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RNR ERENT

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTION.

LLiboral-Conservative Candidate for Charlottetown,

HENRY LONGWORTH, ESQ.

Toe Dairy EXAMINER,

NOVEMBER 8, 1875.

“How Are the Mighty Fallen!”

Or all the candidates nominated yester- day not one deemed it expedient to say that he is the friend of the Rump Government.

contract ; the wretched state of the founda- tion walls, disclosed by the Parliamentary Committee, in spite of the Government and W. D. Stewart—with such other comments and reflections as the iniquity of the whole transaction will suggest to his philosophic mind.

These are matters of interest to the tax- payers.

Is the Patriot equal to the occasion ?

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The Belfast Partial Election.

Wr congratulate Messrs. McMillan and Ross on the manly, generous manner in which they prevented a split in the ranks cf the Liberal-Conservative party—withdrew

Not one dares to say that if elected he will support it. Not one is there so mean as to} do it reverence. Even Mr. A. B. Mcken- | zie hangs his head and shufflingly says he

agrees with them in part only.

Mr. W. S. McNeill-—a lifelong liberal —+

is fighting in the ranks of the Opposition, denouncing ‘‘the several obnoxious, sweep- ing measures of the present Government.” And Mr. Dodd, it is said, in the course of his house to house canvass, finds it expedi- ent to say that he does not approve of all the acts of the Government; and wonld fain make those who know no better believe that he has not. by accepting a seat at the Executive Council Board, endorsed every one of them.

But “‘humilation could no lower stoop’ ’ than when the Rump Government had to let the vacant seat lately occupied by one of its leading, its most prominent members, the seat lately occupied by Mr. J. F Robert- son, the seat upon which the recreant Laird once sat—the seat of the represen- tative of Belfast, be taken by the ©}- position—and were not even able to make an effort to retain it.

After this it is not wonderful that they leave it to the Legislative Council electors of Charlottetown to literally drag them out of the offices they love so well.

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Work For the “ Patriot.”

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Tue Patriot, after efiectually killing the Grit party in this Island, has tendered its services to the Local Government. The nostrums of a quack generally aggravate the disease instead of relieving the patient ; and we may, therefore, expect in a few days to chronicle the demise of the moribund Rump Cabinet.

Seeing that its services are now longer required by the McKenzie party, the Pat- riot turns its attention to local politics, and champions the cause of the sickly Davies faction. And, mark the result. A few weeks ago there was a contest in the Belfas; District. The Patriot did not interfere in behalf of the Government candidate; and, as a consequence, though defeated, he polled a respectable vote. Recently there was an- other vacancy in the same District. The Patriot contained an article in support of the Government, and the result was that yesterday Mr. Davies did not dare to put a mat in the field. Mr. Dodd’s friends have, it is said, besought the Patriot to keep quiet

‘during the present contest in the city. They know its fatal effect on every cause it advocates, and would be willing, we sup- pose, to reward its silence by a large share of patronage, in case of success.

But a singular infatuation possesses the Patriot. It justifies all their acts and con- dones all their offences. Yesterday not a single candidate attempted to defend the Government, to excuse their extravagance, or to promise them his support. And yet the Patriot is lavish of its praise, and ful- some in its flattery.

Let our neighbor come down to particu- jars, and favor his readers, during the in-| terval between this and next Thursday with short essays on the following sub- jects :—

The Assessment Law —the amount of re- yenue raised under it; the number of officials in connection with it, and the cost of levying and collecting.

The Asylum Job—with short notes on the letting of the contract ; the importation of outsiders ; the absolute exclusion of native workmen and mechanics ; the questionable nature of the work ; the determination of the Government to favor the contractors and to stifle inquiry ; its anxiety to protect the sureties; the circumstance of Mr. Dodd’s business partner being bondsman to the contractors, and that all the necessary hardware was supplied from his store.

The connection betueen Mr. W. f', Stewart aad the Contracters—the causes of his eagerness to award them the job at a higher rate than others tendered for; hs

shameless favoritism ; his readiness t» h: nt} P

up securities for them ; the persistent re- fusal of the Government to investigate ; the inefficient character of the work, until compelled by a vote of the House, after public indignation had been thoroughly aroused ; the quality of the glass supplied by Messrs. Dodd & Rogers, and its inferior-

the seconder, respectively, of Mr. Nichol- 'son, who was elected by acclamation.

| easy victory.

from the field and became the mover and

We congratulate Mr. Nicholson on his

We congratulate the electers of Belfast on having driven another nail into the cottin of the moribund Government.

We congratulate tle Province at large on the faet that one more decisive step has been taken towards ousting the Davies- Stewart Combination.

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A Contrast.

Tus Hox. THouas W. Dopp does frankly take the public into his confidence. When he wants to explain his views he calls a meeting of “my friends and supporters” and advertizes only in the organ of ‘‘the party.” How different is the course adopted by Mr. Longworth and his friends. they have called a meeting (to be held in the Athenseum this evening) of the ELEc- rors of Charlottetown, Common and Royalty ; and they have, through the col- umns of the Patriot, sent the good news into the heart of the enemy’s camp.

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Grit Management of the Public Finances. Said Dr. Tupper, in his speech at Am- herst on Monday :—

He did not believe in trampling on a fallen foe. When his party had been beaten they had shown their opponents how a defeated party should carry themselves, and now when in power they woukl show them how a vic- torious party should act. But he felt it right to say that he believed the misfortune which befel this country in the overthrow of the Government of "72 was greater than had yet been realized ; that it would take ten years to repair the injury done during the last five. The damage done cannot be repaired in a day, and he must warn his hearers, theretore, not to expect too much immediately. When his Government went out of powér they handed over a full treasury—ten to fifteen millions: of money to the hand of their successors. But now he was afraid to tell the country how they found the treasury on returning to it. If the press reporters were not here, ready to spread the fact before the country, he would tell them that, instead of ten to fifteen mil- lions in the treasury, they found claims of ten to fifteen millions against it, and not a dollar to meet them with! This was truly alarm- ing, and he feared it would have a depressing influence on the public mind. The late Finance Minister had delayed his annual visit to England and allowed these claims to accu- mulate in order to avoid letting the truth be known until the elections were over.

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Gladstone on the Situation.

Mr. Gladstone made a vigorous onslaught the other day on the Beaconsfield adminis- tration. In a speech at Rhyl on Thursday, he said he could not give the Government the confidence they asked on the Afghanis- tan question, and he complained of their withholding authoritative information. Re- viewing the information obtainable, he showed thatthe relations with Afghanis- tan were satisfactory during his administra- tion, and he justified the displeasure of the Ameer at the British occupation of Quet. tah. He said that the weak power which a professedly chivalrous government threat- ened to punish for receiving a Russian embassy was less culpable than the sender of the embassy. The sending of the em- bassy was apparently a breach of Russia’s engagement to England, but he feared Rus- would cite in justification the unfriendly conduct of the British Government. He declared that to saddle India with the ex- penses of the defence against imaginary dangers would be an injustice as monstrous as any recorded in the history of the world. Mr. Gladstone in conclusion asked the peo- ple to compare the state of England in 1873 and that in 1878. He energetically defend- ed the Geneva arbitration, and thought it far better to make a nation of 40,000,000 a friend than one of 80,000,000 an enemy. What they were now protesting against was not merely a series of false steps, but the new system of Government by the personal responsibility of a sovereign which was only too likely to sap the foundation of mon- | archy.

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The Fishery Question.

The Pall Mall Gazette, in a leading editorial, says :—‘‘That the United States should choose this preeise moment to pub- lish what seems, from the telegraphic sum- mary, to be a rather threatening despatch addressed by Secretary Evarts to American Minister Welsh. can scarcely be regarded as accidental. All the world can see that we have on our hands just now quite as much as we can well deal with, and a really friendly power with a grievance like that, whilst holding to its position, would refrain from casting the matter in an irritating way before the public until our affairs have assumed a more peaceful aspect. At any rate, this is what, according to the ad- mirers of the Alabama arbitration, we might certainly have expected from America. The truth is, that while the very party with which the bargain was made still holds office in the United States, the first op portunity is seized to make a point against us just when it is reckoned that other difficulties may force us to give way. Nothing else was to be expected, and for our own part, we are inclined to thank Evarts for teaching our countrymen that nations gen- erally are no more inclined to forego their advantages over one another in the 19th century than in the 18th, 17th, 16th or Ist. Let sentimentalists blame Evarts; for he has disappointed them, not us. ‘American newspapers of all shades of political opin- ion, without giving a moment’s considera- tion, let us hope, to the fact that the quar- rel has nothing whatever to do with the award of $5,500,000 made in favor of Can- ada at Halifax, come forward at once with the contention that this money, due and long overdue to us, must net be paid until and unless this new difference is settled in the way they: think right. Nine million dollars of Alabama indemnity still remain without any reasonable claim, and here are $5,500,000 more to be retained. We should have supposed the Americans could scarcely afford to recall attention to the various mat- ters relating to the Washington Treaty and the manner in which its provisions have been carried out ; but we, too, have a little sen-! timent about the United States, for in truth} the whole story is one of a continuous at- tempt at evasion, and evasion of a some- what shabby kind, and curiousiy enough advantage was taken of the local regulation of the State of New York to avoid com- pliance with one of the most important stipulations of the treaty in favor of the Canadian shipping. Therefore Lord Salis- bury has open to him some very pertinent retorts. But two wrongs do not make a right, and if it appears that the Newfound- landers, who do not form part of the Dominion, had no right to take the law into their hands in view of the arrangements en- tered into on their behalf, of course com- pensation will have to be made. When, however, the Americans argue that the whole fishing question may have to be re- opened, we are not at liberty to disregard what they say, or we might answer that if so some other points would have to be re- considered at the same time. Thus, it would be at least agreeable on _ the part of the Canadians that very serious claims for monstrous injuries inflicted by American citizens on British subjects during the Fenian raids should again be put forward, since, according to every re- cognized principle of international law, the United States were, to the fullest extent, responsible for those outrages. We men- tion that, however, only to show how troublesome it is to go too far back in such matters, and to mix up questions which ought to be kept separate. It may possibly

{be that Lord Salisbury has taken up a false

position with respect to the local or other rights of Newfoundland, though, since he had all the facts before him, and the knowl- edge that he was dealing with a very thorny question, we may fairly hope that he has not done so, but in any case we shall have the satisfaction of knowing that whatever discredit there may be in this talk of keep- ing the money back, or in suddenly spring- ing diplomatic mines at an awkward time, it is not ours.”

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Mr. Brydges’ Case.

|.V. B. Correspondence Toronto Mail. }

The one thing about which all sorts of people are really in earnest here is the de- mand for the dismissal of Palace-Car Brydges from the ‘superintendency of the Intercolonial. He has so nauseated the public stomach with his airs of superiority to common people, that the sight of him acts like an emetic. Any man who de- nounces Brydges is popular, and no man is so vegardless of public opinion as to say a word in his favor. Nota Grit organ in New Brunswick or Nova Scotia has ever suggested the possibility of his retention, nor said a word in favor of it. No one sup- posed it possible that any Liberal-Con- servative Ministry would take the question of retaining him seriously under consider- ation. He has made himself so obnoxious, and managed the road so entirely as a Grit electioneering agent, that all looked upon his relegation to private life ascertain when the men he supported, in return for the freedom given him to spend the public money on the particular raanufacturing com-

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That Haytian Hurricane. |

A letter has been received from Port au | Prince, dated Oct. 58, giving accounts of a severe storm which swept the southern coast of the island on Sept. 4th. It says over 400 houses were destroyed at Cayes, and the Car- ribear. sea and several interior streams rose and flooded the city. Large rocks were trans lanted by sea into .the middle of the streets

in some places, and many lives lost by per- sons being drowned or buried in the sand transported by sea with rocks and heaped in the city. Other towns of the South suffered in like manner. Agquir and Cavaillon were completely destroyed and over sixty persons lost their lives in the former place. Lause Avera was also visited by the tempest, but the da was not so great. The misery of the inhabitants in these devastated cities isincal-

ity to that required by the terms of the

cuable,

panies in which he is interested in some way, were kicked out of office by the elec- toral boot-toe. The public mind of tlhe Maritime Provinces had not imagined such an event as the retention of Brydges. The

every description of Custom Work, having

Coal.

| ; | Coal. dial 178 “ove SI | Dannd (| a] 176 Pous Sydney wOUhd Loar, Per schooner ‘* Albert L.” TENUIS cargo of Coal is here on vessel’s ac- count, and will be sold at the very low price of Three Dollars Per Ton—Cash. Orders to be left at KOUGHAN’S SCALES.

Nov. 8—3i

A Meeting of the Electors of

Charlottetown and Royalty will be held in the

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the Sth instant, at S o'clock.

Hon. J. C. POPE, Minister of Marine and Fisheries; HENRY LONGWORTH, Esq., and other prominent politicians will address the meeting.

SIMON W. CRABBE,

Secretary.

Ch’town, Nov. 7—pat

NEW GROP RAISINS!

Received to-day, via Picton,

LAvers, valencias, Loose Museatelts. CARVELL BROS. Ch'town, Nov. 7—pat li

-VENNOR PREDICTS

An early winter and a long one. Look ail see that your feet are protected, and t save many doctor’s bills,

W. 8. BOREHAM

SouTH SIDE QUEEN SQuvaReR,

has the best selected stock of Boots, Shoes, Slippers, Overshoes, Mocasins, &c., to be found in the City, which he will sell at bottom prices, to suit the hard times.

CUSTOM WORK.

1 am now also prepared to take orders for

opened a Custon Boot and Shoe De- panes under the superintendence of J. W. Krirentn (late foreman at Dorsey & Jost’s). Mr. Kitchin has had long experience as a cutter and practical shoemaker, and will guarantee good fits and the best of workman- ship. None but first-class material will be used, and ali orders will be promptly filled. Prices as low as possible consistent with good work, Mr. K., having had considerable ex- perience in making boots and shoes for persons with DEFORMED FEET and those who are troubled with

CORNS AND BUNIONS,

will make a specialty of this branch. A

Good Fit and Perfect Ras

in every case, or no money taken. &@ REPAIRING NEATLY DONE. Ch’town, Nov. 7, 18S78—3m wed & sat

BANKRUPT STOCK

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DRY GOODS

— AT—

BRENAN’S CORNER.

$6,000 WORTH!

IN DRESS GOODS, SHAWLS, FURS, LINENS, FLANNELS, FANCY GOODS,

&e., &e., &e., ke. at retail for ten days. mee:

ATHENAEUM, © ° FRIDAY EVENING, |

POLITICAL MEETINGS.

FAVA undersigned will be happy to'meet the electors at the following places ; Mount Stewart Hall, on TUESDAY, the 12th inst., at 6 o’clock, p. m. Fort Augustus, Kelly's Corner, WEDNES. DAY, the 13th inst., at 5 o'clock, p. m, LAUCHLIN McMILLAN,

WAR! WAR! Kent Street Tailoring Depot.

To the Public.

TAKE NOTICE,

WILL IN FUTURE (on account of hard times) make up Clothing as under, viz, :

Nov. 8—-

Men’s Suits of Black Cloth........ $5 50 6s ‘6 Good Tweed........ 5 00 Common Tweed.... 4 25 Homespun. .,.....-. 3 2%

Boys’ Suits. ef en $4 25 (3660 Tweed... ..00.22..0s1 3 50 Common Tweed.:........ 2 00 ss ONS os se eee cee 2 00

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Pants of Eiacm OleGis..... .i0+.. hives $1 00 $6 CoE i 90 6s Common Tweed.......... 80 de ee rie TT eee 50

Vests,

Of Good Tweed or Black Cloth, 90 cents each ‘* Homespunor Common Tweed, 80 ‘= *

All work guaranteed, or no pay for making.

N. B.—Parties having Clothing done and not paid for, are requested to call and pay for them. If not, I will sell them for my expenses in two weeks from date of this notice,

gs Patterns cut to order.

WM. J. McINTIRE,

: Kent Street. Nov. 4—I1m eod ne Im ker 2m

FOR SALE,

SECOND-HAND PIANO, by one ef the best English makers ; almost as good

oe ee Price moderate. Apply at this ce.

Ch’town, Nov. 4—

KHROSENE.

LANDING EX EMMA E, POTTER,

100 CASKS AMERICAN 120° Test— all new Casks; prime order. Very

F. T, NEWBERY & CO.

cheap.

Raisins, Cheese and Beans,

NOW RECEIVING,

BOXES new crop Valencia Raisins, 1 00 50 boxes Loose Museatele do 50 ‘ Layers do 5 bbls. Currants, 20 boxes Cheese,

15 bbls. White Beans. F. T. NEWBERY & CO,

ve ah

APPLHS.

LANDING, EX ELIZABETH FROM BOSTON,

1 Q) BARRELS CHOICE BALDWINS. Very Cheap.

3 F. T. NEWBERY & CO. HLOU R.

IN STORE {AND TO ARRIVE,

4 BBLS. Queen’s Extra, 100 bbls. Howland’s Choice, 300 “ Spring Extra, 100 ‘* Superior Extra. F. T. NEWBERY & CO,

FIRST-CLASS CUSTOM

Tailoring Establishment.

NICHOLSON & PATTERSON

Corner Queen and Dorchester Streets (opposite Connolly’s Bank.)

Are now prepared to furnish all kinds ef clothing, in the latest and most fashionable

AT AUCTION IN THE EVENING, —commencing— This Saturday ev'ng at 7.30 o'clock.

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As all these Goods must be disposed of in 30 days, they will be sold at a great sacrifice. sa” TERMS CASH. Nov. 2—pat sat tues thur

To the’ Electors of Queen’s County :

B* reason of the acceptance by me of the’ office of Minister of Marine and Fisheries the seat in the House of Commons to which you recently elected me has become vacant and you are called upon to fill the vacancy in the representation thus created.

man is tyrannical, partizan, extravagant ‘and corrupt.

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considered a virtue in the Government, His dismissal a few months hence—and it!

(can in any circumstances be but a matter «f |time, as Dr. Tupper can never put up with jhis high-and-mighty i —

jhis high-and-mighty insolence—will be looked upon as a necessity. Bonfires would blaze from one end of the road to the other if this man were summarily dismissed.

| Cot, Lirrteroy has written Mayor Beaudry that the Marquis of Lorne and Princess Louise will stay a few days in Montreal, en route to the Capital.

His dismissal now would te

I offer myself for re-election, and | respect- fully solicit your sufirages,

lt is a subject for congratulation that the right of this Island to be represented in the Privy Council has been conceded ; and 1 trust that my presence in the Executive will increase my power to further the interests of this Province, 7

I have the honor to be Your obedient servant,

JAMES C, POPE.

New York and London styles, A specialty made of Cutting

Ladies’ Sacques and Ulsters.

Parties wishing to obtain patterns of gar- ments, or those who wish to have their cloth cut only, can be accommodated on very rea sonable terms.

Mr. Nicholson has had a long experience as a Cutter and practical Tailor, a can there-

fore guarantee tirst-class fits and good ° manship. a

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In connection with the above we intend car-

:rying on the business of

Repairing, Renovating and Mending

Gentlemen’s Clothing,

No matter how much garments may be faded we will guarantee to restore them and make them appear as good as new,

NICHOLSON & PATT Ch’town, Oct. 31, 1878. —,

ST. JAMES’ CHURCH.

A PPLICATIONS for Pews and Sittings

Ravenwood, Nov. 5th, 1878—all papers

LT PHE place toget = Printing done is at

the EXAMINER Printing Rooms

AX can be made to the undersi at his otlice, or at the Church after al caehie. A. A. MeLEAN,

Sec. to the Trustees Ch’town, Oct, 31, ’78,—3w pat