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ofere] for sale at Pekin, have entered into ne

eotiations for its purchase and 16 ts much Wy i = be .ope:d that they may sucve d in adding this |

» and interesting collection to the national l brary. —Lond on Atheneum,

Cheer. en O. OOS OD

; = = rp DarLy WXAMINER.

FEBRUARY 4, 1875.

, “4 7 ry Tho Sham Free Trader.

si

‘Tan Patriot and its Grit writers, finding that public opinion is going de ridedly against ‘he Government, are getting desperate.

drowning wretch smking in

mid-ozean clutch at an airy nothing more

lognerately than these hangers-on of the ‘ Sale! " a } | >.

Free Trade and Pre-

ad 2° = wever ala

% . “+ ’ ; aTyT : sOVerament grasp a ’

4

s

\ : , tection ia the hopes that 2 will save them .

1

t ! Sut they misht as

from political death. i well go with Mrs. Parung-on and try todry up the Atlantic with a mopas to stem the tide of public feeling that has been going s‘eadily against the Government for some time back. They may rave about what Sir Jolin A. will do if he gets into power. The people ars intelligent, an i to their sorrow they see and feel what McKenzie has done during the four years he has been in Oflice. Whea he came into power he found the Do minion prosperous, having a surplus reveuue witha 15 per cent, tariff ‘Tea, shipping material and a number of other articles on the free list. But Mr. McKenzie, we sup- pose to illustrate what his ideas of Free 'T-ade were, increvsed the tariff to 174 per cent., took shipping out of the free list, and put 6 ents a pound duty on tea. Still the Patriot, with an air of sin- jlicity that is really child like ant bland, asks the people to come to the support of a Premier who illustrates his free trade prin- ciples by putting a high rate of duty on everything the poor min uses. The editor of the Patriot ransacked Hansard in vain to find a word spoken in favor of free trade y any of onr Island Geits. But he did find a speech of Mr. Peter Sinelair—delivered in favor of Protection to coal oil—and in his desperation he published it. What are the facts of the case? Mr. Colby, the mem- ber for Sarstead, one of Sir John A’s strong- est supporters, moved a resolution to re- duc2 the duty on coal oil from 15 to 5 cents a ga'lon. When Mr. Peter Sinclair, the

-atended free trade member from P. E. L, ma le his little speech mot in favor of re- ducing the duty, but im favor of keeping it on. And toshow that he was in earnes}, he actually voted with the other Grif mom- bera that cai oil should pay 15 cents a gal- jon duty. The Patriot thinks that by rais- ing a eloud of words about Protection and Froa Trade he will be able to hoodwink the people. But he will find his mistaxe. The people are now in the same position that a man wonld be in that found ou‘ that he had admitted burglars into his house in the disguise of friends. His duty would be to use all his strength to turn them out and liten to no compromise until they were outside tie door. The present Government made great professions of frienship for the people when in Opposition. But they no aooner got the power than they commenced to plunder them by the most approved methods. From the Premier wit’ his stee] rail job down to Vail with his printing grabs, they have had their fingers in the public chest, and they should be turned out without mercy. The study of Adam Smith and Stewart Mill no doubt tend to snlarge a m.n’s ideas and impreve his mind. But it is going a litle too far whon you ask him to study them with profit, when he sees a thief stealing his goods.

Loag dissensions on the prinziples of Free Trade may have a very soothing effect on the mind of Grit offisials, but th people outside that charmed circle fail to appre- ciate them. The toilers in trade and agri- culture, who are groaning under the burden o? high taxation, are sick of thoories, and they ave anxiously waiting for tha oppor- tunity to put men a‘ the head of affairs that will have less talk and more work. Indeed, so little do the people appreciate the thooro‘ical philosophers of tie Govern. ment, that they have sent about 20 of them to theorize at home on the uncertaginity of human hop2s. Our grit frien is have no ocea- sion to be alarmed, that Free Traders wiil not be returned from this Island at the ¢»m- ing election. The people of this Islind have already sent Mr. MeKenzie one sample of the genuine article and, at the general election, they intend to send five more of the sam2 stamp. This should he som» con- solation for our ardent Free Trade friend of the Patriot ; but we fearthat he has sucha fellow feeling for such Free Traders as Peter Sinclair, who shouts for Free Trade, and votes for high tariffs.

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Tarsautt spoke at Shediac, to a full He addressed them ina regular campaign style for about three- quarters of an hour im French and about two hours in English, charging the Govera- ment with being extravagant and everything that is corrupt and mean. He substanti- ated his arguments by comparative figures of expenditure from the records. Messrs. Angliv and Vail came in for a large share of abuse.

Me. Buaxe Restenzp !—The Halifax el-

stion is over and Mr. Blake has resigned. This is just what Opposition correspon lents in Ottawa predicted and what the Govern. ment Press denied. —Now let the public go back to the files of the Governmon’ papers of a few days ago and read the solemn asse- verations that there was not aword of truth in Mr. Blake’s reported resignation, that it was ‘‘ an Opposition lie.” ete.—Moncton Times.

Arrempt To Free rue Institute Cana- pigx.—An attempt wasmadeat Monire ilon the Ist., to fire the bullding used as the In- stitut Canadien. A bone about ten inches long and four inches in cireumference, was filjed with explosive substance and pla-ed im the hall, where it was subse uently found before any harm was done. This is ‘he in-

stitute made memorabie from the fa t that Guibord was a member,

prsommunicated,

for which he was

| A'len’s camp. distorted and he probably died with a great

| struggle.

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Oy _——

we : Tho Moeting To-night.

A Popuc Mesrine of the citizens ot i Charlottetown will be held this evening im the Market Hall, for the purpose of taking linto eonsideration ‘‘the action of the School Board in the contemplated erection of a very eostly building in an extremely remote pats f th “The alarm which yrompted the citizens to come together to

of the city.”

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loasily understood. The portion of the 'School Board nominated by the Local Gov- lornment bears every feature of from whom it sprang. The same lavish and | inconsiderate expenditure which character liza3, in every department, the Government lof Davies, marks the doings of the School Board. Its members have lofty and exalt el notions akin to those which barm and inflate the scholarly person of W. lStewart. Not content with the large Meth- lodist Academy, nor yet with the old Nor, mal School, St. Patrick’s Schools and a numbor of other buildings in the city em- ployed exclusively for educational purposes, they must needs build anot! establish-

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her ment large as the Methodist's Acatlemy, in t remote nook of the Western portion of the sity. What utility the present generation san derive from such a plethora of eduea- ‘ional structures is a mystery solvable by no one who is ot conversant with the modes of government adopted by Davies and his followers. Lt is supposed that the projected structure will cost the citizens of Ciartotte- town forty or fifty thousand dollars. © This is, nd doubt, a goodly sum in any tircum- stances; but in the present condition of the money market and tha relaxed state of busi. agss, it is positively preposterous, We are very cartain that not a single business man ‘n the Davies throng would, on his own ac- sount, venture upon such a speculation at che present time. But it is tirst here that the geand characteristic of the Davies Gov-

smmmnent shows itself. The interests of the public are seriously kept out of sight, while unmitigated _ sel-

ishness becomes the springs of polic;.

No matter whether t1¢ city needs this expen-

sive building, supporters of the Govern-

ment need it; andit must be built, even! though when built it should stand empty.

We imagine that the speakers on the Government side will, to-night, come to the platform fully prepared with statistics of the population im the quarter where this gigantic school house is to be built. That there exists at the present timo in the locality a school-g ing population capable oi illing the contemplated structure, we do not believe; very likely, moreovers, the prajectors of the scheme have sufficient data respecting the vast increase of population likly to take place in the near future, which will justify their extravagance. It is doubt- ful, however, if the citizens of Charlotte- town will consent to load themselves with debt for the sole benefit of even a not very distant posterity.

It is thus that we enjoy the full benefits of free sthovls. We will come to appreciate the luxury more intimately by and bye, when we find oatthe amount of taxation under which we will be condemned to groan. Statesmen who indulge in remote prospects into the future, and who wear mands well filled with the recondite axioms of philoso phers and economists may be ornamented in a community like ours, but no doubt they are very expensive. What we want, and what we must have in the dire>tion of afiirs, is men whocan conduct the Gov- ernment of the Province with its income— who can guage our necessities accurately, and meet them without imposing intolerable burdens on the people. Davies’ represen- tatives at the School Boavd are doing their very utmost to cast a damper on the pros- perity of Charlottetown—the city which chose Davies. a3 its representative. Pos- sibly, however, the Premier is revenging himself in advance ona city which will certainly never again elect him as its repre- sintative.

SLC

Roven on Str. Jonn Men; anv IIarp on D. Banxs.—On Saturday last, during a lecture in Fredericton, D. Banks McKenzie ‘stated that ‘‘three-fourths of the inhabitants jof St. John are fit subjects for an inebriate jasylum, and mostly high-toned and respect- able men.” A correspondent of the St. John “Globe” retorts :—‘*Who is D. Banks M:Kenzie? The only reasonable answer that suggests itself is that he is a tramp or adventurer, who, becaus2 the people of this comuunity were not bamboozled into an untoward excitement by his stagy extrava gances and his exceedingly bad phillipics against the rum traflic, now takes this mode of flinging his dirt on a sensible community, Lst us have temperance by all means, and I am glad to note that our citizens are tak- ing steps in the right direction, and those that will secure a permanent good for tl

ie people ; but D. Banks McKenzie, or any ‘other needy adventurer, who, under the lcloak of temperance, seek to tap the pockets ‘of the friends sympathetic to the cause, should be treated in the manner that their ‘conduct deserves.”

| Mystrertovs Deara.—A correspondent of ithe St. Croix Courier, writing from Grand (Lake Stream, says :—“The body: of Mr. ‘Join Welsh, formerly a resident of this ‘place, but lately of Alexander, was brought time on Tuesday last. The circumstances ‘of his death, as told by the men who brought him down, ave briefly as follows: Myr. | Welsh worked in Isaac Allen’s camp at Dobsis Lake, anJ had occasion to go across the ic2 to the camp of Mr. Fitzgerald, and | while there ate a hearty supper and seemed |to be in his uszal health. Nothing was ‘heard of him from the time he left Fitzger-

‘ald’s camp until his body was found in the| deal with at an early day. Me

|morning on the ics about forty rods from His face looked somewhat

Be this story true ov false, the matter looks dark, and should be fully in- vestigated.”

Ir is reported that Thomis White, Jr,,

has been definitely selected to oppose Hunt- |

ington in the next Shefford election.

neitical” ability of oO: .

as thus |

roteet their interests 3s a natural one, and |

the parents |

Tho Souris Breakwater.

| The Souris Breakwater is likely eae leome another witness to the highly

the Minister of

to be se prac

| Works.

“| "Myo cotitrast for the Souris (P. E. 1)! ve the! work should not be trken of the hands of |

years had elapsed |

breakwater stipulated, we believe, that

ithe contractors till three iso as to give time to t 35 the | littl | ira>'ors began the work, they had ¢ mplet ied is; and one week after that, the Govern i

| ment gave them their money

yA.

lare informed that the ISpPec id n wasg.in leficient in the highest degree. At leas | this is proved by the fash that som3 509 fee: of the breakwater have given way, end thy the bons fides o!

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suspicion entertained ol

the work have been more than justilied jthe evidences of dishonesty with which the strewn. Tons of iumber have

ry

si0re3 Ore

| beon seen, oa the strand, belonging to the breakwater, and in this lumber there was}. The hJN AND OF THEIR CHURCH cost of the Souris breakwater fraud will/ ° probably amount to $49,009, and will be

no sign of a bolt having been driven.

another valaable testimony to the wisdom of a Minister who is nothing if not ‘* prac- tical.”—F'rom the Halifax Herald. > Terrible Shipwreck.

A @ispatch from Boston, dated the dst inst., says : Philadelphia for Paro, Brazil, went ashore yesterday evening at 7 o'clock, on Curri treck beach, tliree miles south of the light- house. She sprang a leak about midnight, and it was found impossible to keep her free. Finally, as the only resource for saving life, she was run ashore, the vessel being then ina sinking condition. There were 248 possengers on board the steamer at the time, of whom 160 were drowned. The steamer at 5 a. m. to day was a total wreck, nothing being left above the water, It is not thought that any bodies are on board of her. These particulars are gleaned from the statement of L. McQuellan, one of the survivors.

Larer.— The state of affairs this morning is terrible. . Dead bodies are lying along the beach for two miles. They are all be- ing laid in proper places back from the beach, and the hving are being cared for. About one-third of those found are dead. The two saloon women are known to be dead, with their husbands. Eight out of fourteen firemen are known to bedead. The men saved are destitute. The bulk of the passengers were railroad laborers, Ameri- can, German, ard Irish dese2nt, who were en route to Brazil as railroad laborers. The steamer was chartered ab Philadelphia for this special voyage.

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Moncton Mystery.

Tue investigation of the McCarthy-Os- borne case is still going on in Moncton. The Times, in summarizing the points of evi- deneeg given, says :—

The girl has sworn that Mc(arthy said he was coming back to the Osborne House to leep on the night of October 12, and that he did return at 12 o’clock.—-MeDonald, the bar- keeper at the Weldon House, says MeCarthy told him he was stopping at the Osborne House. Mr. Caipmaa Smith says, when he jartel from McCarthy near the square, Me Carthy was going to the eastward.-—Hickey cays the man who left Mr. Smith at that time was going towards the Crossing—a direction which McCarthy would take if going towards the Osborne House. Mrs. Osborne told Hay- wad tist M-Carihy returnel to ther house late that night, and describel his wanting liqior, which she would not give him.

Che girl swears Hacry drove the body away in a wagon, which had a moveable seat.—Ac- cording to Me. Campbell, Harry Osborne told him that he had drivea a drunken man away one morning—he (Campbell) could not fix the date. Hickey says he saw an express Wagon drive out betweeathe Johnston house and the hay szales, in front of Osborne's, at the hour named by the girl, and go towards the Scadouc bridge. Anthony White says his wagon was at Osborne’s two nights at this time, that it was an express wagon, and hal a moveable seat.

In regard to the weather that night, the girl’s statement agrees with the statenent of David Cameron, who went on board the boat at Point du Chene between 2 and 3 o'clock in tie morning, and also with Hickey’s, the night watchman.

Her account of what transpire] before 10 o’clock agrees with the statements made by the Osborne family before Justice Deacon.

Her statement of the money McCarthy had on him agrees with Eliza Osdorae’s to Hay- ward,

Her reference to the payment on the piano is correct, except as to the amount, She said that a hundred dollars was sent away. The amount dae was something over $19); the amount sent away was $90 or $53.

Her reference to the conversation was Chip- man Smith about writing a letter to Mrs. Me- Carthy is proved correct by Mr. Smith.

She says that McCarthy's body was taken by Harry (as he ivformed her) to the Seadouc river, and that whea the body wa3 remove the hat was crushed down over the face.—Me- Carthy’s hat, identified beyoml the possibility of a doubt, was foun] in the river a short dis- tance above the place where tue girl alleges Harry told her it was put in; and the body of a man has been seen by more than one person floating in the Scadouc river.

Looking at the admitted discrepancies and contradictions in the Parker girl’s general statements, and which are calculated to throw discredit on the whole of her testimony, it is not a little remarkable that in many important allegations contained in her swora evidence appeared to be contirmed by the evidence of others. ‘

There are other poiats in connexion with the large mass of testimony itime, we note the fact that both as regards the discrepancies in the statements of certain witnesses and as

markable features; and we have little doubt that by the time it has reached its final stage in the higher Courts it will rank among the most remarkable cases in criminal jurisprud ‘ence. And it is these singular, almost unique | features of the case which lead us again to urge upon our readers the importance of so

| Tere were no trials as tie M gistrate’s ,holding their judgment that they may not

{Court this morning,

reach conclusions with undue haste,

J

and quit tance.

: j ; 9 a2 ® sha a7 wo ly sr | During the construction of tac work, We

4

The steamer Metropolis, from;

pion we shall}

regards the confirmation of certain other state- | ments, the case even at this stage has its re- |

Pubhe

work. in a!

» over two years from the time the con-|

v

linhabitants, to take into consideration the ac-

Joseph W. Hodgson, John LeLacheur, W. L. Cotton,

John Brecken, ,

| New Advertisements.

cee eerie enn

an

PAUL'S CHURCH

am i3 Li

UNDER THE PATER NAGE OF

MISS MACDONELL.

-—30;—-—

THE LADIES OF ST. PAUL/5 CHURCH,

intending holding a BAZAAR in the

MARKET HALL,

~—QONS

Wednesday & ‘Thursday,

The 24th & 251th April,

Admittance 25. cents. . Children half-price.

The following Committee have kindly con- sented to solicit and receive contributions for that purpose —

Mrs. Baylield, Miss 8. Longworth,

“aa Mrs. Manning,

‘* Bolton, ‘* Newbery, ‘“ Brown, ‘* “Osborne,

‘* Davies, ‘« Palmer,

‘“« DD. Davies, ‘«« ¥E. Palmer, ‘¢ Dodd, ‘¢ C. Palmer,

‘s G. Peake, a? Pope, ‘¢ J: €. Pope,

‘* Fitzgerald, Miss Haszard,

Mrs. Hensley,

‘* Hobkirk, ‘* Sneeston, ‘© Welsh.

Mrs. H. Longworth.

Feb. 4—till apr 1

‘* Ings,

itly

= = y- LI SP

A cee ee ‘. s

KA Nee OF P. E. ISLAND. SPRING TRIP, The First-class Iron Screw Steamship

“Prince Edward,’

1354 Tons Register, Cassed 100 Al, which is the highest class at Lloyds,

Robart Frasar, Commander,

Will be on the Berth at Glagow to re- ceive Cargo about the 15th March,

Leaving Glasgow for Liverpool, about the 5th April, and will leave

Liverpool for Charlottetown

On or about the 15th April,

Carrying Freight at through rates from Lon. don, deliverable at Charlottetown, Pictou, Georgetown, Stmmerside, Souris, Alberton and Shediac.

For Freight or Passage, apply, in London, to Joun Pircatrn & Sons, 69 Cornhill; in Glasgow, to James Kexso, junr., 134 St. Vin- cent Street ; in Liverpool, to Pircarrn Broru- eks, Brockley Buildings, 51 South John Street ; in Pictou, N. 8., te Noonan & Davis;

or here, to PEAKE Bro’s & Co.,

Managers. Charlottetown, Feb, 2, 1878. :

To His Worship Jedediah S, Caryell, Esq., Mayor.

Srr,—We, the undersigned citizens of Char- lottetown, respectfully request that you will be pleased to calla Pablie Meeting of the

tion of the School Board in the contemplated erection of a very costly School Building, in au extremely remote part of the City.

John T. Jenkins, Joseph Creamer,

K. W. Taylor, Owen Connolly,

Theo. L. Chappelle, W. C. Bourke, William C. DesBrisay, Johan McEachern,

J. D. McLeo', H. M. Churchill, Fred’k Perkins, J. Grant,

Simon W. Dodd, Paul McPhail,

W. H. Hobkirk, Joseph A. MeDonald, Wa. H. Findley, Samuel McRae, George G. Hughes, Robert Sneeston, James McGill, ©. L. Strickland,

J. D. Mason, Joseph Knight,

John Dorsey, John Beer,

H. A. Harvie, Frank D. Beer, Robert Brown, D. Farquharson,

Wim. K, Watson,

A. Baldwin, 1’, Longworth, W. Hyndman, P. G. Fraser, T. C. James, Lewis W. Goi, A. MeNeiil,

Adam Murray, A. Wm W. Stumbles, jr., G.

A. B. Mackeuzie, J. J. Chappell, R. B. Peake, Benjamin Balderston,

: Se

-. compliance with the above requisition, and for the purpose therein stated,

A PUBLIC NMiEETING

WILL BE HELD IN THE

MARKET HALL Qn Monday Evening next,

at 7.30 o'clock. J. 8. CARVELL, Mayor.

New Advertisements,

GROCERY

AND

Proviso

Cor. Great George & Kent Sts,

FRNUE Subscriber wishes to inform his friends and the public generally that he stil keeps on hand a choice assortment of

(iroceries and Provisions,

AT HIS OLD STAND, and will be pleasel to have them call ead

inspect for themselves.

en

ON HAND,

10 CHESTS CONGOU TEA,

(‘‘ New Season ’’) 1,066 Lbs. Canadian Cheese, 10 Casks American Kerosene Oil,

(120° test ; 36 cts. per gal.)

20 BARRELS SUGAR

{all kinds),

100 Bis, Sup. Extra Flour,

> Puns. Very Choice

MOLASSHS 20 doz. Pickles, 20 doz. Assorted Jams 20 boxes Dessert Prunes,

100 Tins Sardines.

N3 PEACHES, PINEAPPLES, STRAWBERRIES, TOMATOES

NEW RAISINS, ZANTE CURRANTS DRIED APPLES, STEWING PRUNES, 300 QUARTS CRANBERRIES, GREEN CRAPES.

800 LBS. SMOKED‘ HALIBUT, 25 QOTLS. CODFISH, 100 BOXES DIGBY HERRING.

and all goods usually found in a First- Class Grocery Store,

FAMILIES SUPPLIED BY THE MONTH

DOWALD NICHOLSON.

Jan. 16, 1878—y.

KING SQUARE HOUSE!

WE HAVE A COMPLETE STOCK OF

GARRIAGE COODS

Consisting in part of

Iron, Steel, and foe Spokes and Rims, Axles and Springs.

———

We call special attention to HEnry’s Parexe SINGLE PLY

Cast Steel Carriage Springs,

We warrant

for which we are agents. each Set. ,

ea QUR PRICES ARE VERY LOW <=

BEER & SONS.

Ch’town, Jan. 9, 1878.

Oe

QUEEN INSURANCE C0,Y,

OF ENGLAND.

CAPITAL, . . TWO MILLIONS STERLING.

“NSURANCE effected on all kinds of Build-

ings, Merchandise and Produce. Also, om Vessels on the stocks. Special rates for isolated residences. Losses settled promptly.

GEORGE MACLEOD (Union Bank), Agent for Prince Edward Island.

June, 1877—

QUR STOCK ©

—FOR—

CARRIAGE BUILDERS

TIS VERY COMPLETE.

Over 50 Tens Bar Iron.

40 Biles. Tire Steel, 200 Elliptic Carriage Springs, 110 sets Axles.

ASSORTED SIZES, ‘rom { to 12 inch,

and a very large Stock of

CARRIACE & Willi BOLTS, RING BOLTS, STEP PADS, &C.

which we offer to cash and prompt paying customers at better prices thau ever before.

W.E. DAWSON & CO.

Mayor's Office, 30th Jan., 1878— j3l

Jan, 18-——2aw ar 3i