‘excite no suspicions by our going to the |
depot together. Jestas | turned into the |
Toad that led to the depot them consarned
cars whistled in, and Uknowed LT was late.
Tstarted upon the run, stepped onto my
gound, and fell that, vite into wmud-puddle, |
and spattered uiysell trom top to toe,

But 1 jumped up immeyiately, and made |
forthe depot. T seed aman standing on |
‘the DAO T waved my handkereher |

to him, and screamed at the top of my}
voice, “Stop ‘em! Dou't let ‘em
on withont me!”

* They've already went
~and, shure enntf, so they had! Lasked
the man—who gotin? Andhesaidam
and wohan—and described Mr, Cliffe e2
actly, .

** Look here 1" says T.
way that 1 can get to Stickneyville Without
waiting for the next train 2?”

went |

oy

says the man

He seratched his head to seratch up an)

idee, and said, be had another man there
would carry me down on a hand-car lor a
“dollar. [said the money was ready for
him the minnit I was landed at Stickney
ville—and we set forth rite off.
Purn like all possessed !?
ry for me to git there
ean!” And they did turn!
tairly airned their dollar,
T paid them as svon as we arriv, and
Qurried to Squire Moss's at the top of my
speed. ‘There was a light in the parlor,
and Trushed in without knocking.

rade ts
oon as I
1 guess they

And, gracious deliverance! 1 wonder 1)

hadn't swooned rite on the spots for jestas
true
widde

* squire w

stley hold of buuds, and the
as jest a saying,

“I pronounce you man and wife”
*¥ prabbed Clif arm, and brought hin
round facing of me in a seckont.
1” suys I.

‘Land ot Geshen! What
+ does this mean 2”
« She’s mine !*
separate us now !
the widder,
You're a false, desateful man!”
“and ma good mind to have you arre
ed for breeches of promise! You promis:
ed to marry me; and here I've been to the
expense of getting anew gound ‘
“+My deur Mrs. Mareh!” says he, ‘twhat
amistuke! Thave been engrged to Myra

vs he.
and he

« Nobody ean

ever sinee her husband died, and we came |

to your house to be together. And we
hope still to remain.”

* Well, you wen't says T, ‘‘not by two

eehalks! TFwon't keep sich a man in my
house! You'll tramp to-morrer, both ei
ye! Oh, dear! dear! what shall 1 do?
if this should get ont, how tolks would
talk! What shall Ido?”

*Tdunno,” says Squire Moss, kinder
solt, ‘'unless you
I've been thinking about coming over to
see you lor quite a spell, but Lhadn’t time.
What do yousay, Mrs. March? Will you

olnarry ne??

“Tawlul heart, Squire Moss! how you
talk!” says 1; and then the squire put his
arm round me, and gave me a real old-
fashioned smack, and Wall, we are to
be married next month, when the sign is

-in the heart, for good Juck,.

J sot my boarders all adrift the next day
after the wedding of Cliffe and the widder,
and I don't calkilate to keep any more
never, The squire says he'll buy some ot-
termans, and things for our parlor, thavil
take the shine off trom Mrs, Brown's in
no time at all,

An Orange lodge in Birkenhead (Eng:
Jand) having formally resolved that the
signing of the Trish Church Bill by the |
Queen had absolved the members from
ance to her and to the Prince
» immediately draus the health
of the Duke of Edinbur, the ‘ suilor
prince,” with great cnthusiason.

Pendergast, the minstrel, who died at
Pittsburgh on Sanday, 22nd ult., was ona
spree that atternoon with some tr
when, as they passed an undertake
went in, selected a Collin, ard said he
would wear that. ado, but
the next morning he occupied the coffin
he had selected.

The insurgents in Cuba have been again
defeated by the Spaniard troops,

By the completion of the Western Pa- |

 cili¢ Railroad on Monday, cars now travel |
contibuously from the harbors of New
York or Boston to the harbor ot San Pran-
cisco without troushipment, inside of four
hours.

Although the health of the Prineess of
Wales has very much improved since her
visit to Wildbad, itis feared that she will!
never recover the complete use of the
knce,

The first class steamships S. Lawrence,
and Princess of Wales, have resumed their

» Tegular trips between Pictou and Cape Bre-
ton. alse trom Pictou to Charlottetown, 2.
B. 1, and Shediac, N. B., continuing until

‘the season closes.—/lali/ax xpress.

he

The New York Army and Navy Ga-
zelte says that the policy of the United States
is **to encourage independence, freedom
from colonial conditions and the autonomy
of all people wherever they may be.”
Jlow about the * independence” of the

- South, and the ‘f autonomy” of Mexico.

Tionnipre Massacré iy Srary.—A Mad-
vid letter sthat there is great excite-
ment in Spain over the recent execution
of nine men near Bareelona, by Lt. Col.
Cosalis. Hight of the executed persons
were Carlists, and the ninth was a game-
keeper, und they were allshot without any
form of trial, The officers who directed
the execution had been promoted by the
Government for the tt he bad taken,
thus verilying the recent statement ol
Gen. Prim, that the Government would be
eruel, if need be, in putting down rebel
lion.

Tun Prince or Watus AND THRE ITAnvanp
Crew.—aA Cable telegram of the 10th con-
tains the following .—

The Prince of Wales has directed Capt.

fit

“TTain’t there no |

vu live, there stood Cliffe and the |

fell to kissing |

me instid of him, |

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1869.

$ to them; even in Ire-|
Jand they will not command the assent of
classes interested in higher eduestion, and in
Parliament they would be mentioned only to
be condemned,”

BRITISH MEACHANL SHIPPING. |

From Scotlish American Journal, Sept. 9.

Two or three months ago, Mr, Joun

'Bricur, President ol the British Board of

‘Trade, declared in public his belief that
at the present time the sea-going shipping
under the flag of Great Britain was equal,
not superior, to that of all the rest ot the
world. For such a remarkable assertion
| few indeed, even among. the great orators
political friends, were prepared, and itis
not surprising that in many well informed
quarters its accuracy was called in’ ques-
ition. Some sties, however, which
| were laid before the Llouse of Commons a
| few days before the late session came to
j close, bore out to the fullest extent every~
j thing that Mr. Brraire had stated; and as
‘the tacts cannot be otherwise than gratify-

ing to the national pride of our country-
lmen on this side of the ocean, we shall
| endeavor to place them betore our readers
jwith as mreh brevity and clearness as the
| subject will allow, merely promising that
| the chief object Mr. Grapsrone’s Govern=
ment had in submitting them to 2
ment was to throw: light on am
which it had introduced to consolidate and
‘amend the acts relating to Merchant Ship-
ping and Navigation.

When that great question came Inst be-
fore the country, namely in 1854, the
registered tonnage of Great) Britain and
her possessions was 8,135,000 belonging
to the United Kingdom itself, Here is an
jiner eof 4 per cent; but the real ja-
lerease is even more astounding; for in
j4the Register was encumbered with
vessels which did not exist, while itis now
[kept with great accuraey, and is claimed
to represent within a few thousand tons
the actual number and tonnage of vessels.
When we. state that the increase in the

United Kingdom alone is 40 per cent, it
}will be seen that the enterprise of the
| Mother country does not lag behind that
fot her yast and prosperous colonies, We
shall give a few figures to prove that
the Président of the Board of Trade had
spoken with a fall knowledge of the facts
which lay withia the seope of his depart-
ment. The aggregate tonnage ot
‘other countries, as given in their most re-
Feent returns, is 9,694,000 tons, but from
that amount great deductions must be
made before it can be justly compared
iwith the sea-going tonnage under the
| British For instance, the return
trom the United States includes her river
and

thousands of fishing boats, and every kind
of small eratt, down even to canal boats,
When all proper deductions are made for
the sake of the just com; arison we seek to
draw, the aggregate of sca-going to
tonnage does not exceed 7,100,000 against
the 7,282,000 ot Great Britain and her
possessions, It as true that the differs
between these figure: not very st z

but it is sufficient to settle the question ot
superiority. When, moreover, we look
atthe materials of the vast tonnage of

Great Britain, her maritime supremacy
appears in amore remarkable shape than

that we have just been disseussing, tor she
can boast with perfect truth that the ton-
nage of her sea-going steamers is more
than double that of ail other countries.

The increase in her aggregate tonnage
during the last fourteen years has_ been

{1 per cent., while the tonnage of France
has remained nearly stationary, ond that
of Holland has decreased 13 per cent.

The sea-going tonnage of the United States
hus d rsed 60 per eent. in the last ten
years—a filling off in a great measure due
to the miserable protection she afforded
her flag during the late war, but far more}
to her narrow-minded commercial policy.

The announcement of the death of Gen-
eral John A, RAWLins, Sceretury of War,
has east a gloom over the country, The
sad event took place at Washington on
Monday afternoon, General Rawlins was
born in Mlinois on Feb, 13th, 1831, began
to study Jaw in Geluna in 1803, when he
made the acquaintance of General Grant,
entered the army in August 1861 with the
rank of Captain, and since that date he
onthe stuf otf General Grant, and
accompanied bim in all his campaigns,
Soon atter Gen, Grant's inauguration as
President, General Rawlins was appoint-
ed Secretary of War, and, although an in-
valid, it must be suid to his credit that he
gave universal satisfction, re death of
such an eminent public man, at the early
age of 23 y isa national loss of no
ordinary magnitude,

A statement ot Sir John Young, ina
speech delivered by him at a levee given
on §Saturday last at St. John, N. B., is
worthy of record, In response tothe
toast, The Health of the Governor Gen-

‘ ofthe Province of New-Branswick,”
Sir John said, that as the opposition to the
union of the Province with Canada is dy-
ing away, he looked fora speedy recon-
ciliation of all parties. The advantages
gained by the union of England «nd Scot-
and, and the free trattic conseynent, and
the advantages conferred by the Zollverein
during the last halt century, ure such re-
sults us should be looked tor from. this
Contederation.

The departure from the United States
of several vessels with men and arms tor
the insurgents in Cuba has beep reported
within the past week. Severai skirmishes
with the insurgents have recently taken
place. Four thousand troops will sail on
September 9thor 10th from  Spxin for
Cuba, and 6,000) more will follow ina
few days.

A Breakwater is to be erected by the Do-

Saunders to communicate to the Harvard
University boat's crew his regret at being |
prevented from payin, his personal respects |
to them individu: lly and collectively during
their stay jin england, Capt. Saunders 1s
charged to convey also to the Harvards an}
expression of the admiration of the Vrince |
for the gallant manner in which they rowed
against the Oxford crew. :

An Irish College for Ireland,

A snont telegram on September 2nd, sta-
ted that the Roman Catholic Bishops of Ire-
land demanded a College from the state. ‘The
Times of the 3rd inst., comments as follows
upon their claims: “They demand the over-
throw of common education and the exalt-
ation of denominationalism. The language
of Archbishop Cullen must: provoke rerent-|
mint. The reseniments of the Catholic hier-
archy towsrds the State are intolerable.
There is not one of their resolves: on educa-
tion, which the people will net emphatically
repudiate,nnd which, if brought before Parlia-
ment, will not be rejected. The lesson of
the past two years scenis lost on these jr
lites, They have pot understood how a pro-

posal of yreat atone ene d

wisdom proved abortive Mist eonzon, through
the antipathy of Parlinthentto uk plying
.ot puche money to Catholic uses
.@ent proposals are about aw hope
ithet could be propounded. — Eng

, ESTES SSBC era

minion Government at! Maina-a-Dieu,” Cape
Ireton, which work will be of great benetit
to the American and Provincial vessels navi-

gating the coast of NovaScotia and Gulf of

St.Lawrence. ‘This harbor is situated atthe S,
E. point of Cape Breton, inside Scaterie [s-
land, one mile distant, seven miles S$, W,
from Cow Buiy, and a convenient starting
place for all vessels bound to the bunks and
Gulf of St. Lawrence, as well as a convenient
pluce of call for all vessels bound to Cape
Breton coal mines. If this werk is built it
will be a great benefit to the American fisher-
men who frequently resort to this place dur-
ing the spring and fall. ‘The harbor of Main-
a-Dieu gives a asfe anchorage to about 20
sail of vessels ot not ovet 12 feet draft of
water. The breakwater, which can be built
ata soll expense, will make a harbor to
contain 800 sail in from three to five fathoms
of water, available at all seasons of the year.
Wood, water and provisions are always at
hand, and captains can communicate with
Sydney, Cow Bay and the other mines on the
coast ina few hours, The stone and timber
| for this work can all be got within afew miles
\of the place, and labor being chenp, it can be
built in a short time and small expense to

‘the Goversment, and be an immerse benefit

to tha muny vessels navigating the S. BK.

coast of Cape Breton and the large number

(of our fishermen going to vn from the Banks

to Labrador.” Capt. ‘Thos. Burke of the brig
1 Alpha, communicates the above facts to a

New York paper.

ke tonnage, which is considerably |

over 2,000,000; while the registers of most |
ue the Continental States embrace many

SOME BEAUTIES OF AMERIOAN TAX-
on

The New York Brening Tost asys:—We
actually get 75 milhons of dollars revenue
from the following five articles: Coffee, tea,
sugar, wine and spirits, tobacco and liquor,
‘Lo obtain the other 75 millions only, there-
fore, we see fit to lay duties on nearly four
thousand articles; and charge a duty as high
us 140 per cent, on some goods; to get these
$75.000,000,we tax no less than 4000 ‘common
duties annually, and thereby enhance their
price on the average 50 per cent, We raised,
for instance, a revenue of not quite $1,000,-
000 from 100,000 tons of imported pig iron,
But we consumed 1,600,000 tons of home
made iron besides in 1868, on all which the
price was raised to the amount of the duty
on foreign iron, ‘Thus the tariff compelled
the people to pay the domestic pig iron
makers a bonus of $14,500,000, gold, during
that year. We dilnot raise one dollar of
revenue from woollen blankets for the last
three years, as there is a heavy duty on this
articles; nevertheless, the duty compelled
the people to pay the manufacturers 4) cents
in currency a pound, for what can be bought
in Englaad for twenty-four cents currency,

“The extraordinary number of articles
of import taxed compel us to keep a custom-
house staff that outnumbers the armies with
which we formally fought and conquered the
savage Indians.

We put temptation in the way of these
public servants, which have bred corruption
among them. We offer a premium for smug-
gling and false swearing; the New Orleans
sugar scandal at this moment and the New
York silk scandals of last winter will testify
to this. We tax the poor man’s clothing,
glass, crockery, bedding, fuel and gas; we
tax the wollen socks of the bahy 100° per
cent., and the brass coffin nail 45 per cent.
And all the misery, vice, corruption and
fraud caused by these bad laws are prepe-
tuated to raise seventy-five million dollars
revenue from several thousand articles, when
the same sum could be got from only ten
articles. But then the simpler system would
not enrich five or six thousand monopolists,
who under the name of ‘protection to: Am-
rican industry.” impose these grievous wrongs
on the people.”

The World's Fair in London in 1871

The official circular in relation to the pro-
posed International Exhibition in London in
1871, has been published, ‘The programme
embraces departments of fine art divided
into 2s, scientific inventions and new
discoveries of all kinds, manufactures and
horticulture. One-third portion of the whole
available space will be assigned absolutely to
foreign exhibitors, who must obtain. certifi-
cates for the admission of their objects from
their respective governments. Foreign coun-
tries will appoint their own judges. All exhi-
hitors or their agents must deliver at the
building, into the charge -f the proper ollicers,
the objects unpacked and ready for immediate
exhibition, and free of all charges for carri-
age. &c. Her Majesty's commissioners will
find large glass cases, stands and fittings,
free of cost to the exhibitors, and except in
the case of machinery, carry out the arrange-
ments of the objects by their own officers.
Her Majesty’s commissioners will take the
greatest possible care of all objects, but they
will not hold themselves responsible for loss
or damage of any kind. Prices may be at-
tnched to the objects, and exhibitors will be
encouraged to state their prices. Agents
will be appointed to attend to the interest of
exhibitors. Every object must be accom-
pained with a descriptive lable, stating the
special reason, whether of excellence, novelty,
or cheapness, &c., why it is offered for exhi-
bition. There will be no prizes, but a certi-
ficate of having obtained the distinction of
adtission to the exhibition will be given to
each exhibitor.

Very Latest Telegrams.

London, Sept. 14.
Letters from Madrid assert that a fleet
ot iron-clads wilt be sent to Cuba in Nov-
ember in case the United States recognize
the insurgents,

The Spanish Government stops all des-
patches which it doves not approve, especi-
ally those concerning Cuba,

The Barcelona Diario hopes that not
withstanding the action of the United Sta-
tes, Spain will know how to maintain her
flag and her dignity.

At Konigsburg, during the festival in
honor of the visit of the King of Prussia,
the railings of a bridge overcrowded with
spectators burst and many were precipi-
tated into the river, ‘lwenty-four bodies
have been recovered,

London, Sept. 15.

Madrid journals assert that the Spanish
Government recently sent a Cireular letter
to the Great Powers of Europe respecting
the note of the American Minister on the
subject of the recognition of Cuba; that
replies favorable to the rights of Spain
have been received from England, France
and Austria, :

London, Sept. 16,

The Zimes comments on Mr. Sickles’
note to the Spanish Government on the
Cuban question, and sees cause of alarm
in the attitude assumed by the United
States.

The Archbishop of Armagh died to-day.
The prospect is favorable for a good
cotten crop in Egypt.
Quebec, Sept. 17.

Prince Arthur, with members of the City
Government, yesterday visited various in-
stitutions; in the evening they attgnded a
ball given by Lieut. Governor Belleau and
lady. Five hundred couple were present.

_ London, Sept. 17.
London Star has a review of the
sin difliculty with Spain on the Cu-
ban question, in which it is. represented
that the matter is in a fair way of seule
ment,
The India mail steamer ‘Carnatic’ has
been wrecked off the Island of Sheduan,in
the Red Sea, Some ot the passengers and
crew ave missing, and ship's cargo, muils
and treasure are touil loss,

Lonvon, Sept. 19.
‘The Bishop of Exeter died on Saturday.
It is estimated that one hundred and
twenty vessels were wrecked, and several
hundred seamen injured in the late gale.
The London Press continue their disser-
tations on the relations of Spain and Ame-
rica as regards the Cuban question. No
apprehension of a war are entertained,

New York, Sept. 20.
President Grant will return to Washing-
ton on Thursday, All the members of the
Cabinet are now in Washington.
London, Sep. 20.

Napoleon has telegraphed to the French
Minister at Washington thatthe French
desires that Cuba shall be retained by
Spain.

Admiral Topeto will commard the fleet

that conveys reinforcements to the
Spanish force in Cuba,
Liberty of worship is to be proclaimed

in cuba.—TWe Duke of Genoa is to marry
the daughter ot the Duke DeMontpensier
and ascend the Spanish Throne,

Gold closed at 1578.

Sunmerside Hournal.

on Seen Ee Tea

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1869.

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

THE ‘ISLANDER’ ON DENOMINA-
TIONAL SCHOOLS.

The editor of the Islander has again
given the public his views on Denomina-
tional Education. He does not see that
the English writers whom we quoted,
two weeks ago, hcld opinions relative to
public education antagonistic to the views
of those who, on this Island, are in favor
of extending State aid to Denomination-
al Schools. Our contemporary has evi-
dently not read what his co-worker of the
Hueaniner has written on the subject of
Sectarian Education. Neither has he, it
appears, conversed with those who are
the determined opponents of * mixed
schools’’—gentlemen who are resolyed to
do their utmost to prevent the children
of Catholics and the children of Protes-
tants being taught in the same school—
unless that school be a purely denomina-
tional one. The editor of the IJslander
must surely have seen the tirades that
from time to time kave appeared in the
Examiner against ‘State schoolism.”
We are, too, very much mistaken if in
the columns of the Islander, there have
not appeared strong commendations of
the system which is so unsparingly con-
demned in the pithy sentences quoted by
us in our article of the9th instant. The
English system of grants, state aid, de-
nominational schools, and of paying for
results, bears a very strong and a very
suspicious resemblance to the Jslander’s
new scheme of * engra/ting the Denomi-
national System upon our National Sys-
tem.” But the Laaminer, in the article
which we reviewed, is opposed to nation-
al systems of Mducation altogether. Here
is what he says on that subject:—‘t A
national system of Education in a nation
divided into a variety of religious sects, is
to our thinking as absurd as a national
religion, and the wisest statesmen of a
great and powerful empire have recently
found that in one instance at least, na-
tional Church establishments are expen-
sive luxuries, producing little good in
themselves, and marring the doing of
much good by others.”

Tere we sce the Is’ander advocating a
system of education which the Mxaniner
authoritatively pronounces to be ‘absurd.’
But the difference between the two advo-
cates of Denomination Hducation is, per-
haps, after all, more in appearance than
inreality. ‘They would both convert our
secvlar system into a so-called religious
system, They both demand from the
State, in matters educational, a recogni-
tion of the religious differences existing
among the people. And they would both
compel conscientious men of all denomi-
nations to support and propagate what
they respectively believe to be deadly
soul-destroying error. The English
writer might well say that the Denomi-
national system is ‘* indefensible in theory
as well as ineffectual in practice.” We
believe an efficient system of Scectarian
Education to be an impossibility ina
country such as ours, and in this opinion
we are confirmed by the conclusion arri-
ved at by an able and conscientious de-
nominationalist who had closely und care-
fully examined the Common School Sys-
tem of the United States. The Rey. Mr.
Fraser, in his excellent report, states—

« The establishment of a rate-supported
system ol schools must, I think, lead by a
logical and moral necessity to merely secu-
lar education, ‘The maintenance of a De-
nominational system would be impossible,
when the school became the property of
rate-payers of all denominations. And,
unhappily, there seems to be no middle
course between a purely secular system
and a purely denominational one. All ex-
pedients that have been devised, all com-
promises that have been attempted, appear
to me either to result: in nothing, or con-
fessedly to break down.”

We have here the honest testimony of
avery able man, as to the feasibility of
engrafting the Denominational system on
the National system, in a country in
which the school is the property of tax-
payers of all denominations. We were
certainly surprised at an admission made
by the editor of the Zslander, He says
that—*t The endeavour to introduce into
England and Scotland a national unde-
nominational system of education, is an
endeavor which should have been made
years ago, and one which, we hope, will
very shortly be successful.” If the
editor wishes to sce a national undenom-
inational system established in Great
Britain, why is he doing his utmost to
overthrow the secular system which is in
operation among oursclyes? ‘There is a
greater,or rather a more general,diversity
of religious opinion in this Island, than
in Britain, and if the only national sys-
tem that can be set up In that country
must, of necessity, be unsectarian in its
character, how can we hope successfully
to introduce the religious element into
the national system already established
in this country. We, for our part, can
see neither wisdom nor consistency in
this mode of procedure. We cheerfully
admit that in the Old Country there are
many good well meaning men who oppose
the introduction of the secular system ;
but we also know that their opposition
would be completely powerless, were it
not for the Litter hostility of bigots and
tyrants to the measure, Those bigots
and tyrants who, if tney had dared, would
have refused either to disestablish or to
disendow the Irish Church, are the very
men who defeated the Liberal Scottish
Education Bill,—and they are the men
who throw every obstacle in the way of
giving the English people a good system
of national Education. There are those
in England who are so intensely denomi-
national, so insanely bigoted, as to dis-
approve in their education law of a con-
science clause. ‘They would have every
child who attends the school, to the sup-
port of which they contribute, no matter
what the religion of his parents may be,
to submit toa course of sectarian instruct-
Jion, and to join in the religious exercises

of the institution, We repeat, that but
fur the epposition of bigots and tyrants,

‘the people 6f England would long ere

this have enjoyed the advantages of a
good system of national Education. The
State, says the Islander, should only pay
tor secular Education, It follows then,
asa matter of course, that the State
should appoint .only secular teachers,
That the State should undertake to pay
teachers whom it has no power either to
appoint or to ren.ove, is, in ouropinion,
very foolish policy indeed. Where the
State pays the master, the State should
appoint the master, and the institution
which is supported by government money
should be wholly under government con-
trol. Ifthe Wesleyans and the Presby-
terians establish Denomizational schools
in order to give their sons and their
dauglters a higher education than-can be
obtained at the primary schools, they are
wise and prudent in doing so, ‘These
bodies, as they intend to control the
whole management of their educational
institutions, intend also to support them
out of their private means. ‘Lhe editor
of the Jslander need not think that either
the Wesleyans or the Presbyterians, for
the sake of having government aid for
their schools, will ever consent to allow
the public money—their money—to be
expended in propagating what they be-
lieve to be religious error. ‘This is an
unholy compact which conscientious and
enlightened men would scorn to make.
The slander declares that he ‘* would
be sorry to think that Emperors and
Kings should hereafter be dictated to by
Kcelesiustics, as they were a few centu-
ries ago.” And so should we. But we
are not, perhaps, so far removed from
danger of this kind as the Islander would
have us believe. We have heard ramors
of Ecclesiastical dictation being attempt-
ed in our own country and in our own
day.

It has been said that some of our poli-
ticians will be compelled to pay dearly
for having had the manliness to vote and
speak on matters educational as their
reason and consciences dictated. It is
reported that denunciations, not loud but
deep, have in high places been fulmina-
ted against the present Government on
account of the noble stand which they
have taken on the Educational question.
We have heard something of politicians,
from whom better things might be ex-
pected, paying their court to Hcclesias-
tics, and changing their tune, and even
reversing their policy, in order to secure
the influence of Churchmen to aid them
in furthering their ambitious schemes.
Indeed, ifthe truth must be told, we are
strongly of opinion that Ecclesiastical in-
fluence forms a very important element
at this moment in our Island politics.
We believe, too, that this unwonted zeal
which some of our politicians display in
favour of religious Education, is nothing
more nor less than a reckless bid for He-
clesiastical support. We are, however,
convinced that the denominational move-
ment is a huge blunder, and that the
editor of the Jslander will surely repent
being engaged in it.

A very interesting account of Mr. Hut-
ton’s visit to the Islind, with his Mutes, is
given in the Halilax Chronile. We will
publish it in full next week.

On Monday night last it blew a regular
gale, and the tide rose very high. Many
persons supposed that the great storm pre-
dicted for the 5th of October, had really
come,

Tie Steamer St. Lawrence took from
this port on Tuesday morning last, 410
bbls. Oysters, 20 do. Eggs, 6 tubs Butter,
200 bushels Oats, and some cattle.

‘Tne Essence of Coffee is a splendid ar-
ticle. Itcan be carried in the packet by
travellers, and a nice cup of coffee can be
enjoyed at any time, by merely obtaining
alittle hot water. The best we know ot
is on suluatthe Prince County Drug Store.

Our circulation to the Westward is
now so large that we are obliged to go to
press early on Thursday morning to catch
the mails. Our advertising patrons will
please send in their favors on Wednesday
evening, it possible.

Tur price of Oats has fallen during the
past week. Some smatl lots sold tor 2s 3d,
but 2s, is all thatis offered now.

Metxacuoty Acctpent.—An ingnest was
held on Monday, the 16th inst., before James
Pidgeon, Esq., one of Her Majesty's Coroners
for Queen's County, over the body of James
Gorman, who was accidentally drowned tn
French River, on the evening previous, It
appears that the deceased, in company with
two other young men, was crossing the river
in aguniloat, owned by Wm. McKie. When
only afew yards from the shore, their frail
bark began to sink, and ina few moments,
the three men ‘were precipitated into the wa-
ter. Neither of them being able to swim,
the probability is that they would all have been
drowned, were it not that their cries were
heard by some parties on shore, who hid not
preceived them, ‘They soon came to their
assistance, but too late for poor Gorman,
who had sunk to rise no more. The remain-
ing two men, by clinging to the skiff, were
saved by those who came to their aid. Gor-
man’s body was not found until the following
morning, when the inquest wes held, and ver-
diet returned in accordance with the above-

mentioned facts. Deceased was a French
mun, aged about Zo years. 110 was in the

employ of Mr. Joseph Harding. It may at-
ford his relatives, who reside in Miramichi,
some consolation to learn that, through the
kindness of Mr. Harding, bis remains were,
on Juesday morning decently interred in St.
‘Thomas churchyard, New London. — Com to
Patriot,

On Sunday morning last about 7 o’clock,as
the Sch. Brador, laden with lumber, was
passing Point Prim, she observed another
Schooner deep in the water, laboring heavily,
and suddenly saw her change her course di-
rect for the land, but before the Schooner
could reach the sliore she went down. One
man was observed at the davitstrying to low-
er the boat, but he was washed away just be-
fore the vessel disappeared. ‘The Srador,
with some difficulty, rescued one man who
clung to the topping-litt as the top of the
sunken Schooner’s mast were out of water.
She proved to be the Oriander, from Pictou,
coal laden. She left that port the eveuing
vefore, there being but two men on board,
Capt. Furness and a young tan named Craw.
ford. Capt. Furness was lort. ‘The Orian-
der was owned by Capt. 8S. Mutsh.—. Star,

The ship Duncan, Mclnnis,Master, 17 ilays
from Charlottetown, arrived at Liverpvol on
the 8th ihst.—Pat.

Owen Coanolly, Esq., has commenced to

urchase fresh pork. We observe by Mr«k.

orrison’s Halifax Prices Current, that the

ve of this article has a downward tendency

in the Colonial market, and that speculators

are cautioned not to make purchases based
on present quotations .—/’at,

TEMPERANCE CONVENTION.

Tim members of the Temperance Socie-
tics of Lot 14,met at Birch Hill Temp: rance
Hall on Wednesday, the 10th instant, for
the purpose of jJorming a Temperance
Union. Mr. Hector Bell was called to the
chair, After the chairman had stated the
object of the meeting, it was unanimously
resolyed that the various Temperance or-
ganizations in the vieinity do organize in-
to a Union, to be called ** Riehmond ‘Tem.
perance Union,” 1

The meeting was well attended, and
several ladies graced it with their presence,
‘They are always foremost in every good
cause. Several excellent speeches were
delivered. Altogether, the meeting was a
success and the society, when formed,
will do much good, ‘The Temperance
Union meets semi-monthly. ‘The follow-
ing is a list of officers :—

Wm. R. Ellis, President; Robt. T. Oul-
ton, Vice do,; John McArthur, Chaplain;
Jeremiah MeArthur, ‘Treasurer; J.Dennis,
Door-keeper; John Birch, See’y.—Com,

DEATH TO WORMS,

Among the many preparations to be found
on the shelves of Drugstores, for relieving
children of those troublesome and irritating
companiuns—-Worms, we are sure none wik
be found so effective as ‘* Warson’s ScHoLe-
pion” —a new remedy, advertised in our
columns this evening, and one that may be
relied on, Mothers! Try it. It is about the
most wholesome candy you can give your lit
tle ones. [s23 3m]

te The total number of lives lost in
Avondale mines is 108 miners, not 202 as
at first reported, and two volunteers, who
in their eagerness to relieve the miners,
lost their own lives. Every one in the
mine perished, They leave 59 widows
and 109 orphans in the United States and
others in the ‘old country.’ ‘The efforts
mide for the release of the miners were
wholly unavailing. The bodies were
found heaped together in two masses, one
behind a barrier erected in the vain hope
of keeping in air enough to breathe,

ty" It has been predicted—by a savant,
it is suid—that a storm, terrific in itselt
and terrible in its consequences, will take
place on or about the Sth October next.
It is lurther prophesied that it will be ac-
companied by a tidal wave. We are not
prepared to vouch for the truth of this ru-
mor, but, whether it comes or not, the
learned scholar warns everyone to be pre-
pared for the event.

tw The Whooping Cough, of a severe
nature, is very prevalent in our midst.
Several children have died from the effects
of this disease, during the past lew days.

gag Rey. M. P, Freeman, will preach (D.
V.) in the Grammer School House, on Sun-
day next, at 11 o'clock, a.m., and 34, p. m,

Lancery 1x J oye.—Chang, the Chinese
giant, is said to be in love with Miss Anna
Swan, the Nova Scotia giantess. Both are
now in New York:

Fisuixe Irems.—On Thursday last, the
following fishermen came in from the Gulf,
namely, Live Jankee, Harvey, 185; Madane
Roland, Phelan, 2084: and William BE. Ter-
ry, Mclsanc, with 245 barrels of mackerel—
all of Gloucester. ‘Lhe Josephine, Lavie, of
P.E. Island, 72; Whisper, Jetts, Newbury-
port, 90; and Geayge Clark jun., of Glouces-
ter, with 200 barrels, arrived yesterday. ‘The
Witchoragt, Pinkham, of Gloucester, with
262 barrels, arrived to-day.-- Pad.

The barque Clifton, from Richibucto, the
ship New Dominion, 16 days from Halifax,
and the barqne Undine, 18 days trom Char-
lottetown, have all arrived at Liverpool. The
barque Afonequash, from the latter port, is
now loading at Shediac, ‘These yessels be-
long to Hon. J. C. Pope of this city -Pat.

‘The following Gloucester fishermen arrived
from the Gulf on Sunday, and entered at the
Custom Ilouse next day:—Lizzie A. Tarr,
Williams, 180; Mf, C. Rowe, Kimball, 810;
Schuyler Colfax, May, 220; Rattler, Bearse,
800 Colonel Cook, Philips, 228, and Lavra A.
Dood, Bearse, with 320 barrels mackerel.
The schooner John Somes, Harty, of Glouces-
ter, came in with 214 barrels yesterday «-Pat

We learn that the Rev. Alexander Falco-
ner, of Queen Square Prebyterian Church,has
accepted a Call trom a Congregation at Dart-
mouth, N.S, Ie will soon remove from our
midst. As part of his congregation, we are
sorry to lose Mr, Falconer, as he is an earn-
est, zealous, faithtul pastor, and we trust that
he will be appreciated by his new charge as he
deserves. Our earnest wish is that he and
his may enjoy good health in their new loca-
tion, and that their future lot in life may be
pleasant and agreeable. —Novih Star,

The Montreal //erald, while claiming entire
freedom to discuss public questions as they
arise, finds it necessary to say that itis “not
among the partizans of the movement which,
to some extent, appears to have begun both
in England and in Canada, for the change
either of our allegiance or alliance. This
declaration of our contemporary is interesting
and significant. Most of what we have heard
about annexation or independence, which is
pretty much tie sume thing, has come from
Montreal. London has helped in the cry a
little, but whatever life there may be in the
movement is generally understood to have
been imparted to it in Montreal. When,
therefore, one of the most influential journals
in the city—and that one supposed to be least
warm in its support of British connection—
openly joins all the other influential papers in
Montreal in opposition to so-called indepen-
denee, we may pretty confidentially conclude
that the proposal has very little supportin the
chief city of the Dominion. It may already
be set down not only as an absurd but as an
exploded notion.— Ottawa Citizen,

Tus Cotontns.—It appears that the © meet-
ing of disgusted colonists” in Londen, some
mention of which was made in our télegra-
phic reports, cia New York, was in reality
a meeting of Royal Colonial Society. “rhe
Society has prepared a letter on the subject
of colonial relations, which epistle is to be
sentto all the colonial governments, The
object in view is, notthe severance, but the
drawing closer of the ties which unite the col-
onies of the mother country. Ot course, the
London ‘* Times” rather ‘ throws cold water’
on the project, but declares that Great Britain
will never fail to discharge any obligations
towards the colonies which she may have ass
sumed. ‘he London Jost, organ of the Gore
ernment, declares that the representatives of
the colonies uow in London are alarmed withs
out reason. ‘The withdrawal of colonial
garrisons does not mean the abandonment of
the colonies to their fate.— Montreal BD. News.

Mone avout tie Locu Lomoxp Mystery.
-Mr, Jos. Kennedy, who drives the mail to
Quaco, detected a strong smell, it is said, in
in the neighborhood of the Black River
ltoad tragedy about the first of Auguat last;
and one day soon after that time the stench
was so evident that one of the passengers ex-
pressed a wish to go in search of the origin of
so offensive an odor, a8 the wind (at the time
blowing from the direction in which the bones
were discovered) brought withit. This would
seem to indicate that the act was done near
the end of July last, and not at so distanta
period as at first supposed.

On examining the tcull yesterday, Dr. J.
Christie discovered a hole in the lett sidé near
the ear, He says there is no doubt of its og
made by @ pletol shot, though he was unable
after a thorough search to tind any ball, More

bones were discoyered yeste ri
hove of tue child 80. John Rgraghton,

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