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‘came out of meal, as they wan some bread. If I found something better than siftings | ordered it; [ spent omens, of : my time in writing orders; the meat ration der of three ae — m Bave — on cooked in « different part of the hospital ; + a 7 one : = 7m nd we ee ‘the men would gather — me - = for)

ee er ee ot ee : t had pone, the livirg| ard on the following day the murJerer added Siae teaser with "che elothing of those to the already appalling aaa” by murdering who died; there was a ptolific crop of ver- bis Wi and o uth che. @ cireu@= | nin and lice ; | understeod the term lousy

RE eases

A SITOCKING CRIMP. MURDER OF A WOMAN AND POUR CUILDREN, On the 10th of August a most cruel mur-

ted to make

he declares, to pay 0

| ry have no

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* as he says—ure about four mil- Ile would have found it easy, ff an indebtedness of two ‘The sum found with him

|* liabilities, ‘lion dollars.

and a half millions. was $48,000." a

More Kipnarprixne.— We are told that there

is a reason to believe the attempts to kidnap Southern gentlemen residing in our territo- t ceased with the discomfiture ol

stances of this extraordinary case are as fol- lows: On Satarday @ respectably dressed | man called at the above named hotel, and in- |

quired if three children could be cecommo- |

dated with a bed for a few nights. Being informed that one room would be unoccupied, he said that the children were aged respec- tively six, eight, and ten years, and that the accommodation would be suitable. He called

again on Monday evening with the three |

children, and saw them to bed. He told the proprietor of the house that they were about to proceed to Australia, and the accommda-

tion, kind!y afforded would only be for a)

few days. The next morning the children were down stairs by 6.30 in the most cheer- fal mood, and stayed in the coffee-room wotil the arrival of the person who had brought them, which was before 8 o'clock After breakfast he left, but returned at 1 o’elock, when the childeen dined, and again departed, saying he would see them in the evening. About 6 o'clock he came again, nod the children partook of tea and bread and batter. Their supposed guardian then suid that as they might be tiresome he would

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take them tu bed, first, however, inquiring if |

another room could be provided. This was

aceorded, when he went up stairs and put)

the children to bed, the two younger in the room formerly occupied by them, and the eldest in the newly-a pointed chamber. then went oat, saying he would shortly be back and he made his appearance at 9 o'clock. He asked for a candle, to see - ehildren were all right, and after remaining up stairs a short time, be left the louse, say- jag that he would return on the following (Wednesday) morning. Le did not, bow- ever, make his appearance; and, 4s the children were down stairs early the previous morning, some doubt existed ag to whether they should be awakened. Half past eight ar- rived, when one of the chambermaids entered the first room in which the two younger children had been placed in the bed; and, to her extreme horror, found they were dead She immediately raised an alarm, whea the proprietor of the hotel and others entered the room in whieh the eldest child placed, and there found that he sleo was in the sleep of death. Medical aseistance and the police were instantly summoned, the surgeon first arriving, and upon the examin- ation of the bodies, pronounced |. fe to have becn extinct for some hours, the limbs being perfectly rigid and cold. Tho children, when brought to the hotel, were not well dressed, but their manners were open and effable. They conversed with a waiting-doy, and during the conversation said that the person who broaght them was not ther father ‘They added that they were taken from their father either to go to school or abroad. On each occasion when the suspected’ murderer lett be apologised for the trouble the child- ren might cause, but was assured that they were pot at all in the way, whicl: appeared to satisfy him. On each occasion be paid for their several requirements, and appeared te have some silver in his possession. The eldest child told the waiting boy that their futher believed they were dead, bat gave no reason for such an expression. ‘hey all ran vn in simple unconcern and childish ehatter- ing, even up to the time they were taken to bed. A painful scene took place with the reputed father of the deveased chidren. He is a school master, named White, living in London, and was fetched in a cab to the hotel. After looking at the deceased, one of whom hada smile on his countenance, his feelings gave way, and with difficulty he was led down stairs. Jt has been learned that for some considerable period the husband and wife had been separated, owing to the wife's cohabitation with the now suspected murderer, a billiard marker and betting man, named Ernest Southey. On the separation the children were given up to the mother, but ultimately they were returned to the husband. From some unexplained cause the three deceased were again given up by the sanction of the husband, under the impression

that the absent wife, her paramour, and the |

children were going to Australia. The ap- pearance of the bodies clearly slowed that they had expired without much struggling, ifany. That is borne out to a great extent from the fact that the youngest child has fiimly elesebed in his hand a lhalf-penny. ‘Che police began at once to search for the murderer, for whose apprehension the Home Department offered a reward of £100; and police officers in plain clothes were placed in nearly all the London railway stations. The inquiries which they institated at the hotel

led to the discovery that the three childeen |

were respectively named Heary W hite, aged ten years; Thomas White, aged eight years, and Alexander White, aged six years. On the dressing table neur the eldest boy was found a silk neckeloth erampled up, and having the appearance as if it har been used to wipe up @ little fluid. Near the neck- cloth was a small bottle, which it is believed | contained poison, with which there is every reason to suspect the children were deprived | of life’ The children were met in good physical condition ; indeed, the body of | Thomas was almost emaciated. ‘Chey were | nll three handsome and intelligent looking, | their fair complexions and auburn hair giv- ing them an innocentand joyous a; pearance. From the fuet of the bottle being found in the eldest boy's room, it is inferred that the | two younger ebildren were poisoned first, | and that the murderer then completed his | diubolical crime by getting the eldest boy tu drink off the remainder of the dru,

On the day following the murder of these children, Southéy went to the residence of his own wife, from whom he had been se- | psrated for several years, and deliberately murdered her and their daughter. Ile was immediately arrested. Southey had been long known to the police #8 a Sad character He ws the same who a short time ago brought an action, in conjunction with Mra. White, | against the Farl of Dudley for assault. The | a@sault was said to have been committed in| the noble Earl's house, where Mrs. White | had come with a begging petition for money | for Southey, who she said at the time was | ** wore than her husband,’ and had been | her saviour from starvation alter she had | heen deserted by the Earl of Dudley’s brother at Brighton. Besides the particulars of the trial, which were published at the| time, a long statement by Southey appeared in the newspapers of the day, respecting bis | wrongs and the sufferings of Mrs White, | whom he had felt it his duty to reseue from | en erring husband and a life of shame.— Lenglish paper.

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that the |

had been |

| was arrested.

}wequainted, and it is reported that he spoke

from prison experience ; on retiring from the

hospital { examined myself ; it was impossi- ble for a surgeon to leave there without bringing some with him; as for medical atren- dence, | found the men destitute, and of clothing, and bedding, and fuel there was a partial supply; as the ofheer of the day, ishortly after | arrived there | was in supreme command, and it was my business to rectily anything wrong; | found the men as ‘general thing destitute, partly naked, sick, and diseased ; their disposition only was to get something to eat; they asked me for or-| ders for potatoes, biscuits, siftings of meal | and other things. ‘The following morning | sat down and made a report on the condition | of things | found at the bospitai, The report was sent up. Being a novice, for some of the i things I said L received a written reprimand sifved by Dr. Diilard tor Dr. R. R. Steven- son. Medicines being scarce | gathered up ‘a lurge quantity of what were the best at- tainable, anti-scorbuties, as well as to soothe the alimentary canal, and to cure complaints of gangrene. I think the reports were net heeded. My attention was called to a patient ‘in my ward who was only 15 or 16 years ol ‘age; | took much interest in him owing to

ihis youth ; he weuld esk me to bring him a potato. bread or biseuit, which I did; | pat them in my pocket; he bad the scurvy and gangrene; I advised him not to covuk the ‘potato, but to eat it raw; ho became mors ‘and more emaciated, his sores gangrened and for want of food and from lice, he died ;

("the scoundeel who attempted to

the plans o I It may be well

carry off Mr. Sanders. y | for persons enguged in these nefarious = ploits to know that they are watched, an have little chance of obtaining the reward for their atrocious crimes. We may udd, it appears to us that the authorities at Wash- ington might and ougat to do something for their own honor’s sake, to withdraw from them anything like an appearance ot official countenance. ‘The proclamation, offering a reward for the apprehension of men who were notoriously residing permanently out- side of the United States territory, we always regard as a mistake made in a moment of ex- citement, and only excusable on that ground. We do the American Government the injus- tice of supposing them to be foolish enough to imagine that if any refugees on our soil were kidnapped, they could be held except, at the expense of war, which, if it be desired as we do not believe, might certainly be brought about in ao less disgraceful way. Nevertheless, till the proclamation is with- drawn, the American Government stands in the position of inviting the commission of an odious crime upon the territory of a frivndly neighbour. We think that some of our American contemporaries, who must be aware that we speak in no spirit of hostility to the United States or their Government, should take this matter up, and we hope they will do so with good effect. Whether there be anything or not in the stories of re- newed plots, we thiak the proclamation

iL understood that jt was against the order to ‘take anything into the prisoners, and hence 1 was shy in slipping food into my pockets : jothers in my ward came to their deaths from | the same cause; when l went there there 'were 2,000 or 2,500 sick; I judge 2,000 or '2,500 prisoners were crowded together;

a

- | some had made holes and burrows in the

‘earth; those under the sheds were doing ‘comparatively well; 1 saw but little shelter lexcepting what ingenuity had devised; 1 found them suffering with scurvy, dropsy, diarrlcea, gangrene, pneumonia and other diseases. When prisoners died they were laid in a waggon, head foremost, to be car- lried off. 1 don’t know how they were | The efllavia from the hospital was offensive If by accident my hands were abraded, | | would not go inte the hospital Without put- \ting a plaster over the affee’ed part; if per sons whose systems were reduced by inanition should perchance stump 4% toe or scratch the hand, the next report to me was gangrene, |s0 potent was the regular hospital] gangrene ; | the prisoners were more thickly confined in the stockade, like ants and bees; the dogs |referred to were to hunt the prisoners who escaped ; filty per cent of those who died might have been saved ; I felt safe in saying |75 might have been saved had the patients ‘been properly cared fur; the effeet of the treatment of the prisoners was morally as weil as physically injurivas : there was mucl stealing umeng them ; all lived each for him- self: L suppose this was sup2rinduced by | their condition; seeing the dying condition of some of them, | remarked to my student : j**f can't resuscitate them: the weather is chilling; it 13 a small matter of impoasi- bility ;'’ L found persons lying dead some- | times among the living ; thinking they merely slept 1 went to wake them up, but found | they bad taken their everlasting sleep: this |was in the hospital: I jadge it wasabout the }gume in the stockade ; | house, I erected a tent for that purpose; but | { svon found that a blanket or quilt had been clipped off of the canvas ; and as the material }evuld not be readily supplied for repairs, the |dead-house had to be abandoned. I don't |think any more dead-houses were erected ; |the daily ration was less in September, Oc- tober, November and December, than it was from the Ist January to the 26th of March | the men had nut over 20 ounces of food for 34 hours.

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— SS | Aragst or Kercucu, tar Forcer. — The New York Evening Post bas the following account of the arrest ot young Ketchum, tne

|guld cheek forger, on Friday, and of his con-

‘gave of his manner of proceeding alter his |reported flight :

*» Edward B. Ketchum, of the firm of Morris Ketchum, Son & Co., whose abstraction of bonds and other securities from the house o! which he was a member, and whose forgeries

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of gold certificates have made him s80 uoto- |

rious, was arrested at five o'clock Jast even- |

ing in Twentieth street, between Fifth and | Sixth avenues, in this city, neur a house | where he had his lodgings. The arrest was mude by detective officer Gilmore, who had | been * working up’ the case with detective | MeDougal, under the direction of Superin- itendent Kennedy and Sergt. Young, of the | detective force.

** Information had been conveyed to the police that young Ketchum could be found io Twentieth street, and officer Gilmore pro- ceeded thither on Friday afternoon. The

|arrest was made near the place where Ket-|

chum was stopping. It appears that he was walking homeward, and the officer, recog nizing him from the description that hed| been furnished the police, took him into cus- | tody. Ketchum made no resistance what- | ever. lle did not seem to be even surprised ; | but saying it was ‘all right,’ he accompanied | the officer to police headquarters in Mulberry street. Under arrest, Ketchum did not ex- hibit any concern. Le spoke uf the subject as the end of a rather wild career, but did not @pparentiy apprehead any unpleasant consequences.

** Ketchum spoke freely of the manner in which he has lived since his flight. He has, not been out of the city. He had lodgings in Twentieth street—thbere are rumors in re- gard to this matter it is not proper to print now—and at onee retired to his rooms when he left Wall street. Every day. except one —Tuesday, nearly two weeks ago, the day on which the disclosures were made—he h been in the etreet, and has not once been of New York. During his walks ha has often seen persons whom he knew, including brokers and others, who were involved by his for- geries, but he apparently avoided them, so that they should not observe him, and it is not known that he was recognized until he On Thursday fast Ketchum rode to the Central Park and remained there for a considerable time. Ile saw there a number of persons with whom he had been

with some of them. mere rumor.

Atter Ketchum was taken to police head- quarters, his father and other memoers of his

This, however, is a

there being no dead- |

;|} on te the Emperor Napoleon at Chalons, who in

iduct and demeanor, with the description he |

jiamily, with the officers of one of the banks al the which had received a part of the forged evidence of a Confederate doctor, which af- | paper, and persons who have been chosen as

fords « frightful accoant of the miseries en- | bis counsel, were notified of his arrest. In

We copy from the report of this tri

should be withdrawn.— Montreal Herald. ll Aim —

A Maw witht Tes Wives.—The Cedar Falls Gazette gives an account of the arrest, examin- ation and conviction of a life insurance agent named Frank N. Case, trom Wisconsin, ou a charge of bigamy It was ascertained that the scamp had warried no lees than ten different wives, all of whom are now living. Five of these marriages occurred in the East, and the rest in various parts of the West. His last victim was a respectable lady in Cedar Falls, whom he war- ried clandestinely, in opposition to the wishes of her parents, last April. He bas lately been courting another lady iu that vicinity, whom ly intended te marry shortly. Ou Friday morning Case hanged himself in bis cell at the jail, at Cedar Falls. He did a good thing by se doing.

he Examiner.

Charlottetown, September 11, 1865.

LATEST NEWS FROM EUROPE.

By the steamship St Lawrence, which arrived at Halifux on the 5tb inst., we are in receipt of London papers to the 23rd ult. They contain but little news of importance.

The cattle disease continues to make great havoe among the stock in several localities in England. In the neighbourhood of Windser, during the fortnight preceeding the 23rd, cattle tu the value of £940 had been carried off.

The privy council have published a letter ad- dressed to them by Professor Symonds, in which he states there is no duninution of the spread of the cattle plague, and recommends various regu-

ond

ACKNOWLEDG EMENTS.— We desire toacknow- ledge with thanks the receipt from the Hon ble. U. J. Tessier, Speaker of the Legislative Council of Canada, of several draught Bills, Minutes of Proceedings and Estimates for 1566 of the Pro- vinee of Canada. '

We have also to acknowledge with thanks the receipt from the Honble. William MeDougall, | Secretary of Canada, of Sandford

port on the, Intercolonial Railway

Provineia Fleming's Re Exploratory Survey, together with a large and finely colored Map of the several routes proposed fur the Railway.

We have hkewise to return our thanks te the Hon. George Brown, President of the Executive Council of Canada, for Correspondence and other papers relating to the recent reconstruction of the Canadian Governinent ——--

Masor Gexerat DoyLe, Commander of the Forces of British North America, arrived here in the Steamer Heather Belle, on Thursday evening last. The General was accompanied by Major Ansell and other officers of his staff. ‘The General is, we understand, the guest of his Honor the Adwinistrator of the Government. glial

We were presented last week with a superior specimen of the peach, equal in flavor and growth to the bestof its kind which we remember to have met. This fruit was grown in the City of Hali- fax, in the fine Conservatory of W. B. Hamilton, Eag., merchant of that place, who now has in the Conservatory and on his open grounds some 160 peach trees full of superb fruit. Here, too, the fig tree is bearing bountifully ; and in season the apricot presents its delicious gifts; and extensive grape vines—cultivated to perfection—haag seduc- tively out their graceful and generous clusters. And here we must not omit a brief line in admi- ration of Mr. Hamilton's floral department, where- inthe Goddess is well represented in a thousand glowing tints and fairest forms of her rich and rare domain. This meagre sketch may show, that, in our northern clime, under proper eare and culture, we ean, during a short-lived summer, produce in the open air products like the fervid South brings forth. And here it is pleasant to observe, that Mr. Hamilton, having, by mercan- tile skill and integrity, built up a fortune, is di- recting some portion of his well earned store to those pure and genial pursuits which are gratify- ing to himself and his fellows, and evuive his ele- vated tustes.— Com,

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We had the pleasure of meeting with the Rev. A. MeDouald, Rector of St. Dunstan's College, Charlottetown, P. E. 1., who is now on a visit to this city, and is the guest of Hie Lordship the Archbishop. ‘The institution of which this talent- ed and much esteemed clergyman is Reetor, possesses superior advantages for obtaining a first class collegiate education, and is second to none in the Lower Provinces for its profound erudition. ‘Phe College is pleasantly situated and all its professors, from the worthy Rector himself down, possess that culture which at once mark the gentleman and scholar.— Halifax Even- ing Express.

++<=>P>-- ™ INVITATION TO THE SIARITIME PROVINCES.— Yesterday, says the St. John Telegraph of a late

date, we received the following telegram from an

tions for the more perfect isolation of the infeet- ed cattle on the farms or in the sheds where they may be found.

It will very soon be apparent whether the Suez Canal is to justify the anticipations of its promo- ters, or fulfil the prediction of the late Robert | Stephenson, that it would turn out a mere ditch. | On the 15th inst. the flood-gates at the Medi- jteranean teminus having been opened, a vessel jladen with coal passed direct to the Red Sea

The news of the event was at once telegraphed

| reply sent the company a message congratulating them on their success.

itis new generally understood that no further attempt te lay the cable will be made this year. | The singular adaptation of the Great Eastern for | the purpose of laying cables is uow recognized. | THe Visir Or rue Frexcu Fieer to | Sprrueap.—The inhabitants of Portsmouth and

| its neighbourhead are palpably evineing their de- | termination to give to their distinguished guests fromm across the Channel a reception never sur- passed for cordiality, and such as becomes the first naval port of Great Britain. Gosport, also, is at lust bestirring itself in the good work. A public meeting, vumerously attended, was held yester- day at the Star Uotel, Captain Purvis, R. N., J. P., in the chair, when the following resolutions were passed unanimously, “ That the inhabitants of Gosport and the parish of Alverstoke are desi- rous of showing their high appreciation of the friendly relations whieh have so long subsisted be | tween France aud England by giving a cordial reception to the French fleet on its expected arri- val at the port of Portsmouth. “ ‘That a eomunt- tee be now tormed to collect subscriptions for the | furtherance of that object, and to co-operate with jthe Portsmouth committee.” “ That it 18 desir- able to unite our exertions with those of the in- | habitants of the borough of Portsmouth in giving the French fleet such a reception as shall be wor- thy of the occasion.”

THE QUEEN IN GERMANY.

Tue Rosenav.—The Coburg Choral Society had the honor of singing before Her Majesty yes- terday afternoon, at the Resenau.

Her Majesty has visited the Duke and Duchess of Coburg at the Kallenberg, and received the Duchess at dinner on Wednesday

General Baren von Alyansleben (Master of the Horse), Baron Vou Wagenheim (Chamberlain to the Duke of Saxe-Cobury), have also been honor- ed with invitations.

THE ENGLISH SQUADRON AT BREST. Brest, Aug. 21.—The English squadron ar- rived bere at 1] a. m. to-day, after lying off Jer- sey on account of damayes sustained by two ves- sels of the fleet.

THE PAPAL ARMY.

Rome, Aug. 21.—The official Giornale di Roma denies the statement that has appeared in several journals to the effect that an extraordina- cy recruitinent of the Papal army is taking place,

fact being that the reeraitrsent is merely for the purpose of filling up the ranks of already exist- lig regiments. COMMERCIAL.

LonpDon, Tuesday evening, 22nd ~The mar- kets for stocks and shares have presented a very inanimate appearance, and prices im many instan- evs have tended downwards. This heaviness has chiefly resulted from a few sales induced by the recent improvement in values, and as there has been a very small amount of business negociated, quotations have been easily affected. Consols have deelined 1-8 per cent. Foreign stocks, with few exceptions, have been steadily supported, and English Railway Shares have closed with firinness.

An easier tone has prevailed in discount eircles. The capital on offer has been abundant, while the demand for accommodation at the Bank and in the open market has been very moderate. The quotation for the best bills has ranged trom 3 7-8 to four per cent. In the Stock Exchange the en- quiry for short loans was very limited, and the

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dured by the Federal prisoners in te Ander- sonville prison ;—

Dr. Jolin UC. Bates testified substuntigily ag | follows :-—Llave resided 4 or 5 years in Geor- | gic; have been a practitioner of medicine |

since 1250; was an Acting Assistant Surgeon, | not acknowledge the fact by his demeanor. | Yeutien will take place at Quebec, we understand, called a **Contract Surgeon ,”’ at the Ander-| The persons who called spoke to him with | in the course of the prevent month. The Hon.

eonville prison. Reported for duty there, | Sept. 22, 1864, and !eft there March 26.

The vitness here was aworn and idertified a pass given by Capt. Witz, Get. 17, 1864, to Savitant-Surgeon Bates. Twas ordered to repart to J. H. White. the surgeon in charge, hut hearing he was injured by e rail- | ruad accident | reperted to Rh. R. Stevenson ; en going into ward No. 15 of the hospital | saw @ number of men and was rater shock- ed ; wany of them were lying partially nak- ed, dirty, and lousy, in the sand; others| were crowded together in small tents, the lasier unserviceable at best. 1 ex mined all who were placed in my charge. :

On further investigation of matters to make myself acquainted with the mode of doing business, the disagreeable j:y pressions | at first made on me wore off me more or less ne 4 was becoming more familiar with the ef- tests of misiry. | enquired into the rations, end | t them. 1 felt disposed to

do mz duty and wid all the eufferers I could josses began with the decline in the premium ™Y; 10 consequence, be disposed to drive a hard They frequently asked me for # teaspoonful on gold. He says that the amount which if not impracticable bargain in the framing of a Uf walt, or for orders for a littie sifting that) was involved in lis yarious transactions—his | new treaty.

the course of the evening several of them came to see him. Le wet them all, except his father, with singular coolness, and spoke with them as though he had been tewporarily absent on business. He did not evidently consider himself a criminal, or at least did

kindnese, and nove uf them showed any dis-| position whatever to prosecute him flor his | crimes.

The interview of Ketchum and hie father was deeply affecting. ‘The father bad had no knowledge whatever that his sun had re- maiped in the city, and the announcement of the arrest naturally caused him the greatest surprise, while the safety of young Ketchum not unnaturally gave him pleasure. ‘The meeting cannot be fully described. The fa- ther clasped his son, and said to him, * My son! wy son! you have ruined me, but | furgive you!’ During the interview, which was protracted, great mutual affection was manifested, and the two were reconciled. Edward Ketehum's wife also saw hin. The particulars of this interview have not come to light.

Ketchum epeaks with entire freedom of his. operations. He says that one time he owned operty worth six millions of dollars. His

rate from day to day was 2 and 2} per cent. There were no operations of iaportance in the bullion department of the Bank.

ee Trade CONVENTION AT QuEBEC.—This Con-

J.C. Pope, President of the Exeeutive Council, proceeded ¢n route for Quebec on Friday morn- ing, a8 & Delegate from the Government of this Island. The declared object of the Convention is to frame the basia of negotiations with the Go- vernment of the United States, for the purpose of renewing the Reciprocity Treaty, or some si- milar measure. It may be premature to pase an opinion oa this Quebec Conyeution, but it seems to us at present that, so recently after the Detroit Convention, which did not augur yery well for a renewal of the Treaty, but which, nevertheless, reserved the whole question for Congress — the Provincial Governments are displaying somewhat too much eagerness in the matter. Brother Jonathan will be apt to think that the British Colonists regard free trade with the United States as absvlutely cssential te their existence, aud

influential source at Quebee :—

“Quebec, Sept. 4.—Exstensive arrangements are making at Londen, Cannda West, and in | Montreal, te have Maritime Province guests at

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THE TENANT LEAGUE.

Mr. Evrror:—

People now-a-days talk of little else beside the Tenant League. It is, at least in this Island, the most interesting and exciting topic that one can broach. It is atnusing to hear how differently people express themselves on this questivn. 1 want no better test of a man’s intellectual capa- city and his political integrity, than to hear him hold forth on the Tenant League—its past doings and its future prospects. Is he young, ardent aud unthinking, then he speaks of the League ax if it were the most perfect organization that the

combined wisdom and patriotism of mankind had

ever established—its leaders paragons of wisdom and disinterestedness, and its principles pure and practicable. Is he old, cautious but unenlight- ened, then he is willing to admit that there may be a few flaws in the constitution of the League, and that its originatora are vot the wisest and >

good, and that its principles in the main are sound. If the Leaguers were a little more canny —if they would say less and do more—he thinks they would, in a short time, bring the pro

prietora to their senses. Is he a small politician, anxious for distinction aud impatient to enjoy the sweets of office, he then strongly upholds every

act, and advocates every principle of the League and ite framers. He abuses in the roundest terins every one who dares call in question the wisdom of the one and the purity of the other. He serib- bles letters to the Weekly, filled with bad gram- mar and worse argument. He wisely imagines that an over-bearing tone and a hi-faluting style will cover all deficiences. The League, he im- agines, is bound to succeed, and he is determined, right or wrong, to swim with the popular tide. Others, again, in their hearts dislike the League, and disapprove of its principles; but not wishing to offend its members, and to lose their custom, say very little about it, and that litle the most silly and contradictory stuff that ever miserable half eeared trimmer was known to utter. There are those, however, who do not scruple to de- nounce the League, both in principle and prac- tice — those who believe honesty to be the best policy, and who will not bow the knee to the idola, Self-Interest and Expediency. There are. Sir, 1 asrure you, more of this class on the Island than the Weekly and its correspondents would have us believe. ‘Though the Leaguers have suc- ceeded pretty effectually in muzzling the press in Charlottetown, there are many good men aud true men in the country who are not afraid to speak out. They, in their plain terme, tell the Leaguera that they have made a

ple.

of the Island?

divine right of resistance.

and his officers were no better than raiders.

the teachings of Adams, Stewart, Ross and Co., got themselves into a serape—when they did ex- er cise “the divine right of resistance,” aud treated

liant and consistent Leaguers had the ineffable meanness to leave the poor fellows in the lurch, and publicly to censure them for carrying out into

| their Annual Provinewl Agricultural Exhibition. The former commences on the ieth, the latter on the 26th of September. Tuvitations will probably

be telegraphed to save time. Uncertainty as to duration of our summer Session caused the delay. An agent will be despatched tu St. John tu super- | iutend details.”’

A telegram from Quebee to the Montreal Gazette says :— It is expected a sum is ty be in- serted in the estimates to meet the expeuse of the reception of the visitors from the Maritune Pro- vinces to the Provincial Exhibition,”’

a — Coroner's Inquest. — An inquest was held on Saturday last before John MeNeill, Esq., one of the Coroner's of Queen's County, on view of the body of William Brigham, who was tound suspended to an apple tree on Belvidere Farm, in the possession of the IIon. George Coles. The jury having no evidence befure them os to the state of the mind of the unfortunate deceased, returned a verdict of “ Hanged himself.’ Brig- ham had been an old soldier, and was of late years un agricultural labourer of steady habits. - ibe Tur INTERCOLONIAL RatLway.— On the 22nd of July last, the Colonial Secretary wrote to Lord Mouck a despateh, in which he “ thinks it right to apprize the Canadian Government that he received communications which lead to the conclusion that more positive assurances from Canada than have yet been given to the Maritime Provinces on the subject of the readiness of Ca- nada to ensure the prompt completion of the Intereolonial Railway, in the event of Confeder- ation being adopted, would be very satisfactory to the friends of the measure in those Provinces, and encourage their efforts to recommend the scheme of Confederation to those of their country- men by whom it has not hitherto been supported.” In reply, the Government of Canada say “ they can only reiterate the declarations of the Govern- ment and Parliament of Canada, that they regard the construction of the Intercelonial Railway as A& necessary accompaniment and condition of Confederation, and that net a day will be un- necessarily lost after the accomplishment of Con- federation in commencimg the work and prose- cuting it to completion.” ——— - + ——_— We understand that the people of Banger are making an effort to subscribe $00,000 wore to- wards Western Extension. This, with what has already been done there, will give to the City of Bangor an interest of $1,000,000 in the road. This is indeed creditable to the enterprise of Banger, whose population numbers only 15.790 inhabitants, especially when we consider that they have alinost a like amount of money invest- ed in the Maine Central road, and a large sum in the Oldtown read aheady. In enterprise and publie spirit Bangor is a pattern for some more pretentious cities than St. Juhn, and the efforts she has put forth and is still putting forth to secure railway commuuication with the Provinces should shame our men of means into activity. — St. John News.

dade csinica=sigRAee The New York Herald says that Senor Dego- nada, an agent or commissioner of the Emperor of Mexico, recently arrived in Washington, and made his application for an audience of the Pre- sident and Secretary Seward, who were asked te receive a letter from the Emperor of Mexico. Their reply is reported to have been that they knew no such person, and would not receive the letter. This shows, the Jerald says, that the Federal Government is firm onthe matter of the Monroe doctrine, however much, owing to its preoccupation in subduing the rebellion, it may have been suspected of losing sight of this car- dinal point in American policy. George N. Sanders now goes armed by per- mission of the authoritics of Montreal, and wears a belt or girdle, in which are slung his revolvers and bowie knife, while in his side pockets he car- ries his small revolvers, making his persou quite an arsenal.— Boston papers. — —_--

Captain Anderson of the Great Fastern, has written a letter stating that it will take ten months te manufacture new liiting apparatus for grappling the Atlantie Cable, and repairing the manmoth ship, but is hopeful the enterprise ean be consummated in the month of May, 1866.

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Forty thousand visitors at Saratoga this season —tmore than ever before. In a single morning lust week, nine thousand glasses of water were dipped trun Congress Spring alone.

sr sioti tela Tia, _ Colt’s factory is to be run twenty hours a day, In couseguence of the inereased demand tor

pistols, Many of the orders, it is said, come trom Southern negrves.

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A “Dea The city fathers of Bangor, Maine, are model parents. They have ordered to be

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practice doctrines which, a few months ago, they | themselves had been so industrious in teaching | They have sown the seeds of demoralization | among the people, and when the first bitter fruits | of the harvest are gatiered, they declare that |they are not of their cultivating. Then, again, owing to tumults, which are but the logical and inevitable results of the teachings of the League Cabal, the country is disgraced by the appearance of troops to uphold the laws, and to keep the peace, these preachers of sedition have the au- dacity to proclaim themselves grossly insulted. They, with a grimace which is irresistibly ridi- culous in its effect, face their features to assume

fact, if the people had been as apt to learn as they were eager to teach, it would to-day have

soldiers ta keep the peace in this little island of ours. Then, again, before those great barracks in Charlottetown are built and furnished, many thousands of the people's money will be speut. Next summer mauy a poor fellow, who will want a few shillings to buy a barrel of flour to feed his hungry children, will have cause to bless the vir- tuous gentry who filled the pockets of the Char- lottetewn mechanics at the expense of the poor men in the country, who, every summer, keep the wolf from the door by repairing our roads and bridges. We cannot have our cake and eat it too; and if Government spend five or six thou- sand pounds in building barracks, and in fitting them up, there will be so much the less to spend upon our roads and bridges. I fearlessly assert, that had it not been for the pernicious teachings of Adams, Stewart, Ross and Co., there would tave been no disturbances in the country—the Government would have no pretext in sending for soldiers, and consequently soldiers in comfort- able quarters in Halifax would not require bar- rack accommodation Charlottetown. But besides being answerable for the sufferings of the rioters and the expense connected with the troops, I contend that this same firm of political schemers, Adams, Stewart, Russ and Co., are te be held accountable for much of the suffering and misery that exist inthe country. The foolish pledge to withhold the payment of rent, is of their framing. When the proprietor finds that his tenant openly refuses to pay rent, is he likely to exercise that forbearance which he would do if he considered the non-payment of rent the re- sult of inability on the part of the tenant to meet the many demands upon his scanty crop? Cer- tainly not. To fail to pay a debt through inabil- ity, is one thing —to refuse to pay it, quite an