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A Lively Letter from one of the Fair Sex, on the Railway Question.

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Te Tne Enrsox of 1He EXaMinee,

Dear Sir. ~Words cannot express the great, pleasure I feel, that the Railway Bill has passed through the upper aud lower bouses of the Legie lature. What great advantages it will be for the | Island! Although a great number of the Gentle | men are opposed to it, still I, as well as a great oumber of my lady Companions, are greatly in favor of it. Gentlemen ip opposition | may ask why are we in favor of it;—I will give) them a simple and tery common instance,—Sup- | pote they have » Lady Love, which I trust each | ope has or will have, residing about thirty or ine) ty miles from themselves, would it wot be mue! | more pleacant for them to step on the Care and | arrive at her bome, cleao and veat, without one | epeck of this red mud being on their clothes,

Now if they travel with horse end wagon, ne anatter huw fast the drive, they will not be at} all presentable—their clot ues all mud, mad. Not) ouly this sdvaatage w:ll they bare, but they will | travel in one bour, the same distance, which now | takes them feur if rot five beurs,

Again, Gevilemen who bave a large business in the country, is it not much more convenient for you to have your geods sent to you by the Ra.lway? | or do you prefer resaing the riek of having thew | damaged going on teams, or your teams brokes op the roa, and even sduiitting that you have strong teams that rould not be easily broken, J would like very mueb to know, bow many borees you will require to take a load of goods from here, now, in those bad roads, which we have at present 1 wheres no matter bow bad the roads are the “ jroo Horse ° will always travel, with the same ease as in the middle of summer.

It is true, it will coet a great deal of money as well sa labor to accouiplish thia great under taking; but for every pound that is now expend- ed on the Railway, there will be a hundred-feld reward, reaped in a few years. We will have a great many visitors to our Island, who will wisb to see it from the East to the West Cape, they will then have a good opportunity of doing so by stepping ov hoard the Care, At the present, if a person wisbes to go from Charlottetown to Tig- pish, it will take bim two days, and when he will have arrived there, be will feal more dead than alive, and it will take him a couple of days to get rested, Travelling by Cars, he will feel no more fatigued than if be were in the psrior at home,

Pardon me, Mr. Editor, it I bave taken up too much of your valuable time, but I only wisbed to give you one of the cumerous Ladies’ views on the Railway,

Ch'town, May Ist., 1871. a <) To Tur Evrron or THE EXAMINER.

Dear Sir;

Would you oblige me by affording me this op-

rtunity of presenting my compliments to the Editor of the Patriot, and thanking him for the notice he graciously extended last Saturday to a short letter I wrote to you, over the date of April 2iet, and kindly published by you in the ExamMer of the date of the 24th April, i would further thenk bim, should he again honor aay published effusions of mine with his atten- tion, to quote my words correctly. In expressing my bope that the three opposition candidates for the County of Halifax may be returned at the ensuing Genera! Elec!ion in Nova Scotia, I never made the slightest reference to three Confederete prociivities, vor did 1 allude to their possibly being returned “to guard the in- terests of our common country."" My words ran thue—‘‘ and I congratulste the loyal and truly liberal electors of Halifax County in their ebvice of candidates at their forthcoming political struggle and hepe to eee them, one snd all, —Messrs. Hill, Daly and Geddes, returned to guard and foster the local interests of their common county,” The ed:tor of the Patriot thus garbles mitquetes the above, “A Liberal hopes bis Confederate friend, Mr Daly, ue well as Mesers, Hill and Geddes will be returned for Halitax at the eneuing election to guard and foster the local interests of * OUR" common covurtry. Your brother journalist need not trouble bimeelf about my name. I did not, nor did I intend to allude to the subject of Confeder- ation when | last wrote to you, though, than’ God, 1 am not bound tv hold my tongue or stay my pen on that subject for the space of four (4) years, nor yet for so wany weeks, As before, dear Sir, I remain yours truly,

Ch’town Royalty, May 4, 1871,

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Dear Sir:—1n reading your No. of the 24th instant, I observed an article headed “ alter the battle,” in which you seem to give honor where honor is due, and in a very few words showed to us the true position of the Government, and how it should act in regard to Railway appointwents. Now, sir, allow me to state a few facts regarding the present partyin power. First. we may look wupen it as a Government formed of two different

mente,one the old L) verals, and the other of the Conservative a it bears the name of a Co- alition Government, and I, with many others of this District, look on many of its acts, since it came into a8 liberal and progressive. The Railway Bill as ove, a bough having mepy oppo- pents, @ now fast gaiving friends in a)! parts of the Island, The Coalition 18 gaining the confi- dence of many true frends of justice, and of the Liberal party, and we are induced to believe it will be a party of long standing, if it vnly acts as it should, that is, in carrying out the Ralway Bill, without any political corruption or jobbery, ‘They have it in their hands to bold the rems of power for many years. But I can assure them, tha: if they act contrary to justice aad economy 3m this matter, they wil feel the weight of public censure at the next (ienera) Election. ing that the present opposition have no platform,

Cevsts Katie.

LIBERAL.

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Government is bound by the decisions of caucue, | nod as this rule was violated by the introduction | of the Ratlway Bill, without the approval of the | party, 1 considered the compact uader which the | Government was formed, dissolved.” He fur- | ther says: “* The Lesder said he wae in the hands of the party and would be guided by their wish- | ex, It was decided not to introduce tae measure | that Session."

In the first place, where there is party Gov- ernment, and caucus meetings are beld to deter- mine what action isto be taken on apy import-| ant public question, the rule is that the mivority | ot the party yield to the majority. This is the) general principle, but on a great question, such | as the Railway Bill, I don't meso to say that a atrict adherence tu it could ve expected.

As Mr. Davies has gone isto particulars of what did transpire in the caucus meetings, I must, in juetification, be allowed to do the same, although 1 do not think it quite right.

At the second meeting to which be aliudes, a division was called for, for the purpose of ascer- taining who were in favor of the immediate con struction of a Railway, and who were for delay. On that division 15 deciared for it, and amongst the number the Hon. Daniel Davies, whilst against it were 5, Mr. Davies then ssid as it could not be carried by the party, without his vote, that rot only in deterence to the wishes of our frends who voted against vs, aud who asked

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tion, that be beld bis seat inthe House by a| majority of one vole, and that one questioned, he | would vot, under the circumstances, support If, and if the Goverement brought down the Bul, be would yote agaiust it, Hence the under- standing that it should not be brought oa at pre- sent; but when Mr. Davies afterwards told we that if be were fortified by a request from bis constituents, he would support the measure, I conaidered the objection to tbe immediate con- struction removed, and that it was my duly, a8 the Leader of the party, to bring down the Bill. This J did, and Mr. Davies voted for it.

1 may eay, that it ie the firet time in my poli- tical experience that 1 baye known a member of the Legislature withdraw bie support from & Govervment, for the reason that tiey brought down and successiully carried through a Bill, o! which be highly approved, and for which be voted in all its stages, and more particularly when “ be was satisfied that the general interests of the Co- lovy would be promoted by proceeding with tbe work with es little delay as possible, and that besides promoting the iuterest of our various branches of industry, he believed it would wa short tme pay not only its working expenses, but also the interest of the sum required for its cousiruction.”’

The object of the remarks in the concluding paragraph of Mr. Davies’ letter, I cannot ecom- prebend, unless it be that he is desirous of coup- ling, in some way, Mr. Howlan’s name witb mine,

Io alluding to the vote oi £2000 to the funds of the City, he says: “ Meesrs, Brecken aod Haviland had far more influeuce thas I bad with the Leader and with bis energetic Lieut. Mr. Howlan, in obtaining the swell instalment of jus- tice to the City.” Messrs, Haviland and Breck- en, as a matter of course, advocated strongly the the claima of the City to this grant, whilst Mr. Howlan as energetically opposed it. So that if the above proves anything, it must be the very opposite of what Mr. Davies states.

Your obd't Servt. Jas. C, Porz,

Ch’town, May 1, 1871.

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Bir,—I eent a copy of the sccompaning Ob- iteary to Mr. logs with a request tu print it in the Islander, Mr. Ings thought proper to publieh only part of it. Wiil you please msert in the next issue of the Examiner’ the annexed Obituary in full, and you will much oblige {he tamily of the de- ce.

Yours’ &c, Matcocm Lesriz.

OBITUARY.

Died, at his residence, at Souris, on the 16ih inst., in the 84th year of his age, after a long and severe illness, which he bore with exemplary ferti- tude and courage, Alc xander Leslie, Esquire. De ceased was born at the Bridge of Donn, Aber deersh're, Scotland; and emigrated with his fa mily from Stornaway, Island of Lewis, to this Island, in 1833. In this Colony be served forty years as @ Justice of the Peace, in which capacity he was a terror to evil dvers. He sat for many years as a Commissioner of the Small Debt Court, and wae High Sheriff of the County for one term of office, He was zealoua in promoting the public weal, both in Chureh and State. Fora long time be faithfully discharged the duties of an el- der in one of the congregations connected with the Presbyterian Church of the Lower Provinces, aud took an active interest in the welfare and prosperity of that Church; for whick be was re- warded about five years before hie death by be- ing assailed, and excommunicated by tne Pres- bytery, whose tyrannical intolerance towards bim was only equalled by their stupidity, in con- dewning bim for quoting, in a notice of a tea party which he sent to the press, the following from the immortal Burns : —

**'fhe Piper lond, and louder blew, T he dancers quiek, aud quicker flew.”

He leaves a large circle of relatives and friends who regret hie loss,

* Void of deceit, integrity his plan, He lived and died a worthy bonest man.

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(Writtea for the Examiner.) KICKSHAWS.

BIPDY'S VALENTINE,

Tv you'd have me my coulin, lather ur sooner; Ye'd most likely persuade me win |’ in the hu- mer; But ye'z inusin’t be after thinkin’ I's a feather ur tamer, :

De ye’s mind me; but thin I’m a rale self-con-

eumer,

Like a fine candle ye’z knows vv, iv a nate can- dle stick,

Wid a phat do ye'z call it darlin’, kind ov a wick;

Goes to firey blazes at the candle end enoul; bucna, Biddy ma cusbla, til] it burns iteelf out. So if yez coax me a thrifle wid yer illegint

and is only giving a ‘actious opposition to the charm,

Goverument, we beleve that if the country is | Bure I'd loves ye x, mavourneen, till I'd die in going to receive any advantage from either, it yer arms;

must be from the present Coalition, Knowing! And phat more cud I do, nar the candle wick this, we are prepared to give it a fair trial, but snout,

yet, let them remember that the people are ob-| But burn on wy life's candie till life’s candle serving them with a watchful eye. Now, sir, burns out,

this being the opinion of the majority of many of the most inhabitants of this place, | feel confident that I 2m stating nothing but what is the truth.

Hoping that you will give me a short space in our valuable journal, which is fast gaining riende by the able and mauly way you are advo-

ealicg truth and justice. I remain, sir, your obedient servant, A Traper.

King’s County, April 29, 1871.

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A BACHELOR TAX. TO TRE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER,

Sir; Iam happy to inform you that a move is being made bere in the right direction, it is to agitate for a tax to de levied on all old Bache-

“Jore for Railroad purposes. Prom here to the Point I can count above fifty of them ali in a row, who are no good to themselves or any one else, There are petitiona already in prepara- tion, und some of the precious fifty, this way,are making « clamour about it, but they might as well keep quite, a8 pearly every benest man ond woman will sign the petitions syainat them. We propose to tax them 1% each, per year, till t marred, This will mars ca aa census willshow. There is ne excuse for them. These old fogies have no excuse to stay as they are, for they should know that there nevor was 4 shoe, that there was not a stocking to mated it Yours, Truly, A RaILroap Max, Rollo Bay, April 26, 1871. —_———— - Seow ——-—-—- To tne Eprror or Tae Patriot. Str,

In your inet istue Sppeare @ communication from the Hon, Danie! Dagies, which calls for a few remarks from me. For Mr. Davies | enter- tain the highest reepect. For a life-time be and I have been on the most intimate teruis of friendship, and for many years we have been associated together politically as members of the eame Legislature, and for four yeare of the same Goverawent ; during the whole of whieh time to unkind word ever prewed between us, so that it gnust be i) wea guatier of regret that Mr Davies should no longer consider buneetf a edpporter of the Government of which 1 aw the recognized Leader. At the esse time, I om sorry for Mr. Davies’ own sek. thal the reasons giten by him for bia deserticn trom (he party to whieh be el ways belonged, are eo weak ard friveivus,

Why is Love’s Archer over the way, casting eye darts at our Zepherlioder, like General Ben utler? Because he is epooney !

What part of a sbip does Mr. Skipper Wood, who has just closed his voyage of life, represeat ? The Dead Wood!

A man of the City says:—He “ lives contagi- ous to Government Louse !’*

There cre a variety of screws, but the screw of screws is the tumbler screw; it screws you up high then screws you down low and tight!

What dwellers ow earth have already entered upon their immortality ? Those at Grave's End!

Spriceins.

Business Notices.

Read the circalar of W. A. Weeks & Co., enclosed in this day’s paper,

In our advertising eae will be found the eard of the Hartford Life insurance Company. Mr. Dougles is at present im town, and a good opportunity ig at hand to insure im this first. class com

We call attention to the card of Mr. Heney, ot Summerside, a gentleman who may be relied upon to attend to any mattera in his line of busineos,

Mr. J. H. Torrey it a young man commen- cing buriness, whose card is in another column. He comes well recommended.

Messrs. Hickey & Stewart have received some of the finest Virginia Tobacco Leaf ever imported here,

r. Wadman has removed to upper part of Queen Street.

We also observe that Mescrs, G, & S. Davies and Mr. Falconer have taken partners into their firms, and are doing a larger business than before. Several other new advertise- ments deserve the special attention of our readers, particularly the offer of sale of the “Commercial Hotel” in Alberton, and the Farm of Mr. Stephen Campbell

The Summer Arrangement for our Ieland Steamers has been made, and are to be found in another column of this day’s issue.

There are six new vessels on the stocks at Mount Stewart Bridge, Wm. Hayden, Esq., is building a five brig as Morell Bridge, which he intends for the Newfoundiand ard West India trade. At Cardigan Bridge ther

He eays—* It ie well unéerstood among poli- Geians, the! when ie Legirlagare is in Session, |

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We publish ia an other column the answer of Hon, J. C. Pope to the letter of Hen. D. Davies which we gave last week. Mr, Davies? withdrawal of his support from the Government at the present time is very much to be regret- ted, from our stand point, which just now, 18 not a party one, Holding the views that he does he could vever join the opposition, or help them to form a government, A less pliable man, might; but every one knows, that Mr. Davies is guiled by principle or what he considers principle. His views upon taxation, and the land question are the very opposite of the opinions held by the leading spirite of the Liberal Party. If he leaves the coalition arty, on account of secondary consideration, he cannot support another party to support measures which are contrary to his expressed sentiments for nearly a quarter century. Hence the opposition can take no comfort, in éxpectation of Mr Davies he!ping them to form a government. He may help to destroy the prescut Government it is true, but Mr. Davies is not w destructive, and we believe, will not factiously oppose any good measure which they may wish to carry out.

His letter at the present time, ig most deep- ly to be regretted, because it may lessen, somewhat, the confidence of monied men in the Government debentures. The feeler put outin the slander, we venture to say, never would have been published only for Mr. Davies’ letter. Our cautious contemporary Says :

«The people of this Island know that when afew years ego Mr. Hensley attempted to borrow £59,000 in London, upon the credit of the Colony, he could not get over £90 or £93 foreach £100 debentures. Ten times the amount which Mr. Hensley then required could not have beeu obtained except at a cost alto;ether ruinous, and we ure satisfied that were the Government required to raise the money necessary for the construction of the Railroad upon debentures at thirty. years, — no provision beimg made by means of a sink- ing fund for their redemption,—the cost of doing se would be little, if at all, under twelve or fifteen per cent.”

Aguin it says: “we must not shut our eyes to the fact that $16,000 in debentures ree deemable in thirty years may prove to be lit- tle, if et all, over $14,000.”

This coming from the suppcsed organ of the Governmect ie not what we have a right to expect. It should have said—the terms of the Act must be strictly complied with or no Railroad for the present, or until the deben- turee brimg the worth of their face. The fact that no provision for a sinking fund has been made, was ap omission which can be remedied next Session of the Legislature. The sum of £6,000 annually ect apart for this will be a sufficient amount. Jtis industiious!ly whisper- ed about, that Mr. Davies had other reasons than those assigned in bis letter, for leaving the Government party. It is shameful to set rumors of this kind afloat, which dare not be put in public print. We are inclined to sup- pose that Mr Davies’ action has been chiefly dictated by the consideration that he did not receive the courtesy, nor his friends that at- tention which he and they deserved, The fact that the agreement of caucus was not held to by Mr. Pope might be easily excused by Mr. Davies on refisction that he was driven to press on the question by the taunts and jeers of the Opposition, Besides Mr, Pope did no more than Lord Palmerston, and cthers of the Premiers of the British Parliament have done, in removing from great public questions the trammels of party,and appealing from par'y to the generous support of the people, as ex- pressed by a majority of the peoples representa- tives. Mr. Davies is satisfied that his so doing will promote the best interests of the country. and we expect that he will use his matured judgement to help the Government, or rather the people, to make the railway undertaking a complete success.

HON. MR. McDONALD’'S FIGURES. THE “EXAMINER'S” CORRECT VERSION.

ARTICLE Il.

Mr. McDonald also gave an estimate of the expenses, of Railways in Nova Scotia, and contrasted the area population and resources of that Provinee with this Island.

1. Nova Scotsa in the years 1856,1857,18- 58, expended $4,687,628 in building 94 miles. In the year 1862 she expended §2,- 687,550 in building 53 miles additional. This makes a total of $6,955 178 for 147 niles, or as much pro rata of population as would enable us to build 150 miles.

Nova Scotia has an area of 18 660 square miles, the population in 1861 was 330,890 being 17.15-18 to the square mile. Esti- mating our population at about 100,000,and our extent of area at 2,100 gives us over 40 persons to each square mile. So that Nova Scotia having an area 9 times larger then “ours, and having a population per square mile 24 times less, a railway would benefit only every 17 persons there, whilst the same proportion would benefit every 40 persons in this Is'and. Then contrasting the area of both places it would he as 9 tu 1 in favor of the Island. From the above figures another eonc'usion can be legitma- tely drawn, namely that we will have 2} times as many people to travel on a railroad as there are in Nova Scotia pro rata of population to area.

%. The cost of the railway in Nova Scotia was at the rate of above $21 to each person, being only less than ours $1,40, each person, But during the years of building the railroad there the revenue for the years 1856,1857,1858 and 1862 wes on an average for the four years $869,415 or atthe rate of $2.60 per head. Now the Reveuue of this Island last yeer was $270,- 0CO, equal to $2.70 per head of popula- tion. Itwill be seen that Nova Scotia built 22 mules of rai!ways in 1856 7-8 with a population of about 300,000 and when the revenue in 1856 was only $691,000. This wes equal to ejght years of her re- venue or nearly $5,000,000. In 1867 she added 55 miles more making an expendi- ture of almost $9,000,000. This is equal to 10 vears of her average revenue from 1856 to 1850. Now the cost to us of build- ing 160 miles of railroad at $14,0(0 per mile world be $2,240 000 equal to about 7 years of our present revenye.

Besides our exports compare very favor™ ably with Nova Scotia. She did not be- come e¢mbarrased by building her 147 miles of rzilroad, and there is every reason vo hope that our trade and business will be more prosperous than ever.

Ghe Graminer.

. Davies and the Government. | and Massachusetts with less than 1,000,000

Delaware, which showed that these places undertook as much in accordance with population as was proposed to be built here. Deleware 1856 with a population of less than 190,00 built 120 miles at a great- er cost than our narrow gauge line will be,

people built 1,500 miles of railroad.

4. Now in regard to the indebtedness of different countries which have constructed Railways, less the amount of assets to meet it, this Island stands in as good if not the best position.

Canada pays interest per head on amount of debt, $1,04; Great Britain pays #4 28; the United States pays $3,75; New Zealand pays $6 98; and Prince Edward Island pays 10 cents per heal.

5. In regard to the Railroad paying here he said thatthe weight of our imposts ex- ceeded 40,000 tons and our exports ‘ast year were above 75,000. It is fair to assume that one third the imposts name'y 10,000 tons, and one third the exports 25,000 tons would be carried by rail. Then with 15,000 tons interna! traflic we would have to go on the Railway 50,000 tons. This amount at an average of 1(s. per ton wou'd sum up £25,000. We may fairly calcula‘e on 10. passengers each day, which at the rate of $i per day for 300 days in each year would amount to £9,009 which makes a total o! £54 000 annually.

Now the cost of running a train wil be about 4s. per mile, each d.y. This for

E SUPREME COURT.

The Easter Term of the Supreme Court opened | on Tuesday last. Say@the Patriot, ‘* The docket | contains only a few summary suits and appeals. The reserved law points in Marsball and ano., 0s) the Marsball ‘of the Vice Admiralty Court. 10) which a verdigt was given for the Plaintiffs in January, wer@ decided this term. It will be re- membered that the “ S.G. Marshall” was con- demped last summer for not having a British re- gister, and unlawfully carrying the British flag. Notfonly the vessel, but all the tackle. fishing gear, &c., were confiscated. Mr. Marshall, advised that the nets, seines, &c., were illegally sold, sued the officer of the Admiralty Court for the price of them. Judge Peters, in an elaborate Judgment on Tuesday, held that they were condemned with the vessel; and Judge Hensley gave a long deci- sion, taking the opposite ground; while the Chief Justice sided with the Master of the Rolls, Mar- shall, therefore, hag lost the case. It is not un- likely that it will be carried by appeal to Eng land.” The most important case is that in regard to the right of way on the West of Pownal Street between the City authorities and J 8,Carvel!, E-q occupied the greater part of last week, and is etill going on. Whilst the lawyers bave bren dispr- ting, the breastwork has been extended out above one hundred fret. Like Jonah’s gourd, it has sprung up in a single mght, Whatever may be the result ef the impending suit, It Ils now evident that the extension of the whart on Mr. Carvell’s property leaves the west side uf Powval wharf, of not much service, and therefore, it may be well for the City to make some arrangement that will be mutually satisfactory, and that will be a gain to the City. As the suit is an impertant one, our re- porter has taken full notes of the case which we will publish.

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April 26, 1871. [From our own Correspondent.] JOTIINGS.

Dear Examiner ;—I intended to have been at St. Peter’s Bay to-day, but a heavy snow storm has set in, which has fallen

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150 miles, and 300 days make the expense of working the Railway about £9 000 per annum, leaving a balance of £25,000 to pay the interest. :

6. Before closing this article we wish to say that New Brunswick had the use of English Capital to build her first railroad, and the sharesin the St Andrew’s Line, were mostly owned by gentlemen residing in Eagland. Within a few years. how- ever, the shares have been purchased by gent'emen residing chiefly in St. Stephen. We wish also to call attention again to the sipping of this Island, as af- ter all, it gives the best proof that a Rail- road is required, and that in time it will be a good paying speculation.

In the year 1868 there entered the Colo- ny 1728 vessels, the tonage of which was 195 862, and which employed crews to the number of 9495. During the same year there cleared from the Island 1732 vessels, the tonage of which was 213 342 and which employed 10,007 men, This shows a steady increase over previous years, but from 1868 to 1870 the increase bas been still going on even to a larger degree. In 1870 the number of vessels which entered all ports in the Colony was 1773, tonnage of which was 265,805, and which employed 10,904 men. The vessels cleared in the same year numbered 1856, the tonnage of which was 544,698, and which gave em- ployment to 12,208 persons. The man ner in which the shipping is estimated is by calculating the vessels entered and cleared, so we have for last yea: a total of 3 629 vessels the tonnage of which is 544,- 698, value $16,09¢,009 and giving labor to 23,108 men. These figures are surprising as very few comparatively know how great- ly our shipping has increased within recent years. We leave our readers to carefully study them over, being satisfied that they will see for themselves, that there is al- most certain assurance that the railroad having work enough to do, will be one of the greatest successes in our history.

THE RAILWAY ROUTE BETWEEN CHARLOTTETOWN AND SUM- MERSIVE.

A correspondent writes us his views upon the above subject, which deserve considera- tion, but we presume no very correct idea of the route can be had, until after the sur- vey.

“ The Railway Bill having become a rea- lity, the next important matter in connec- tion with it, is the building of the road and the best routes to be selected between the different shipping ports or termini. At present it will be sufficient to trace out the shortest and best route between Char- lottetownand Summerside. Lei it be assum- ed that one of the termiui of this part of the line will be at Charlottetown, somewhere between the present Ferry Wharf and a point outside the Governor's Creek, Leay- ing this po‘nt, the line would run in a nort’- erly direction to the north bank of York River, and thence up the stream to a point not far below Moore’s Mils. Thence cross- ing the river to its south bank, it would run northwardly through the rear cf Cole's land, and thence through the farm oi James Watts, and crossing the Colvil’e Road nearthe Ten Mile Hill, onward to Johnston’s Road near or through Norman Campbell's farm. Between Campbell's and Edmund Crabb’s,there is a natural uninter- rupted valley through which the road would lead toa point between the ‘Two Springs,” a few chains to the south of Edmund Crabb’s. The spring next to Crabb’s is the source of New Glasgow River, aad the other the source of Dunk River. These two sources are only a short space apart, and flow in oppusite directions, the one southwardly end the other northwardly. From the point between the ‘Two Springs,” the line would follow along the north bank of Dunk River over a flat and level coun- try between the rears of the farms along the Malpeque Road and Dunk River, cros- sing the County line at some distance be- low McAskill s, and thence through Free- town until itreaches a point a little to the north of the source of Wilmot River, and onward alung the north bank of that River, and winding round the north shore of Be- deque harbor into Summerside.

This is probably the shortest and levelest track that can possibly be traced between the Capitals of Queen's and Prince Counties. Through the whole of this route not a bridge needs be built or a hill out, if the bridge across York River below Moore's Mills, be excepted. On this route 1s, at least, one inexhaustible gravel bank with- ina mile of the proposed track, and in all provability there are other such banks and stone quarries hesides. Should the above described line be adopted, it would run parallel with two of the principal roads in Queen's and Prince Counties, and would be near to, and accommodate two ranges of very popu’ ous sett'emenits, and would open up s large area of wilderness land in the interior of the Country.”

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The Coreert in the Market Hall on Thars- day evening passed off very successfully. Our musical critie has furnished as with a lengthy

8. Mr. McDonald gave estimates of

tion,

the cost of railroads wm Massachusetts and

account of it, which we have not space for at present,

already as deep as eight inches. 1am en- tertained hospitably at Mr. Angus Me- Donald’s, and he informs me that he is obliged to watch the mail and get his paper (the EXAMINER) immediately on its arrival. The Post Office is kept by a gen- tleman at Goose River, who maintains that he has perfect \iberty to open and peruse all papers in his custody, and acts accordingly. In my peregrinations I find that many POST OFFICE KEEPERS

do not subscribe for papers, but filch all their information at the expense of their more generous neighbors. Though frequently inclined to administer a rebuke, I forbear persuaded as I am_ that ail reproof would be lost on oftice bearers who probably never heard, cr read what their duties are, and who, to this day, imrose upoa the public by reading and allowing others to read and soil all newspapers delivered at their offices Ask them to subscribe for a paper and they flout at you, and un- gramatically reply. *‘ We gits all them papers already. more as we can read twiced a week. We keeps the Pos-toffice and of course we has the privilege vf lookin at all the papers both hum and forun.” There are many honorable exceptions to this class; but thousands of subscribers will verify the correctness of the statement, while others who know no better have come to view the matter in the light that custom

akes law, anc therefore, perfectly legi- Uinate. I find the

EXAMINER HIGHLY SPOKEN OP. The people appreciate the change lately made and are sensib'o of the marked im- provement which bas taken place under its present enterprising Editor and proprietor. Its editorials being short and spicy, with a sufliciency of liberalism about them to be popular among all clases, commend themselves to its numerous readers as the ‘*metal of the true ring’? such as they were accustomed to read in former days from the pen of the distinguished Whelan —father of the liberal press on this Island Lengthy articles are seldom read, unless they are specially interesting. I myself made three or four attempts to read some long Jetters in last week's ExXaMINer, ere I succeeded with the job. Such lucruba- tions should be boiled down to one-tenth their compass, or excluded altogether as impositions on a good natured editor. A WILD GOOSE CHASE.

I presume you have heard, although I have seen nothing of it in the papers, of a young man named Blackett, as ramer says having built a bough house on the ice +t Grand River to screen himself while shooting wild geese, a short time ago was drifted out t» sea in his lonely hamlet in the direction of Cspe Breton. While meandering amongst tha glaciers of the frozen north he was rescued from his perilous situation by a vessel from Port Hood, and placed again on the shores of his nutive Island at Georgetown, after an absence of several days, during which time he subsisted on such game as he ob- tained by fowling on his unstable quarters, and when found is said to have been feasting upon the carcass of a wild goose which he had killed with his gun. Query —Is not thata wild goose chase? Blackett knows. The whole

NORTHSEN LIGHT OF THR ISLAND has been blockaded up to the present time with brokenice. ‘Ihe southerly wind this morning carried it off the land some dis- tance, but a change of wind from the north east has brought it back this even- ing to its former moorings, where it is hkely to remain till a heavy wind from the south or south-west takes it out into the current of the ocean to be dissolved to its aqueous element. Several fishing schooners last Friday endeavored to go around East Point on their way to the Magdelan Islands. Tuiey were met by the ice and compelled to cane about for Souris, and on Sunday last, East Point being clear of ice, they went on for their destin ation; but it is doubtful whether they all steered clear of the ice, as two or three were to be seen yesterday jammed in the ice several miles off land. The people at Souris have taken the FIRST SPRING FISH

last Friday, and on the North Side fisher- men are anxiously waiting for the ice to go out to commence fishing. I have filled up my space with such odds and ends that I have not been able to refer to the neral feeling among the people in East oint section, and the journey of the day is so fatiguing as to untit me for the labor of composing a sentence. —_——____—~ ~-- <>

Tus Examiner this week cortains, includ. ing the “xtra, 23 columns of reading matter, The speeches on the Fishery Question are worthy of being carefully read, as they are filled with instructive facts. We have ar~ ranged them with suitable headings so as to make them attractive,

The articles on first page are very ably written and deserve careful perusal. We will give Ne. 4 next week.

Ina short time we will give a splendid story, translated specially for the ExaMingr, by Professor Gagnon; and also an original poem of great merit written for this paper entitled Ho! Iron Hoss, ho! Our friends in the country should second our efforts to get out a first-class paper, by remitting the amounts due us, and by canvessing fer new subseribers amongst their friends,

Our Subscribers in Summezside, will get the city edition of the Examiner in future, as it will give them severa! days later news.

Ms. Parnick Buaxe recently bought 44 head of c2ttle towards the Westward, 18 of which came down in the St. Lawrence from Summerside on Wednesday last. They were a remarkably fine drove of fat oxen, and several were animals of very handsome pro portions. One weighed 1500 Ibs. live weight, amd on an ayerage the remainder came up to 1300 lbs., each. They were purchased some from Mess:s. McNutt and Stewart, of Darnley, some from George Sin- clair, Esq , of Malpeque, and the others from Messrs. John Campbell and D. Johnson of New London,