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PROHIBITION. THE TUNNEL. EQUAL RIGHTS.

COUNTRY before PARTY. MUNICIPAL REFORM l

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Election (lay is approaching. On Tliursduy next will be decided whrtbel‘ (fig city is to remain any longer in l.fN' hands of a clique, of an unreasonable minority, or be controlled by the citi- zens as a body. \‘Ve must again press upon our resders the necessity of vot- ing and of voting right. If owing to indifference on the part of any elector Mr. Douse should be returned civic re- form will receive a staggering blow. The House of Assembly could say to the citizens, “ the issue of reform was put squarely before you, and the anti- reformers won the day. \Ve must fol- low the wishes of the majority.” Int every elector therefore see to it that we are placed in no such position. More than that, Dr. Jenkins’ majority should be large. That it will be II‘, we bzs\'i-. no doubt, provided every man f...-omlilo to reform votes f -r it. There is a disposition on the part of some to steer clear of this election. While fu-oraglile to nforni they feel indiffer- ent tovr.-irds it just because the con- test is not being carried on under the auspices which they would have pre- ferred. This is an o xceedingly narrow and unpatriotic view. Let every elec- tor cast. aside personal likes, dislikes, and feelings, and vote like a man squire and fair for or against reform.

As for Councillor Douse no one can feel otherwise than that he is incom- petent to represent the city and Roy- alty in the local legislature. His career in the Council has brought ridi- cule upon us so often that it seems absurd to reward his conduct by elect- ing him to a higher oficc. His con- nec'ion with the Mahar afiiiir, where it was brought out that a sworn guar- dian of the law was aiding and abet- ting its violation; or the prominent part he took in the infamous Doyle re- I)lu'lI.'|; or his uumanly action ro- gsrding the claim of the W. C. T. U., alike declare him unworthy of public trust or honor. All, therefore, who rvse-nt these acts of Conn. Douse should gl up on Thursday to the polls and vote against him, if for no other

reason than to show that the city as a

whole is not prepared Q endorse his actions at did the Ward that re-elect- ed him after their exposure. We say ag-iin that he should be defeated by an overwhelming maj-irity. A City Coun- cil compost-d (f men such as he is bad enough ; let us never be so misguided if we wish to have any weight in the Legislature as to send such represen- tatives to the Assembly also.

In order to understand the useful- ness of Conn. Douse and the credit he would bring upon us as a representa- tive we re-publish the resolution which at the instance of Conn. Byrne he moved and‘ supported on the Doyle atl'.iir,—a resolution which, as we then stated, burl-sques the Queen, insult! the wmnt-n of Charlottetown, and viliicli a school boy would be ashamed to father :-

\Vheren.s, \Vomen in all ages, sav- age and civilized, have been an object

. of love and respect ; and

Whereas, a woman in this city hal been imprisoned for a breach of an en- actment not supported by public opin- ion, and contrary to British freedom, justice nnd liberty; and

Whereas, the breach of said enact- merit consisted in selling an intoxicat- ing beverage frcely used by all classes, from her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, who is the Head of the church, and Defender of the faith, to the humblest of her most loyal and most dutiful subjects ; and

Whereas, the various legislatures in the British Dominion, exercising authority delegated to them from the people, legalize the importation and manufacture of such intoxicating bev- erages by imposing thereon a specific charge ;

Therefore Resolved, That in the opinion of this Council imprisonment of a woman for a breach of an enact- ment destructive of individual liberty, opposed to the spirit of the age, and denounced by theologians and moral- ists of the highest standing, i. 3“ wt

worthy of the Star Chamber and Jef- freyv.

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Was Prince - £55.. Island Dis- covered by the Portuguese ?

Re,-_ 1);-_ Pgttersoll, of Pictou. _S., tmmm in chi; Province both as a divine and antiquarian, has been good enough _bu send to our literary editor copy of I ‘ paper of the highest value in geographi

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" rest-arch, l‘t‘I(l by him before the Royal

l Society of Canada, of which he hit! bflll lel cted Fellow in the sectioti of Science. The paper has been published in the Transactions of the Society, and issued separately; but vie do not know that it is on isle. Putters:-n breaks new

’ ground, or ground at least that has been

but little ex lorod .

Our schoo books tell us that the island now Pfil\c3 EdWlild WI.I dlfic-)VOl'8d by John C..b..t, on St. John a Day, A D. 1495, and from that circumstance was named hv him Island if St. Jean: 01' 33- .lohn. This is one of those fictionf that do nobody any havtn; but. assuming as true that Cabot uasthc first European who saw our shore a careful tracing of his voyage shows that he could not have seen it on St. John's Day. Dr. Pst.‘er- mn’s per has reference to Nuva_Scotia and Nlrwfoutsdland; but it leadsc1rcum- stantial evidence that l‘. E. Is'aIid had been geen by the Portuguese shlpl long before Ilenry VIlI‘s. Venetian mariner of Bristol put it down in his log as a new land discovered. '

The prrcise date at which European cod and whale fishers began to frequent the banks of Newfoundland cannot with certainty be shown unless some lost docu- ment turns up in some forgotten archives- chest, but we caun--t be far wrong in ass’ ning it to soon after John Cotter- eale a voyage of disc -ve-y in 1483. .This givm Portugal thirty years in N. E. American waters before Cabot appeared. As early as M74 an expedition to riach Cathay by the route of the weotern lea wss talked of, although it does not defin- itely appear that the attempt was made. It must be re memberid that (put down the other day soignomiuiohly In her squabble with Lord Saliabuty shout astrip of the Africa- cuad) was then the moat enterprising maritime

war in the world. Uu-acr the reigns of

ur successive kings she c donisod Brazil and founded suttloineiits in India. Ad- venture by sea was the leading character- istic of hir people. While every third day in the year was a fast, - r fish day. the hardy fishetmin of her cuast soot. sailed out west to the fishing Lt-uansss told if by the Corterealo father and brothers. Basques, Bretons, English and Spaniards, followed their example. At a later date, yet sti l the earliest of which we have a historical account of those filli- ing adventures. the Portuguese had claimed sove ' ty over Newfoundland, the peninsula Greenland, Cape Breton Island and part of Nova Scotia. and their fishing fieet was so large that on a given occasion 5,000 to 6,000 tons of tonnage was counted in vessels averaging 90 tons and strongly manned. In maps of date 1503-4, the lands above mentioned are correctly outlined, showing long acquaint- anco with the coast, and on one are set dowuas “tor itoryof thekingof Portu- gal” and on another “ Corterealc's asun- try.” Dr. Patterson takes notice of, and

reatly bases his views of Portuguese

omiustion on, the number of names from that languages still extsnt:in the Atlantic provinces: Cape Base (Rsce,) Cape Ee- pers (Speer,) Concepiciun, (Conception Bay.) Frey Luis (Freel,) Elowers Island (from Flores, one of the Portuguese Azores.) Bl-itnidon. Fundy (hay aFunda, or deep hay.) which names have surviv d French and English occupation. Among other instances the absurd word “ tickle" used in Labrador and Newfoundland to signify a basin inside of a beach, as In- dian tickle, ice tickle, tickel island, &c., has been resolved by Dr. Patterson into a _cort-option of “ Tekla,” a similar basin at the mouth of the Miuhoiu Portugal be- ing known as St. Tekla. Other examples are given. Mira, Minas, Carbonear, and others are Portuguese words. '

Further detail is not needed to fortify

the position that the Portuguese from time antecedent to Cabot were familiar with Newfoundland and the Gulf of St. Iawrence. Admtted that the Bafiqtlefl and Buttons were as early in those waters their sole object was fishing, while the Portuguese conjoined with that employ- ment ex oration and acquisition of terri- tory. ereforc the latter, knowing the limits of the circuit to which the fisher- men of other nationalities extended would naturally push their own farther. And it is ::-csrcely supposable that with, a large fleet of vessels fitted fur espion- h'on anl with the fair waters of the gulf before them, not one " Purtiiigal" should have run across from the Labrador coast where we know they had fishing stations. Moreover. besides being acquainted with the Bay of Fundy. they frequented Cape Breton, if indeed they had not a perman- ent settlement at Ingonish. A sail of an hour or two would have brou ht them in Ii ht of the green forests an red beach 0 Ki '3 County Probably they did not know t is was an Island any more than Cartier did, but they. no doubt, saw it all the same. No Portuguese name, that we remember, attaches to any place in this Province, although the robabilities are that those whale fishers in search of oil did not overlook the abundance of walrus (sea cow) to be found on our north shore. It does not follow that these adventurers made their discoveries public. On the contrary the adventur- ous fishermen carefully concealed their knowledge from the mop-makers, and so jealous were the authorities of infor- mation trauspiring that to take maps of new discoveries out of the country was a crime punishable with death. Inter thug penetrated much farther up the ul and named the large island they found D’auta Costa, ‘now Anticosti. It looksas if Captain Cabot must stand down. Now we think that Dr. Patterson has made out a plausible case. In default of more definite data we can go no farther than that the Portuguese, and neither the French nor Cabot were the earliest explorers of these North American waters. In brief, Dr. Patter-son's paper is a valu- able contribution to the transactions and deserving of the attention of geographers.

DEATH STRIKE! A BHININO KARI.

Many throu hunt the length and breadthofth» mini--n. will re et to learn of the death of John Talon ape;-. |‘“°°"f MOMNII. kn-oyvn and admired for

the last twenty years in his own home by those who keep the run of current litera- i‘“"°- 9 P00‘. critic and novelist, and to _:;9“V‘8 plt!eI;i:',a’ders under the pseudonym ‘ Like‘ a considerable number of our prumineiit writers he was Canadian by adopt-I_on only, but by birth. Born, in 1836, in the Southern state of Missouri,

of a French family originally from Can- : Idfihflltldluiworo made . the locall

universi;y,Rwigi a viewiuifixiia aaidh, ‘:0 0'1‘)- t ' t . . riest . e co c |fi"t.i(':‘t98l9(I\‘3 t., the Polytechnic of Paris and finished his educational course at the Ger-

toolt the degree of Ph. D., but the civil war breaking out be abandoned the idea of orders, if he ever entertained it, anl with the other chivalry of the South took up arms and served until Lee's surrender. whereby he lost all his ro rty valued in land and slaves at $1 ,000, but which he sacrificed without a murmur. Dis-

cgl daining when the war was over to come

under the rule of the hated “Yankee” he s-.ught refuge in Canada, the land of his fathers. and settled at St. Johni, Province of Quebec, where he niarri d and took up literature as a profession. Foratime he was connected with the St. John News, and contributed miscel- laneous articles to the better class of peri- odicals. Removing to the larger field of Montreal, he first join»d the Star and afterwards became editor of tne. Canadian Illustrated News, which he conducted with marked ability. His talents and high class of scholarship soon made him iminent among his contemporaries. asides lesser fiction he was the author of three novels. to which we shall refer in due C-illrlc in our nwtus on Camidinn liter- ature. But what seemed most to suit the taste of the reading public was his column of short. paragraphs, poetical and rose on all sorts of subjects, enlivened y his many-sided fancy. that under the name of “Ephemeridea" atid aigned.“IA-

in the untreal Gazette and went far to make the Saturday issue of that paper eagerly looked for. As a critic he had keen acumen but rather erred by an ab- sence of severity. his kindly nature bring uti -illing to» damp the aspirations of any one in a c -untry where literature is such uphill work til it is in ours. But it is as a poet that Lesperance has madea mark that will certainly endure. U nliko much of our rhyme that is called poetry, but is n erely verse, his contain thoughts. His

the masterpieces of Greek and Latin, French, Geimsn. Italian and Spanish

over the shoal of ficdglings whose best word pictures are but week photography, and whose music is but tinkliiig mbals. It has been truly said of him that e was “sty ofs class that bel-ngs almost exclusively to older and larger centres " Had he the same‘ recordfln Britain that he made in our philistinic and commer- cial Csnada he would have held a high place on the roll of English letters. Lesperance was the reverse of a cynic ul' srecluse. Although ti nioralist who had no hesitation in administering stern rebuke to anything potty or crooked, he was himself of a temperament the most sunny, and took an interest in the move- ments around him. He was one of the original fellows of the Royal Society of Canada, the life and soul of that tooshort- lived gvberingof wits, the Kuklos Circle, member. of the Society for Historical Study, the Athemieum, the Society of

F or four years he acted as Provincial Im- tion Commissioner of Quebec.

he biography of John Lesperauce is

the record of a fine life. From youth up-

feelings, which be preserved all his days. his piety was solittle obtrusive that many did not know he was religious. At the call of what he believed to be patriotism he gave his own services and sacrificed his fortune, and when the valour of the South became a lost cause he humbly accepted the decree of fate and sought a new country in which to earn his bread. In his intercourse with his fellow men he‘ was honorable, high-minded and thoughtful. No man in his sitiou had more or warmer respect. Vhen two y- ars since ill health compell- ed him to retire from his position it was known to the literary circle, but not to the general public, that he was threaten- ed withsoftening of the brain and that there was little hope of recovery. Dur- ing the progress of this distressing aflic- tion his natural gentleness of disposition came out very touchingly. until the end came peacefully. A private letter to the writer (which there is no riason should not be made public. excepting the deli- cate modesty of the person of whom it is told) brings to light one of those incid- cats that are by no means without exam- ple among the Canadian literati, yet are so honorable to them. It is that the family of Lesperance through his cessa- tion froin lab tr, would have been reduced to straits had it not b- on for the noble and disinterested friendship of Mr. John Reade. himself like most literary men not overloaded with wealth, who came for- ward as ministering angel to the family of his friend. They who know Mr. Reade will not be astonished at this characteris- tic trait. The funeral of “Laclede” was attended by a large number of amateur and professional men of letters, both in and outside of journalism, as well as by many members of the bar.

Canada today has at least 300 men and women who write more or less, not count- ing journalists. When most of these have passed into oblivion the future his- torian of Canadian literature will reserve a prominent place for the name of John Talon Lesperance.

Sons of Temperance

The Grand Division, 5. of 'l‘., of P. E. I. will meet in quarterly session at Kcnsington, on WEDNESDAY, lsth INST" commenc- ing at If s. m.

Reduced fares on railway have been secur- ed, and return tickets at one single first-class fare will be issued from Charlottetown, Mount Stewart, Albcrton, and intermediate stations to Kcnsington, on nth and l5th, good to re- turn up to and on the I7th inst.

A public temperance meeting will be held

in the evening. JESSIE S. BURNS, G. S. Lower Freetown, April 6. dw Ii

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Readings and Recitations,

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Silver Collection in lid of the Benewolgng Schemes of the Union.

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elude" gppeai-ed every week for six years A fi-to scholarship and acquaintance with

literstures gave him a vast superiority‘

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