© i c ee RNR SF nn — mm ever she would be likely to go, and we have ohmbed the cliff upon the cape.’ ‘De you find any tras:s of her?’ * No, Senor.’ ‘Then you must look farther.’ ‘Would it rot be well, Senor, to call aid from the town Ihe Senorita was well knowe by the people, and much beloved They would help ue wi-lingly.’ ‘NX not vet, Baptiste Let ovr own People search aw ele langer But I see no esuse for alerom Estelle may Ve reading for her own pleasure ' Ah, Senor, replied the woodman, shak- ing bs head, * ebe would got wander alone in the forest at this how.’ *sh: is not alane ‘Ooly Ninais with her; and they know thar tl e Gipsies are in the neighborhood.’ ‘Curajo! What care they for Gipsies Go, bapuste, and take anether tarn ip the beaten track.’ Toe woodman departed. and Don Rernardo pacel up aad down the room as before. By and by he sat down by the lamp and opened a bovk It was o large v lume, with leaves of parchment, and bore upon ite pages an illuminated history af the family of d Acosta Je was studying this when ove of the female servanta entered, aad with the announce ment toat a may wished te s;eak with fon Berne d€. ° Who is he ?° * | know not, Senor.’ + Llawe you never seen * Never.’ + What does he say ?’ ‘VUnly tuat he wishes to speak with Don Berpardo d' Acyeta.’ ‘le be alone ’ * He is Senor.’ * You may conduct bie to me - Who can #& be,’ muttered the elealde, alter hia servante had guue “it may be sume one on judicig) bo sness, and it may be eome one who waots & Liuwever, ib is wafe to be preparad ' Thus speaking he we tto an oaker cabinet, in one corner of the rvom, and irom a drawer he took a pair of 6 ver-mounted pietols which, when he had examined the primings and tried the fiots, he placed in bis bosom. him before ?* ~AVOE. tinued ) INCIDENTS STEAMBOAT OF THE OHIO CALAMITY. RIVER A ton hing appeal wes mace by Miss Jones! to a zentieman on’b rard As the wood work was becoming too heated to bear, até the flames were forcing their way gradually into the cabin, she went to &m saying, “* Oh, Mr o=-, you have talked to me this even- you know wh me! Oh, her guy, you have danced with we, where I came from; anve He A id he could not save her. Zam and save me! O dind a wife to save, and d vor girl ghe is beyond earthly help now. save me One of the geytiemen ou board had the pre sence of mind to unhinze a door, which he threw into the river; and, after his wife and he had jumped in, he placed her in a position du reach shure. ‘Now stay here, dear," was his request. ‘+ antil | can fix myself some way. and we can beth be saved.”” Imajine the husband's agony, just as he bad procured sumething that would floet, to see a man swim toward the frail suppors of hia wife and kyock her away trom it, She was drowned. dene gentleman and wife eseaped in gather a yomautic manner, Fastening life-preservers tu both of their persons he tied her right arin tu hus left, then took as utter, over which they placed buth arms. 4 Now. one, two, ghree, jump '** pe cried, when both jumped, ggd alter @® Lule mandeuvmng tiey arrived safely on shore, minus, several articles of apparel weeded to wake them preseudabie. huwever A iady on board the States relates that she and her husband were meyigg towserd the shore, in the water, she saw one of the life boats filled with people who kad escaped. But all at ence she America begins backing toward store, aud were) essly the rude rudder, strikes the wuat, erushing and ypsettin None of those passengers were saved. A escaping owe dauger only to meet death avother form. From the shore could be seen women with but their rebes de nuit to protect thei, rushing absut ia the flames, screaming for help; mothers, with their children in their arms, most of them frantically. nothing shies, rushing about Que mother, bolding her baby in her arms, yan ty the guards, but the water seemed to ber only a chilly grave; then she jumped in the cabin azain, then tothe ruards Ihe last that was seen of ber she was standing up with her baby hugged clused tu her, in her awtul death, byuruig up. The seene at Warsaw beyzars description ; ‘ eenals ou account of the threatened war. (a Provisional Guveruwent has RUTHLESS POLICY OF RUSsIA_ IN POLAND. M. Batousel koff, Curator of the Educational Distriet of Vilwa, in Lithuania, hes +4 oft ial \ a series OF impal, rious indications of the gpirit of articles in the local yoving some « Rus at tre ste mn winery in that eaurntry He declares ws hitherto taken tor R Lithuan.a, by forbidding the use ot | & schools and eontiscat ig all Pohen raya books, are not sufficient for the purpose, and that ‘unless the Pohsh vouths are entirely re oved from the inflaence of their parents there * The pupils,” the day in can be no real Kussitication.”’ he adds, “pass only five hours ot the schools; daring the remainder of the time in contact with the pernicious Polish element. All.the good prin ‘ pies which are inculcated into them at sx hool are lost in conversing with their fathers ana mothers in Palish. These imprudent parents go nat understand what a demoralizing influ nee they exercise on their children. He there fore ree mmends, as a preliminary measure, that all children, except thase who hive wah and on holidays they are thei parents, should, witer tue hours of u ly, be placed under the surveillance of Committees and Sion educational othcris, j wid 1 mmposed of mivy be allowed to board with persons p with certificates from the authurmies ¥ of pas . oe “ ood condact. ! The official urna! of the Government ot Kie?® cives some interesting parti ulars relative to the acquisition by Russians of land in the south-eastern provinces of Poland. Thenum her of Russian fand-owners in those province {t savs, is now 920, which ts 40 per cent mor Before the insurrection, ‘ )0- than in 1865. 000 dessiatins of land were in the possession of Poles, whereas they now ho d 3,800,000 only, the vemainder having beea contin sted by the Government, aid sold by publie auction to persons of Russian extraction. ~~ HONOURS TO GEN. DOYLE AND CHIEF JUSTICE YOUNG. The Queen has sanctioned two statutes and an extension on an altered basis, of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, as an order of reward for colonia} servies, or service ia con- necyon with the Colonies, and we have much pleasure in bewyg able to notity that the name of our Lieut-Gevernor has been included in the hist of Bui f that Order, as an Apprecietion Sint ymmanders « tht C f his service se Colonies in coanection with his judicious management the Treut and Chesapeake affairs, inistering the voverument ot Nova Scotia. The order was established in ISIS) for na tives aud with Corfu and Malta, and is probably based uvon an old Ven tian order of the former place, It now, as has been often talked of, been extend- ed to be a colonial ordet of the Cc lonies of Great Britain ail It consiste of three classes, viz: Kuishts Grand,G C M.G ; Kuights Commanders, K. C. M. G.; and Com jr ions, C M. G We have ulso to congratulate Chief Young, who has had the honor of Kniszhthood eonterred upon him.—//z. Reporter, Jan. 4. wh le ad oticials connected ' Has over the world. Latest News by Telegraph. FROM EUROPE. London, Dee 30 The new House of Commona met yeaterday for preliminary business only The Ministers Whe were reelected look the oath of office Write were issued tor elections to fill the Facunt seats, attur which the tlouse adjourued ty 6th of February. Rererdy Jobowon, the American Minister, ju a speech yesterday toa deputation of the Lon- dou Workingmen's Society, exid that the Natury)- ization Treaty between he United States and Great Britain was certain of ratitication by the United States Senate. The Prealy provides (hat a i5.iUsb subjcel whe has been yetyralized in the! United Btates, shall have the came rights fo pro- tection on his returw to Englaud asa uative beru Agierican It is the general impression that the Conserva- tives willbe succeaxtul in the election of uig ip bere of Parl aujecut tu §ll tacancies. London, Dee. 31 A despateh from Wigan save that a terrible explosion ceeurred in Haydock Colliery to day, i ava tna 22 dead bodies Lave already been taken OUL of ibe rule { Cole Bates, Justice of the Peace at Tipperary | has been shet dead in that ety by unkuown par- ties. Nou arrests have been made. London. Dee 30 The following despateh from Constantinople comprises the latest oy the Eastern question ; “igreat preparations are being made in the ar ‘lran- sports loaded with supplies bave been seut to Hobart Pasua's fleet.” Lendon, Dee 3) One day's later news has been received from Constantinople. —The insurgents in Crete have all wade submission te the Turkish authority. and been establi- hed «here, London, Dee 3 publ shed - = ry rely ggow the loyalty and patriotiam of the army to syatuly bing gu paminitdiaing peace aud the lia- Veugl hover, London, Jan 4 In veiw of Preadent Jolnosoo’s Atnesty Pro clamation of the Voth of December Jeflersen John Shdell, Jawes M. Maron, A. Duldley Davis, . Mann, aud wher ex-Repels are prepoung to re turn te the Un ed United Siales Phe Press of London get erally appreve of the Preaty between China and bngiand recently cou lavgeudgeu aad Mr. Burhngaime Landen. Jan 3 an the Bastern difficulty will Oth of Junuary wluld ite delWerations prave i demand strict non mterven- cluded by Lowd The Center pee weet at Paris on the It is suid that abortive, Ruesia wil thon on the part el Lhe quarrel between Greece Durbey. Athens, Jan 4. It iw stated that the Turkish Admiral Hebart Pacha bas formally dewanded the surrender of the Great Steamer Erosis. The despatch adds that war is cousidered wevitable at Athens. Paris, Jan. 3 It ie reported that several Freuch irouclads are eT Paris, Jan. 4 Mr. Burlingame and the other members ot the Obinese Embassy have arrived in Pary : Phe Emperor Napoleon has subseribed SOOO frances tor @ monument to be erec ted tu Che late ft ’ JL peel Maaxiuuiiian : Madrid, Jan 3 A special despateh from Magala yesterday re | ports that the tnsurgents there tired on a boat of the American steamer Swartara, while Cien. conveying au American family to the ship. Serran vret atthe act, and assured the ] expre seed much re United States minister that the guilty ones woul be punished. A short time after the troope attack ed the insurgents in the streets and carned their barricades and dispersed the rebels with Lome A Loudon despatch ceo Malaga by Gea Keda, The to 100 walled and GUU prisovere. Ih Provisional Govertiinent eou emplate a by placing Montpensier oo the throne of Spain as roun asthe citigens je the Provtae of Malaya ure disarmed and before thes ‘ertes bas a chance to as senble Generals Serrano and R ida SU pp rt but Gen. Prim opposes the movement The Span- ish people generally favor a republic, but wall be overpowered by the military Official reporte state the loas of the insurgents during the fighting at Malaga was 400 men. Tue city is pow pertegtly trangu’l New York, Jan. 4. A prewaiure eX; losion occurred yeaterday poon, at the wreck of the steamer Seotiand, off Sandy lock, which reeu ted in the death of four men ‘and the severe wounding of several others. Muouey easy Higenis’ ios Was is beheved the oup d etat FROM CANADA. Mantregl, Dec Se Much destitution existe amegg the people of this cily, and seup kitchens have agai beeu gpen ed One hundred and eseventy-four frea oeenrred in thie city up te date the pressyt year, aud one hundred and fourteen last year Montreal, Dee 31 Whelan ease came up before full Court of Err or and Appeal Draper presiding Cameron said vt was doubttul whether the case should be Justice | brought before Court by a Writ of Error iesned | by Queen's Beceh, or by a Writ of Appeal weacd by Court of Error and Appeal. To be certain he adopted both methods fle preferred to poocer d by Court of Writ, as under that Writ be could assign vew grounds of error not argued belore the Lower Court, which be could tot do by a suuple tranaler of record on Writ of Appeal Robertson and Auderaoy, for the Crown, ar- gued that the prisoner was not properly before the Court; that the Writ of Error did not lie in criminal cases; that both Write were no beiter than waste paper, that jn order to bring the prisover before the Court, epeeial ordera woul have to be wade. ‘Fue President eaid there must be some way to bring the cause before them. The firat question to be settled wae that'ef juriadiction, aud under which process proceedings were to be taken Phey would adjouru the case wutil Mouday to de cide the point, Whelan was remanded to the custody of the Sherif of York, aud the Court adjourned. The opinion gerucrally prevails that the case is eo intricate, aod eurrounded with su legal point. and technica! degs which will eecugy so long a time in that Wheiga ueseor will be executed. vetllemecayl, Muutresl, Jan 2 The new Governor ia to be invited by pro- minent citigeus to a grand banquet io Montreal this week Serious differences are reported in the accounts of the Ontario Board of Agriculture In the libel ense of Price va, Beattie of tho Terento “ Leader,” the Jury could not agree. New Year's Day passed off quietty. There wae little visiting It waa intensely cold. A man dropped dead while waking calis Montreal, Jan. 4. The ease of Whelan wae taken at lla om, te day, betore the Court of Error and Appeal Judge Draper presiding The Court decided that the proceedings must cowe belore it by Wrest of Error. and that a Writ of Appeal could not stand in criminal cases. The Court sustained th- d-cision of the Judgesot the Court of Queen's | Bench, to the effect that the prisoner had no right to chalienge for cause belore the twenty por-mp- tory challenge swallowed by law were exhane ed Cameron, ou belalf of Whelan, aseigned errors Lurepean power® li the tics the oceupation of | w ( i ebritiea. On these . Grant, or any other of our ce C 0 R R L 8 P 0 N D E N 0 E i days, the mighty Heads of Department, and anwar | Bonde of Bureaus, descend from their lofty pe- ler 2 2 etive | T ; 4 ‘BR. i destal, and meet the clerks in their reepee To ruk Eviron oy THE EXAMENBR — be, Sree ees ioct of qentieanees “a sie | vitaticne are, indeed, sent around previously te A writer in the last Herald, signing himsell the gentlemen in the various Pees, to gener } Head of thei Bureau at his residence am par ake kor mysell, however, [T take Dur- » Subd ne rain the Wyster Sut bringe up ayall ) of hie hospitality. a kind of introduction to & slpp at youre} vo pleasure in such public entertainments, Ovys- ‘ Fabiola,” pe is opinion, ing Waghingtop I have never onee attended a public meeption, thatgh frequently aud urgeatly r quest- ed te do so by iny friends self and those who are of youl when they ave gut ol their element a und when not well preserved, like ters, certain time, ’ . 2 . uw lother decaying matter,are not quite as pleasing | joyment to the Scottish citizens of Washinghten to the nasal organs a3 the perfume fF On Wednesday night David Kennedy, the cele- | tO| brated Scottieh Voealixt gave a public concert j | for the benedit of Bt. Andrew's Sasirty, in Met Bay igerott Fall, which was filled to evenlowing 1 more than a mouth ago by Messrs Jysird, Mac | paye heard = _ how er saat : i ~ , dezen times; but TL never beard bin sing with Malan, Currie, &c., are not vow re dole - . | poh nan aud sweetaees ae he did on thal night. lugreeable pertame, and for this reason J tlyus | Every song was followed by Wie moat rapturous ap- but, in this in-| plause and many of them were repeatedly encored. venture aud [may sweet thyme; that the crustacivus mnocents, dey oure¢ that * Fabiola’’ (4 venerable ‘stance, a nom de plume, stolen from a ( ardinal) might serve up for tie public taste a dish more | public men of the gation, We had Senater >|) Cameron. of Pennsylvania (ex Secretary of War) : Senate: Ramsay, of Minnesota, Senator Sawyer. Phe writer in the Herald attempts to bring} 4¢ South Carolina, Jobo A. Bingham, Memder of alluded to the * sup- | Congress from Ohio, Judge Loughriige. Member lef Congress from Towa, Mr Alexander, Post- sayory tian the well digested * Oyster Supper. ridicule on you tor havits per.’? He wugt not allempt to throw dust in yur eyes in this way. He must be a very bold, | citizens, Speeches were wade by all the gendle- 1 jmen | have named and wany ethers thou. Jolin A. Bingham—whe, your readers wil remember, iwas ope of the managers in the lupeachiment tainment and a public or quasi public one. | trial, aud who, since Thad Stevens ia gone, will probably be regarded as the leader of the radical party ia the louse — made several elegant s-recbes, In which be showed a = yemarkable |familarity with the history and literature go! ) Sco land. The praises which were so liberally be stowed upon Scotland aod Scotchmen by all the goeakers, must have made all the natives of © the Land 0 cakes” present, fee! like thanking Divine or otherwise @ very 1guorant man, if he Cannot perceive a dillerence between a pra enter Measrs. Laird, McMillan and Currie might live land privately ou oysters trom January, L509, itill February, 1900, acd I don’tthink that you, or any one else, would be justified in finding tuult with their peculiar tastes ; but if they give a Supper, Ora dinner, or ely thing else, ou the of the Tweed. Senator Cameron, who was al ove time a fierce Kanownothing, and who tas al- ways been distinguished for bie howility to tie forego element in American polities declared wiJl deny any man the rizht of criticising the that our couniry owed its greatness and glory aD : : }agrest weasure, to the influevee of the Se: ttis. leecment in eur population. la support of his }®etement, be referred te the bawes of many ot : : : hour greatest Beldiers and statesmen lo prove their jyer, introduces his subject by means uf the noW | Scot ish descent. He paid glowing tributes to over stale oysters. He then lets out ‘unounst,’ | the character of the nat on for piety, utelligence, f ert : hon sy, industry, and thrift; and expressed the oo —, ae eers eer eee call 1, @ hope that the tide of Humigration would coutinue juantuin of the anunus which predominates. | ty pr ng thousands of them annually te our shores. |The policy of the Hon Jas. Pope is that which) At the same time, he could not refrain from ire jis the source of trouble. Mr. Pope is accused | ing expression to bis intensely American pre- jor acting the part of a double dealer, He was) judices, by declaring that be would not care if ve individual of any other nationality should eset Leader of & Government for several years; he y ; never, when be was in power, manifested any | Cress the ecean to yer country, W hen Senator ‘ ! } : ; . ‘ artialit Sevletiwe sizns of fair play to Catholics. Perhaps, Mr. Cameron expressed Chis partiality tor Scotchiwen, ; ‘tp jhe but expressed the general eentiment of the Editor, you will not regard me as presumptuous | ie alten alin Ot grantee Gct-s ti | offer a sincere and humble OpOn Ob this | ane avert + Bibra Stn 8 " 1 , ,: thiehy I k : h i ' i very briet residence ia this country fo prove Lo the subject, which [know is shared in by three stranger that Seotchwen are more highly bo ored jfeurths of the independent electors of this | and esteemed by Americans than any other clase | ountry. For some tweuly years or more the lof foreigners. gerate their virtues. Everything pertaining to jelectors of this County gave their support to Liberals, so called, at least; during that period | Scotland appears to the average Amencan i couleur de rose. The tawe of her ancient war- | they rejected, over and over, some of the most riers and ber modern piilosuphers and poets, respectable Catholics ia the County, merely because they called themselves Conservatives blinds bin to the miner vicee of religious bigetry Having given our cordial support to the so- , called “Liberals,” we asked them for fair play | |some twelve yearsago. Atthe period to which }wo advert, the Rev. Angus McDonald, then and , the syuipalhy and challenge the admiration of a jnow Reetor of St. Dunstan's College, petitioned people themselves pre-emineuily warkke ; while }the Government tor a grant to St. Dunstan's) the beauty aud tenderness of ber national lyrics captivate their imayination, The rawes ot HCollege, The ‘Rector’ was then very young, jand certainly he would uot have presutmed to. Wallace and Burns are as failiar to them as that ot George Washington. lu far western homes address a Petition to the Legislature were he , | not backed by the Catholic community. His Shere the nauies of Byron, Shelley, or Colernige Petition was treated with the same disdain by Dat@ Bever been trerd, the name of Burne ts the “Liberalis’’ as was the very moderate me- igved sad reserved, aud © enpy of be poems i jmorial of His Lordship Bishop Melntere | treae! hy the present Government. The ine | broduction of our present system of Education | Night, the Lady of the Lake, and Marmion, who | caused dissensions which bave, vot yet, by any have never read the song of Firewater, by their |meang disappeared. I may axfely say that! own greatest poet. although it has beeu called jnever would such bitter animosities have been | their only ualional poen. raepreng vi in our little Colony bad it not been The ovly drink that we bad at the banquet for the introduction of our present system of! Wa* “the juice Scote bear ean giak us.” in the | Education. Thes@ animosities caused the great | form ef bet punch | bulk of Catholics to oppose Mr. Pope and bis ed guests, being evidently unused te Bo potent a | narty, and,such beinz the case, how could they, beverage, Were -to Use al eXpression Commen io }during his administration, expect or ask any-| thing from him. But the case was quite differ jené with Mr. Hensley ang the ‘iberals.’’ We supported them for the last twenty years jand more, and from them we expected fair jplay They not only refused justice when ithey had it im their power to diapense it, but they actually vioientiy oppose those who even whisper of domyz justice to Catholics. Mr.!. : pone has been > Kae like a pick-p cket on |! dxus om en 3 a eo j ; ee ey ‘ Upel Your chatacter ae a poople hat appeared mm this score; Mr. Havilaud has been vilitied for un Reston Adeestionr the same reason, and Cul, Gray hag been held agentes a yp for publig contempt. i veeasion of what they consider a victory, and | lif the same becomes public, he must be an jignoramus of the fiest class,or a born fool,that } | . . ’ } propriely of such a feed. | The writer alluded to, like @ cunning law- in modern Cigea, marred the character of her people, Her obstinate and heroic struggles for theusands of Americans that have read and ad- mired Tam O° Shanter, the Cottar’s Saturdsy } Your correspondent, baying on one memorable oveasios, that you knew of engsged ina contest with Joho Barleycorn. and came off coneiderabiy second best, pradeuily reselved nel te renew the couflict. Lb eticlose an eriginal poem, read by the writer on the eceasion Your readers will be Mo received were merited, Noue of your own ci izens conld feel greater gone lesding Aierican Jourual to correct the iisrepresentations of ruch ignerant, prejudiced and emphirical observers ae that * Berwick ” but habitual indel-nce, together with the pressure ot more unperative dutier, tustrated my demgn The Examiner ia tar too medest in its estimate of the cCharacier of your young ten, when it clans Tt hus been rumored here that a few of the “Lberuls’? of Charlottetown have returned the Bramener because it did not abuse the | Bishop and Catholics in general. Several names are mentioned, but I will no: write them jfor fear the report is not correct in all cases; for them ouly a superiorily over the young men of lit wt is correct the present Government is the west. Since I lett P. E Island 1 bave 'doumed. | traversed nearly every State east of the Rocky two years and a balf that TP have been in| Last week was a week of care triumph and en | Providence for having placed their vativity north | and ictolerance which, bistery julerais him, has, | touuvd on the centre table, In fact, there are | Sowe of our wost distinguisb- | this country —seul home © walking en their oars.” | able te judge for themselves Whether Whe plaudits | It Was my purpose atone | tine lowriie a series of letters on Po b. Island te! | @RANTS TO DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOLS Ed. Progress : Although yon and I differ in onr political opin jos, still asa public journalist, I trast, you will not consicer it intrasive on my part, to request a epace in the columns of your widely circalated journgt to yuire ex pression te my views relative to that important qheation, now under « yiside ration of unenlightened. and, I trust a just publie, viz: the viving of a Grant, by the Leyislature, to St. Dunstan's Colleve awl othe r efficient schools m the towns of PE sland dn discnasing the merits of this qrestion, I wish to de so exlmly and | dispussion steely, withont harting the feelings of any Chrixtinn denomination on BP, KE fstand. | Some of our public jonrnalists have endeavored lto show the unreasonuableness of the question by cuutionuing the Protestants of P BE [siaud to emer | their solemmm protest avainst a society of christians who had lit the fires of Smithfield, &e Now, cir T eonsider this mode of argument to be by no jeans proper, or tangible in its logic and cannot lf.ilto recoil on ite author with that indelible jodium, which alf such arguments so highly and | justly deserves: -and which is always the means lof. unnecessarily arousing personal animosities and exciting religjons strife throughout the length | be argued in an honorable and ehrieting-like nuan- l per: nud. consequently, uo offence well be given to jeither party. The chief argaments nade ase of by those who are opposed to a Grant to St. Daonrtan 6) be done in cases of difficulty, where our beg exertions will be but ivadequate and imperfect hut we speak of the case where we cay effect our best desires, and effect them in the heat manner. We need not be told of the influense “p- We adwit the truth of this observation, but only to some of useful knowledge, of « cultivated mind, on the moral and religious habits, extent. Secular education will of itself make a good scholar, but it only contributes to tunke a good man; in the latter work religion mug bave the first and largest share. At agurs witmosphere promotes the health of the E but food supports and preserves it trom decay ; so do the observances of religivs nourish the life of the soul. By secular education we guia & more comprehensive view vfour many duties: hy religion we are strengthened (0 perform On Tuesday night we gave bin a supper, which | and breadth of the land Give the qneation, Ieav. them well. was attended by some of the most distinguished | a calor and dispassionate eowsiderution. and let i} Dr. McArthur, a Scotch gentleman; Gnd « Presbyterian, after having stated, in his og). dence before the Lords’ Commitize, sume i College. are, that it would destrey our preseus } years ago, that the schools for children of the } Eduegtion Act, and that un additional taxation |} would be unavoidably tecessary.on the gronnds adequate to the demand. Relative to the first ob- | jeetion, dT have to say that it is not proposed to in- j terfere with the present system of Dietrict Schools, lor in any way to injare the present Edacati n Act It is werely a surmise of a certain party withont the least foundation, and [ am sorry tu sity (hat there are too many ready and willing to base their i fears on a flhinsy surmise, and jump at cone lasions, } without viving the question that consideration iwhich its importance demends. The second ob Hyection is, the want of funds Now, Mr. Editor, there ds a stad of officials in our Colonial Building | lreeeiving jn all, [ believe, about the eam of seven | Among the staff of officials who now fill the most important offices on oul island are mun receiving £300 and £390 a year, with assistants, who do ln arly all the work of the offices for £100, or | £1508 year; and if our Leuislature and Govern- | ment would only practice a little economy, and leurtail these offce- ni land vive the man that is now vetting £3990. pr £300, 4 salary of £200, instead, (1 might venture Ito say that £150 a year would be quite suflicient). ith-re would be quite a saving tw the country lp is respect al. ne- ; ee muy say that no pereen conld be found to till these important offjces for such a swall sum ; i but Lam well aware. and indeed I feel satistied, that men fally ax competent as the present officials could be vot to fill these offices for the sum I have mentioned and would be ouly too glad to embrace the opportunity. This, Mr. Editor, would ~~ saving of some £1 000 to the country, and thereby ] | would render it easy and t ven! pe meet the Grant to St. Duystan’s College —without anv additional taxation : | The Catholic population of P. E. Island nem- 35 000, and with the aid of that nain- | bers ubout . ‘ ; ber. they huve assisted in the shape of taxes anc otherwise to build the Prince of Wales College. laclely for the use of the Protestant pertion of the community, together with the furnishing of i » Dn » - with all necessary requirements aud Professors te lcontribated by the Catholies. without a murnoar- land every enlightened and impartial person cannot | bat perceive that the Catholic population eof P. E liwtand do not receive the smallest amount of bene- | fit from avid College, although they are compelled lby the Levislature and Government to assist in | defraying the expenses Some will argue that the Princes of Wales Co! j lege is open to Cutholios as well ae Protestante ; | Independence, agatust auch terrible odds, enlist | boat it mast be understood that before the Prince of | Wales College was thongbt of. the Catholics bailt St Danstan’s College, without the aid of Govern | wert. or assistance from the Regenae of P. E Is- ' a Task any fair and impartial observer, is it | just that the Cutholice of PE Island should be ) excluded from participating in w feir share of the | Grants for Education? And wa subjects to onr be loved Queen, is it net tyranny to compel the Ca- tholies to aid in supporting a Cotleze that renders lthem no benefit and on the other hand are refused lanvthing in the shape of an eqnivalent from onr jeulightened and Liberal Legislature in nid of their } College built at their own expense? Let every }candid Protestant pat the question te bimself and ask bis conscience. is it justice? Le it tair play ? Is it duing as von weuld wish others to do unto you? Under the present Education Act a teacher ina miserable shanty 1s allowed from Government leome £5) gw veur: but in an institution like St ' Pwnatan'a College where a superior education may be obtained withont ivterfering with the religions belief of auy class. sbiiiing of wid wall Lot be lyviven by the majority of the present House of Assembly What a contrast! Still. in the view ef onr wise men. the log shanty is the most ep- titled to wid from the State. I feel satisfied, however, that the Protestants of Prince Edward Island are not the men that wilt refuse their Catholic felluw-men—that is, they will maturely cousi'er the matter—equal pri vileges and rights which they are mest und unted!y lenteth-d to; mor do I bevieve that our Protextint nei, bbors will. as & respectabie and intelligent body of people, endeavor to withhold from their | Catholic neizubers that which they, if in uur place, wead ask tor. lu coosidering the question I would suggest the propriety of placing under foot all rel.givus ani- | mosities, and iet neither party be the means of warring the youd feeling that now exists betwees Catholics and Protcstancs turvugh the length aud breadth of the land Pee Catholics, of course, were induced to believe, fro:n deme of the leading men of the present Gov- erawent, previous to the last Geveral Blectiva, that it they were only returned to power tbe St. Dun- stan’s College showid gata Grant; but it appears, after getting Catholic support, and bemg placed in i thousand six handred and seventeen pou dea year | holders of their bigh salary, | children ; yy no means difflcalt, to | after) humbler classes, in and about Dublin, were, japaster of this city, and many other distinguished | pyar our present Revenue would be altogether tn- | geverally speaking, inferior, made an honor. able exception iu favor of the Mill Streeg Schools kept by the Brothers, Speaking of ‘the Dublin Schools he says :—~ | 7 do not think that we have one decided} good School, except the one in Mill-Surees.”2 Lords’ Report on National Education, p- 301, | The Rev. George Dwyer, a Protestant Rector, stated in his examination as follows: — | “T would say the most perfect Schools [ have ever seen in my life were the Schools jy Mill-Street, in Dublin, and the Sehvols jn Cork (kept by the Brothers.) The mos: ex. traordinary progress I ever saw made the most admirable adaptation of the mformation to be communicated to the peculiar bent and genius aud disposition ef the child; @ sifting and searching of what the ‘future destination of the child was, and an plication of instruction to that destination; 9 most curious eliciting and drawing forth aad development ot the powers of the childres,”— Ibid, p. 1245. The editor of a Dublin journal, writing of the Christian Brothers’ Schovls says :—* Of sheir of the great good which they are ‘capable of effecting, we have ourselves no doubt. Let us have a sufficient number of ‘them in different parte of the Kingdom, and with these and the many other Schools, cone | ducted, perhaps, on different plans, but all oa merits, The tendency ts indeed. to exag-| paid College, with high salaries. All this was) the same principle of the moral and intelleetual improvement of the young children, seon would we see realized our brightest dreams of ithe glory that shone forth from the Irish | Church « thousand years ago, when he whole land was consecrated ground,—an Island ef /Suints;—when our beloved country stood, amid the darkness that hung over the eur- rounding n@tions, like a temple iy the desert, to which travellers from every clime focked, ad within whose Sanctuary wag foond the ‘light of knowledge and religion; when our ‘sainted fathers croseed the seas and the moos ‘tains, and pemetrated into distgt lands; inte | Scotland, and England, and France, sed Spain, and Germany, and Italy, and established Schools, and Monasteries, and Colleges there, and stamped the features of Irish yenius and Irish virtue upon the character of the people among whew they dwelt. Our imagination loves to dwell upon these bright scenes, not as upon Garrea recuhectiucs of shinzs mat bere passed away, and cannot return, but ss sponse | garden over which a hurricane of desvlation has passed, blizbting its fruits an@ flowers, but leaving the first richuess of soil fur another Spring to revive in all its primitive freshness The generation «f to-day bas all the promise of the veneration uf old. Let the same means be put in their hands; let them have the same education, the same protection, the same encouragement; and, before the and fertility. children that now lisp on the mother’s knee shall have sunk into oll ave, we shall bave another chapter in the history of our sages, auotber pave in the calendar uf vur saints.” | THE WANT OF PURE WATER IN CHARLOTTETOWN, Relatives bunting for each other, the woynded screaming with pain; people, who at home were blessed with wealiu, bemoaned their sad plight. The ladies geverally had preforce to goto bed while their linen was being dried Clothing was Bbroyzht by the open-handed and The meeting of the Conference of th: Great Powers on the Oriental question, whieh was fixed tor the 2nd of January, bas been pe stponed, and the date of ite assemblage, if indeed 4 ie convened at all, is new quite yucertaim Constaftinople Dee 31 with reepeet te the disallowance of ghatienge fur | ° exuse of Sparks, and of peremptory pee of | a" had the impudence to defend Hodging, the same as he did before the Court of | Mr. Ciark; the leading Oranzeman on the Queen's Bene, and went into a leugthy argument, | Island would have a better chance of being quoting numerous authorities, chiefly American, |¢lected than the same ehap. But the richest in supportot bis pasition part of “‘Fabiola’s’’ letter is the winding up| “Fabiola” | Mountains; aud J am fully eonvinced that the | character of yous young men will cowpare taver ably w'th that of the young menu in auy part of the American Untouw. Let any man come from | yourceuntry to this whose own knowledge is | ewpblirtcal or superficial, and on finding that | Americans surpass hiny jy this species of know. | | caucus meeting, and came to the conclusion that high positions them-elves, they forgot the claiuws of | Catholics, and when «© respee'ful Mewmoral was | i placed in the bands of the Guvernwent, by His Dna Jexxrms, one of our respected members Lordship the Bishop of Charlettetown, ther belda forthe city, has, as Health Officer, addrensed they would not Isy iS before the Legislature to & communication to the City Coancil, whereia know whether they would give their cyuseat to! he states that, in his opinion, much of the warm hearted citizens of Warsaw. aud every, thing wae done to reuder em us comfortabie | as possible puder the circumsiances The badal parties on board lost everything It is officially announced that the lastof the in- | Rebinsou and Anderson replied for the Crown. | surgente in the Island of Crete bave surrendered | YBDg that no substastial Injustices bad beeu done to the Porte. The Turque newspaper says that to the prisoner. ‘They also clauned thal by the; the Porte hae not yet accepted and probably will Judges ruling that the authorities quoted by Caw- | not approve of the propositiea of a European Coue erou did not apply, the piigover bad received his | sentence which is sufficiently long-winded, and which T will give tor the edification of your readers os ledge, as well as in the ert of displayiag it tu ad | | vantage he will at once throw up the sponge. and | | return to you deeply impressed with the superiori- ‘We can also assure the Editor of the! ty of everythmy that pertains to America Let | grant the prayer of the Memmrial or not. This, | consider was treating Catbelws tery un-— just.y, aud were they to treat any other degomina-— tion of Christians the sawe, | would say that it was very far trow pursuing » just and straightforward sickness, very prevalent in » certain part of the city, is due to the poisonous matter inter- mingled with the water in the vicinny—which but their sleeping apparel. Calicoes took the | = ef elegant vestments. Red worsted | oods or bounets, or anythinz that would | There was a demonstration at Sevilie seme cover their feet an@ nakedness. Clothing was) days ago, aud (eu. Cabalero Deroda was ordered gone, elegant trousseaux, which bad cost so} there with # bedy of ngtivnaltroape = The people | sauek time and trouble jn getting together, | were disarmed, however, before tie General's ar- were lapped up inthe jungry Games, Money) ial. The country js entirely quiet. was gone, ct penniless, nearly naked, three | For the purpose of reducing the budget for the | ot the wewly married couples changed their coming year the suppression of 37 Captain Gen- | warm beds for the iey water im the river, and Gubn tuageted half dead with fright, and two-thirds frozen, | Maschal Pavia, vecsutly Govern? Genesal of they auly reached the friendly shore to be Madrid, to ded. greetea by @ piercing cold wind But at least | Londpn, Dee 31 they were saved, ani they fell into the hands) 4 despatch from Sueg in anticipation of the Au of good Samaritans. One coup’e, ps! mar | tralian mnsile state that intelligence bas been re- | ried, have fulfilled their hdly vow to lure each | ceived at Melbourne from New Zealand that filty | wther yutil death shoy'd part them; but de ati | Europea families jaye been uurdered by Ma- souk them both — & th together— frozen, { vries, drowned, dead, in their beautiful youth, with | | the kiss of their pure love f.ozeu on their lips Telegraphic reperts have been received trom : hae | Alexandria of au earthquake at or in the neigh- A gentleman with his sister, a lovely a @ | wnvtund ot Tabriz, a Persian city, of about accomplished young lady, were paskensers On| 6y.0C0 people. on Sunday lest. “Though the the United States. At the first shock the | shocks were described as very viuient, uo ee gentleman was thrown from his bed on the |rieus disaster or lows of life ie so far kuewu to! four. Hastily pulliug on bis pantaloons he | have beeu caused by the phenomenon rushed to the stateroom of bis sister, burst | : Londeu, Jap. 1. opan the door, aad, sewing her in hisa:ms,| The Times to-day in @ leading editorial de- carried ber down on the main deck, where, | vvunces the projects of the Liberals for the abu. | procuring a door shutter, he threw it overboard | by ion of primegeniture, &e., and saye that | and leaped after it, wite his ¢ister in his arms. | Bugland is easeutiully srimiveratic aud conserve: | He placed her securely os the shutter, and wus) "** London, Jan 2 swioming behind, pushing it, with his precious | sphere was a large Fevien deanwetrativn in joad, towerd the shore, when to his burror, 94 Cory yesterday, at which Mr. O'Sylivau made a biz, burly and able bodied man swam UP, | strong speech pushed hia sister of the board and cliybed| Tbe Directors of Bank of Overend, Gurney upon ik bimsc J, | & Co., which failed some tine ago, and whose The young girl sank with a scream, and ii oifaira have been in process of liquidgtion, have she came t> the surface it was so dark and the | an ae ede a an ae - charge vi wer aia | irau i” ‘ ‘ gear eng ed vomge not a her | Str. Ashbury, in his note to Mesare Bennett lac dene aithe dasturdiy act he made after! ¢ Stebbire of New York, relative tu the pro- the author, and seizing him by the throat a ‘posed Yacht Race, after objecting to the tonnage struggle to the death ensued, They rose and ; ot the * Dauntless,” says he will race the” Phaw- | sank together, sfill strazzling, and when last | tom” across the Atlantic—he will go in any eveut.| seen were grappling with each other. Whether | and thus give the “ Shapbo” and otger Mugiish either was saved or both went down together | yachts a chance lo accept is not known, The eister sank beneath the | _ _ London, Jan, 2 waves and was lost, but she was terribly | Government of Greece is actively engaged in avenged by her brother. Two ladies, whose Pttleeting and completing tie armament of the | asames are unreported, placed on board the | mMtisael troupe Peris. J 1 a te . a . Jan 1. Sates by Me Townsend Whelan, a ankes of The Emperor Napoleon, at the usuat Now Philadelphia, were assuredly Jost. They took | Year's reception of the Diplowie Corps, in re r , a , 7 passaze for New Orle ans Mr. Whelan came plying to the addresaes of the representatives of | down yesterday in se weh of thas, bwt could | foreign powers, said that be realized with much | obtain no clue to their fate. | pleasure the conciljatery spirit animating the | Wr. George Zaigier, of Nashville, end wife | European Goverumeuts whieh enables them to | who egcaped so unraculously, were meeried wt j quiet soimesities and swoeeth wternatioual dit-| Fremom, (unio, ow Saturday nizut preceding | 2cultire as tact as they arise. thus insuring the | the dieanes, ° prepay of — He confidently hoped that : } ihe gear 1SO9 would prove as aatistaciory ae tne At the piace, gear florence, where the boats pear which bad just closed, aud that the c oma eollided the river 4s0k a bend, though there is! of eveuts wight diseipate unfavorable apprehe- over twenty feet gi woter, which allowed them! bensions and couselidate the pewee as Hverssary lenty of roow. jto the wellgre aud progress of givilwed netious | ; Pass gud J. N. Price, brothers, of this a ae Paris, Jan 2 : : & aris, Jan city, made their escape log pber, and had * The conference for the settlement of the dif. Invst thrilling adveniure. Whey they left the | ferences between Turkey and Greece will be boat it was almost entively weppped up in! composed of the Ambaseadars to France trou | flames, andl searly a) woo could bgg fied the the various Powers of Europe. ference. Madrid Dee. 30, via London, Dee. 31 } London. Jan, 5. The Judge's decision will be given on the 22ad instant. Montreal. Jan 5th Between four and five hundred deaths from | small pos vecurred in Muntreal during the pesi | year A Grand Banquet will be given to Governor Grand Tryon Railway Company, was te-day com- mitted by a Toronto Magistrate to take his trial ona charge of vbiaining moary yonder tale pre tenes. : Fiour 5 cents dearer. active demand. Ata mecting of the board of Trade, to day, the feeling Was Unanimons in favor of a change in the Act relating to Luspeciors of Flour, go as te make itagree with the New York syatew, and thus se- cure w greater share of the Maratime Trade. Toronto. Jan. 5. The Whelan case came up yesterday before the Court of Error and Appeal per course to bring tbe prisoner belore tbe Court. Hon. J. H. Cauervo made aa able aud elaborate argument og the side ef the prisoucr, Messrs Kebiusou & Andersou replied for the Crows Phe prigouer was rewauded yniil 22nd just., when a decision will be given, FROM THE STATES, : New York, Dee 31. The Livery Stable of Briggs Brothers in this City wasdestroyed by Gre last night with one hundred ang filly hurses and pumerous Carriages. Phe lows is § 2,000,000. A fire in Providence to day deateoyed the Daily Press Newspaper vilice, and other valu- able property. No quetable change in either money or Gould warket to-day. Now York. Jan. 2 A evere soow-storm yesterday extended over a Wide tract of country at the uerth gud east iG iw badly dritted, causieg delay Lo railroad trains. Fire in Bangor, Maine, last eight, destroyed property to the amount ef & quarter milieu dul- hon dollars Beveral of the largest werohants ou Broad street wore burued eut. Now York, Jan. 6. There was considerable exoitemeut in Washing- tom to-day iu Cousequeuce of twy ovlored wea being fouud dead in their beds a§ the residence of the Frengh Minister. Large crowds were surreuning tbe house = Reports wore circuiased that they were either suffocated or poisoned. General Spiuuer sll remains very unwell and is unable to be at Liedesk at the Treasury Depurt- uenut Guid closed at 184 1-4. Mongy easier. Holloway's Pills and Ointment —Vemale Cow- plaints 0 the wothers of England devulres much and serious responsibility in securing for their daughters rebust bealth ; frequently, alas! thoughtlessly sacrificed by culpable baahfulness at a parbeular period of life, when all-important The sittings | changes take place in the temale constitution, | Mecks aud were struggling to evade the gheet| will de held in the Cuy, aud will be presided upon the wanagement of which depead future of flages that overspread the water. Ky lucky 0 ! hanes the brothers reached one of the tengers' The time of the meeting bas wot yet been duly aft the States, and slid down ite the water, \Apseed =. and, efter pouch difliculty, got ashore. To) their coolness and ecoyrege much of the life- | saving is gue, and duew eeim survey of the that the peeeont situation of Italian aflwirs wae dire situation jn great part jnsyred the trans- good bys shat if the present amiable mingion Cf intethzert wecouuds of he gd sagter.— | should beveme cloudy, and trouble in the future fouisedle Courier Journat. labould Avewgue Mminent, he would confidently k Florence, Jan {, King Vietor Ewmanuel te-duy in his over by M. Gavallatte, the new French Secretary | happiness or nusery. s will find a Cheay | in eetablishing those tunctions, upon the due per formagece of which, health and even life iteelf de- | : L reply to pend = Mother and daughter way eafely use these |Christuage aud N “ine : aan ithe New Year's congratulations of bis staff, suid | powerbil deobstrucut remedies sew at consull- — ~* ud New Year's day with pleasant itholics sought; but which, they rest assured, { rood sense of enlightened Protestanti j; we ’ : the go 7 es ct en mind with which to class fy them. ; The Judges yuan-| | imously decided that a Writ of Errer was the pro | tyrants ; while the latter are treated in this | right of peremptory challenge in Sparks, by con-| Reaminer that the Liberais of St. Peter's) senting to challenge for cause, ihave, as they always hed, full confidence in ‘the Government, and feel assured that, when the proper time comea, it will accord to the Cutholica that measure of justice which, em juow, enlightened Protestants are bevinning to a lvocate; but which, if pressed before its Justice | was freely admitted, would only serve to in-| ‘eralships, Goveruerships und Lishoprics have) Young abvut 20th instant, at whieh feur Lieuten- | fluence anew the passions and awaken the pre- | | aut Governors, and the whole of the Dominion | judices of sectarianism, whick until this chanze | ad with lectures tog Horace Greely, E. P. and Loca] Cabinets are expected to be present. in the public sentiment has pr-duced some | Whipple, Petroleum VY. Naeby, the celebrated Nolavn, the author of the pamphlet agninat the ifruit, might have rushed forward with a force humorist, and last, though not least, Joho is, 's) resistless aw to carry the majority of the} Protestant eomimynity with it, and thus delay | ters. Have you ever beard Join B. Gough? It ‘THE BROTHERS OF THE CHRISTIA | judefinitely that measure of justice which Gar , jwill, ere long, freely accord them,"' A long breath is necessary after reading the | above unsrenmatical rigmarule, which is as) insulting to Protestants as it cannot fail to be to Catholics. The great majority of the former gre indireetly pug down as ignorant 'fashion . “Catholics, we know that you are treated with injustice, but be very quiet aud trust to us and all will be right by and by; if you open your jyouths we wil all join syainst you. {t is true you put us in power; but, if you look to other quarters for redmas, we will use the rod over your backs. It you support such men as Haviland aud Pope, we will let you see that you myst remain our servants. Just remajn on your knees, and do what we tell you, and when the ‘proper time comes’ we may allow you to stand up and may ‘accord’ you justice; butif you say a word displeasing, we will put you on your backs aud keep you there.” ‘fhe Government defender would treat Ca | tholics like @o many little children, give them | a few “aweeties,’’ and, if they fare not quiet | threaten them with a sound whipping. I know, the people at St Peter's as well as any, “Pahiole’? who eau betake himself from Char-| lottetown to “King's Oounte,"’ ia imagination, and [ ean assure you that, in this district, the offensive policy of Mr. Heasley's Government | last Spriug on the Bishop's memorial, bas not a score Of supporters. Slaves may trust | traitors @ seeand times byt freegen will not. | ‘Do you, Mr, Editor, eontinue 40 expose the | jwhort-comings of the Governmeyt, and your him be a man of cultivated jntellect, and be will oyly laugh at the Yaukee’s pretegsions to superi- | erity, f ehaill wrile you further on this subject at some future time. We are well suppled in Washington this winter with theatrics! aud other sources of public enter- tainment. We have bad severgl etar actors and actresers already thie seeson We have had tragedy, comedy, French and German Opera, Black Crook, &e ,&&c. We have aleo been taver Gough, beyond question the greatest of living ora- vot, it is vain for we to atteaipt to describe him to | yeu. | can find vo staudard or measure with! which to compare bis powers—no type or order of | His genuis ww! sui geneus Such great masters of the bistriome | art as Forrest. Murdock or Booth, wey charm you with the power ef their acting.and ii beauty | of their elocution. You know, bowever, that they have wade elocution and oratory the study of yeara, sauje of them having published elaborate | works on the subject. You kuew that every in- | tunation of the voice, every look, gesture and attitude, have been carefully studied and prac- tieed by them before their appearance on the stage. You kuow, besides, that they all enjoyed the advantages of § liberal education in youth. Here is a man, however, selfauade, and seliedu- cated, who never studied any rules of elocytion, who scouts the idea of teaching oratory ae an art, as | have beard him do, and yet sweeps along the whole gawut of human emotions, from deep | tragedy down to broad farce, with a power that defies all successful competition. Were bis) thoughis written, they would not strike you as. being very remarkable either for their beauty or originality, much less for their graces ef diction Nay you will frequently obserye iy hia speech! errors of grammar and prongneiation that bear evidence to the impertection of bis early educa- tion, sud which in auy other speaker would be called gross vulgarisws. For instance, | beard | him ounce begin a lecture with the remark: ) * Lt aay be considered presumptuous in me ot | — the goun © presumptuous” being pronounced presympghious. You feel, however, how vain aad | iriveloug wre auch objections when you contem- | plate the power of that man, whose genius rises | a law unto bimself. How wonderful indeed must | be the power of tugt wan, that can make the pas sions and feelings of au enlightened audience the! toy and plaything of bis will, and say, for two, hours, keep his bearers constantly alteruating | between laughter and tears! 1 have met my eateemed old friend, Senator) strict decorum ; the exact observance of disci- poisonous matter flows principally from several cess-pools in the neighborhood. We think the Ductor is right: and we think, besides, that he is deserving of much praise for bring- — ing the matter so clearly befure the public. = Sl - The pump to which the Doctor siluded in bus éhe & xaminer. report has been closed ; and we think thet em she sooner @ bailf doaen others are closed the | better. Bi is fall time that eur citizens should 'stir themselves to have a supply of pure water. N_ lis no wonder that so many in our madsi are SCHUOLS. | dying, when we remember that sey were ¢ drinking water for yeers—water which we We ourselyes have had the opportunity © ’ witnessing the great improvement ie propriety | kuow to have been refused by the lower wom Pubhe sentiment of conduct and in learning made by pupils at '® quarter of @ century ago. , ms tending the schools of the Brothers. The has been awakened on the subject, and + | general impression is, that we mast bave pure water at any cost. His Worship the Magor ovuuree Trusting, Mr. Editor, that you will excuse the lesgth of tuis communication. 1 remain yours very respectfully, Jescra Menrar. Lot 11, Dee 22, 1868 ~—< Charlottetown, January 11, 1869. “ww pline ; the respectful demeanour of the boys ; es onl the surprising facility with which the several jend other leading citizens are om the alert, classes marshal themselves into order, at a | 4r¢ doing their best to remedy the evil. The the absence of all sypali freaks | laudable exertiona of the Hor. Col Gray, 9 of mischief, which, to as great extent, in our) the good aameh, ae worthy of honorable pene: common schools, divide the day between frolic | 0% The pe eee, be decided is and drowsy gpplication; the general eager-_ this : Whenee is the supply of pure water = ness aud concentration of mind ou their pre- be obtained? Now, we think that “Col Gray's sent business, manifested even by the youngest, | Spring,” as it is generally called, — supply exhibit, on one hand, a decided proof of unceas- the city for at least one or two generations. To ing vigilance. of cordial zeal, of consummate have this supply will cost something ; but ait skill, on the part of the masters; and, on the | Must not be frightened at this. The idea of other, a lively picture of the habits of order supplying the city by truckmen may do for® and diligence to which the young vulatile mind | few weeks or months, but is only a mere tem- may, by an easy but well adapted system, be | porary aljernauve. Means ae: be adopted to redueed. The extreme ignorance of some hgye ® permanent and certain supply. Woes pupils, the extreme aversion of still more to | "ot well enough versed in Hydrostgtice 7 constaut application, are among the b arassing Hydrolics, to offer the bent suggestive to difficulties which every teacner bas to meet, adopted. However, we think that a large bes But, in the Christian Schools, these are ia, |servoir shesld be built around the Spring creased ty a great degree hy the number, vary- | sufficiently high to enable the male by 1 ing in each schvol, from one to three hundred; | pressure, to foree itself through pipes ito the aud these often takeu from a clasa of society, | City. The parties through whose propery the in which wholesome restraint is nop always one ~~ from the Spring now runs might com of the “household words'’ The success of | plain of their rights being invaded in cone given signal ; popularity will continue to mcrease, as [ assure | Poland, frequently in society since the opening of the Brothers in mastering these difficulties de- |wequenge of the stream being stopped j os you it is now doing to a large extent all!) the present session of Congress \throush this County. Your obedient servant, TRUTH. Head St. Peter's Bay, Jan. 6, 1369. Seconp Apysrror’s Orrice, Washingtou, DB. C., Dee. Qlat, 1868, |} Eprror EXAMINER: | With the approach of the Christmas holidays I Yew the compliments of the season. i ‘ He expresses! himself as greatly delighted with your country ;| eats ita little earthly paradise, and purposes, he) ‘eays, to spend a portion of next summer thers, | } have vo doubt that he will receive the consider. | ation and alteution amougat you to which hix elevated character aud hie secial standing and) | reputation ia his own country entitle him. It is! (very rarely indeed that a public wan ia this, }country bears biaself in such a manner as, pot | only to silence the cavillings and criticixme of his political enemies, but even te extort unwilling | praise from them. Yet, this, Mr Poland has sue- classes ; jcovded in accowmpliching. His elevated moral Holloway’e Pill, eapecia!- Te#elved to write a brief letter to my eld friend character, his fine abiljtics,bis honor and integrity, ly ft wided with Ointment, have the happiest effeet (the Ecamizer, if for no other purpose than to give /his unselfish devotion ty te pubic good, bas perfect freedom from partizan prejudices, have Goverament clerks always look forward to) won for him the esteew and confidence of all the _good wen of both political parties; while his ipatione Ov these days the great men of urbane maypers—courtly and dignified without a with t' e grosser ing any ene, Jjnivereally adopted us the one the nation keep open house for the reception and spice of superciliousness—bave made ban a tavor- situation | grand remedy tor female complaints, these Pills entertainment of the public. Kvedy lady or gen- jite in gil secial circles, never fail, vever weaket the system, aud always | tleuan that desires can have the twoor of shaking, inteuds fy take up his sumuier resideuce with “bring about the desired result. lot Grey Cottors | hands with the President, Cabiyet dfiuisters, Gen. | you. Ml. Such is the man who! an Act of our Legwlature seryes much praise. Aborg all things it would) we presume that ' an sxiom ad- be injustice not to votice, in a particular man- | would settle that matter. It is cal ner, the fruits of early piety, and the strict ob- | mitted by all civilized pations, ten mr " servance of religious duties which the teaching rights must yield to public advantage, a of the Brothers have produced in so many of | that is true, it certainly should be es their pupils. The acquisition of mere kaow- | hie ynstance. All shat we want is yee ledge is by no means the only or the most im.) cheapest and best means be adopted, ! supply the citizens with pure water. ~~ oe portant ecd of ¢he education of the poorer delay, to nor is knowledge itself, to them at eer au least, a good, unless in so far ag ithelpsto} Taw letter of Mr. Joseph Murphy, 08 ere discipline the mind for higher thoughts, to | tion, mserted in another column, awl : form the heart for the reception of purer feel- (of perusal. We are not acquainted ve i: ings, than those which perpetual contact | Murphy, but we may say that we knw ye scenes of human existence is from the manly, independent, logical poy not now of the | Of bis communication which is such os | County may well boast of. After all me of this colony are nog sugt be Patriot aug Progress wou'd wish them to De apt to generate. We speak necessity of uniting, in eyery gase, relizious with literary education, nor of what ought to | at Farconer & Paraick’s, South Side Queen Square. 3 « & ® RR Oe eee oe ee & SBregieee q —