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POETRY. | SOLARA WWE WVAAA i THB SHORTEST WAY HOM! | ** The shortest way by halfa mile- | Icome so very often by it— | Is up the road, across the stile, | And througb the meadow. Shall we try fhe days were not without a charm When, talking sott and looking silly My love and I walked arim-in-arm And lanes were lone and fields were stilly We found se many things to say That always, in the shiny weather, We took the—well, the s/orfer way To be a longer time together We spoke about [but, goodness knows Our topics of confabulation About the weather, I suppose, The crops, the harvest, and the nation.

Atall events, although the talk

i : Was neither wise nor witty, reat Britain, via Un M i { Sa- Uncertain. We ended each successive walk States. ) . 5 With ** Home already—what a pity?” West Indies, neertain We might have lost a little grouad Through coming by the road selected, Summerside and in : ’ Daily, Sunday excepted, 2 | But both agreed that we had found ate offices . .,p- Mm. The journey shorter than expected Georgetown and t ( i) Sunday excepted, 2 oa s he ethene ¢ ». mn Can Life's experiment support Western — Tig iesday, Friday, 2 p. m. | The paradox that Love proposes ? ee | Does any path seem very short, Weste: a, -$t.1 \ sday, Saturday, 7 p.m. Doar it be a path of roses? ae ‘ e seldom find the nearer way Southe \ Wednesday, Saturday, 2 p.m, And if we hit upon, and take it, Belfas By creeping on from day to day Bedeque—1 ‘ Monday, Wednesday, Friday, It seems as long as length can make it. &c., ’ 2.30, p. Mm. The road to fame is never brief, Brackley F ( > Tuesday, Friday, 9 a. m, The way to wealth is dull and dreary; ae., ey All earthly routes, in my belief, Pisquid— Johns Friday, 10 a.m Are very long and very weary. &e ? Nay—one that leads through care and strife ~ ; = en — —— — ls short, when mortals once begin it; Letters intended tor i an hour previous to the closing | We take the ‘near cut” of life, of the M by W { the postage and registration Although we take the longest i» it. ¢ must be prepaid Tinste wari . The post age on trans s for City delivery, must, in all Tinstey's Magazine. eases, be prepaid.

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LITERATURE.

RRR AR ee een

CHAPTER XX.

different picture. that discontent and mutual distrust, whict now reigned in tho Swedgg and their adherents, every hears o the of

heady

bravely repulsed ; the courare and resolu k

|

All that the President of the Commission _ be at large ; at the same time I do not wish, 'e-uld obtain was authority to interrogate | for the present, to avail myself of your vols Count Martini‘z at his owa apartments in untary impeachment. A commodious room | the eas'le, rather then summon him before | shall be easigned to you, where I beg you the military tribunal; and hoping to receive | to reflect upon what I have said ; end if you he proceed:d though reluctantly, to fulfil other motive may have indueed you te screen his mivs‘on. | Count Martinitz st your own expense, hae Count Martinitz received De la Garde | carried you too far, remember, it is Count de with politenes¢ and urbanity, but when the| la Garde who bes beard your confe:sion,

| full cxeulpation from the venerable o!d man, | shall find that your gererosity, cr whatever

iatter went on to explain the purport of his | visit, the Count, like an old tactician, shrank | into silence and dogged reserve. He know nothing of the affair; be had neither fied the rocket, norsecn any person fire it, and, in conclusion, begged to be excuscd from answerit g such inquisitorial qnest'ovs which he regarded as offensive to his selfsrespect and dignity. De ia Garde reported the denial ef the Governor, and urged the indelicacy cf subs

| Jecting that nobleman to any further scrutiny, | ¥ |

and not the president of the committee. Joanna made ber obeisanee, and, not withs out emotion, thanked the Count for his cars dor, and then willingly followed a servant, who was ordered by the Count tocorduct her to an spaitment named by himself Here, in the solitude of a confined room, which, though tolerably clean and convenient, only rece ved its light froma high grated window, the possible eonsequenees cf her step began gradually to usfold themselves. At times, indeed, unused to strong trials, she doubted

but, overpowered by a majo ity of votes, he | that she had gone too far. She pictured to | Was at length oblized to yield to the arranges herself her father’s sorrow, and the anxiety

: : ‘ : : archy and confusion in ever Yatholic meat of Count Martinitz being confined, asa lof Wellenste’n. wore he to hear of her situs | i 7 ©

cose prisoner, to his own rvovn, unti] he Paton; and yet, Srange to say, this latter} should feel d’sposed to be more explicit. thought served, in some degree, to comfort | Pope to the Papal throne, and when the

The old Gover: or Gene:al submitted to this | her.

It was for bis and her country’s sake

fresh insult with dignified composure, und | she had run so great a risk, and she knew

. . os . . ! struzgied manfully with bis rising indigna-

tion when apprized that even the Countess,

him too well not to feel assured that he would approve of the course she bad taken

bis wife could not be svffered to hold in- ard be convinced she ought not, under all | tercourse with him onies. in presence cf a ¢ rcumstances, to have acted othorw's>.

| Swedish officer. The proceedin js of the investigating coms | mitiee hud previously been little regarded, | and their purport scarcely understood. Now, | however, they were adveited to and watch- |

THE ARKANSAS STRIFE.

It is little more than a year ago since we

| Were edified by an account of a species of

coup @ etat in one of the Southern States of

THE SWEDES IN PRAGUE.

ed with interest and apprehension, Exags |

America, Then the cause was that of Mr.

erated rumors, as is usual, flew around; and ; gerated rumors, as is : ? Warmouth, the Governor of the State

penetrated, amonz other quarters, into the |

The parts of Prague unoccupied by the }é¢memy, exhibited, after the battle, a very ‘My dear father,’ cried Joanna, as soon

Instead of experiencing as the triend who brought this intelligence

W:l'eustein, that the life of the honorable mah wasio imminent danger.

1 bad left the room; ‘My dear father, I nei- | iarters of the

ther can nor will be silent any longer. The ' life of Count Martinitz is threaened by

er side of the Moldavia felt gay and these diabolical Swedes, because he ja con- | confident. The repeated storming had beer

1 | sidered, it seems, the author of that signal, ~ but from which accusation he musi be clear-

tion of the garrison, as well as of the ins) eq:

: y private sale, the valuable Busr-{ habitants, had stood a severe (ria! and the ‘Joanna!’ excla'med Bertram, much el- sultations given to : ian . : The : MONDAYS ue ro R . it ROAD } Joss of the enemy had been so great, as to armed, ‘What are you thinking of? Do ‘ ; t cGustus TO Hickgy’s : : ssid biaibene tte Hitsnorever River—one of the | ™%e 8 long interval of rest more than pros yeu want us to become cur own accusers?

ay

ae

JAMES BRENA! ¢ places on House, Si, ail Carviag , ii £2 fee 2 f elt new and in good aper Hanger XN G izier ther

rticulars, apply to E. SOURIS WEST.

Dwelling House, 31 x

Carlottetown, or on the

ROBERT WEBSTER.

the Island—consist- with the buildings

9 feet, and Warehouse | the firat place, Colonel Golz

bable, perhaps, until the town

}an erent to be shortly expected, since, in

| troops in the Circle of Budweis , aud

j next, the conclusion of peace cou'd not b | at any very great distance.

| Searcely bal Father Plachy unbuckled

was relieved,

was co lecticrg

in the

‘You, father’ 1 not implicated in this matter.

replied she calmly, ‘are I sm the delinquent; and it is, there‘ore, but j ist F

‘QO God!’ cried the old man in angui-h.

- Lou

will destroy yourself without saving

| Claimed for a Mr. McEmery the office of | chief of the Executive against a certain Senator Kellogg. The United States Courts, however, interfered in the matter,and occu. | pied the State House with soldiers, and the extraordinary spectacle was seen of a State in direct collision with the Federal authori- ties, and the Governor resisting them. The ; remarkable political condition of the coun. | try where such things could happen, was

commented upon at the time. Now the spectacle is in a manner repeated in another

form. This time it isin Arkansas. In the present case it is a quarrel between two rival Governors. It is as though some pretender had entered the Government House, ejected the Lieutenant Governor and taken possession, and in his turn was be- sieged by the expelled gent eman with the

rys Of ruin yourself and me, too, without Leng of

local militia. This singular spectacle arises out of circumstances of no great interest to us in Canada. Briefly told, the story amounts to this. One Brooks was elected by a majority of some three thousand votes to the Governorship of Arkansas, but was

him.’ *Why, surely, were I to come forwad |

and admit that it was I ,

f «They will not believe you,

you will |

any use to the Governor.’

' : stus, M pe doa his sword and ta\en off his casqua, ere, as

Orders will vs TNO T ; the pious priest, he stood et tie bedsids o _daly 7, 1875 y rh CEHOLD PROPERTY the wounded (part cu'arly of the «

6 0 R i fj 1 gc F FOR SALE. | students), anxiously taking care of those

B A N JV by n F.0t Number 23.) whose eases admitted | - of ri ry nd

PLEASANTLY SITUATEI soothing by the last offices of the Church

ee ee _,. | the deathsbed of such as were civen over.

North Side King's | | iis ot March, A. a ar. As soon as he had fulfilled these seered

ote and Anastatia his wife

tract, piece and parcel of land; lhe three fri nds eat down to

: j wn, under and by virtue J H. RUSSEL, PRO! Hh i vined in an Indenture of - = : and made between Lazare Buote, ae abet ty €, in Queen’s f A at°T r mawaru GENERAL Mi FE Ri : i } ' wife, of the one part, and Henry ZI eee Thomas DesBrisay, of Char- ee MISSION +4 j _ 0 Freeh Bu TRINITY CORNER, GLORGL LY AGENT FOR , at

St. John. st Beh pana ae New P . i vit K. | on noon, at the Colonial e Tenth day of Decem- F.M. CAMPBE e between

fsland, Farmer, and iid Island, Esquires, of the

“4UCZTIONEER & BROs Lazare Bu

> east Standard Life Insvrance Lo Sant & int

ses, situate, lying aud being in said

uumber twenty-three, and bounded ae |

a to say ne at a stake side of the road leading from Cavendish, the same being the adary stake of a tract of land to Isidore Buote, now iu possess Woolner, from thence running

VULCAN FOUNDRY.

hains and fifty (50 links,thence j 1ins, thence west tothe aforesaid GErORGHTOW | “rs, fcom thence southwardly aloag anid | STOVES, wholesale an * f beg uning, conta ning fifty end MACHINERY CASTING 1 game a little more or less.

Ways on hand, ors i t other tract, piece or parcel of z Cash Paid los p twenty-three, and POR ALL KINDS of OLD bed as follows, that is to say : . — j the est side of the Onavendish

J. A. RUTHE! i eee) » of above denesthed

June 2, 1873.—1 ¥ ence east for the

t A t ; ly QD it y Gil

WILLIA M DU i , of Domnick Doriant, thence

Commission { chains a (49) links, thence AUCTIONS

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thence along the road

I « Cr ntaining by

QUEEN SQUAi seven acres, a iittie more or

CHARLOTTETOWN, P Fe ok las eg é R. R. FirzGeratp,

CARVELL BRO?! H. J. CUNDALL, for Mortgagees

} 1874

AUCTION ERS, woman digs am

Sale hereby postponed until : : - ae ae Punt _—

a nah 9 c lay of May next, A. D.,

Commission Merchin 3; Sf eile koley ehatinoe dleates

CUNDALL, for Mortgagees

FOR SALE.

4 6000 FARM WEST.

CURRY FARM,

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BANK BUILDING, QUEEN Charlottetown, P. E. I

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QUEEN sSTREW'! THE OPPOSITE WATSON’S DRI : (" \INING 120 ACRES, situate on KG to retarn th +} Western Road, 10 chains front, 70 4 . af hel ‘ is B public for the libera ! well cultivated and fenced with

Siticnelaentiads Co covered with hardwood and = ask for es HANDSOME DWELLING HOUSE,

eprtor anty ; ie sibit «staal fluished throughout, with Kit- A meat Assortment « ched

12x 17, Barn 34x 41, with TINWARE MITCHESN UT! j ind Sheep-house. There is also | WWREE, Beet ie , DwerLunG House, 16x25. This . o ¢ ld with or without the stock, | &c., &¢.. . civen inSpring, or Cropped ALL ORDERS the Crop delivered next Fall will be punctuz att . Apply to Having jately ma i GEORGE W, How LAN, Cheapest Marketr,intended “4

ach as Gas Fitting, Wate: Bell Fittings, &.

lam prepared to SELL AS LOW AS CAN BE fH and wil) fit them us

Valuable Business Stand

for Sale.

r will sell, by private sale,

To @ conetous vablic, w b ( i Dweling House, with other Orders in THIS BRANCH ¢ iidings, situated at Cardigas ary eee B 1t 4 chains from Railroad hend. ee t Ast § 18 On f the fine at and

SAYR’S CRY TAT ¢ veir at bu ness stands on the | ; : ' ' ‘ iesirous otf engaging in Sold Chea; ' Lusinese, wi'l find it to their

to call and exsmine,

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eer ez of bu sincss. There is also

ee So ints hae ese ne ae

Power & Gorden P pened |, a wit be sold to suit intending And a Good Vari |

150 serce of Free gen Bridge.

the Subseriber iotends to wind up|

svens. for the prescot, he requesie | parties iadebted to him by Note of | Avcovnt, or otherwise, to |

The Newest Styles of

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EXAMINER OFFICE.

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HUGH L. McoDNOALD.

Cardigan Bridge, June 10, 1878.

as, or tothe boundary | bert Gallant, but j

before |

Nov. ! ; PR | \ hid dl ' 1) Bulldog Lots, situated within } 4 | s the Bridge, and guitable stands

duties, he hastened to Wallerscin, whom

he found wih his friend Wulden, orer the labors of the day.

; of tha worthy ecclesiastic, : and pressed his hand.

* God bless you, my boy!’ sad Piachy

} much affected, ‘aud grant that you may ld Estate aad [aterest | emulate the fame of your nob!

nnele!’ take | necessary refreshment, and to ‘

battles o’or again’ in cheerful

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couveree,

There was ove ri flection, however, which

talking A bert, at sivht

some

git ther) from participating in her confession,

‘Be at peace, father, at least as far as re gards yoursel’. Ihave long considered the matter; indeed, ever since I heard this ins It was I ag'one who originally ext.rted the eecret from these Swedish morsters; I alone gave the signa). You were a prisonsr at the time, and they

quiry was perding.

n toward bim | dare not toueh a hair of your head! and, as} jast

to me, it 1s by no m ana clear that they would proceed to exiremities. Their ob-

cruel.’

Joanna foued it difficel: to prevent him Be» tram tenderly Jovwed hie daughter; and the iden even cf dying with her appeared less

seemed to check the exuberance Wallecs afflicting than that of seeing her exposed to stein’s mitth; tha idea of the danver that danger in which he bad no elare. Nets | bad possibly accrued to Joa ne, in conse-

| que: ce of her conrex'on with tiie the sigoal rocket.

Nor was this apprehension groundless. Odowalsky, loudly and publicly ins’sting on

}an inquiry, Ko: igemisk was induced to aps

point a committee for the iavestigation of the affiir, of which committee Odcwalsky was hims- lf constituted a member Ulis mest

anxious des're wes t» be reve: ged on the sorrowful but firm heart, the castle steps, |

betraycr of his individual scheme. as we]

as on Wallestmi:,who became mre hatefu

| mortify by the punishment of one of h’s } mest faithful dep2ndents, for his natural | sagacity had at once fixed on Bectram as | the delinquent. Konigsmark, dizguste] with «ll these pros | ceedings, took advantage of the short iaters val of tha armistice, to comp'im nt upon his | arrival in Leipsic,the Count Palatine, Charles Gu:tarus, to wh-m Queen Christiina hid

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| confi’ed the command of hr whole arwy.

This Prince had bought with him a cons siderable reinforcement from Sweden, and was onthe point of marching bis troops isto Bohemia, for the Prague. Konigsmark , therefore, namin: Count Ma:- nus de !a Garde presicent of this commiss'on, set out for Saxony.

Nothing came to light for some time re- specting the supp°sed signa’. Beruuam stoutly denied: everything, avd no cne sus. | pected Joanna. Another meth d was vow | therefore taken, by eadeavoring to ase rtain | what ptrson from the Government Cestle

might have been on that spot at the time coinciding with the account of the Swedish officer who had noticed the s'gnal.

And here, to t'e grat astonshment of every member of the court, the course of the examination brought befvre them a prr- son whose rank, birth and characte: differed widely from those hitbertoserotinw-d. This was Count Martinitz, Governor Geveral of Bohemia, the first person in the Kiozdom, and represe tative of the Sovercign, He had been walking that evening—on th's poist all accoun's agrecd—quito a'one, on that part of the ccstle hill.

reduction of

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the Swedes, and to the creed which they supported in Germany, was well known; whilst his kigh station, and the uviversal

attachment of the people, might well p'ace it in his power to obtain secret information of everything going on both in Prague and with tbe beseiging army. Count dela Garde was much inclined to put an end to an in- quiry which could now leed to rone but | painful result: ; for what measures could be | adopted, in case of conviction, aga’ast e | man of the Governor's powerful c. nnections, | and of such an edvanced age. thet would not be extremely cdious, and, possibly, in the

sow, lath and shingle mill, having | event, dieastrous to the Swedes themselves ? Swedish scheme, she eppropriated to her- ‘erger ciren'ar for catting all kinds of | Odowalsky, however, roee in « fury, and! self; and ended, rot a little exciting the Louber, besides other Saws, with about! maintained, in an evergetic srcech, that it _ astonishment and incredulity of her auditcr,

hold Land, 2 miles from | was these s-vere measures only which could | He listened to her with deep attention, but ‘insure the safety of the Swedish troors in doubted while he listened, and when she had

the middie of a people addicied t» sedition and rebel] on. The votes of the officers bes gan t» be divided. One part adhered to

spective accounts on or before their former opivion, and wished to suppress * er ee e — age

st next. All sums remaining the inquiry ; whilst the other, and by far the WOU, @ tanle | oP ore ee

‘Lat date will be handed over mort numerous, were induced by Odowal- shuddered, but continued firm. At lenzth,

| oky’s speech to insist upon instituting crim- De Is Garde, after looking at her fora

inal proceedings against the Governor Gen- While with great interest, said, ‘ After what ral

eral,

His hatred to |

withstanding, the giri found s:fficient ad-

» aluir of dress to quiet Ler father’s anx‘ous solic tade | on this point also, persuading bim that the actionsof a woman were far less likely to be |

visited with severity than those of a man Having thus wruny fiom the poor old man his slow consent, the Bohemian maiden, simply and modestly dressed, and attended only ty s female seivart, aecnded with a

t midly spprcached the Swedish s ntries, and requested en audience of the Count de

to him every day, ard whom le hoped to la Garde, as a citizeu’e diugh'er from tke | Kleirseite, who had some importart:ommu- | nicaticn to make to him reepecting the sizs | nal given to the enemy on the eve of the! storming of the bridg» tower. |

She was soon admitted, aud entered, cov»

as well as innocence of hor appearance, ins |

duced De !a Gard» to advance a few steps, | ani suggest ber adj uning int) en ther room, where find:ng berse!f alo e vith the | noble Swele, she summoned all Ler strength | of mind and said, *1 have been inf rmed, my | Lord, that an inquiry hus been sct cn foct | acainet His Excell ney the Governor, who is accuced of having fired that rocket which, | in the Sweci-h headquaiters, bra been tes garded as a signal given t» their enemy.’

‘ You are right, fair maiden,’ answered De la Garde, courtecusly, * Have you any further details to communicate ?’

‘I have,’ repled che, ‘and if you, my Lord, will ple¢ge ycur word thit Count Martinitz shall be restored t> liberty, and no longer exporved to trouble and vexation, when you Know the guilty person, [ will exs pose that persor.’

‘You?

‘ Will you give me your promise ?°

‘Yes, provided the Count can be fully exs | in the midst of his fancied Utopia :—* It is | the youthful mind were indelible, and the

cu!lpated.’

‘He cao, most fully end un:eservedly. It waa / alone who fired the rocket.’

‘Ani do you tell me this yourself?”

* f cannot, my Lord, endere éo s2e an in- pocent man, and one so universally respects | ed, suffer for an action of my own, and of which, I candidly confess, I am proud’

De Ja Garde looked at Joanna with aston. ishment. ‘Who are you, young vonan ?’ asked be.

She told him her name, and explained, in _ addition, the circumstances which bad yres |

ceded and accompanied the discharge of the rocket, carefully suppressing, hows ever, ercounter with Martinitz. | Her {father’s expedition also to Wallenstein, | in disguiss, to apprize him generally of the

her

coneluded, told her as much. Joanna pers sisted, however, in her confession; and when De la Garde pointed out the evil cons

| has pessed between us, I cannot allow you to

ject is to intimidate, not to ba gratuitously |

by a process of wire-pulling not installed.

| The votes in the election had to be sent to the Secretary of State to be counted, and for political reasons, so at least say one party, the adyersary of Brooks, one Baxter, was declared the elected Governor. Hence arose litigation, but without any very de- finite conclusion being arrived at until June Baxter is said to have declared, that

|; if the sentence of the Courts was ad- | verse to him, he should not observe it. But on the 14th of June the Court gave sen- tence, declaring Baxter Governor. But nothing daunted, Brooks watched his op- | portunity and a few days ago suddenly took | his case back to court, and in the absence | of any representative of Baxter obtained ‘judgment of ouster’ against him. Nor | did the victor lose a moment in taking ad- vantage of his victory, for, immediately proceeding to the house of the Governor he ejected him and proclaimed himself Gov~ ernor of the State. Now he is in a state of saxter is not so easily suppressed.

} |

siege.

He has now, it is reported, more than 2,000 |

n:ilitia, hostile from party reasons,to Brooks, ready and willing to do his bidding, while it does not appear that the Rev. Mr. Brooks has any force to speak of.

The whole story reads more lie a comedy than a chapter of sober history. It is bard to comprehend the Federal Constitution | that can provide room for such political scan ‘als to have play, or to think that so. called courts ot law can exist in any civil- ized country that can contribute to such

| confusion. There are evidently wheels with- ered with blustes; for there were a great |

The chief officer of the United States, General Grant, favours

| in wheels, in the matter. numter of cficers with the Count, and the |

eyes of all were turned upon her. paused a movrent, and the s‘riking beauty | |

She | Baxter and the United States troops sent,

though nominallyneutral, really afford aid to that candidate. A significant feature in the matter is, that the ‘ Brigadier-General ’ of Brooks, and others of his staff, are Con- federate officers. News may arrive at any moment of the outbreak of another cruel war, for so it would to all intents and purs poses be. At a time when the people of the United States are seriously thinking of holding a centennial, this untoward evil comes somewhat unfortunately. It shows chat however loudly boasts may be made, the truth mast be confessed that there is little homogeneousness in a Federal Union, or in the tendencies of the people that can lower their country by such an outbreak and exhibition as this; patriotism must be at a low ebb, and the exaltation of his pet fac- tion the main object of the United States citizens. Singularly applicable at such a juncture are the words of Washington in his valedictory address when he saw all the evils of democracy and republicanism rising

little else than a name where the Govern~ ment is too feeble to withstand the enters prise of faction, to confine each member of the society within the limita prescribed by the ‘aws, and to maintain allin the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property. * * The alternate dominion of one faction over another,sharp=

ened by the spirit of revenge natural to |

party discussion, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itselfa most horrid despotism. But this leads at length toa more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and re- pose in the absolute power of a single indi» vidual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this despotism to the purpose of his own eleva- tion, on the ruins of public liberty.’" Mode ern America seems to show that the writer of these was, if not inspired certainly, toa great extent, a prophet.— Toronto Leader,

Gambling is rife in Montreal just now.

Cremation furnaces are advertized by a manufacturing lirm in Berlin.

The new steamship Faraday has begun to load the new Atlantic cable.

If it wasn’t for the Acheneese and the temperance war the entire world would now

|

| HOUSE | THE SCHOOL QUESTION. |

OF ASSEMBLY.

Aprit 22, 1874.

| Mr. McEacuern.—The hon. member for Tignish had meade this not a Roman Catho- | lic, but an Irish question. There were other Catholics besides the Irish who felt as deeply on this question as did the hon. member for Tignish, although they may not be so Joud in their professions in this respect as the hon. member from Tignish. The Irish were, however, both in worth and | ability, quite equal to any other race, and could fight their way successfully, if placed in competition with any other nationality. The member from Georgetown seemed to think that there was nothing truly Catholic but what was liberal. By the dictionary definitions, this might be true, but those definitions were not correct. If he would view, from a Catholic standpoint, the re- sults of Liberalism in Europe, he would be better able to decide. He (Mr. McEachs ern) was often twitted with holding Tory ideas, but he did not regret it. There never had been a time when so-called Libs eralism ruled in Britain, but there was an-

| country in Europe. He remembered that

at the time of the accession of the present

fame of his liberal reforms had gone abroad throughout the world, the Palmers ston-Russel party was in power, and fear-~ ing that Catholicism would gain too much favor, they despatched the Earl of Minto to Rome, under pretence of reviving dip~ lomatic relations with the Papal Court. And was it not curious that in every Catholic State through which he passed, during his progress towards the Eternal City, trea- son and rebellion sprang up in his foot- steps? Arrived in Rome, instead of at- tempting to establish diplomatic relations with his Holiness, he set himself to the liberal task of fomenting disaffection among the people. ‘There was a gentleman now res siding in this city, who was pursuing his collegiate studies at the Propayanda at the time to which he referred,and who heard the proud Earl of Minto haranguing, from the steps of his hotel, a Roman mob, and at the close of his speech calling for three cheers for Cicero Vachio, a gross mobocrat of the city, who happened then to wield an enormous influence among the Roman pop» ulace. The rebellion arose, Garibaldi and his liberals succeeded, the Pope had to flee, the Earl of Minto took up his budget, and was heard from ro more. On the contrary, when the Conservatives were in power, peace and Catholicity flourished. The last time that the late Earl of Derby, the then head of the English Tories, was hurled from power, the principal charge preferred against him by his Liberal foes, was, that he was too favorable to the Pope, the King of Naples, and the Italian Grand Dukes. The hon. member for Tignish had stated that public house keepers were not fit to bring up children properly. That was a hard thing to say. Public houses were re quired. , & young family was being reared, and he | thought there was no better family in the lIsland. And they were Roman Catholica, | ) and Irish, too. The change asked for by | | the resolution under discussion, was a very |small one. It was as well to come to the

| point, and say that what was wanted was a |

| sum of money for the Bishop’s schools. | was not fair to deny this small demand. | No one would say that those schools had | ; not done good. When he had come to the House as as a representative twenty years | ago, the streets of Charlottetown had pres | sented a diferent aspect from that which they now presented, in the number of uns | ruly childern to be seen. The Bishop whad | taken the matter into consideration, and | had built these schools at great expense. | To accomplish his purpose, he had assumed | the role of beggar. His whitened locks, | comparatively young man though he was, | showed the anxiety for his flock which had | weighed upon his mind. It was a mistake | to say that this demand was aggressive. | He (Mr. McE.) had never spoken toa. Protestant who did not acknowledge that | something should ba done for those schools, | but how it was to be done they could not see clearly. Where there was a will how- ever, there wasa way. If the Protestants | made asmilar demand, and believed that | their children were not safe without a res | ligious education,:he would accede to their | demand, no matter whom he offended. | Was the education imparted in the Bishop's | schools vicious, or did it tend to make the | children worse members of society than they otherwise would have been? Was it | calculated to make them traitors or rebels ? | No; the Church taught them to love Ged, and their neighbors as themselves, to obey their superiors, and render unto Cxssr the | things that were Cmsar’s,—and why, in | God’s name, was assistance to those schools refused ?_ Why were not the the taxes ex. | torted from Catholics returned to them, if} nothing else wasdone? In the country the | taxes paid were small. In the city a spes | cial tax for the support of education was collected. Because Roman Catholics could | not send their children to the common | schools, believing that they would not there | receive such an education as would make | them good members of society, they were | refused the very money which was extorted | from them. It was disgraceful to deny this | | act of justice,—it was simply disgraceful,

whether done by friends or foes.

Protest- | ants admitted that the common schools of | the city were not fit places to which to send children, This was proved by the fact of the Wesleyans having erected a school for | themselves, to afford a religious as well as |asecular education. A great many Pro- | testants and Presbyterians would accede to | this demand if they could see their way clear, In Sootland they had religious in- | struction in the schools, and this was why | the Roman Catholics who came from that country were not educated. There was nothing which had tended so much to make | Scotchmen celebrated in the world as the re- ligious education imparted in their schools,

The Bishop asked for nothing unreasonable. He gave a good education to the children | over whose spiritual welfare he was placed.

Resides the religious education, he gave a | | better secular education than was imparted

to the common schools. Le hoped his

Protestant friends in Government and Opposition, would agree to this act of jus tice towards the Bishop's schools in the lcity. And if religious education was re- | quisite in the city, was iz not equally so in | the country. The impressions made on

| firstimpressions made should be love and |

| fear of God, and desire to keep His oom- mandments.

| Mr. Coyroy had spoken of the Irish, not | to make it an Irish question, but because he knew mor: of the condition of his own | | countrymen than of others

Mr. Srawarr did not think that there should he a disposition to evade this ques» ; tion. There had been already a most im portant question betore the House this | session—the land question—one which had | agitated the country for more than half a| century; and this school question, though | it had only loomed up within a decade of time, was also of great importance. {[t had been the means of hurling Gornments from power, and putting others in their | stead, and the man who could devise a/| good scheme to settle the matter, and | cement the feelings of the a would be the greatest patriot which the Island | had ever produced. It therefore became | the duty of hon. members to discuss the | question temperately ; look at it in all its | bearings, and see if we had an eyil in our midst. It had been said that he who had | introduced the Free Education System, | deserved the esteem and good opinion of | the people. It had been the means of raising many ® poor boy, who would not) without it have risen, to a position of honor | and trust and respect in the country. He) regretted, and the regret was shared by many hon. members, that the statesman | who had given this Island free schools was deprived of his reason, and was forever | dead so this and all other questions which would arise in this Island. He (Mr. 8.) |