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PRINCE EDWARD ISLAN RAILWAY.

TIME TABLE NO. 8.

WIKTER ARRANGEMENT.

To come into force MONDAY, DEC. 24, 1877.

TRAINS GOING WEST.

2 i No. 1 No. 3 STATIONS. Express] M1 xp A. M. e Pp. MM. GEORGETOWN ». 8.35 Cardigan - “ L. - Mount Stewart Junction Dp. 0. 35 Feyalty Jun tion ** 11.46 P. M. P.M. » CAARLOTTETOWN | oe 10|Dp. 2.40 iDp. 9.00 Royalty Junction * 9.25| * 2.0 North Wiltshire ‘* 10.22| * 402 Hunter River 1 ** 10.40| “ 420 Bradalbane | ** 11.13} ** 5.00 County Line 1“ 3.5 * a2 “s ve Kensington ~" aaa “oe SUMMERSIDE > alee 9 Wellington - Bei Port Hill “ 32 O'Leary ‘* 4.43 Alberton | “5.45 Tignish * 6.35

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: ° No.2 | No. 4 STATIONS. Express | MIxep. = eel = TIGNISH Dp. 8.00 ALBERTON a 2 5S O’ Leary ' . 52 Port Hill % 11.07 Wellington “ 11.48 | pom. A.M SUMMERSIDE t or 20 Dp. 8,35 Kensington “* 2.48; * 9.12 County Line ** 3.30; ** 9.50 Brakaibane “ 340! * 10.10 Hunter River ** 4.20) ** 10.40 North Wiltshire ‘* 4.35) ‘ 10.58 Royalty Junction * 5.30) © 11.56 CHARLOTTETOWN =} |S" 3021 « 19.99 Royalty Junction “ 32@ > , Ar. 3.40 MT. STEWART June. Dp. 3.50 Cardigan - é£ GEORGETOWN. Ar. 5.40 - SOURIS BRANCH. Going West. Going East. ro | Nod ro | No. 6 STATIONS. Mrxen STATIONS. | 45, sae A.M. P, M. Souris Dp. 7.30)|\Mt. St’w’t Jc'Dp. 3.50 Harmony ** 7.55|| Lot 40 | “ 4.26 St. Peter's ** 9.10} Morell “© 4.32 Merell ** 9.42/St. Peter's 2 §.08 Lot 40 ** 9.48)| Harmony ** 6.20 Mt St’w’t Jnc' Ar. 10.25||Souris Ar. 6.45

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CHARLOTTETOWN, P. #. ISLAND

BRA ATICTION SALES, of all descrip- dons, atlended to in city and country at moderate rates.

May 21, 1877.

MORTGAGE SALE.

be Sold, by PUSLI? AU ‘TION, oa TUESDAY, the 12th day of FEBRUARY, 1878 atthe Court House in Charlottetown, at thehour of 12 o’clock, nooa, of the same day, uader and DY Virtne of a Power of Sale con- tained in a certain Indenture of Mortgage, dated the 3rd day ot January, 1860, and made betweer Perer Mcinnis and Mary his wife, of the one part, and Joun Kyienr, now deceased, of the other part —All that Piece and Parcel ofLand being partof Towuship No. 45, aad situtuated near®the head of Souris River, bounded on the west and north by land then o dbapation ot Donald McCormack, and on the east by land then ia the possession of Augus McDonald, aud on the south by Souris River—coataining fifty- one acres oflaad, being the farm then and until lately in occupation of the said Peter McIunis, together with all the Buildings and Appurten- ances connected therewith. For terms and conditions of sale, apply to Messrs. Hodgsen & McLeod. Dated 9th day of November 1877.

JAMES McFARLANE,

EDWARD J. HODGSON,

vERNON H. KNIGHT; Trustees and Devisees under the will of thelas Jobo Knight. Nov. 10—t sale

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Details of the Surrender of Plevna.

in the Russian camp, it was decided that

It supine that a Council of war was held |*

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eat commercial advamtages to the people of

by the Washington Treaty, only ex. his enemies to renewed to more

t objurgatio: » Sud to more truculent’

the moment had arrived to attack Plevna | @@¢ ent on the yJatform and by storm. The following day—Sund: * Jin ber that treaty had been terrific bombardment began. At early < Np eenduct approved by on Monday a general action commenced. macien P. t—m

SIX COLUMS OF ATTACK

were formed, each mustering 12,000 men, the reserve consisted of no less than 0. The fire of the Russian siege ceased, and the Russio-Roumanian | columns threw themselves i vance Turkish redoubts. th with desperate resistance. exchs

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claimed or given. was captured, NOT A PRISONER WAS TAKEN.

The storming columns then advanced on the inner lines, where the main force of Osman Pasha’s army were massed. The Ottoman chief, seeing that further’ resist- ance would be useless, ordered a retreat northwards toward Widdin. At this criti- cal moment the Russo-Roumanian field ar- tillery reserve advanced as far as ths heights immediately commanding the upper portion of Plevna, and

OPENED AN ENFILADING FIRE

which made terrible havoc among the Turk- ish troops in the valley below, who were proceeding to attack the position just occu- pied by the enemy. The Russian batteries were attacked over and over again, but in vain, the object of these repeated on- slaughts being to divert attention from the main body that was advancing in the oppo- site direction.

IN THE HEART OF THE FRAY

Osman Pasha placed himself at the head of his troops, and pressed forward as far as Openesch, situated about three miles from Plevna, with every hope of breaking through the Russian lines, but before he could do so he was met by the Russian-Roumanian re- serves. Openesch lies on the right of the high road that borders the Vid, and a large reserve force had been posted there in ex- pectation that Osman Pasha would attempt to retreat on Widdin. This force was well supported by artillery that had been placed on the heights in front of} Dolni-Etropol. It was in the plain between Openesch and Dolni-Etropol thai Osman Pasha and his brave followers met WITH THEIR DISASTER.

The Russian guns sweptdown whole com-

panies, and the ground was soon covered with the dead and dying. Here, too, Osman himself was badly wounded in the foot and fell senseless from his horse. Seeing their commander horse de combat, and ibly supposing him to have been killed, the Turks began to lay down their arms. The Russians had already entered Plevna. Vic- tory was in their hands. TEN THOUSAND DEAD AND WOUNDED TURKS lay on the field. Not a vestige of provisions was anywhere to be found. The civil popu- lation had hardly enough food for the day, and the ambulance had barely accommooda- tion for a few hundred wounded.

The Washington Treaty.

For the last five years and more the Grit leaders and the Grit press have denounced, re- viled, sneered at, and misrepresented the Washington Treaty, and the statesmen, Im- perial and Canadian, who accepted her Ma- jesty’s commission and discharged honestly and loyally their high duties under it. Mr. Blake went so far in his resistance to the Imperial will—embodied in a solemn contract with a foreign nation—as to propose the rejection by the Canadian Parliament of the bill to give the Treaty eifect in Canada. His proposal was re- jected by 124 members of Parhament, while he only found 30 in his own Province to vote with him. Nevertheless, the dissatisfied faction, which he then forced into a formal declaration of their hostility to the Treaty in 1871, from that time till the award by the Fishery Com- mission, of $5,500,000 to Canada, continued to reprobate the Treaty of Washington, and to assail Sir John Macdonald for agreeing to its terms. The two stock charges of the Grits were :

1. The abandonment of the Fenian claims.

2. ‘The sacrifice of our commercial and ter- ritorial rights in the matter of the Fisheries.

That sir John Macdonald was only one of five Commissioners ; that he accepted the posi- tion of an imperial Commissioner subject to in- structions from the Imperial Government with the knowledge and approval of the Canadian Parliament, and with the express sanction of Mr. Mackenzie and Mr. Blake, as contained in their speeches, reported in Hansard ; that he prevailed on the Commission to agree that during the continuance of the Treaty fish and fish oul, the produce of our fisheries, should be admitted into the United States free of duty ; that the use of the St. Clair Fiats canal should be free to Canadians on the same terms as to citizens of the United States, and that the use of the State canals contiguous to the boundary line should also be enjoyed by Canadians if the influence of the Federal Government could se- cure it ; that the navigation of Lake Michigan should be free and open to our commerce ; that the privilege of transit for our exports and imports through the United States without payment of duty should be secured with- out yment.; that our vessels on the Great Lakes should be at liberty to coast from one part to another of the United States, pro- vided the goods carried overland in Uan- ada for any part of the distance (as over the Northern or Welland Railway), and that the difference in value of the fishery privileges granted to the United States over those grant- ed to Canada should be ascertained by an impartial Commission—that Sir John was thus authorized, and that be secured all thes¢

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volley after volley with telling ‘eff af When the first redoubt |

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esponire: . opt” rm’s length les some premature disclosure, some ecules = mark, or some distorted statement, might get into the press and excite national suscepti- bilities or, perhaps, disturb the judicial equan- imity of the Commission. But that was the very occasion seized upon by the Premier and his Finance Minister to reiterate their calum. nies against Sir John Macdonald in connection with. the treaty, and to tell the American Commissioner that he could if he liked refuse to give Canada a dollar, for his dissent would, “a ee at vitiate theaward. Here is what Mr. Cartwright said at the A ieni

on the 22d October last: — pe

‘How did that crafty statesman, as hig friends are fond of calling him, discharge his duties as High Joint Commissioner? Let the record of that most miserable treaty answer. In the course of that one transaction he com- mitted four blunders—gross and stupid blun- ders—showing as great ignorance ‘as it is pos- sible fora human being to conceive. In the same page of that document in which the Americans provided that in the case of their own arbitration a majority of the Commission- ers at Geneva should be allowed to give a ver- dict and assess damages against England Sir John chose to insert a paragraph which leaves it exceedingly dubious if we are not at this moment at the mercy of the American Com. missioner alone. Is it possible to imagine a more densely stupid act than * * to give the Americans a chance, rightly or wrongly, to refuse us all compensation if their Com- missioner refuses to allow us any.”

Of course the indiscreet reference, the false statement, and the equally false deductions, led to the inevitable uence—‘‘we have to thank Sir John McDonald for our difficulto, (Hear, hear.)” To get a stab at Sir John, rightly or wrongly, Mr. Cartwright weuld sacrifice his own honor, violate his oath of office, and deprive his country, if he could, of miulions of dollars to which she was entitled, and which she is about to receive through the astuteness and statesmanship of the man he renee potroyed and now vainly attempts to destroy. ‘We unpatriotic suggestions of the Grit leaders, published to the world at the most critical moment in te controversy, have, fortunately, not prevented a decision just to Canada, and not, apparently, unacceptable to the United States. The American Commisg sioner took the hint given him by the Canas dian Ministers, and dissented from, or rather deciined to concur in, the award. He also intimated, and no doubt he will justify. his act by citing the same high authority, that the award without his signature is oi question. able validity. Itis satisfactory to know, for the American agent tells us explicitely, that the Government at Washington gave no in- structions forsuch a contingency as a dis- agreement among the Commissioners. The very object of a Commission of three persons, one chosen by each party, and an umpire chosen by both, was to secure a decision of some kind. The American Commissioners at Washington could not agree with Sir John and his colleagues on the point, therefore it was referred, in the language of the protecol, to an “impartial commission.” If the American Commissioner’s refusal t> concur in the award could nullify it, what was gained by post- poning the case or transferring it from Wash- ington, and why make aay ditliculty about the

(| umpire?

The truth is, no other form of tribunal was adapted to the questior. and no better pro- vision could have been devised than ikon contained in the treaty Sir John’s accusers and enemies are again hoist by their own petard. Canada, in spite of its present minis- ters, has obtained five and a half millions of dollars forthe concession of twelve year’s fishing privileges to the Americans. <A pre- cedent 1 created, a value is fixed; a right is acknowledged, and in any future negotiations with our neighbors, we begin with a known quantity as regards our fisheries. X no longer represents the unknown quantity in our inter- nal equation. For this we have to thank, not Mr. Blake, Mr. McKenzie, or Mr. Cartwright, but Sir John McDonald and his late col- leagues. The United States will pay the award without hesitation. We are glad to notice that all the leading American journals refuse to take Mr. Cartwright’s hint. They say to their Government: ‘‘The award is against us, but we must pay, and pay without wincing.” But after all we are not enxious for very prompt payment. The sum will bear interest, and it might be applied to an impro- per purpose if it feil into the hands of the men who prophesied against it, and strove to pre- vent an award,

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Yarmouth has had a big bonfire, and some folks would say, an expensive one. Some liquor, valued at $80,000, was recently seized by the Customs authorities, sold and bought in by the temperance people for $350. They burned it up the other day, in the presence of a large crowd, a portion, of which, no doubt, looked regretfully at the sacrifice.

_British Columbia is excited over gold quart discoveries in the Cariboo District. The ledge has been traced five miles, with a width of 18 to 36 inches. Assays from 50 feet below the surface gave $40 to $90 toaton. An official report trom the government engineer is ex-

pected next week.

_ ATemperance Reform Club was organ- ized at Princetown on the 12th, H. S, Me-

Nutt is the President,

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