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APRIL 6, i882.
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Legislative.
Tue session is drawing to aclose. In the House cf Assembly work is practic- ally over; but the Legislative Council has still a few measures to assent to—or dissent from,
So far, thirty-four bills have passed the Lower House; and the ‘ Upper House” have thrown out three. These are—the Bill relating to Seduction, the Bill reducing the Legislature and the cost of Legislation, aud the Bill relating to a ferry ou the Cardigan River.
Last evening. two subjects of import- ance were discussed in the Llouse of Assembly, viz: Compensation jor the use of our Fiskeries by Americans before the Island entered the Union; and improved steam communication with the mainland. Regarding the tirst, the decision of the Imperial Government is net yet known; but it is reassuring to know that the Dominion Government sent with tae memorial of our Govern- ment a strong recommendation that its prayer be granted. With respect to the second, the Government has received the assurance of Sir John A. McDonald that the question of improved communi- cation between the Island and the main- land is engaging the earnest attention of the Dominion authorities.
Parliamentary.
Tue regular work of Parliament has been diversi‘ied by a discussion over the Emory Bar Contract. Mr. McKenzie brought the matter before the House of Commons, and charged Sir Charles Tupper with corruption. Before the debate terminated, he, probably, wished he had not done so. Sir Charles told a plain, unvarnished {story and showed clearly that his action, in respect to the award of the contract, was right; and that the country would probably have Jost hundreds of thousands of dollars had he given the centract to the lowest ten- derers. The financial ability of these gentlemen to perform the contract was indicated by the fact that the cheque ac- companying their tender was marked ** good for two days only”; and was practically worthless. Sir Charles Tup- per’s denunciation of the false and de- famatory Globe was terrible and crush- ing. It is worthy cf remark that the Leader of the Opposition had nothing to say for the Globe, but something to the effect that ‘‘the Press abuses its privi- leges.” When the Leader has no better defence to make ffor the Leading Organ there cannct be great solidarity in the Party.
It is pleasing to kuow that the repre- sentatives of the Island are beginning to take a more active part in the discussion of National questions. Mr. A. C. Me- Donald’s speech on the Budget—as pub- lished in Tue Examiner—was excellent in its way; and, in the Senate, Senator Carvell, a few days ago, advocated placing the telegraph lines of Canada in the hands ef the Government, in what an Ottawa paper says was a most con- vincing speech. It is by boldly and ably grappling with questions such as this that our representatives wili make their influence felt for the good of their country.
Caraigan Ferry.
Last Session, a Bill was passed for the establishment of steam ferries at Cardigan and Bedeque. The Bill pro- vided that a subsidy not exceeding $15,000 a year, for three years, should be given to these ferries. Immediately after the rising of the Legislature, ten- ders were called for, and the contract of the Bedeque ferry was awarded to the owner of the steamer ‘ Wellington,” which boat was then in Summerside. No tender was received for the Cardigan Ferry. This was due te the fact that the term of the subsidy was reduced by the Legislative Council to three years. N6 contractor was willing to build a boat for so short aterm, it being prob- able that the Ferry—with the subsidy proposed—might result in a loss for the first three years, which might be made up in the other two. This year the Government introduced a Bill, amending the Act of last year, by extending the Subsidy to five years. ‘The Bill passed through the House ; but was, yesterday, defeated in the Legislative Council, Mr. Lawrence Kickham, one of the mem- bers for King’s County, voting with tLe Opposition.
We are sizcerely sorry that this Bill has been defeated. The people ef Car- digan, Georgetown, DeGros Marsh, Launching,and the other large and thriv- ing settlements interested, have great cause to complain of the injustice which has been done them. They are taxed to maintain steam ferries in other parts of the Province, Which are not, to say the least, more necessary than the one they have so long been praying for. Their representatives have cheerfully voted for the maintenance aud improvement of these ferries ; but their own just demands have been resisted by hateful sectional- isin, or eomething worse.
It is now very plain that the fragment of the Grit Party, constituting ‘the Opposition in this Island, have no policy but a miserable sectional one. Their object _is to demand unreasorable expenditure in parts of the country where they have political support, and deny, as far as they have the power, jus- tice to sections politically opposed to
Angus McKenzie
in regard to ferry :aatters, demand increased accommodation for | Rocky Poiut Ferry, but oppose the estab- | lishmen: of one between Cardigan and | Georgetown. Without underating the | necessity of the Rocky Point Ferry, it is! not tos much to say that the Cardigan | Ferry is of much greater importance,and | will effect a much larger number of| people. Wedo rot see how the repre-| sentatives of the districts which have| been so unjustly treated by the Grits in| the Legislative Council, assisted by Mr. | Lawrence Kickham, can, in justice to | their constituents, vote large sums of | mouey for the maintenance of ferries mt other parts of the Proviuce.
The defeat of the Cardigan Ferry Amendment Bill in the Couneil shows the utter falsity of the opposition cry that the Government is * starving the| public works’’ Here we have the lie given in the plainest terms to that. cry. ‘The Government have shown their desire to provide for the just claims of all sec- tions of the country. But the Opposi- tion have shown their real sentiments in their action regardivg this matter.
The Legislative Council have furnish- ed another good and suflicient reason why that institution should be abolished. A mere fraction of the money spent on maintaining that august body would place our principal ferries in a high state of efliciency.
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Liberal Patriotism.
THe patriotism of the Party of Purity ig wide-spreading. Evidence of it, in its true color, is seen in United States Emigration Agencies, whether estab- lished in Great Britain or on the Conti- nent of Europe. The Leader—Hon. Edward Blake—shews forth the greatest of all the patriots ; but the Grit Press is only a shade less brilliant. A testi- mony ofthe Hon. Edward’s patriotism is his famous Kansas speech, which is in pamphlet form, delivered to emigrants at London, Liverpool. Glasgow, Dublin, Queenstown, and the cities of Europe. “It is a speech,” emigrauts are told, “delivered by Canada’s statesman. While it ignores Canada as a field for emigration, it lauds to the very skies Kansas, Dakota and Oregon.” The effect of the epeech.'on emigrants must be electric,and as a proof of Hon. Edward Blake’s patriotism it must be imperish- able,
The Grit uwewspapers, and the Grit Statesmen of lesser brilliancy than Mr. Blake, follow in his wake. They are actuated with the seifsame love of country as he is,but their words it is true have uot been browght to bear so forcibly on European emigrants. Nevertheless they are working zealously for their ueighbors accross the Border. We received, a few days ago, a newspaper published in Sanburn, Dakota. Ii, like many subsidised emigration journals of the United States, bears evidence ef the spread of Grit patriotism to the neigh-
boring Republic. In an article on “ Dakota vs. Manitoba’ the Sanburn Enterprise says: ‘It does _ not
wish to treat Manitoba with injustice; it docs not wish to build up Dakota
at the expense of its neigh- bor—Canada; it does not wish to make invidious comparisons between
Canada and the American North-West.” Neither does the Enterprise. But Hon. Edward Blake and his followers do what it refrains from doing. ‘To prove con- clusively that Dakota is vastly superior to the Canadian Northwest, the Hnter- prise quotes extensively from the unfair and unjust speeches of Hon. Mr. Blake, Hon. Mr. Laurier, and from articles published in a number of Grit journals. This is ** patriotism with a vengeance.’ A newspaper, subsidized by Railway monopolists in Dakota would not draw au invidious comparison between Dakota and Canada; it would not build up Dakota at the expense of Canada. Why should it when the Grit leaders, and the Grit party of Canada, are doing its work with a hundred fold more effect ? And: this is the party which is seeking power, these are the statesmen who ask another chance to govern the country which they work hard to depopulate. Let true Canadians watch, and watch well, their unpatriotic actions; and when the time arrives, treat them, as they, in the past, have treated this country.
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Tunnelling the Strait.
Now that it is proposed to tunnel the Northumberland Strait, a correct esti- mate of the geological formation of its bed becomes a matter of importance. There is no scientific report on the sivucture of that locality sufficiently accurate to be of any value. The follow- ing is from our own observations, and is probably as fair a statement of the ease as can be obtained without actual boring to test the various.strata.
If we go down to the low, irregular line of rock-girt coast at Cape Traverse, and look over the nine broad miles of wave which sever us from the mother continent, we will find that immediately round us there is nothing which wiil altord a clue to the rock structure beneath that expanse. The rocks of calcareous and soft red sandstone, which we see along the shere, are but the rim ef oceav’s rocky chalice, and tell us nothing of the profound beyond.
FATHOMING THE DEPTHS.
To do this we must cali in the aid of the stony science, and follow the light of her rock-huug lamp.
If we pass along the coast from Rice Poiat westwerd, toward Tryon and Cape ‘lraverse, we will find a very complete
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* ‘ r and John Balderston, {the south side of our Island: These beds These men | are all more or less uptilted on the north
side of an anticlinal whose central line issues from the Hillisborough Bay and rests on the reefy extremity of Cape Tormentine. In this line
of strike they are carried deep under the waters of the Straits, and up its bed till they pass the neighborhood of Capes Traverse aud Tormeatine. Among the rocks of the former we have the upper- most beds of the series, and near the latter we find a ruddy fragment of its lowest member, reposing on the low skirts of Jourmain Island. A section across at the ** Capes” would give us this whole series of beds as we find them ex- posed in the coast-line.
We cannot dive ‘neath the Strait to examine those beds as they exist under the chambers of the deep, so we will take a look at them as they are to be seen in
THE COAST SECTION mentioned, and, from their appearance there, we will be able to form a very correct estimate of their nature in the submarine section.
Descending to the coast at the low, swampy extremity of Rice Point, we find a flat reef of sandstone, projecting like a rocky, shell-strewn mole, right out into the waters of the Strait. This is the lowest member of the section, and con- sists of about forty feet of irregularly- bedded, red sandstone.
Passing westward, we traverse pearly half a mile of flat, muddy beach, border- ed by low and swampy bank. This oceupies the position of a bed of red clay shale two hundred and forty feet in thickness, which forms the next member of the series.
Between Mr. Lowther’s gate and the Rice Point road, the coast is occupied by thin, alternating beds of sandstone and shale, whose denuded edges make the beach a perfect grid-iron of rocky ridges. Their total thickness is one hundred and fifteen feet.
Westward of the road, beds of shale fifty feet in thickness alternate with deposites of sandstone of half that depth. As we advance the shale beds become thinner, and the sandstones more im- portant until the former entirely dis- appear, The thickness of this section is twq hundred and thirty-five feet.
The lofty, wood-erowned cliffs at the rear of Mr. Campbell’s farm, which push their dark fronts into bold water, where the Northumberland’s surges never cease their deep-voiced moan, are composed of thick-bedded sandstones, sometimes indurated with carbonate of lime. The same-rocks run aloug the shore as far as Canoe Cove, making a wild and rugged coast, torn and riven by the charge of the breakers. The depth of this great se.ndstone rib is five hundred feet.
The little, gand-floored inlet of Canve Cove is hi of a bed of shale fifty feet in thickness.
Beyond this, as far as Argyle Shore, thick-bedded red sandstones again pre- vail. ‘Their dip, however, is very small, and the whole thickness not more than sixty-five feet.
At Black Point fifty feet of regularly stratified shale and argillaceous sand- stone beds from barred lines of bright red cliffs, and headlands which burn their deep vermilion far out into the blue of the summer’s wave.
On westward, towards Cape Traverse, the rock consists of beds soft red or calcareous sandstone and shale, se nearly horizontal, or with only local dips, that they represent but a very small thick- ness,
Thus we have examined the whole section of
1,300 FEET OF ROCK, vertical depth, And we have seen its various beds as they will be found to occur in a section across the Straits. We do not mean to say that every minute detail is the same; but the main fea. tures are, and will be, encountered in the operation of tunnelling. In carrying a tunnel
UNDER THE STRAIT, at a depth of one hundred feet below its bed, we will encounter, for the first four miles, from the Cape Traverse side, red sandstone rock, with bvt few thin beds of shale and occasional streaks of hard, calcareous sandstone. Then the great shale beds of the lower part of the formation will be reached, and for four miles further the red artery could be ex- cavated, in a great part, with
PICK ANi) SHOVEL. Auother mile will be harder work, among calcareous saudstenes, relieved by beds of shale. ‘Then, a like distance through the thick-bedded grey and brown sand- stones uf the upper carboniferous, will bring us out into the free, pure air of New Brunswick.
A DISAGREEABLE FEATURE
is the fact that nearly all those beds have their out-crop under the sea, and the junction of every stratum of sandstone aud shale will be a natural conduit to lead water into the work. This, how- ever, could be remedied by sufficient pumping.
As we retreated from those dark cor- ridors of nature, guided by tho flash of fair Science’s iamp, we asked the stately dame if the procuring of a highway for commerce, uvder the bed ef this wintry sea, ,is a consummation earnestly to be pursued? For a moment a shade hung on her majestic brow, ther she answer- ed darkly, *‘ No acquisition can be of permanent advantage, whose cost greatly exceeds its real~practical value.” I looked up for a more practical explana- tion of the matter ; but she had gone, aud Jeft me alone with the murmur of the rising south, and the wash of waves among the breaking ice-floes. ss : B.
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ENGLAND, UNITED STATES 48D CiNADA.
Everything New in Men’s Wear;
Ladies’? Wear; Children’s Wear.
ld who requires new and fashion-
able Goods at the very lowest prices, are respectfully asked to
J.B. MACDONALDS.
Brenpan'a Old Stand, Qneer Street, April 5,
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SCOUNT.
During the month of Apnil I will accept Fire Risks at very lowest rates, and will aiso allow a discount of 7} per
cent. on all premiums.
allowed
Fifteen per cent. on all new Life premiums.
FASZARD,
General Insurance Agent,
SENTING—
Commercial Union Fire Assurance Company, of London, Eng., CAPITAL; £2,500,000 STG.
Company of Toronto, $800,000.00
$500,000.00.
$500,000.00.
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CHEAP FOR CASH!
DAVIES & CO,
LONDON HOUSE,
BEER & GOFF. Amber and Golden Syrup,
FOR SALE.
BEAUTIFUL LOT on Corner of Main and Barden Streets, Victoria, Lot 29, tor- merly owned by the late Menry Hardy. A good deed can be given. culars apply to Mvussrs. Hodgson & McLeod, Charlottetown, or to the owner,
MRS. RACHEL HARDY, March 30, ’82—6i, whly 2i Little York,
Beer & Goff:
Jam and Marmalade, in Crocks,
dam and Marmalade, in Butk.
For further parti- |
Good Tea & Coffee,
| Tobacco, Kerosene Oil, Figs, ete,
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consignments, — | 300 chests, half-chests and Boavsa Good Con-
gou Teas, | 200 tins Finest French Coffee (in 5, 7 and 10ib. tins), 6 boxes Twist and Flat /Tobacco, 10 casks Kerosene Oil, 106 dozen Brooms, ; 160 boxes Scented Soap3, _ | 1@ barrels Onions, 5 boxes Turkey Fige,
The above goods will be ‘must be clesed out. WILLIAM DODD, | April 1, ’82—3i Auctioneer.
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To the Saloon formerly occupied by A McDonald, opposite the Law Conrts in " Grafton Street, where the proprietor will furnish in first class style,
Meals at all hours, Luneh at short notice, Oysters in every style, Fruits ot all kinds in their season, Pipes and Tohacco of al) kinds, Cigars of best quslity at (ue cheapest prices, Fifteen years practical experience at Cigar
making euables me to purchase my Cigars of
the best quality, and at the lowest figure;
and for last and for flavor the public will find
those Cigars will leave all others behina, HARKY HART,
Proprietor Empire Restaurant, Ch’town, April 6, 82 —tf
Liverpool to Charlottetown,
FQ\HE Fast sailing Brigt. “‘ISABRBLTa» 198 tons, coppered and doulas
Lleyd’s, THOMAS RICHARDS, €ommander
will be on the berth and carry freight at
LOWEST RATES, for Charlottetown and
adjacent ports, sailing from Liverpool about
10th April.
For further particulars apply in Liv to R. M. U, Stumbles, Esq , 4 India Buildings Water Street, or here to the owner, — ROBT. F. QUIRK.
April 5, ’82—1w
Bible Colporteur!
fi P. E. ISLAND AUXILIARY BIBLE SOCIETY wauts to employ a svitable man, with horse and wagon, for four months of next summer selling Bibles. Application, in writing, with testimonials, stating salary, may be made to H. A, HARVIE, Depositary, Queen Street, Charlottetown, on or before Ist May next, or to the undersigned. DONALD MeNEILL,
April 5, 1882—3i
BANK AND GAS STOCKS.
J WILL SELL AT AUCTION, at my Sale _ Room, Queen Square, on SATURDAY NEXT, 8th inst, at 12 o’clock,—
20 shares in Union Bank P. E Island,
30 shares in Merchants Bank P, EB, Island,
30 shares in Charlottetown Gas Light Com-
pany (Com.) WILLIAM DODD,
Auctioneer,
FOR CHARTER.
SCHOONER of 1-0 tons Register. now lying at Queen Street Wharf, will ac cept @ charter for Ne»stoundland, to load on the opening of the navigation For particulars apply to
April 4, '82—
A, H. YATES, Corner Powna! aad Water Streets, March 27 1883~—iw
SOLE LEATHER!
UsT RECEIVED per “ Northern Light,
10¢ sides LOG 4AN’S PRIME NO. 1,
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FENTON T. NEWBERY. April 3, 16S2—4i pat sj et
EXPRESS WAGON
FOR SATE.
FIRST-CLASS WAGON, for which Ist Li Prize was awarded at Queen’s Connty Exhibition Nearly new and in good order, Will be sold ata bargain. Apply at onee to
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Charlottetown, April 1, ’&2.
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Tea and Fancy Sale.
FYXHE Ladics of St. Panl’s Church intend holding a Tea and Fancy oa
FRIDAY, 14th inst., in St, Paul’s
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liberal wages will be paid, Blanchard.
ANTED, at the Hospital for the [a- sane, a female attendant, to W oa Apply to Dr.
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ANTED, at Empire Restaurant, tw? Srst-class girls for general housework;
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OST, at the Rink, last ni, bt. a gold Locket and Cbain. The fiader will be rewarded on leaving it at the Examines effice. [ap#
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