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The wife of the chief at length beeama jealous of her white sister, and made » veral attempts to poison her. Tins heiny diacover- ed, the aqaw wae very nearly boing slain by the indignart peuple around her

Four years passed, and the clief took the girlon a vimt to the Grand Counsel at Niag- re .d-acgordapee with # request from Cofonel J obnson.

there, by arrangement, were Mr. Little and big¢whe. When their daugter saw them ale forgot ber lodian friends and cautoms, abtt nature asserted itself. into’ the arws Of her parewts, wept for joy.

rhe chet witnessed this oat! tion, and bis better feelings pre

** She shall go.’ he said ; the have het child again. I willg

and they all

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mother must back aloae

ANOTHER BXPKESS ROBBERY IN ST. LOULS. PARE ADAMS EXVKESS MESSENGER KRNOCKEDSENSLESS WITH AN IRON BAR

Mr. Josiah Cross, messenger of the Adams Express Comnany, started from the otlice to deliver ey packages, having in his

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UNITED STATES NEWS.

NO MORE CREDIT FOR THE SOUTIL

The Brooktwn Uniou says that at meeting of the leading dry goods firms of New York, it was resolved that they would sell no more voods to merchants in the Southern States, except for eash, daring the present season. It is evident that the threats ofanother revolu- tion in which the Democratic leaders have so liherally indulged; the continued anarchy in} which the rebels have retained many of the | the persistent determination

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{Southern States ;

fat Presideat Johnsen to prevent the Joyal men

trom governing the South, and the revolution: | tary speeches of Frank Blair and of Southern | fire-eaters, who have taken their cue from jhim, are having their effect on loyal mer chants at the North.

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GOREN. LER @N THE STATE OF THE COUNTRY.

| Itis stated that Gen, Rosecranz addressed | la letter to Gen. Lee onthe affairs of the} country, and requested a written ex pression | uf the lutter’s views of the best plan for re- Gen. Lee responded, | ‘onstitution and | a desire for the complete union of the States, |

as of old, and a beliet that a desire was)

storing good feeling. } expressing reverence for the ¢

the adoption of the decimal system of colnage In

Latest News by Telegraph,

FROM EUROPE.

Louden, August 28. | The Hank of Franee’s weekly statement shows | an inerease of seven tuithons six hundred thousand | franes. . } It is announced that the Emperor will visit the | Camp at Chalons on the 2nd of September, The sale of the Figaro newspaper in the streeta

of Paria has been prohibited. : The Danish Government bas decided against

the National Mints.

The Portugese Chataber of Peers has voted a supply ot fifty thousand franes lor fortifications of the City ef Lisbon,

The inerease in the Bank of England last week was thirty-nine thousand pounds sterling.

London, August 28, evening.

An immense meeting of the cabmen was held

to-night But few cabs are to be seen on the streets, Which present an unusually selitary ap- warance. The meeting resolved to issue a pro- test against the conduct of the Railway Com panies, and that a partial strike should begin at once Which is to become general if the terms de- manded are net granted in a week.

The Coroner's inquest upon the remains of the victimes of the recent railroad calamity at Aber-

\vard to this most itwportait subject is exceed-

oc VUwenase see aan a 7 Mr. A. H. St. Germaix, Proprietor of the! all matters of trade and commerce her treat- Canadian Advertising Agency, Toronto,Ont, | ment of us has been exceedingly liberal. We is our sole Agent for procuring American have been permitted to regulate our tariff as.

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Advértisements, and fs authorized also to seems best to us, and when she entered into a receive Canadian Advertisements for this) commercial treaty with the United States the paper. ‘authorities of this ‘insignificant’ colony were TT a consulted, and its interests were not neglected,

The & xauriner, Knowing all this, were not those who took a hopeful view of our being able to make a se- omn~m~n~e~ | narate arrangement with the United States

Charlottetown, September 7, 1868. | quite justified in giving a warm reception to

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ROR FRAN ES ER ERLE EERO E®,

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the Congressional Committee, and of shewing, in the usual manner, both our American visitors and the Home Government,how dee ply interested we, as a people, are in our procur-

ing for ourselves a reciprocity of trade with

THE ISLANDER ON RECIPROCITY.

Tux position “th contemporary with re-

ingly difliculs 4o define. to be anxious to see free trade relations between this country and the Uatted States established, he finds fault with every step that has been taken to effect that object either by the Ame- ricaus or ourselves, and sneers at and ridicules ali those who have made any, the very least,exer- tion to forward Reciprocity. He is ina most He seems to consider it as

While he professes | ; the neighbouring Republic.

The editor of the Islander to prove, we sup- pose, the insincerity of the United States Con- giess in entering into separate negotiations with P, E. Island, proves pretty conclusively that even the protectionists of the States see it to be their interest to enter into free trade

. relations with this Colony rather than with the captious mood,

{shared by the mass of reflecting people of the gele, Wales, was commenced in that town to day

South. ‘The Seath, Lee says, is anxious for| A weman named Dickens living near the spot wo . ve . ‘ J? ~ ¢ 4

express bay over §

7,000 belong ug to diferent parties ;one packs marked S117. 70, was ad- dressed to * B. F. Goodrich, & Co., room No.

2, up stairs, 118 second street." T!

peace and a peaceful administration of the | iGovernment, aud the longed for privileze of | ' self-rovernment. Also, that the Southern, is cing S

iwhere the disaster occurred. and who saw the - aceident, deposed that ehe went to assist the per-

“effect upon

on his way to other points, he coucluded to de-

liver it first. On going up stairs, the second rooan to the rizht had upon the side of its door @ wrinted red carboard sign, availed upon a rive slat, with the directions * B. F. Good:vich, |

&°Co , room No. 22) The door was epen, and Nr, Cross hesitated a moment fore entering, } the idea of garroting and robbe rv flashin ry across his Drain. The hour and the public character ut the place, however, reassured him; he dis- carded as absurd the probability of such an occurrence, aud walked in. One man was

sitting with his back to the wa with « news. paper in his land, and another

ist

vas silting ata

desk standing, ara the posite wall.

‘These were the only occupants of the room, Mr. Cross handed the packave to the fellow with the newspaper, asking bin if it was cor-|

reet. An aflirmative reply was given, and the messeuger was told to give it to the man at the desk, who would vive a rec eipt turit Mr. Cross placed his book upon the desk, running his finger alony the line to the point where the

‘Siguature was to be writtem. As his finger reached the point, he was seized from behiud with One arm, while a stronz hand vrasped his neek, choking him in a manner, 1 eventing hii trom crying for help. Instantly the man at ibe desk jumped up and applied a large cut ton rag saturated with chloroform to his mouth aud nostrils. Cross struggled with might and nia to free himself, and in his efforts prevent. ed the chloroform from producing its stapifying

his senses. But the scoundrels were not unprepared for failure in such an em

ergency. <A piece of irou—old wagon tire—| about eighteen mehes in length, and weighing, perhaps, seven pounds, was rralbed by the inan in front from a concealed place on the desk, who brought it down with a crushing feree upon the head of the unfortunate messen- ger, aud bleeding and senaless he fell to the floor. The robbers rifled th express bas of | its eontents and escaped.

Aibert Parker, a clerk in the Erie Trans portation office, underneath, aud others, heard the noise and shuffl ny conseq ut upon the rob bery, but supposed it was prod ced by the mov- ing of furniture, or something of that kind, and paid no p wticular attention to it. Shortly alter it ceased, however, they heard a man run down stairs hurriedly and Mr. Parker saw

him running down Second street with pack-

in his hand. The other going the same way, but he mist have come down stairs and gone in the

ares of bank bills man Was not seen

opposite direction more quietly. The noise of © the “tuasle’’ was heard tor four or five minutes by the emplovees in the office below.

In three or four minutes M Cross himself}

stagyvered down the stairs, the blood streaming

dowu ins taee and clothes from the wound on

jus head. As he reached the pavement he reeied line a drunken man into the street, ex- coining, * Did you see then? Why did'nt you stop them ? There were two of them! 7 wey have robbed me—took everything Thad! Did'wi you see then? Stop thief!’? &e. But the robbers were out of siztt, and save that

, one of tiem passed down tie street some min-

w!

Lites previous, io clueto taci ercabuuts was kKuown.

The job was well put up and as successfi exéenied. It was evidently not the intention of the robbers to resort to the ivon bar if the cilorvterm dodze worked satisfactorily. It is surmised that there were move than two oper- sivrs, and that it was the scheme of days or weeks of head-work and financiering. The package delivered to “ B. F. Goudrieh, & Co." came from Oden, [il., f was a part of the game to bring the messenger to tu the place, which was secured near the com panuy’s office, that it might be taken first on the route when the messeuyer should start out to deliver his packayes. The room was rented ou Tharsday by a man who paid $15 in ad- vanee, and yave hus nate as J. W. Brooks, witimating thai it was to be used asa com- mission honse, A room in front, en suite, was alsv rented, but in this there was nuthi:g de- noting its oecupaney, except newspaper cur- tains upon the front windows.

The furniture of the room upon which the Outraye occurred was very primitive. An old carpet was spread loasly upon the floor, not nearly covering it; six new chairs, plain wood; a common writing desk, avd a plain varnished pine table, constituted the lot. The iron bar was found upon the floor; « bottle which eon- | tained the chivroform, and the ray with which it was applied, lay upon the desk, while a cot- tos cloth, cut so as to cover the face, with holes for the eyes. nose and mouth, and black- ened with charcoal, was found in the desk.

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jand the

i people will treat the colored people kindly and humanely, if left to themselves. He em phatically deplores the atte mpt to commit the political “destines of the South to the colored people, before they are prepared for such al

onsil and considers such an attempt frausht with and calamities and with destruction also to the weyroes themselves.

His letter is endoracd by Beaureszard, Stevens

rest rity, t

mistortanes

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aud Stuart.

DISGRACEFUL OVTRAGE, The Tribane states that at Greenport, L. I, | distant about 92 miles from New York eity, on Friday last, at midsight, a party of dis | raised men, five or six in number, took Lieut- | Col, Andrew Harris from his house and covered him with tar and feathers and | threatened his life at the same time. This ace! was committed because Colonel Harrison was |

& supporter of Graut. io ee 3 PLAGUE IN THE UNITED | STATES.

CATTLE

Late American papers received are filled : z with the most alarming reports of the ravages | of a fatal di which has lately broken out

sense

amony the eattle of the Western States, and | which bids fair, unless some means is found to] cher k its ¢ urse, to dest: y the live stock of that revlon From all accounts it would ap-

pear that the disease first made its appearance | in Texas, and from thence spread to Indiana} and {ilinoit, through which States large droves | of eaftle from Texas annually pass on their | way to market. As many of these cattle were infected with the disease, it is supposed that they polluted the places in which they stopped to graze, as the disease invanably broke out among the native cattle that were pastured on them, invariably ending fatally about the fifth day. In Champaign County, Llinois, the ra- vayes of the disease has been fearful, nearly | all the cattle have died, and the loss is esti

mated at not less than $20,000. In this, as | well as many other parts of the State, vigilence | committees have been formed for the avowed purpose of destroying any foreign cattle that may come within miles of their locality. In this State many persons have been made sick not only by eating the meat of uiseased cattle | but by drinkiny the milk of cows, that at the | time appeared healthy, but was afterwards found to be diseased. The panic has reached | Caicago, and the Pork Packing Association of | that plaee appointed a Commitiee of Medical} men to make a tour of inspection through the different localities in which the disease has ap- peared in Hilimois, and from their report we

“ That no system of medical treatment can be relied on or conveniently applied ; that prevention consists in the separation aud isolation of native from Texan eattle, which should be Kept by themselves in proper encloanres; that the winter) trade in ‘Texan cattle ean goon without the least) danger Co native stock ; and that tn all probability | eveo in samwer, tader judicious treatment, Texan steers can be cleaned of the Polwan which infeets them. Prof. Gamgee eoncurred in there

views, and axid there eould be do deubt that a) situple fence would prevent the apread of the|

disease. [ft was hie opinion that crowding, ill-

treatment or vegleet af cattle in their transporta- |

tien tad much te de with the spread of the Phe same was not contagious. net spread far and wide, yet it had features like a plague, When proper treatment was shown cattle there was ithe danger of the disease spreading. The tick common among Texan

cattle wa~ blamed for propogating the disease to |

suine extent, Sueh was a false ides. The

peisen ip cattle inflicted with this plague was.

vegetable and not mineral, ax was generally sup- posed, and was theretore difficult to be trace Some Texan cattle shipped to [linois and other Northern States had not communicated the disease.”

A despatch from Louisville, Friday, says the Texas Cattle Plague js lurgely on the increase in Plinois and fudiana. Measures are being

takeu to stop the landing of boats destined to |

Louisville and the ports above, that baye eat- tle on them from the South. A disease has broken out among the Brook-

ilyn street car horses, and ten out of thirty-

three have died since Monday. {t is a kind of spotted disease, not contagion, but of a gene- rally fatal character, althoush wher properly treated its progress can be checked. The first

symptoms of the disease may be easily detect-| He believes that the disestablishment and disen-| the gravity of the offence. ed. The horse will, when offered water, ap-) dowment of the Irish Church would strengthen | men

pear to want it, will take it into the mouth, but will be unable to swallow it, yet will endea-

vor ta do so. Thus is followed by a difficulty | himeelt a champion of the prociples above set! of Gur late distinguished visitors, aud of. the

ta swallow solids, and the food is taken up, masticated and stored np between the cheeks teeth. The duration of the disease varies, at times the animal will die without treatment in eight hours, and cases have been

, cunfiiet, bait his policy is uncertain.

jand fifty (

It did}

sena in the burning eare, and that they might have been saved bat tor the fact that ber ald was refused. Mr. Littler, the Companys agent, denied the statement of the witness. He thought it was impossible for any one to go near the fire. He asked for the issuance of writs te bring persons | who were on board the train te testify before the | jury, which were granted. Mr. ‘Townsend and

Mr. Hone, who were passengers on the train,

testified that. at the time, they thought the fire

broke out in the goods van. They were unable | te see a yard ahead, and that they left the scene | unaware that any deaths had occurred. The in quest was then adjourned until to-morrow. ’

Loudon, August 29.

Later advices from Japan state that the eoun- try was still in an unsettled condition. The Mikado has driven the rebels te the north Foreign treaps were still guarding Yokohamo.

The Sultan fas visited Admiral Farragut on the Flagship Franklin. Taternational eivilities were exchanged, and good feeling manifested.

The wife of Victor Hugo is dead,

A Paris deepateb says Mr. Heort Rochefort editor ef “ La Lanterne,” has been condemned te thirteen months imprisonment and a fice ot!

(10.000 franes in the seeond action brought, think, that weak,few and insignificant av we as

against him for violation of the Press law

The North German Consul General sails for| New York on the Sth of September, tully em- power d to negotiate with the U. States for the adopticn of measures for the protection of eumi- granta on ehipboard,

Phe urmy law ef Bavaria has been put into) practical @peration. The Landwher were out} to-day fer drill.

Official advices from Bokhara state that the Emir has made a treaty with the Russian Com- mander, accepting the terma made by the Iin- perial Government, aad that the Russian troops have evacuated Samariand.

" Londen, Aug. 30th.

It is announced that the new Parliament will tueet on the 1th Deeember. This meeting will be merely for thé qualification of members and other preliminary boxiness. The Queen's Speech will be delivered on the Ith. ;

The possibility of war on the continent is more and were discussed by leading Enropean Journals, The opinion generally expressed i | that Prussia though prepared for war really | desires the continuance of peses, but that to | Anstria and Russia peace is indispeusable. The | French Emperor is undeubtedly prepared for a |

London, 31st. Reverdy Johnsen, the American Minister,-has returned to London from a visit to D' Israeli. | It is reported that all the French troops will | soon be recalled from: Rome. Advices have been received here announcing that a great conflagration had occurred at |

| Marinpola, a tewn of considerable commercial |

importange ov the Sea of Azelf Twa tundred 250) houses of all kinds tad been | totally deatroved, entailing a heavy less. The! last despatches received from there meution that the fire waa still burning fiereely, and fears were eutertained that the whole town would be reduced to ashes.

The proposed champion fight between Henry Allen and Joe Goss may be regarded as off. Allen has been arrested and bound ever to keep the peace for one year.

Dublin, Aug. 31.

MeMason Jones, the liberal candidate for Parliament, frew Queen's County, has been obliged to retire trom the contest

Reports hare beew extensively circulated among hia Cathohe supporters that he was a devoted partizan of Garibaldi, and it was thought that this would prove fatal to the success of the | Liberal ticket in that portion of the country } He had been strongly supported by the Dublin Nation which has published theae reports and | condemued him on account ef his anti: Roman preclivities,

The Dublin Irishman and Irish Times both censure the electors of Queen's County for their} j bigotry and intolerance as well as their lack of| |judgment in thus rendering necessary the wath- drawal of one of Ireland’s warmest friends.

Phe Corporation of the city of Cork have} | adopted by a uuanimous rote a resolution urging | | the governuent to pardon and discharge all per- rons now serving oul sentences of imprisonment for complicity in the late Fenian disturbaneecs. | Liverpool] lat—p. m. Hon. Jamer Bright publishes a long address to | ithe voters of Birmingham, giving bis views on |

nearly all the great questions at issue. He ex: | | plains to his constituents the defects in the late! | Reform Bill; reviews at large the question of | | suffrage aud franchise as will call into exercise | lmore of the enlightened intelligence of the} | country. He deneunees the principle of three} | coraered constituencies as apphed to Birmingham |

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| both the ganse of Christianity and the constitution | of the country. Mr. Bright closes by announeing \ forth, and offers bimeelf as a candidate fur ve election to the -House of Commons in the ap- preaching general election. London, Sept. 2.

The Ariel, the first ship of the tea fleet, has

She sailed from Foo

his peculiar mission to throw cold water upon a wovement which has for its aim the revival of trade in our midst—a movement upon the

success of which depends the future well being

whole of British America. The drift of part of the Islander’s article is, that as a separate arrangement between this Tslaud and the Uni- ted States would be prejudicial to the interests

| ting to it the most unworthy motives.

| quote verbatim the latest of our fault-fiadinyg

, nor Daudas left the Island to evade discharg- |

of Cauada, this Island, no matter how much it

Upoa this may be benefitted by such separate arrange-

vf every class in the community.

subject the editor of the [slander does not con- : ‘ ; lescend to reason with those who differ from | ™¢ut should not be permitted to enfer into it,

Ife, | and that if Canada and the United States can- "?

f| not come to terms, we of the Island must share We think

| that such reasoning, if reasoning it can be called,

lum; he dogmatises, doubts and guesses. while laying down the Jaw, assumes an air 0 '

cas : » sulerings of the Dominionists. superior wisdom and discernment, which, were the sullerings o

it not somewhat offensive, would be very amus-

ing. By this Sir-Oracle style he evinces both ‘is by no means calculated to recommend Con = , ” « 5 tes ; :

his contempt forthe capacity of those whom he | federation - the people of this Island. If the addresses hud the Very high opinion he has of people of this Island ave to be shut out of their

Now, while we believe the | [¢#test and best market, and doomed to suffer

his own abilities. 4 ndefiui editor of the Islander to be a man of parts, and the pressure of hard times for an indefinite

are willing to admit that he possesses a tair share of political sagacity, yet we consider that

period, at the whim of their continental neigh-

bors, or to serve their supposed interests, it is ike ‘ at c ‘, :

there are other men in the Colony quite as by no means likely that their love for Canada ‘ ; +} ‘ ‘ : mrernieed s

able, quite a8 far-seeing and quite as intelligent or ( anadians will be at all increased, or that

a they will be very desirous of entering into

ly patriotie as he ean claim to be.

closer political relations with those who are

. rapable suing sach a selfish, doz-in-the- a people are, we should do every thing that |? sble of pursuing such a selfish, doz

manger policy. But there is no reason to be- |

lice in Our power to establish free trade be- |” ks lieve that the Government of the Dominion |

tween our Country anid the United States. The editor of the Islander thinks diferently, and says in effect that since we can do little we

would place the slightest obstruction in the way of our obtaining, for ourselves alone, free trade with the United States. We eannot see

ought to do nothing—that we should stand by

sileut, and with folded hands, while the matter that the subjects of that Dominion would, in the slightest degree, suffer from our permitting

the Americans to fish without restriction in our

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is arranged for as by uthers who know very

little about us, and iy of whose interests, it

may be, clash with ors. When advances are waters, and we will do them the justice to be- made to us by the Congress of the United States, the Islander would have us yive ite re- presentatives a cold and spiritless weleome, and offer a deep insult to Ahab angust body by casting doubts on i§@ @ncerity, and by attribu-

lieve that they would not endeavor tu do us a gratuitous injury.

We are truly pleased to find that negotia- tions have been opened with the British minis ter at Washington, on the ‘subject of a Reci- procity Treaty fur the whole of British We hope and believe, that those

If we were to follow his advice we would give the; America.

delegates of one of the most powerful deliber- negotiations will result ina treaty in the ad- - Br i ten . ~s ai or 7 e 8

ative. bodies in the:world a reception which vantages of which we shall all participate.

wottld be deemed uncourteous and even insult-| The benefits of free trade will not be the less

welcome to us Islanders because we will be

ing to the properly accredited ageuts of the

ia a ; ea : bis. : — f ‘ ie most insignificant of our sister Colonies. To|° liged to share them with our fellow-colonists. show that our language is not too strong, we When the proper time arrives we have no

}doubt but that the opinions of Mr. Hensley, Mr. Coles, Mr, Haythorne, and the other

contemporary *s oracular utterances:

* When we first heard of his (Gen, Butler's) Resolutions being submitted to Congress, we re! garded thie proceeding ax a political expedient, | net in any way calculated to advance the inter-| ests of the people of Prince Edward Island ; and from whal we have since heard, we conclude that the whole affair Was an electioneering move, on the part of Mr. Butler, who, it is said, is siortiy to run an Election, In or uear Gloucester, where the electors are largely interested ia the Mackerel Fishery.” :

To say that the Congress of the Unite States would lend its aid te further the mere electioneering schemies of Gen. Butler, and | would conspire with him to befool the Go-| tiart h :

ss a ‘ : sculiarly oracular—the write ak > vernment and people of this Colony, is as in-| ies eo . ular—the writer speaks as one | having authority.

members of our Government,will be asked for;

and we are quite convinced that any repre-

sentations which they may make will receive | the respectful consideration of the British | Minister at Washington, and let us insinuate )that those represcntatious will not have the less weight from the circumstance that the | Congress of the United States did not deem a} this Island too iusizuificaut to make advances

towards entering into a separate commercial abhahaiaaith with its Government. The con-

cluding sentence of the article under review is

It rans thus :—

“The whole affair ie calculated to bring the | Island into disrepute; and the very men in the ing a difficult and an uupleagant duty, is com- | Island who are most loudly proclaiming them

a we selves friends of reciprocity, are acting in a mane plimentary to His Exce vas en ner calculated to injure the cause whieb they ad- aware that the Islander in a previous issue, | yocate.”

the Government to Would the learned editor be good enouzh to Butler the ‘‘best reception we can pessibly| tell us where the “ affair’ will bring us into give him;” but if we all felt as the editor of | disrepute, and with whom? and how those who the Islander professes to feel, and believed proclaim thernselves friends of Reciprocity are what he

sulting to that body as to assert that Gover-

We are quite

advised give General

professes to believe, our courtesies could | acting So injudiciously and so foolishly ? not fail in being seant, cold and most insincere; and if, as soon asthe backs of the delegates were turned, we expressed ourselves as he ex- presses himself in the above extract, we would give deep offence, not merely to the members of the Committee

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THE DEJEUNER.

At 40'clock, on Wednesday last, a Dejeuner, prepared by Mr.Marphy,of the North American House, was spread in the House of Assembly

personally, but through them to the whole American nation. Our previous hypocritieal attentions would but demonstrate odf .iisincerity, and add to We leave it to of common.seuse to decide. which is the wiser policy, to speak slightingly of the mission

Room, Colonial Building, to which about one The room was very tastefully decorated by Mr. Duchemin, with flass, flowers, &e., the folds of the Union Jack of Old England, and the Star Spangled Banner of the United States, being in close fraternal embrace. The Hon. Mr. Hensley, Attorney General, presided, and Hon. Edward Palmer acted as Vice Chairman. On the right of the Chair sat General Butler, and on his left Judge Poland, Capt. Merryman occupied a

hundred geutlemen sat down.

powers and the influence of our looal Goyern- ment, to discourage by every possible means those who attempted to further that mission, and at lyat to callin question the good faith

jflicting opinions concerning the merits and } objects of those parties, but certain | am that |

a a ase

\ tas aliey commonwealth, living under differ- | James B. Beck, # distinzuised law

‘ent institutions and having interests diverse

It was monstrous to supppose |

could con-!

from our own.

that the jugglery of stateeraft

‘vert such genial companions, such kindly

disposed neighbors, into deadly enemies seck- ing to destroy our lives and to ruin our country. The speakers, as was to be expected, were very reticent on the sub- ject of their mission, dealing chiefly in generalities — speakiug of what ought to to be rather than of what was likely tobe. We have no doubt but that the visit of the Com- mittee will be productive of many benefits to the Island. Such a beautiful, fertile country as ours has only to be known to the Americans, to be appreciated. If the visit be attended with no other immediate effect than to make us better known to our American neighbors the advantages will, in our opinion, be by uo means contemptible.

The Hon. Josgru Henstey, Attorney Gene- ral, the President, on rising to propose the first toast, —‘* The Queen and Royal Family’ — spoke nearly as fullows:—Gentlemen: On the important oceasion which has called to- gether, around this festive board, so large a portion of the respectability, intelligence, and influence of Prince Edward Island as I have now the honor to address—the occasion of the most welcome and auspicious visit of the honorable the Congressional Committee from the great North American Republic, composed of some of its most emine: t publie men, whose mission it is to endeavor to pave the way for the renewal of Reciprocity, (of which we had ten years’ happy experience,) between this Island and their owu country—iny first duty is to pro pose the health of the Queen and Royal Family, a toast in which, | believe, our dis tinguished guests will join with almost, per- haps, I might say, quite as much enthusiasm as it is calculated to arouse in our own hearts. The unfailing dignity, uniform discretion, and unimpeachable judgment with which Her Ma jesty has,throughout her whole reizn—a period of now nearly thirty-two years—discharged the public duties of her exalted station, as well as the excellence of her private life, distinguished as it has been by every virtue which can adorn her station, have uct only endeared her to her own subjects, in whose hearts she reizns, but have procured for her the admiration and re- spect of all the other civilized peoples of the earth, aud especially, ‘I am happy to believe, of our kindred of the great American Republic. The hon. and learned gentleman then,—atter further observing that the people of Prince Kdward Island are naturally and devotedly loyal to the Sovereign, and adding that their sentiments of loyalty had been, in uo small dezree, heightened by the very pleasing per- sonal knowledge which they had obtained of the Royal Family, in the persons of Her Majesty's two elder sons, the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburzh, each of whom had conferred upon the Island the honor of a visit —econcluded by proposing the health of the Queen and Royal Family, and azain expressing his belief in the pleasure which the distinguish- ed guests of the day would experieuce iu re- sponding to it.

The toast, having been most enthusiastically honored, was fullowed by the air ‘‘God Save the Queen,’’ from Mr. Galbraith’s Band.

Hoy. Mr. Hensiey.—The next toast which I have to propose is ‘* the President of the United States,’ tne Head of the State, the chief officer of that great and splendid Repub- lic. The position held by that officer is not, as with us, hereditary, but dependent upon the will and political feeling of the majority of the people. tu drinking this toast, we do not propose to ourselves doing honor solely to either of the existing great political parties of the United States, but to the whole united peo- ple of the great Republic. There may, per- haps, have been entertained amongst us con-

neither now, nor at any previous time during the existence of friendiy relations between the United States and Great Britain, is there or has there been entertained, by the people of) Prince Edward Island, any other wish concern | ing their kindved of those States, than that | whatever might be the internal political con- |

er and

Member of Congress of Kentucky; Hon, K H. Derby, « lawyer of acknowled sed ability, and an emineat finaneir; and Major Ray Dy ; Dekay, who, not sutisted with the milj a glory acquired by service in the field which he had rendered to the cause of his own country had Jately distinzuished himself, and been wounded as a volunteer in arms in the ¢ of the Cretans. Prince Edward Island has thug been treated, by the Congress of Uvited with almost as much consideration as they would think due to a separate aud independent nation. On the great ques§on concerniy, which these gentlemen have conferred with us, there has been found —it was to be eXpect. ed there would be— some difference of o inion; but, nevertheless,we doubt not, the con

will result in good. At all events, it bas brought Prince Edward Island into & more prominent position than she ever : before, and the consequences cannot fail ty be. ultimately beneficial to us. Gentlemen, ¢he toast which I now propose is “ The en of the United States,”’ coupled with Geuergl Butler, as a distinguished member of jt,

This toast having been duly honored by the company, was fullowed by the air, 4 igi Columbia,’ trom the Band,

Gevecat Burier then rose and spoke to the

following effect: —Gentlemen of Prince Ea. ward Island, Iu the position which I now o¢.

cupy, it becomes my duty to think and

not only on behalf of my associates but for myself. Allow me to say that, so far as I understand the views of Congress, which [ pe. present, itis not our place to interfere with the national relatious which subsist between the United States and Great Britain, but merely to ascertain whether, without any disturbange of those relations, we cannot in @ certain eg. tent, assimilate our interests with those of ogp neizhbors of Prince Edward Island. If we can do so we are quite certain that the result of such an assimilation will be mutually bene. ficial to both countries. We come and addregs ourselves to you rather than to the Dominion of Canada, or any other of the Provinces of British North America, because you hold the key of the Gulf Fisheries, aud your i

are more immediately connected therewith th g thoge of any other portion of Bcitish North

America; and because, therefore, you have aright to expect to be oriccteahy at

sulted as to any laws or arrangements by which they are, in future, to be regulated. our soil

is more fertile than that of the boasted i of the West. Your vegetable productions of every kind are most abundant; and in them aud in your fisheries lie the sources of your wealth. But to draw from them all the wealth which they might be made to afford, you re. quire a market, not only free but easy of ae. cess; and that market the United States are anxious to afford you. You have not a sur plus of any kind of vegetables which we do not need, and which we would not be willing to purchase at your hands. You have no com siderable manufactures; your chief interests are agricultural. With the New England States, the reverse is ths case. Their depend- ance apon agriculture is comparatively small but their manufactures are almost anvtoalllll both in variety and extent; and nothing could more directly or in a yreater degree conduce to the advancement both of their interests and yours, than a free trade exchange of different productions—yours the product of your sail and theirs the products of art. But what we most especially desire is that on the reciprocity principles of Free Trade your fisheries and your harbors should be thrown open to us as freely and fully as to British subjects themselves—not in pursuance of a mere compact of hospitalities, bat asa boon for all time to come. I have a complaint to preter against your Queen,and one of which I think yon will not he disposed to dispute the validity, No sovereign on earth has done so much to lessen the reputation of Republican In. stitutions as she. The beanty of her q