot anonymous com-
munications. We must know the names and
addresses of our correspondents as a guaranty
of their good faith. We cannot undertake to
deturn communications that are not used.

- MAOQHINERY.

Tur Reyenue Bills of the past and
preceding years, of this Island, impose «
duty of 20 per cent on all ** Wheel
Machinery,” and ‘machines for manu-
facturing,” which may be imported into
this Island; while ‘* Organs and Bells,’
imported to be used in any Church or
Chapel in this Island,” are admitted free.
of duty. ‘The inferenee to be deduced
from the free license in the one case, and
the prohibition in the other, being, we
suppose, that organs and bells are so
essential to the best interests of society,
and machinery so injurious, that the
country must be protected against the
introduction of the former—that is when
it is to be used for manufacturing pur-
poses. We have no antipathy to organs ;
on the contrary, we like the sound of
their breathing very well; nor do we
think any the less of our public men of
the past, or of the present, for the par-
tiality which they have so long shown
for the ‘* kirk and the whistles.”* But
as our Journal is not committed to party
politics, we do not ayproach this subject
from a party stand-point, but anxiously.
desirous as we are that our Island should
be gradually arising to an annual increase
of growing prosperity, we, on public
grounds and as a public journalist, feel
fhuch more deeply interested, and an-
xiously desirous that every encourage-~
ment which our legislators can consist-
ently give, should be given to that grand
Power—

‘Which blow the bellows and forge the steel
In all the shops of trade;
Which hammer the ofe and turn the wheel
Where the arms of strengths re made;
Which manage the furnaces, the mill, the
mint,
Which card, which spin, which weave.”
than we are to Church Organs, which
are at best but articles of doubtful

| necessity.

But sounds which emanate from ma-
chines, when used in manufacturing, are
to us as a citezin much more cheering
and enlivening, than those which proceed
from the best organs that ever has or can
be imported into this Colony. When a
congregation has arrived at that heighth,
and attained to that status, which justifies
the purchasing of an organ or a bell, for
public use, we do honestly think that
they should no more offend against what
we consider true pride and a proper
spirit, by asking to have them imported
free of duty, than they should think of
petitioning the House of Assembly to
provide a salary for the man whs rings
their church bell. Can our legislators
say that the use of organs lessen the cost
of the essential productions of a country?
Can they say that they aid in directing
attention to, or assist in developing, the
material national resources of the colony ?
Can they deny that they ought to be
ranked with and classed among luxuries ?
We believe they cannot, and therefore
conclude that to admit them free of duty,
when machinery is so highly taxed, is but
making the poor pay for the luxuries of
the rich,

Surely this is not the age of the world
in which public men require to be re-
minded of the many advantages to be
derived from the employment of machin-
ery. No. We rather apprehend that
the practice which has been adopted was
at first admitted without due considera-
tion, and that it has been continued in
the same careless manner. ‘T'o our mind,
though, the principle endorsed in such
legislation, shows the obvious abnegation
of that consideration which should run
through the Revenue Bills of the Colony,
without which they are, in point of an
enlightened Parliamentary policy, as
worthless as was Brutus’ alder rod, be-
fore he ran a thread of gold through it.

| That principle obviously should be, that

all classes and all interests should, as
near as possible, be made to contribute
in a like ratio, in proportion to their
means and income, towards the public
revenue of the country; and that when
departures from this rule are made, it
should be in fayor of interests which are
destined to benefit the country hereafter,
on the principle that it would be wrong
to impose a burden upon a child, and
order it to carry a load before it had
acquired strength to enable it to sustain
a burden.

If manufacturing had attained to an
eminence in this Island, and we were
annually exporting machinery, then the
case might be different. But the reverse
is the fact; and if manufacturing is to ex-
tend and increase among us, we shall for
a great many years hence haye to import
; machinery ; and therefore it is that such
jlegislatiun appears to us so inconsiderate
and so injurious. We confess that it
does scem unnecessary to show the ad-

Pursuant to notice, a general meeting of
the inhabitants of Cascumpee Village was |
held in the School room of the said place, on}
Wednesday evening, the th instant, for |
purpose of giving the locnlity anew name.
The meeting being duly organised by electing }
Mr. John Cousins as Chairman, and the un- |
dersigned as Secretary. After the Chairman |
and several others, (among whom was Mr,
William Mardy, Postmaster.) had addressed
the meeting. pointing out the inconveniences |
experienced in the Postal arrangements, &e., |
owing to the present name, it wus |

Moved by Mr. Archibald Gordon,
seconded hy Mr. Silas Hodgson, and

Resolved, That the locality extending from
Lewis's Ferry on the North, to Goff’s Bridge |
onthe South, and from Cascumpee Bay on
the Kast, to the Western Road on the West,
heretofore known by the name of Cascumpec
Village, be henceforth known by the name of
** ALEXANDRIA.”

and

infrom the Basin, When tho channel was

It was also moved by Mr, Montague G.

vantages of machinery, and the import-
ance which should be attached to its in-
troduction ; but with enactments before
us, venerable with the ‘* hoary hairs” of
age, if not of national honor, staring us
in the face, we fecl constrained to assume
the position of an advocate in fayor of
machinery, :

Our friend machinery has been placed
at the bar of public opinion by our legi->
lators with a 20 per cent chajn argund
his neck, and wo wish to shew « few of
the many good deeds of our client, in the
hope that our readers may also unite
their efforts to relieve him from the status
of a half condemned criminal. In behalf
of machinery then, we ask, are there not
yet living on this Island those who at
one time had to grind their Christmas