me at. | Che Exramiuer.

THE DEMONSTRATION.

| Tyr gives us great pleasure to report that |

i but few of the Protestant citizens of Char-

Charlottetown, Sept. 28, 1876, A LITERARY CLUB.

= eae _ : Trrosk who live in large cities tell us

that one of the pleasures peculiar to them |

is this

pany to his liking. Men of kindred tastes |

find each other readily, and form them- selves into knots and societies in obedience to a law of nature almost as certain as that which constrains the particles of bubbles If the influ-

ence of clubs was effaced from the bistory

to seek for a globular form.

of civilization,"one ‘of the perennial springs

of progress would be hidden.

for companionship amongst men of like |

tastes is one of the most healthy and Every mav, and more a thoughtful cast of We wonder

necessary nature.

especially men of mind, long for such society. what rational being in this place of a bookish turn, or with any aims of self- had his visions

this subject, even

culture in him, has not

and his hopes on

in the mental barrens of Charlottetown. We would take odds that there are many who have cherished such imaginings and sighed for the day of fulfillment. Pro- spects of a lot of fine, bright fellows, «genial clubable souls, anxious to find something more in life every day, each with his own peculiar enthusiasm and a love for the honest interchange of ideas with others, a society from which the blatherskite was excluded by reason of his birthright, and where the popular desire of pretending to know and keeping up an appearance of wisdom, was taken as the mark of Cain,—where each member was ready to strip off fraud and to put by reserve, content to stand on his own merits and willing to be known for what he was, Such a company, gathered tegether in a comfortable room in the long winter evenings, discussing interesting topics of all sorts and especially books—engaging in friendly criticism on original essays or verses—this is a Utopia many of us have looked forward to.

It is a Utopia, however, which could be easily converted into a reality. There is nothing impracticable about it. If any person will undertake to attempt the formation of such a club, we prophesy success without the least hesitation. Great care should, of course, at first be taken in the selection of the forming members, and rules be made which would preclude the admission of any person ob- A comfortable room would be the next de- sideratum, where people could feel cozy and settled for the evening.

jected to by any of the members.

The number should be large enough to ensure a fair attendance at every meeting. What we propose is a permanent institution—not ove organized with the intention of being merely temporary. Our town is quite Jarge enough to support a literary club— a society of companionable men drawn to- gether by the bond of literary taste,—we do not mean only men who read much, but persons of mental culture of any sort, who need and seek intellectual pleasure. It is true there are many societies in town—as the Masons, Oddfellows, ete-—where such persons may occasionally meet, but these organizations do vot profess and are unable to furnish what is wanted. They are all, in fact, too inclusive. Even the Debating Club has attractions for many persons to- tilly unfit for the society we contemplate. A elub, such as we suggest, is, in its wy nature, exclusive, and will only prove a success while it remains so. It is time that we did something of this kiad. Charlottetown is large enough and has material sufficient. At this moment, if put to it, we could name enough persons Here the winter nights are almost again upon us. What a de- light it would be if we could see, in vision,

to organize with.

with the prospect of certain realization,our club room, with fire already lighted, the comfortable arm-chairs drawn round, and the members with genial faces expatiating at ease, having unstrapped their knapsacks of care and left them outside in the drift- ing snow or creaking frost. Come, friends, think of it. No doubt if we unite io this we shall prove like the leaven which was hidden in the; measures of meal. All the famous clubs of the great cities have had similar beginnings. Tho’ old Samue! Johnson or his compeers may not exbalt their periwigs before our hearth, or “converse hold that gods might deign to hear,’’ we shall be as happy in our uodertaking as they in theirs. Like Garrick of yore, meu shall wish “ to be of us,’’ and it will be considered an honor to belong to the ‘“‘ CHARLOTTETOWN Lirerary CLUB!”

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THE QUEENS PRINTERSHIP.

Iw the general scramble for office un~ der the new Government, the editor of the Presbyterian is taking a prominent part. Last week he sent to members elect the follewing—

Hints assisting in the consideration of who should be Queen’s Printer, now at the end of the struygle of 17th August, 1876.

1. If the Romanists had won, Mr. Caven, Editor and Proprietor of the R. C. Bishop’s organ, would be Queen’s Printer, as Mr. Bower's admitted. S, ould vot his opponent of the Protestant organ now be the man?

5. The Patriot and Argus have been the political organs of opposite parties. Ifone is preferred the other party is slighted. Ours has been, and still is, an independent “Evangelical Protestant Union,” whose chief work has been and is to unify the two politica! parties of Protestants.

3. We have fought the battle just finished for over two years: the Argus and Patriot have leftthe fence only about two months.

4. The above mentioned two papers have previously been inconsistent, and have di- rectly or indirectly helped the cause of the enemy; the Patriot by its defending the Cauchon Rider and Separate Schools for the Northwest; and the Argus, some time ago. having promised Mr. Bowers that, being persuaded of the justice of ‘‘ pay- ment for results’ by Mr. Conroy's speech, he would, at the preper time, contend for its adoption; and a week before he lately left ** the fence,”’ he declared to us he did not know what side to take. In the United States, so asto be a source of strength to the party, Hayes, of unquestionable, unsul- lied character, was lately, as a Presidential candidate, preferred to Blaine, a good man but not above suspicion.

5. If the present party is to be kept to- gether, a good Protestant spirit must pru- dently and kindly be keptup. The Pairiol and Argus owing to their Catholic sub- scribers and advertising patrons, cavnot as secular papers do this.

6. If we have not more subscribers, and surely, therefore, more influence over all the Island, from East Point to North Cape, than the Palriol and Argus both together have, and this to be aecided by the recorded weight in the Post Office, then we will not ask what we think we have a right to claim.

ts Mr. Fletcher has had good * rich pick- ings” for a large number of years. The

Presbyterians, composing as they do, one-

third of the population of the P. E. Island,

never yel obtained the least patronage of

this kind, and we think it is time they did.

lottetown | Triumph ” of Tuesday last. The “ great

that a man can always have coms |

took part in “ The Grand

majority ’’ had the good taste to be con- To their credit, they did not ‘indulge in needless and offensive glorifi- 1. The owas a melancholy spectacle. ofthe “Grand Army of Office-Seekers —‘‘with faces long, and brows contract.” The truth of the EXAMINER’S assertion that the celebration was ‘a mistake,’’ was

tent with the beating they gave their op- ponents.

| cation. “Grand Procession

it was composed

Even our obtuse Patriot that Its criticism of the

clearly made evident. the a blunder was made.

contemporary feels

i i " as : | EXAMINER'S article on “ The First Mis- The instinct which leads men to seek |

¥ . take’’ is more than ordinarily silly and men It declares that ‘for party pur- ihe EXAMINER “ wishes to keep

| d.icous pe ses a the two great religious bodies into which | this community is divided at emnity.” | This declaration is simply ridiculous. We | are specially interested in securing a re- ‘union of the “ two great bodies into which this community is divided ;” because we have espoused the cause of the weaker body, and we cannot hope for the success of our cause until a re-union takes place. We defy the Patriot to point out a single article in the EXAMINER the object or effect of which was to keep Catholics aud Protestants at enmity.

Again the Patriot insinuates that we are opposed to Free Schools. The insinu- ation is unjust, We have always advo- cated the maintenance of Free Schools. We have sincerely and repeatedly express- ed the great regret we feel that our “ free schools” are not available to the children of the people of all denominations and be. liefs. We glory in the Free Schools our brilliant predecessor was instrumental in establishing. But we deeply regret that the just and true principle on which he permitted the teaching of religion in Free sunk out of sight. Re- solutions which the late Hon. Edward Whelan introduced in the House of As- sembly, speeches which he delivered, and acts which he acquiesced in—all attest the fact that the first and greatest editor of the EXAmiNeR deemed it best to leave the management of Free Schools, in re- spect to religious instruction, ‘“ to be ad- justed by the respective local trustees there-

Schools, has

of, and the parents of the children attend- ing the same.” Will any man believe that if the Hon. Edward Whelan were now living,he would support the ‘‘ new party”’ in opposing the demands of his co-religion- ists for freedom to impart religious in- struction ? The very idea is absurd. And yet the Patriot asserts that we,—fol- lowing in the footsteps of Whelan and asserting, to the best of our poor ability, the principles laid down by him, are en- deayouring to take away the inestimable boon he assisted in giving the people of this Island. The Patriot is incensed. Therefore it is unreasonable.

If the “new Party ” will but adopt the policy of Coles and Whelan in respect to religions instruction in public schools, it may count upon our feeble support. The Patriot—owned by the man who gave sepa- rate schools to the North-West, advocates common schools in Prince Edward Island ; and edited by a man who does (or says

he does) “believe that to supplement secular education by religious instruction is an injury rather than a benefit,” sup- ports a party pledged to the country to per- mit the reading of the Bible in free schools —cannot appear much more pitiably inconsistent if it, too, supports the ‘“‘ new party’ in carrying out Whelan’s policy. There will we think be little difficulty in | persuading the Catholics to acquiesce. | Protestants will, of course, be advised by | the Patriot. The people will be re-united.

just basis. Agitation will cease. Whelan will be vindicated! By all means, let the “new party ’’ adopt the policy advo- cated by Whelan.

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THE RUSSIAN PROBLEM.

A RUSSIAN FORECAST.

The latest Russian papers received in Eng- land contain long articles on the Eastern questions. They lay down the following axioms and proclaim the following forecasts :

1. “ Russia neither wants, or indeed wishes for, territorial aggrandizement in the Baiken Peninsula.

2. «Russia sympathises with the South Sclavonians, considers their cause her cause, and regards her vital interests to be bound up with their imancipation.

3. * Russia cannot allow the legality of Servian demands as expressed in recent otf- ficial documents to be doubted. The satis- faction of these demands is the only way of settling the Oriental question in peace Even RKussia’s love of peace may be exhaust ed if her honors is touched.

4. ‘* Russia is just now prevented by cir- cumstances from going to war in aid of the South Sclavorians. Were -he to draw the sword on their behalf at this particular jure- ture she migbt injure rather than benefit them But sbe has always watched over them, and she will continue todo so. Meanwhile the Russian army being temporarily prevented from fighting. Russian society ought to ass sist the South Sclavoinians pecuniarly.

5, “If the Sclavonians living under non-~ Sclavonians Government were to enjoy a national government being the most numer- eus in Europe, would assume a correspond- ingly commanding position in politics,

6. ** Sclavonian States of secondary im- portance would necessarily gravitate to- wards Russia, their defender, an«l the most powerful champion of Sclavdom in the world. They would probably form a confedracy pre- sided over by Russia. By placing their re~ sources at the disposal of Russia they would add to the already formidable migi.t of that Empire.”’

8 om oe — - —— — ———

Prrsonat.—Respecting the new Principal of tne Protestant Acadamy, the St. John Watchman says :

“Mr. Edward Manning, A. M., who is just leaving St. John for Prince Edward Island, carries with him the respect and esteem of all in onr City who have formed his ac- quaintence or known of his labors as an edu- cationist, Mr. Manning isa native of Ips- wick, England,and received a thorough train- ing for a teacher's life at the Metropolitan College, Islington. He was sent toSt. John early in 1855 by the Colonial Church and School Ssciety, and taught under them for two years, when he formed a partnership with Mr. J. Hutchinson to conduct a High School as a private enterprise. Messrs. Hutchinson and Manning were appointed sogether to the St. John Grammar Schoo! in May,where they proved themselves thorough and successful tedthers. On Dr. Hutchin- son’s resignation in 1869 Mr. Manning con- tinued in the School in connection with Dr. Coster, and has remained their up to the present time. Mr. Manning, greatly to the regret of his friends in St. John, now goes to Charlottetown as Principal of the Protest- ant Academy, rge graded school, mixed in the lower iments, but devoted ex- clusilely to females in the Academic depart. ment. The Academy employs nine teachers (two of them males) inclusive of separate in- structors in Music and the Fine Arts. The Institution was formerly known as the Wes- leyan Academy but has recently been re- organized and strengthened under the aus spices of the Wesleyan and Presbyterian bodies. Mr, Manning’s educational acquire- ments and experiences have been such as specially fitted him for his new and import- ant duties, and the governors of the Aca- demy are to be congratulated on their judi. cious selection,”

The School Question will be settled on a |

LAYING FOUNDATIONS.

In building an edifice, large or small, | laying the foundations is not second in im» | portance to any part of the work, Broad 'and deep must they be if the structure that rises from them is large upon the ground and high in the air. This is pers feotly well understood with regard to struc- tures of wood and brick and stone, yet how many a mother with her babe in her arms, looking forward to his possible, and, in he» fond eyes, his probable future greatness, fails to realize that to her is largely given the work of laying the foundations of his success or failure in life. She is naturally solicitous that all his physical wants shall be amply supplied, but it seems a long time, looking forward, before he will be @ man with the ‘heart and the hopes of a man.” Yet, if when he has reached ma- turity she would still hold in his highest affection a mother’s place, she must not forget the future man in the present bake ; she will not only see to it that he is fed snd clothed and cradled properly so that his physical growth and development shall be the best possible attainable by him, but she will in his moral, in his intellectual, in his social nature, lay broad and deep the foun. dations of a noble manhood, The first work will naturally be forming in him the habit of prompt and implicit obedience to her will, which habit will be the foundation of obedience to all law, human and divine —of the law written in his members, on the statute book, or on the tables of stone. The next work, ina moral point of view, will be to insist upon perfect truthful. ness, and never for a moment to look upon falsehood in her child as a venial fault. Alive to the importance of inculcating this principle of perfect veracity in her child she will always treat him with perfect truthful ness, never deceive him, never betray his confidence, Reverence for the name of the Deity, for His worship, for the Sabbath, will be the next lesson inculcated, and will be the root whence reference for all things, high and pure, must spring. For all social relations the Golden Kule is aninfallible guide, and where the child has learned to be governed by this in his intercourse with his parents, with his brothers and sisters, with his playmates he may be trusted to make his way in society, In intellectual methods of juvenile cuiture, Fresbel has given an impulse and a direction which is felt and recognised the world over. While stimulating in the most heartfelt manner the child’s appetite for knowledge, this method provides for the satisfaction of that appetite in sucha way as to make the love of knowledge and of attainment a growing part of the child’s nature. It is to be hoped that soon or late, in our fe male institutions, a Kindergarten course of instruction will forma part of the curricu- lum of study; so that mothers may come to their noblest work nobly prepared for it. In forming the intellectual character of her child, it is for the mother to encourage every impulse the child has to become ac; quainted with the world around him, and the worid within him, in its simple and its complex parts. So numerous and various are the juvenile publications on almost every subject, so multiform the appliances for developing by natural and easy methods the juvenile capacity, that all who will may find what help they need. ‘Ihe money that is worse than wasted in unwholesome candies and sweetmeats and in perishable toys, if rightly invested in books and suit able material, would be the making of many achild. The time spent by many a mother in unnecessary ruffling and embroideries on her children’s clothes might be so spent as to enable her to store their minds and her own with imperishable treasures of wisdom and knowledge. A part of the education of every child is the knowledge of evil, and this comes to it no matter how sedulously it may be removed from all appearance of evil. Where children learn certain ex- pressions and the ideas they represent isa mystery to careful parents, but learn them they do, and nothing remains but to apply the antidote. Every evil has its correspond- ing good, and if the dark side, the pers version of good, comes first to the know. ledge of the child, it is for the mother to turn it about and show the right side, the positive of which the evil is the negative. If this is done with skill and judgement only benefit can accrue to the child from its acquaintance with evil. Its errors, its faults, its sins may thus be transform- ed into ministers of grace and virtue. From its parents the child should learn a proper self-respect and self~appreciation. It is a vital mistake made by many parents that of bringing upa child witha slight estimate of his capabilities, his importance, his talents. If he has the gift of beauty, from no lips can he so safely learn it as from the parental lips; if he has rare powers of intellect, he should find in his own home their most thoughtful appreciation, and for his moral actions no words of approval should be so sweet to hin as those his father and mother speak. — Exchange.

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Mr. Gladstone, in his published letter, de- clares that the position of the Government in regard to the Bulgarian b.rbarities is in- adequate and unsatisfactory, He favors pub- lic meetings upon the subject.

A special from Belgrade in the Times says the keenest desire is felt to hear of an armis- tice, every day increases the danger of the war spreading.

The Servian army is fast becoming a Rus- sian auxiliary force, lighting on Servian soil. The Russians are exposing themselves in the brunt of the battle with remarkable valor. Out of 48 men who fought asa company at Alexentiz, 20 were left dead on the field.

A Belgrade despatch to the Daily News says the Turks keep up their attack on the Servian lines near Alexinatz, hoping to cap- ture the place before mediation is adopted. The Servian infantry has been worsted, but the artillery behave well.

Russian influence is stubbornly interposing obstacles to peace, and Russians are swarm. ing into Servia.

In German political circles the belief is expressed that Prince Milan’s request tor mediation is only another move in the policy of Russia to protract Turkish complication until she can complete her own preparations. The Porte is willing to make peace and op- pose to an armistice.

A fire in San Francisco on Monday night, destroyed $500,000 worth of property, and the homes oftwo hundred families.

A Montenegrin official newspaper pubs lishes an article rejecting foreign mediation and deelaring that Servia and Montenegro will not abandon the conflict until the Scla- vonic provinces are completely freed from the Turkish yoke.

A Turkish proclamation has appeared ins viting the Servians to submission and offer- ing protection to those submitting. The proclamation declares that Prince Milian and his ministers are the only revolutionists and says they alone have cause to expect rigorous treatment.

Lonpon, Aug. 30 —Despatches from Bel? grade say the Turks attacked the Servian left’ on Monday, but were repulsed with heavy loss, leaving their killed and a large quantity of ammuuition on the field.

A Vienna specia! states that a council of Ministers has been held in Constantinople to consider peace principles, outlines of which have been given to the Grand Vizier by the powers separately,

MANITOBAH,

(Correspondence of the Montre

| Gazettle,)

MINISTERIAL ND CLAIMS,

THE HARVEST AND ITS PROSPECTS— INACTION—THE HALF-BREED } cassie

Winnirec, Aug, 17.

The grasshoppers hive ahh ntirely free this year. Secarcely one of the hungry ver- min is to be found within the confines of the Province, and it is now too late for their arrival,

For once the enormous productive power of the soil has had fair play, and the result is sufficient to astonish even those who have been accustomed to the heevily manured and carefuly worked fields of the old couns try. It is no exaggeration to say that many portions of Manitoba will show a yield of over sixty bushels of wheat,to the acre—the grain full of plump, and a superior quality generally to that even grown in Manitoba. Other products are in proportion, oats and barley showing quite as well as the wheat, and root crops—such as mangold wurtzel, turnips, potatoes, and all kinds of garden vegetabi es—having been produced of such a size and such quantities that the market is already overstocked, and the growers scarcely know where or how to stow away their abundance.

If we have a succession of such seasons— and, as the hopper pest appears to be dy- ing outnaturally through the parasite dis- ease, there is every likelihood of it—we may shortly be able to show the wor!d what a soil such as ours is can be made to do, and thus none of us have any fear for the result,

It never rains, says the proverb, but it but it pours, and sanguine people are bes ginning to hope that, having so fortunately got rid of the hoppers, we may reasonably hope fora merciful deliverance from the hands of the Grit persuasion, Far from it. With the exception of a certain number of paid officials and subsidised agents, it would be difficult to find such a thing as a real Grit in the country. But the curse under which we do labor is that of Grit Govern- ment. We suffer from the ability of their administration, their severe purity and their indefatigable energy in about an equal ratio.

I should like to give you in this and sucx ceeding letters a few samples of it. First, then, their energy. Mr. Laird, with all the enormous vitality of his gaunt and col. ossal form, has devoted himself to getting the halfbreed lands question settled, and has actually commenced issuing the 160 acre scrip to the heads of families of that race. The first was issued the latter end of last June, after a twelvemonth’s careful consideration. There are about twenty parishes to go through,and his superhuman energy has at length got as far as O (alpha- betically) through the names of one parish. When do you think that Z of the last parish will be reached at this rate? It is not too much to say that even a normally lazy Government might get the whole thing distributed and settled within three months time, but at Mr. Laird’s rate of speed it will be six years, and many of the intended recipents wiil be dead before their property is handed to them,

A little less talking about purity and a little more honest work would please the people up here a great deal more. The Grits must not blame the Manitobians if rumors do get in circulation about there being some reason, more consonant with the big push letter tone of morals than the purity vaunt, at the bottom of so un- accountable a dilatoriness—the more es- pecially as it bas already got wind here that a warm and trusted partizan of the fraternity is up here and speculating large~ ly in the expected windfall.

Metancuo._y Event.—Yesterday morning Miss Annie Dwyer, a promising young girl of eighteen, died at the residence of her father, Mr. Mortimer Dwyer, on Cornwallis street. Her death was the result of.ins juries sustained by being accidently burn- ed the night previous. On Monday night, during the absence of their father, the girl and her younger brother went to a shed in rear of the old shop, to procure an article called for by a customer in the shop. The boy carried a lighted candle in his hand, and after they hid reached the shed he al- lowed the light in some way to communis cate with his sister's dress, which was of light material, and was almost instantly ablaze. Altrighted the girl ran screaming into the house, and thus the fire spread over her person, Her screams attracted persons in from the street, among whom was Policeman Brennan, who wrapped his coat around her and succeeded in putting out the blaze. In doing so his hands were somewhat burned. The little boy also had his hands badly burned in an attempt to extinguish the fire. Doctors were prompt- ly in attendance ; and all possible was done for the unfortunate girl, but after a night of intense suffering she died, as stated, — Hx. Herald,

email Tae Rist 1x Morasses.—-The holders of

molasses appear to be in a fair way to show a respectable sum to the credit of their profit and loss account at the end of the year. Molasses has advanced six cents per gallon in Barbadoes, adding 25 per cent. duty, make a total advance of 74 per gal- lon over the cost of importation in May last. At the present price of this quality of mo~- lasses in New York it would cost 4) cents per galion to land here from Barbadoes the cost would be 384 cents, and that would be a poor article, the refuse of the crop. In other grades of molasses New York is quite bare, and many of the holders there are thinking seriously of purchasing in Halifax and this city. Montreal has al. ready purchased here about 900 hogsheads and is negotiating for more. Our stock to-day, of all grades, is not over 2000 hogs, heads, and it is safe to say that the trade will require at least 3000 hogsheads before the new crop come in next March. New York has none to spare. Halifax is short. Yarmouth will have to buy, having shipped a large quantity to the United States. The stock lett in Trinidad and Barbadoes is not good enough for this market, and the general conclusion must be that molasses will touch 45 cents, if not 50 cents, per gallon before winter,.—St. John Telegraph. an teem

Mr. Brake Returninc.—Mr. Blake’s prox bable return from England on the 3rd Seps tember is already announced. When a Minister of Mr. Blake’s standing and impor- tance pays so longa visit to England, the public usually have some idea of the object of his visit, In Mr. Blake’s case, however, the whole affair has been wrap- ped in the profoundest deep of secrecy. The Ministerial papers have dropped Mr. Blake’s name from their columns; and, in announcing his departure, they were dis- cretely vague and wisely brief. While in England Mr. Blake was also the most re- tiring of men, Lis name never appeared, No addresses were presented to him; the freedom of no city was tendered to him; Mr. Edward Jenkins did not get him up any dinners; and no English journal seemed aware of his existence. Therefore, the pub, lic will await with a certain amount of troubled expectation the report, which is sure to appear some time, of his doings

while in England.—Reporter,

* CORRESPONDENCE,

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OUR WASHINGTON LETTER, ene Wasurnaton, D.C., Aug. 26, 1876.

During the absence of the President, who, (as an Englishman might say) is now “doing” the Centennial, nothing is being done at the White House. Not being done about ‘he departments, aud tue Courts aro having their summer vacations, As a consequence, the local columns of the city papers are dull and insipid, and corres- pondents are thrown upon their own re- sources. Speaking of the courts, the trial of Babcock for com,)lici:y in the safe burg- lary conspirsey, he been set for the 19th prox. Chicago to defend him, Mr. Storrs is now engaged in examining the facts in relation to certain members of the Whiskey Ring in Chicago, St. Louis, whom it seems have been convicted or con- fessed, but are still at large. Mr. Storrs has been sent by Atty. General Tobb to ascertain the cause or causes of delay in these cases, and to have them at once ats tended to. With regard to the Babcock, case, the safe burglary—it was one of the most cold-blooded pieces of villainy I ever

heard or read of. The poor wretch Hare

rington, at the time U.S. Attorney for this |

District, doubtless instigated and controll.

ed by the Washington Ring composed of |

Boss Shepherd, Babcock, H. D. Cook and that gang, concocted a plan to have his own office safe robbed of papers of vital impor. tance in a suit pending in which the Ring were involved as were also some of our most wealthy and influential citizens who were trying to break up the ring. Har- rington employed professional burglars from New York to do the work, and the papers were to be left at the house of one of the gentlemen engaged in prosecuting the ring (Mr. Columbus Aiexander) and were actually carried there. By the most fortuitous circumstances he was away from home, and they did not succeed in deliver- ing them to him, Had they been found in his possession, as they certainly would the next day,in less than two weeks they would have had him in the Penitentiary. Harrington was tried for this, and though the evidence was tonclusive the jury failed toagree. Juries here are made very credu- lous or incredulous, whichever you please, by a slight application of the ‘root of all evil.’ Harrington has since made a full confession, but would not give the names of his associates. He is now in Nassau and it is not likely he will be here to testify against Babeock. It is singular, but true, that during Harrington’s trial, which lasted a week or ten days, he, by invitation, dined with the President at the White House among a select party of gentlemen, some of them foreign ambassadors. There are many here in high official positions and their daily associates in private life who cannot afford to have Babcock convicted. He knows too much of their dealings and holds too many papers against them to be in the least danger from a pliant District Attorney, to whom a wink from the White House is worth more than a volume of pre- cedents. There is not the slightest doubt of Babcock’s guilt, as if is known that un- der the mask of a smooth exterior and the uniform of an army officer, he has plotted dark crimes and betrayed sacred trusts. Still, the Republican party dare not throw him overboard, nor urge his dismissal from the four Government positions he still holds and dishonors. ‘They dread his secrets. Cameron’s proclamation of war against the South has commenced being acted upon in good earnest. A general order just issued from the War Department directs Col. Kuger, upon assuming command of the department of the South on or about Sep- tember the first, to transfer the headquar~ ters of the department to Atlanta, Georgia. The companies of the second infantry, now in the department of the Gulf, will be transs fered to the department of the South, and the headquarters and companies of the Six- teenth Infantry will be transferred to the departments of the Gulf. This proclamation is one of military personal government, so startling that it must disquiet all persons whose minds are not bound hopelessly in the thralls of partisan Republicanism,

There is little doubt, it will weaken Hayes |

and Wheeler at the North and will not strengthen them at the South. It estab- lishes a precedent for sending troops to control elections at New York or Massas chusetts in coming days on frivolous pre- texts.

SAXON,

WAR NEWS.

It is impossible to place any dependence upon the assertions of a single telegraphic despatch from the seat of war in Eastern Europe, but the tenor of recent despatches has been so uniformly in favor of the Servi- ans for several days past that we can hardly help believing that they have gained some advantages over their Mahommedan op< pressors. The effect of such must neces- sarily be, we think, to prevent the immedi« ate success of peace negotiations, although each day’s despatches refer to propositions and councils looking towards peace. So long as the insurrection promises success, the Servians and Montenegrins will be de- sirous of presevering in it. One of the latest despatches states that the Montene- grin Official newspaper has just published an article condemning and repudiating foreign intervention and declaring that the revolted principalities will not give up fighting until the Sclavonic provinces are completely freed from the Turkish yoke. In this determination the people will be supported by Russian sympathy and Russ sian assistance. Indeed, it is stated now that the Russians are doing the heaviest part of the fighting, and it is no doubt that to the skill and bravery of Russian officers and the dogged courage of Russian volun~ teers, the recent successes of the insurgent armies are due. It seems strange, how. ever, that the war should have been allows ed to go as long as it has without being participated in by other Sclavonic subjects of the Porte. The Sclavonic population of the Empire numbers over six millions, while the whole Turkish population in Europe is not much over four millions and a half. Anything like united action on the part of the Slavs ought to be successful in throwing off the Turkish yoke. The Greek population of the Crete has shown itself restive and disposed to revolt, but no general uprising among the Greek popula~- tion has yet taken place. It would seem as though the Greeks in the south, and the Slavs and Roumanians in the north, had all been ground down so completely by centu- ries of Turkish despotism and misrule, that only a few mountain dwellers had spirit enough left fo revolt, Perhaps, however, if the war continues for any considerable length of time, it may become more gene- rally, and other districts may endeavor to free themselves frora Turkish misrule. If it can be so directed as to bring about the establishment of an independent Sclavonic nationality, Austria alone will have cause for regret.— Hx. Citizen

Motasses to Boston.—The Carroll, last week, took twenty puncheons of molasses from this city to Boston,

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| Nursance Asatep, — The unsightly old | pump on Great George Street—opposite the Bishop's Palace, has been abated, = Dr. J. 8. Bacnatt, Dentist, takes the place of Dr. Strickland during the absence | of the latter gentleman from this city,

A Gut.—The last Presbyterian contained a tolerably correct description of a cartoon which recently appeared in the Examiner,-— a fact which proves that its editor can write truly—if he chooses. If, however, the editor of the Preslyterian had applied at the Examiner Oflice he might have spared him- self the trouble of composing an elaborate description of the cartoon. We would cheerfully have loaned him the original wood-cut if he would promise to take good care of it. Should he still desire to pre- sent the picture to the admiring gaze of his readers, the cu! is at his disposal.

ALMost aN Accipent.—On Saturday, the 26th ult., as the train from Summerside was within two miles of Dock Road Station, four box cars ran off the track, two of which were completely smashed up, the others being capable of repair. Fortunately the coupling between the tender and cars gave way, or the engine would likely have been dragged off also, when the consequences would in all probability, be more serious. As it was, no one got hurt to speak of, al- though Senator Howlan received a rather unfriendly punch on some part of his per« son, The passengers afterwards enjoyed the novel sensation of riding the remains der of the way (some five miles) on the tene der, sitting on blocks of coal, and holding on wherever they could. There were on board, besides Mr. Howlan, the Revs. Fas thers Dougsld and ©. McDonald, Rev, Mr. Dyer and lady, and several cthers.— Pioneer.

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A writ of habeas corpus has been granted in the case of the brothers Young, the Cay- uga murderers, who will, in virtue thereof, appear at Osgoode fall, Toronto, on Satur day next.

A statue of the late Dr. Livingstone, cast in bronze, has been unveiled in the East Princesstreet Gardens, Edinburgh, by the Lord Provost of the city, in the presence of a large assembly.

The negotiations instituted by the guar anteeing powers are confined exclusively to obtaining a cessation of hostilities between the Porte and Servia, and it is considered that a general conference will be the only method of coming to an amicable unders standing in the arrangement of details.