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raeut strictly in advance ne of unbeard of excitement in Reikia | im times past, have dragged him before se 5 copies one address, - - 8 7.00 vick. The celebration ceremonies were un- | legal tribunals. It is so difficult in cases | Cs, 12.00 | surpassed by avy similar displays known | o¢;nis kind to completely separate the por

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The

xaminer,

Ch'town, September 7, 1874.

GNAWING TARE FILE AN envious clique of petty, selfirh of fice—seeking politicians has, throughout the past year, systematically exerted al its power to procure the dismissal from office of one of the most efficient and most popular officials of the Dominion Civil

Service in this Island. [+ is hardly pos-

sible fur honorable men to imagine the foul and utterly contemptible means t which its their purpose. pled to utilize the tattle and gossip of bar rooms and street corners. The vain

aginings of poor, half-tipsy politicians

members resorted t

They have not even seru

and

editors: the vericst trifes—light as air and just as intangible—have been set down, conned, magnified, published and

asons why the Hon.

sent up to Ottawa as ri A. A. McDonald should be ejected m the office of Postmaster

One phase of the crusade against Mr McDonald has been, to us, specially inter esting. Some ingenious individual in vented a report to the effect that Mr. M Donald was a member of the ** EXAMINER Paintixe & Puerisnine Compa This report was eagerly accepted as tru

The faisehood was published; and, with

all the venom and ing auity ci th —concentrated in the editor of the / riot—it was urged as a principal: why Mr. McDonald should | lismissed

The serpent, however, gnawed

The frantic efforts of tl P proved vain. Ni

ie twithstanding our con concerning the fals

tinued silence port, and our continued opposition

Dominion Geverament, Mr. MeD i stil] remains in offi He has perf

the duties of hisfoffice so assiduously and = well that he has succeeded in caining t

‘ es a es confidence alike of the peoy f this

munity and the authoriti He is armed so strong in honesty fford t treat his

an

ean wel!

ous enemics—the disappointed croakers with scorn, aod their falsehoods wit! tempt. We, for our part, occasionally «

joy a quiet laugh at the fruitless exertions of that personification of the hungry ser- pent gnawing at the file in the forge-- the clique which so barefacedly seeks t ruia of the EXAMINER, and the fat pick ings of the Postmaster’s office. mee . EURHETORIAN. Tne ** Eurhetorian”’ is a Club, not long since, formed in Charlottetown. It

ee

or ita object ‘‘ the cultivation of

has f j

quence and sound literature, and : acquaintance with the rules of pro-

eeeding and debate in publi The object ul will admi It is desirable that

dies.” isa good one. man in a free community should

to express his thoughts in a manner whi

wili commend the attention of an aud ence. To accomplish this. careful stu

and persevering practice is absolutely n essary. Heaven-born orators are e ly rare. the fire of oratory his mind and his or

Even if a man be

gans of speech must be cultivated or hi will only give vent to stutters and rant ings. True ease and fluency in speaking

as in writing, comes from art not chance We trust that the “ Eurhetorian successful. Its meetings are held in Y M. C. A. H all ; and its members be members of the Young Men's Christ ian Association.’ No doubt th of its usefulness would be grea ed, were it « little more eatholic theless, it may, and we hope it much good. [ts “ charter-members’’ are Chas. De W. Heard, Frederick Perkins G. Walter Beer, Lewis W. Goff, R. K Jost, Boswell McGowan, J. Edward Law rence, dames Paton and John W. Scott les constitution—which provides for the appointment, on each night of meeting, of essayists, orators, disputants and critics for the succeeding weetings—appears to b ep excellent think. to those which govern our ture. The bye-laws and rules of ord only need to be firmly carried out to make the a mode! Club.

OUR HIGHWAYS

may |

“] her tly widen- a

swever

yy Whih Of

one—not far inferior, we

nd imparti

‘i. ‘ Eurhet rian

_——-—-

in a month or two our farmers will bx taking their produce to market have good roads, they will, d fully impressed with the idea that they are blessed with good Government on the contrary, the roads are bad,—if be found that the roads have been nevlect— ed during the summer, and are out of re pair,—the inevitable result will be dis content. There will be grumbling and growling. The will be blamed, and will, of course, sink in th: eatimation of the people.

Our country advices are to the effect that even now the roads are in anything but « satisfactory condition. The hillsides, im many places are traversed by deep vul- lies—worn out by the water torrent- of spring; the hollows are beds of sand, which, when the fall rains come, will be sloughs of mud; the culverts over th streams are shattered and broken, so that fast driving is difficult and dangerous. The terrible fate of poor young Hayden isa mourntul proof wf the existence of ruts.

We now say nothing of previous wegiect, But we urge upon the local suthorities—if they would see the people contented under their rule Tetain their popularity—-the absolute ne- eessity fora speedy repair of many parts of our highways.

Government

if they would

Inust ¢

| might be supposed, It is known that they | leave a vacancy in the Dominion Governs | i }

| ICELAND THE BROWN SCANDAL. ae j | ‘ 7 / f ithe Monts Gazelle.] ON the Ist of August, Iceland celebra- i¢ Montreal G ¢.] ] Ith I th great | Mr George Brown, as the plaintiff in a ted its thousandth anniversary With great) a . i number of suits against some half dozen |

The celebratio ) lace at the : The cele ation took prac 1 ¢ intarlo newspapers for libel, is assuredly th Reikiavick

ita magnificent eity

capitol Reikia

| new sensation for the people of that Pros It contains | | | '

ince

bout one thousand five hundred inhabit- | ),, frequently appenred in the courts

There are but two streets worthy} and although his aecusers have never the name. These are, however, lined obtained a verdict, the inability of jurors with shops at which all the necessaries of | to agree bas alone made for him an life may be purchased. The town is de—| escape from damages. To-day he is before scribed as “not unsightly.’ The day on | the courts in vindication of his ene which the kine of Denmark arrived was | ‘® and we venture to predict will meet

with po more success than have those who,

} made in against news-

king

which he said that

anquet the 1 speech to case, that actions for slande

‘No one ever doubted | papers, arising out of political controversy,

. . . , > attla , j ea k the thorough loyalty of Iceland. He was | very seldom settle anything. On ~—

2 ¢ | . : re] thankful for the c rdial grectine he had have thought that this fact was ao wel met since he had first landed.

proud to be the first of the Danish Kings

He Was: ast,

the

ly been relied upon by him in the p

a ; that he would not have resorted to who had visited the island, and he hoped

to the course which he has now adopted in

} , , 0) sti i e@ hi : . ’ hat the new coystitution which he had | vindication of his personal morality and

t brought with him would promote the pros purity of character. The charge made

perity of the country, and more strongly | against him was, according to his own states than ever cement the bond which unites | ment, made in an obscure weekly paper—

Teeland with Denmark.” {so obscure that although his complaint is

The following verses were written by | teat it as has been copied by other news-

on V4 8. i k him some five weel Savard Taylor and read on the oceasion pape . 1t OOK him ome ive ekKs

| ston lure discover that it had even been published in the native languace

at all. Surely Mr. Brown has lived to W me, | ‘i ! ‘ l aa and little purpose if he cannot afford to pass | rhe i i the world’s high peers } without notice a charge of this kind coms 0 Land of song and saga ing from such a source. It would, we are To great > ones yee convinced, have been his wisest plan thus | Across the sea the s Erilk to have acted. His not doing so gives oe Ser . ae a ae a color to the story that he has been forced gi seg a Ne hil 1 seek eg os oe by his friends to bring his accusers to jus~ i cnatten tend ofebelds and tice. It is said that his proposal was to | By love of freedom hither hurled give the whole story a flat and bold con Fire in th y mountains tradiction in the editorial columns of the is S* hake the w '* | & Globe” and permit it to rest with that, When war and ravage wrecked navions, | put his friends insisted upon a personal I : os i "i os tg ws denial, and an arraignment of the acusers Ss iW Cw hin t before the Courts to answer for the libel, Here. as a fount y keep its virl and hence Mr. Brown's card and his some- While a rs turbid rua, what tardy fulfilment of the threat contains rhe manly growl : ed in it. \\ t har th t i ? Che attack on Mr, Brown is one greatly ae a 7 nes to be regretted. It isa style of warfare \ it ‘ that bring th which cannot be pursued without injury to S . the country aud degradation to the press. \\ t gh i | uM fn Canada we are above all thing sconcerned A - : Ls dire = t in having in public life men of honesty and ' saga isong character, and such men are but too fre- Baya la juently sensitive to attack { man who ee er ae has no motive for entering public life than OUR SHIPPING that of serving his country, is apt to shrink Purine the m nth of August last past, from a position which will subject him to

now to be

Political

: : : such attacks as that which is more ns of shi - Y recister ° ita ao 01 on : oe | ing were registered at answered for before the Courts,

wn, than during

The total

the port of Chariottet controversy is not only legitimate but neces-

43 defendant in similar actions he |

.| over naval

known to Mr. Brown, as it has undoubteds |

to }

“CARPET The Broad Arrow

the following concerning the orpet fight. |

of late date contains ing proclivities of those who originated the Brussels Conference :—

When the blunt historian of another cen write the history of our present

| | i |

| tury sha

arrest the flow of his narrative at the year i874, and pen the words, '' About this time feature presented itself—a weak | humanitarianism, called Red. | | Nations wanted to make war in }a polite way, to reduce its horrors, and to . number of things which verged on the tendershearted, but passed over into more | squeamish regions. What with Universal | Alliances, and Rrussels Conferences, and 35 }ton guns, and Manser rifles, and military nations trying hard, in the supposed inter- | ests of humanity, to obtain an adyantage | nations, it was a most curious | } time. ‘The wonder was that the new fight» jing uniform was not transformed into a black dress suit and white kids.’’ Such an | | estimate is likely to be made, and it would not be very far from the truth. There is | reason In an endeavor to mitigate the suffering and barbarity of war. There is | much to admire in the devotion and hero. | ism of men and women who follew the coms batants, rescue the wounded, and mate | death easy. But there isa limit to the opers | ation of feeling in warlike matters—a point | at which regulation is ruin and concession cowardice. Similarly, in personal devotion, there is a point beyond which sympathy be. comes maudlin and organization rid‘culous, War is a butchery,at the very best, and any }number of‘ by your leaves’ will net im- | prove it. Indeed, as we shall presently see, | there is a very strong risk that in doing our | best to reduce war to rule and pugnacty to politeness, we shall have increased its fre. quency by depriving it of its terror, and | have prolonged its duration by changing its | character, Nor is it without significance that whilst we are talking sentiment about the rights of humanity, we are every day | | increasing the destructiveness of our fights | ing engines,and glorying in what the plough- share will do when turned into a the spear. . ° . . *

| * . |

a curio!

species

cross-1sm.

i

{

lo have a giant’s power, and to use it like | a giant, is the best way we know of to ren- | | der war sharp and decisive when it comes, | ; and to delay its coming as long as possible. lo save ourselves from insult, and to ren-| | der our word respected, we miust preserve the powers which guarantee our indepen } dence, and strengthens us in the hour of | danger.

+ —_ +

MME. BAZAINE’S VERSION OF THE ESCAPE.

rhe following is the text of the letter

addressed by Mme. Bazaine, from Spa, to the French Minister of the Interior

I left Spa, she says, on the 29th of July, accompanied by my nephew. whose devos

tion has stood every test. We repaired to Genoa, where we arrived on the 5th of August. On Thursday, the 6th, we went

to the Peirano Danovaro Company for the purpose of hiring a pleasure steamer, under the pretext of wishing to make a trip in the Mediterranean, and on condition that the vessel should be entirely at our dispos- al {bout five in the morning of Saturday | the Sth, we left Genoa harbor, and arrived in the course of the morning at Port Man- where the bad weather forced us to

rice,

| . , . >

, ment, and | presume the late Government,

military and naval developement, Le will | 4 j

| tutions. \

| }am rightly informed the several gentlemen

| dismiss the whole batch of Trustees, who

| Superintendent, allowing them a yearly sum

| since

isignal of danger

era te ttt AO A A AN NEN ’

T'o the Editor of the Examiner.

Siz:—Your leader of the 31st, ult., on |

the management of the Asylum and Poor

House is very hard on the present Govern-

{

for their negligence respecting these Insti-~ understand it has been the |

practice of Government to appoint Trustees to whom the duty of conducting the busi- ness of the Asylum and Poor House, to- gether with the appointment of subordin- ate officers, has been entrusted. Andif 1 so appointed Trustees, are required to give their service gratis, not one cent being als lowed them for their trouble. It stands to reason that they took very little interest in the ind the burthen of the details of the business fell upon the |

matter whole

of or two individuals who |

had axes to grind

shoulders one and ground them well | at the expense, not only of the Province, but of suffering humanity. Under the cir- cumstances, I would respectfully suggest, now that the (iovernment have appointed a professional man, and 4 comparative stranger in the community to the import- ant office of Superintendent of the Lunatic

Asylum that they go a step further, and

have so grossly neglected the matters ens

trusted to them, anu who telt, owing to to their services being given gratuitously, | that they power for their acts ;

were not responsible to any

and appoint in their

stead, say three intelligent, independent

gentlemen to act in conjunction with the

to reimburse them in part for their time, and thereby make them responsible to the

Government I feel satisfied, as a person

| deeply interested in the manner in which |

the Lunatic Asylum should be kept, that unless something of this sortis done, and done at the present time, very litt’e im- provement will be effected, and it will be the painful duty of a Grand Jury at no dis- | Now 1} would advise the Government to place the

tant day to rehearse the old story.

axe at the root of the tree, and remove both Chis is demanded of hort of this will satisfy |

trunk and branches, them: and nothin

r 1 ty.

the public

genera! As regards the Poor House, the system | carried out successfully in the United States —of a farm on which those who are able to vork might be compelled to labor, and those who ar

ed for is not the slightest doubt that under pros

: infirm and sick properly car- hould beadoptedatonce. There per management both the Poor House and the Asylum would in unl it

part be self-sustains

i

ing ; is a well-known fact that in the

ease of the latter, were

it conducted in such

\ manner as to command the contidence of

the public at large, a much larger revenue would be derived from private sources than

has been the case for yeurs past. l

means then, let the new)y appointed Super-

intendent have a new batch of Trustees,

and let him carry out his own plans, as |

understand he is competent to do—being

responzible to the Trustees, and they and

him to the Government. If such is the case, 1 fee) satisfied that the desired end will be attained. Our Lunatie Asylum, in-

stead of being a disgrace to us,

credit to the

will reflect Province, and be the means of largely ameliorating the condition of the unfortunates who are compelled to take shelter under its roof. ! have I feel is not one member of

the present Executive but is willing to do

trust gentlemen in the Government assured that there

we

and

j all in his power to make the Lunatic Asy-

Yours, &c., A CITIZEN.

Ch'town, Sept. 1, 1874.

scence eatiaeieaminteleenietinaiatantctilis

4A TERRIBLE SUICIDE. The hearts of all who saw it were almost an anwful suicide that took place yesterday afternoon almost in front of the Erie Railway depot The

vetrified by

in Paterson

wretched named Robert

Podmore seventystwo years of age, resid-

man Was

ing at No: 100 Jackson Paterson.

He lost his wife a few weeks ago, and has

street,

been low-spirited, whieh probably superinduced a temporary attack of insan. ity, during which he took his life.

In the presence of a number of witnesses

Podmore stepped upon the track, immedi-

ately in front of an approaching freight |

train, which was running slowly at the time. The engineer vigorously applied the whistle reversed his gine, but the man never stirred, except to

and ens |

plant himself more firmly in the centre of |

the track, his back toward the locomotive, his head sufficiently turned so that he could |

note its approach over his shoulder, When | |

the engine was within ten or fifteen feet of

any month ot the year. ton— sary. The public icts of public men, their stop forthe night. (nthe next day, the nage added w agpnss- of which 3519 was in relation to the public affairs of the coun: | 9th,we went to San Reno and spent the day | i ad 96 aa. The average tonnage | try, their opinions upon public questions, there. About eight we direc ted the cay : m™ hs a : : tain to proceed to Jouan Bay, telling him f the esele was I rly fo0 T} these are all fair subjects of discussion and we wished to fetch a man servant from a wing is the list legitimste objects for comment in the press | villa situate on the coast, for the captain . he lis and on the platform, Nay, the more vigors ns nothing of ourplans. The Marshal = = q } : been informed by w« which | had } 4 ~. | ousand independent that discussion overs had pas nicemed .. rds eaeoh it haa ~ = : . ee i written in my letters with sympathetic ink = . leaps these legitimate bounds, and invad< | that he was to make preparations to leave < — i ing the privacy of private life, drags before | the island by night, immediately after the ~ = . | , = = ‘ed he public the minutest details of that | #!T!\ ul of a steamer in JOuan Bay. = =a & © ff 3 ~ ~ I rivate life, it becomes a curse instead of Phe caps war wishing = eee A in order ” —ae se * = bees cas, NR hn : : have his papers inspected at Jouan Bay, | Se ui o ene _ * _— to SAY) asked’us whether and at what hour we o = - 2 thatit may not be quite legitimate to ex~| would start. We told him we were going a E ~ aa pose the personal character of a man living | te a villa in the nighborhood to fetch a man | — 3 <> | alife of open profligacy, a common rene, or servant, and - haps . maid sa tgs pe = ins fo ae = il , : should then toward night turn back to Nice. | ww ~ we 4 i . , ay rhe m be { + , - - > 235.8 .28 = er common swindler, who seeks to foist) We left the ship in one of its boats about . BAG "oS > x himself into public life. But that isa vast- | half-past seven, and landed in the neigh- = eg ee : ~ a ‘ re ae ee : i. = ° : x ly ditlerent thing from that wretched prus | borhood ot i : ran a ee - i 2 ;. | compromise the crew of the ship. e went } Ss wit Seorecs ~ rient taste, which seeks through a m: . a . 5 SSE Setoes ae le ; wi man's thence to La Croisette where we hired a = BSS S8e545 a = | life for some act of personal wrongdoing | boat for a trip on the sea. The sea was very | lum what it should be. a a5 - Ss5° = Mi that it may be presented to be public in all rough. = a: @2a- & ..@ a . : i i é RE os. ill os i a , ‘ = yh See BZ s > its revolting colours. ‘There are few men. | Neither of us hardly knew how to row, so - 2." 250 45 = 3 catia nineties Nee cals Mie ' ; that we did not reach the foot of the fort = — “sg 7 Ye @ y i ) » 8 as ! } . se 2 Son: ao = tara § 2 Has Deen | opposite Jouan till between half-past nine as = = kt . iii ateees a ; - ml 7 og = S| entirely free from the skeleton in the cups | and ten. We there saw the Marshal des- | . ie — nal = | board which is so general an experience; an | cending by a rope, and to give him a sign a 7 Bess = | tohold out the prospect that public means where the boat was we lighted a match. - nt ts > ig Seciaiiiereiak tenes tt chole life’ lhe Marshal immediately answered by light- - -_ — = e srreti ’ e > le life’s af . * - = oe = re Whole ite's | ing a match to direct us to the spot where < wal : . i ‘ " : isin - bee oi te te $26 history of some trangression against the| he had climbed down. A little later he rae =< * 2 7 a7 _ moral law, is to deter the very best of men | jumped into the sea in order to reach | I 2 oo a™ ‘ ; wh ‘ j eg * mM anhew hac assis im | seisicasimacais — from the ordeal which will subject them to the boat.% My nephew had to assist him | 20s & such an experience. and leave to public lif into it, fer he had received contusions, and | ) o3 == o* hg ax perience. an¢ ave to public life > e =a 2 | “f i ere ee eer ene | hte strength was exhausted. All three of # ’ i, the unchallenged possession of those whose | us then tried to reach the steamer, which } immorality is so well known that no ex~| was to wait for us at the spot where we had | colt ag setod bashed. - > | posure can effect them leftit. With much difficulty we found it, 4 = ne : went on board, and left one of the sailors to ys >. On public grounds, therefore, we con- | take the boat back to the coast. As soon = demn in the strongest terms this system | as we were on board my nephew and I di ” . a 4 ai : ites i anil nk , . Pes of assault upon private character. Mr, rected the captain, it being already one > Brown, it is true, is personally not entitl A. M., to start immediately for Genoa, t : >, 18 persc i ote Lies } . % " ee ee Bow enes | where we landed on the 10th of August, x to much sympathy in the position in which | about eleven, A. M. This, Sir, is the truth, > he finds himself, and which, whatever the | and | have the honor to salute vou. - SL TT To se ~ result of the suits, must bea source of the : . Z ~ greatest pain aad annoyance to him. He Prof. G. Davidson, with an Se ti LO a > : observe the Transit of Venus, sailed fro 4 S | has, perhaps more than any man in Canada, | 228¢r¥@ he Se SC Yee, Seen eee om ' ‘ble Bia, Nan Francisco for Nagasaki, Japan, on Satur = te een responsible for the doctrine which | day. He took passage in the steamship | . & makes private character the fair target ‘Japan,’ which carried 247 passengers and z in political controversy. The whole course | 270,000 in treasure. o | of the journal which he controls has been Strong Drixk.—In the year 1575 there . ‘ = "er 2 52 4 ¢ . s i o m to teach this lesson, the following of which | WeTe 3,531,058 gallons of proof spirits dis- | i | hv oblies ts uowsieine? aes tilled in England; 16,421,701 gallons in | : i Me yo rs now giving him 46 muc +annoys Scotland . 10,525,889 gallons in Ireland a e a ance. He has done his best to teach the making a total of 36,479,547 gallons dis-

people who come within the influence of : eaching, that all is fair in political warfare Aw Isterestixe Discovery.— Hamilton, . ' ' . a ‘ ' Jn mana Rie wie . js ; 1 at differences of oO sal sinions

Ont., August 10—T hia morning quite a little ur ' rat n of p litica oO} in! YY excitement was occassioned on the hill just ustify any extent of personal vituperation,

’ He has done worse. jastien’s boat-house, on the ex. | ce

above Mr. The tednency of his

teaching has been to ereate the impression

humation by a number of workmen, who : : that there is no standard of actual merit

were hauling dirt from the mound to fill in : ; :

: te 2XCeY ‘ whie Ss r 2s 4 ¢ f as-

& port om of Ferrie street, of a large quantity s ape Se mich Hee neon — =

Ind , sociation. To-day we have seen him abuse

of Indian relics and numerous human bones, ‘ bh all t} . ‘1 3 hich | ‘ men with aii the force of language of which

the remains beyond doubt, of some Indian ae : oes a is capable. ‘To-morrow we have seen him

-d there at some uns | , laud the same man as if he was a paragon

and virtue. And what difference ? Simply this, that

to-day the man was politically opposed to |

warriors who were buri«

known date. The workmen were loosening

‘

: excellence the surtat

‘ ‘ . 0 ve dirt with pickaxes ;

and spades

} aie de the when one of them struck upon & skeleton, made th

and afterwards several others

place tons could not, of course,be taken out whcle as the of decay.

in various him, and tosmorrow, for personal reasons, within the knowledge of |}

Mr. Brown himself, for corrupt reasons, he

in the ground near by, The skeles

in some cases

bones were in too advanced a state

had turned his coat and become the sub.

They were about two or three | | servient follower of Mr, Brown's school. | We could name instances of this kind, but we dare say they will occur to our readers

feet under the ground, and most of them not more than ten or twelve feet from the | While a |

party of curiosity seekers were standing by, |

hill overlooking Beckett's wharf. ; : ; without being named. It is to this infamous | the | heaped upon Mr. Brown himself. They are | like chickens that come home to

And if the experience in his own case

doctrine that we owe slanders now

the mortal remnants of foar Indians were

brought to light and eagerly inspected by | the crowd. Most of the relics consisted of FOOst. | flint arrow heads of the ordinary size and shape used by the Indians of former days. through which he is passing torday, will me arrow head was triangular in shape and | Serve to teach him the lesson that moder-

had a hole made, as if drilled in the centre | ation and decency in political discussion

are at least desirable, the country will not have reason to regret altogether that so

ofthe base through which the arrow was | ustened. The smootheness of the hole and ts perfect rotundity were really remark

sble, and probably could not have been |

sharp a lesson has been taught to him, even in the disagreeable form in which it is pre- One | sented by the attacks of the Nationa! and

urpassed by a white artist in stone.

tilled in the United Kingdom.

It is stated that Mr. Barry Sullivan, the

| celebrated English tragedian, has entered |

into an engagement to perform in America during next year, for 150 nights, at a salary of $300 per night, with #150 extra for each matinee performance.

The death is announced of Dr. Charies | Beke, African explorer, geographer, phil- |

author of “The Sources of the Nile ’ and several other learned and valuable works. He was in the seventy-fifth year of his age.

The eruption of Etna shows no sign of

abatement. The inhabitants are fleeing : : : | from the villages at the foot of the mount- |

jain, but it is thought that no harm vill be |

done, as the direction taken by lava streams | is remote from the cultivated parts of the | mountain.

Mr. Hepworth Dixon is spending some weeks in Germany studying the latest facts | of those politics on which he has been invite | ed to lecture in the United States. Mr. | Dixon’s two lectures, which he will firat de- | liver in New York

are entitled “ The New | German Empire’ Emancipation.” |

and “Russia under

| We have also to announce the death of | Prof. Cosmo Innes, who has been Professor |

| of History in the University of Edinburgh | | since 1846. | works on early Scotch History and Lawl

He was the author of severa and in his own department was quite un- | rivalled, He also was in the seventysfifth | year of his age.

The swimming match between Johnston | the English champion and ‘Trautz the Ams | erican, took place near Long Branch, L.8., }

| on Friday, resulting in an easy victory for | pedition. Our attention is also invited to

the Englishman, his time for the three miles |

} ed about with horrible profusion

} quest was considered necessary. — Er

} country for the emigrant just now.

‘in the West, conflicts between whites and

him, he suddenly stooped down in a couch;

| ing position, as close to the ground as pos.

sible his back still toward the engine, but | his face yet turned so that he could see it. In this position he remained, looking with steady eye upon the engine that was the

next moment to crush his head and body |

and end his soul into eternity. The peo

| ologist, antiquarian, and Biblical critic , and | ple about, aghast with horror, were powers | less to move, even could they have done

any good. The coweatcher passed over the man and then he was caught by the ash pan and other gearing under the en- gine, and literally torn to pieces. He had scarcely a whole bone left in his body and his intestines and vital organs were scatter- No in- hange. | The United States is not an inviting Work

scarce everywhere, a grasshopper plague

blacks in Tennessee, and now a succession |

; : | —In acommunication Concerning | /

of serious Indian outbreaks. the last addition of the domestic troubles | the New York Ti at

But it is not from the Indian territory

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} alone that reports of warlike demonstra. |

tions reach us. Itis asserted that Gen. | Custer, who is now in camp at Cowpens, in | the Black Hills, is in danger of attack, and | that the chiefs who are organizing forces | for the warspath boast that they can bring | four thousand warriors againt his little ex. |

the raids of the Apaches from California

lint tomahawk about four inches wide was

iso found, but the handle had rotted away |

ong ago. A number of deer’s horns were thrown up with the stones. tity of the tribe, nothing certain is known.

As the soil is ‘iry, the remains would lie in

As to the idens |

| Other papers.

PotrricaL,—The report is current that the difficulty about the Collectorship of Halifax has been arranged. Hon. Mr. Ross, Min« ister of Militia, will be translated to this

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| | being one hour, ten minutes and thirty | into Mexico, and to divers causes for appre~

seconds, ‘Trautz was nearly two minutes|hension along the whole frontier. Fors |

behind. The Englishman reserved his} midable and well-drilled bodies of savages |

power until the last, permitting his oppos | here and there hover on the trail of the |

nent to lead six lengths on the last mile | soldiery, and amuse themselves, when not |

until he was within one hundred yards of | manmuvring against the troops, by scalping | the stake. Then he increased the power | defenceless bands of emigrants, cattle droy- | | and rapidity of his stroke, and came in the | ers and settlers remote from the protecting

the earth a longer time without decay than | position, which movement will, of course; ment. Mr. Vail will retire from the Sec- | retaryship of Nova Scotia, and the present | representative of Digby in the Commons will take # seat in the Nova Scotia Executs ive. This pleasant little shuffle will leave | a vacancy in the representation of Digby in the Dominion and Local Parliaments. Mr. Vail be a candidate for the former, and Mr, Oakes will of course, be a candidate for the latter. In the event of Mr. Vail’s return, which seems quite probable, he will a seat

could not be the bones of any of the Six

Nation tribes, as they had no burying round here during their history as a con- tederation. There was a tribe, an ignovant and a peaceful tribe, called the Attiwenda- ronks, inhabiting this part of the country ip to the period of 1556, They were driven off by a more warlike tribe, and several Lattles were fought, so tradition says, at the head of the lake. The fact that the sculls of these Indians are unusually thick would eem to support this theory. Another circumstance giving strength to this suppo-

| Architecture.’’

winner by fifty feet. |

Mr. Ruskin is a highly sensitive man,who of late years, has become morbidly so, and | whose ideas of the eternal fitness of things do not always accord with that of other | men. Recently his name was submitted to Her Majesty as the worthiest recipient of the great gold medal in the gift of the so, ciety of Architects. Her Majesty approved of the selection and the fact was announced to the author of the “Seven Lamps of To the horror of the So- | ciety he rejected, almost contemptuously, |