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(| Provinges ‘are far superior speakers ti.

Nees of Cunsda, aod eapecially of the Proviuge o

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MMLIAMEN?

ae NeW DeMirion

* The debate in the naw Uominion Paria geent affor ie considerable promiee of the enc eens of the experiment of Britian Awercau cunfederativa. The Speech from the Thcons, as the opening address of the Goveraor Goperal js called, hee elicited a general disanasion on the affairs of the uew goverament. The vari was issuer ppeaated were treated with a de ater of ahilyy aad an absence of party feel sng Shat i pechapé one of the wost favorable radwytionn uf the future. Members mani- festeg @ dispactram to forego persaul feeling te 40 e&tent that tein toarked contrast with the gegry temor of Cunudinn politics ‘Phe couyee of hows Scotian delegation. which Bus gpiicipated with considerable interest. pevedied weexpected pytriotiem. Mr. liows, the jewdee of the Opposition, ‘asserted thet

success in securing the alliance of Bis probably inspired bis wavering, anc policy. But Bremarck studiously a

effort. It is probable that he symp

Fru@imn cause, wad not simply wo

cause, 18 presented. = —-_~-

A Geaterct Teisr.—In 1859, Mr

prosperous business man of St. Louis, ¢

prit pleaded so hard for release that Yr.

he wat present against the wishes of ii ee at liberty, on a promise of futtiré eeateituents, bat that he would support slg yeu kes him some money besitl 1860, Mr. K. fated jy business, ard be-

clerk at a modérate salarv. Passing th fice « short time since, K., who was s! witired, was atoosted hy an elecanglv d

,oxsures fur the eommoa good, Messrs. Savery. 4 mes, Campbell, and other mewbers tron Nova Scotia, epnke in the same strain, aod stated they would offer no factious apposition tu the vatiqus guvstiwas before che Marlia- tuent. Jtie true that they yenerslly pre- tested ageingt confederation and «sowed that they would memortalis+ the Eagliso G vervor

Pavast4 ano Raves —}he Berio papers —_— throw # little light upon the lute events iN Shave Wren fizbting, ¢ he New Vrk Commercial Advertizer Bucope. They indicate tat Victor lem-

a skes the foNowing remarka -— ‘Bmanuel labored realouely ta induce Bismarck jjto commit himeell to the ftalian erdu, and had

“he succeeded he would undoubtedly have pe- sisted the French demands. The mingled hopes gnd fears whieh he bad with regard ta

making auy definite paples to the Tealun

with italy, but he bas deemed it prudeot not to eBguge in awar with Frane: uotil &

a thief in his-sleeping apartment fhe cu

dejeweled individual, with « How do you do, Mr. _ qi xd to See You. Sull in ba ou Main strées?’ JS., vainty endeavoring t remeinber (lie stranger, replied that he was not

watek, sertain

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italian i

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K. setHhiotetorthy facts

e post vlibily

Creran Evvcruquskr.—While the Cretans]

Particulars have reached ue ot two shocas ef an earthquake which were felt at Canea, wat the evening of September 19. and on the fudiow wg morning. The second sie k Wasa sevel@, ane lasted ten seconds, the asciilatrons being berizon- tal and from east to west. One at the old Vene- tian valley arches felt bodily, and killed a Dia iohg hospital utberdant Sherth afterward, the eos begun to recede, and at the

ynen

four feet > then puss gradually ubave the farmer avel The water ay wells was siunilarly afycted, hat with great agstation during the rise) The temperature oF thd een was the same as thut ot the awe? degrees Fulvenheit. Dy the alter noon thy wea had returned te its ordinary ievel, having mi the jaters ul been subjected lo p Wert!

for

vottoaa OF Ef. MOS. Wizard, then lying in the Laer bor, had suddenly become bright and clean Phe London Athegewm remarks: “ Phese are

laxt mentioned whieh our electricians could’ tote advaitage of, and devise amethod tor the intwes- teieous Cleaning of copper bottoms of the Royal Naty as they heat anchor im Plymouth Sound —_-

Mesare. Brown & Ham, and C. A. SSoliinsen

the St. dohu Pheastfre Ground Assetvintion, fullvg endorse the Casalry Condition Powders, andy will use their infuence to lave ther taed ex ® clusively ou their frack the coufing seasou.

Pe s And Meanness, agif trom censure shall refrain,

‘ere bas been quaking BThe Qrposiriow @'en, with virtuous zeal,

Shall the fair deed with their approval seal; PAnd neighbouring states with admiration eve,

Iu such accord, that Higt-aduled auity

BWhich proves, whene’er high princijle’s at stake. Our statesmen atill the path ot honour take ;

BAnd when, by test of some Pure motive thied,

, es & thinute, went Gawng

divide Ch'town, Dee, 13, 1867. R. B. IRVING.

it was remarked that the

Baaminer He also deews it proper to observe, with vespect to these supplementary lines, that they were

Royal Gazette HeCharlottetows, Yeonday, 2 y lith Dee., 1807. 4

.

a aaa é

Che Graver.

fur 4 al of the union with the ister pre- re busines®; in fact, was huatins for a situ ition, 2+ - Charlottetown, Decestber 16, 1867. vinoed. Hat the tndinations ate thet the re- Stranger said, ** Please walk witn me a& ayort Who that values health and life will neglect fuctant prasices will gradually relax its op- Histance. Phe two repaired to a hotel, wherelirhe kindly admenittous ot nature asking for rek

the stranger introduced himselfas the rey

position and fall in line witty the pew order bof thiagy “The friendy of coctederation have it ig pheir power te prowaw uurty by

ho af moderation god Wiedow. The ns pty fog eter —* s if uestion is perheps the w“eeatest difivul- oe roae ve K ony ¢ sm t ot ' ve ty. Wien eatin enjoys practical free trade, graticudge lo . in some substantial unanut

while the gther proyinces are & favor of a ? 4

we policy, Phe cyrrency question wise elicits o wide diversity of oproions, and it = be difficule ty frame & uatliorm system ter a! provinces that will command uni- t. Bat this is a subject that will he great peril of the new Dominios fig Waking too duch haste. Medd. tious god desire to frame a for which the people are not ” Be i6 dt laaet w watter of con- grata that the new goverament has ut * Last go oo. Its sugcsss will not be the United Srates.jbut rather the reveree, fur we have a direct interest in the prosperity of our ueighbors. Miey will gradusily get rid of much of the gambrous af the new goverawent —De oe

, WEST INDIES

challeaged any man in America to sw

iowwMANnces at a recent eWwimming ent neat :—** Standing plunge of 49 feet

legs out of wajer, swimming hack

cation of a sizamboat, swimming tike a Wimming like w fish, swimming like

ender the water, walking in the swimming length of bath (74 feet) wish

ward, standing on head uucer water, W on hands ander water, laying on Dot bath motivniess, fluating to fafious att

fram Eurape to deliver that Luaad to the United fate aa drank under water,

* States, according to the stipulaticus. he ne gimmie wmaunt to be paid 6,760,000 dollars. The United States steamer SusgucKena went to St. Croig t@ tale off the crew of the Monongahela,

of this year to spend the season in C

considerably damaged. J23*cd has vettrnedfland for the last four months resitted

to the West Indies aud is in Jauaics. King- ston is to be the futare Station for the English Mat! Steamer, St. Thouss having been abuu-Byjoue vscurred. The meagre despate! joes

were burned to death while unable to ex

favured with a cupy of a newspaper published ix

Paraguay), of a secent date. Que of its leading #rtfsies coutaine a letter frow Marshal Lopez the Coumander-ia-Chief ot the army aud I resident of the Republic. The epistle is directed tu the Vice Presideut, authorizing bim te thank the women ot Paraguay fur their patriotism, and especially fer a particular proof of it recently given by them. Ji appears tuat they formed the nuble resuiutiag of placing all their jewels and gold upon the altar wf their couutry, to aid her resewrees 1 maintuin- ing the unequal coufket forced upvo ler by the eS a neighboring States. They sien eu immediate utterdnce. Hie uever ‘al pressed their resvlve, if that were uvi o sufficient ffect, but for the trath or for the fan

sacrifice an their part for the commu cause, toBthing. Le (ells a story admirably, and

she lives of the ladies. i.

AnEnglish writer, who is intimately ac Mr. Dickéns is in private what might pected fron, his work—by wo means an i ble concidence. He talks much or according to his sympathies. His conve

unable to argue—a common cause with

feel it crowding and struggling at on

take the Gulf and lay down their lives in deieneeffrally with humorcag exaggerations. His sym-

vf their country, rather than permit it (o be dese- pasaies ure of the broadest; and his | erated by conquering coemies. In the despate wt Mayabal Lopez the Paraguay bervines are wataly and gratefully eulogized. Laypily the

admirer of the poetry of Tennyson. Mr

of games of practiza! skill. He is also «

Geurral is able to decline the acceptance of these Bwalker, and very tguch giveu to dancing Sir Roger de Coverly. In private the general

sacrifices, 44 the regress of the country and theR’ ; ae cet wSerings of bis felled citigeas ate ore thung’™Pression of him is of a first-rate pr Jie proclaims bie conviction that ba army pussess-Bby contemporozy authors and by the pu his tine.

arise yvut the truops of the ingading Powers. There is, however, one portion of the despateh whiey campletes the rowance uf tae touching iu- cidant. The Generel, as Presideisg of the Repub-

Loca Warrakt anv 17a Resvi.ts.—T a place in the Shees Hurbocr District, Sober Island, which bns lately bee

propaced frit. wat to pay hie soldiers, or equip or arm other Gatjgene (all which objects have beeu se- aured by ordinary moana), but tu be coiaed inte, wold pieces, the first ix Furaguay, so that here-

by the Thorpe family en masse. They and bandcuded him, wene to his resic wet fire ty it, the family having to m precipitate retreat to save their lives.

hener of the country, whoever touches or gees these commeuirative coins cannot tail to rensem- ber that Paraguay was the land of herviiea as

weil as heroes, when encroaching toes Lad the@thredtened to shoot any person who attempt-

fewerity te believe that she coud by easily van-ged to subdue the Hames or take oat the

ulhed. > oo Massust 0 Donner —Leopeid O'Donnell, see his wile, which wae granted, wh Marebai and ex-Miniater of Spain, and at ne @eleared out the hack doot and bas not

time Governor-General of Cuba, died og the been seen. Ofd Lawlor ad the Thorpe wh. Sth inet. The O'Donnells are of Lrinti ex-gfred the shot are now on their way to the

traction, but fled their country in the reign Halifax Juil.

ef Jawes Marshal O Donnell was born oo abouts the year 1409.and entered the Spanish érmy etaun early age. Hie hed attained theffcuttiny hair. Phe sensation preduced dhe tang of evlonel before he was 25 years of ngh; angiin the struggle which Don Carlos

Joat by th6 ahulition of the Salic Law of the Tbe ulachine & so constructed as to enal Bourhuna, Which excluded females from thegoperator, by turning a serew, to adju throne, O'Donnell fought courageously forcutting blade so as to seke off just the qu

the young Queen. came in 1838, chief of feof hair desired. Its movements are guided in the staff, and wad dihequentiy plased im Jsuspendings rollers, bhe those used with the hair

eommand of the army of the centre, At thegbrashing machines. gluse of the Carlet war he was made a

— of brigade and credted w Count of

oe _

She QGuetm Mother, and with her emigrated regular week of cold winter weather.

44 Peeuce, bat the next year he te:anded Bhs falley and the river is so full of ige that it

ig not onlv difficult but dangerous to. atier

thd right tq return tu Spain asa friend of v ross. We understand that several vessel

the established governusent, and Espdtcero, who had Beet made regent during thé fei. nerity’ of thé Yueen, grated his raquest. He soon fomented a furmidsble insurrection, ast, t va thé tailure of Which he again escaped to white on the opposite side of the River w te Franee. Jn 1543 Zsparters fell, and now through by the ice and sank,

Donnell was rewarded ‘with the Guvernor- PO cose mama co cia uae Generalsbip uf Gabs. ‘Pe sour returned to A Waahington correspondent says a however, and uitcer the psidency of @¥48 much talk in Washington on the

or

anable to get up owing to the ice.

vaer began in earnest his politie i career. ing of the 25th about schemes that hace heen

jgformed in high circles for a grand specu

Jt iw impossible ta foliie int in data! in gold, by which mammoth fortunes w

‘ough the tangled net of Spaaivh ‘poritics ;

ee of the unfortunate eourt of Spnin, Le é & Quuspieuous part. Iie was lesity io the ioadtyection of 1454, ane called upon the people ta dhite and restore the const tu fun th : of 1837. bn 2456 be became Prime Minisie®, prevonted the rise. Such ure the stare and is 1859 led the Spanish troupe in the curren’ in Congressional circles, und wer with Morvevs, bringing the stcuygle to ste geasrally believed.

& #accessfel and speedy wlose. He att)! con- ee tinued to tuke & leading part in the affatys of She kingdom, and in 1435, on the resignatwo of Narvara, was made President of the Coun. cil wid Miniater of War, « position which he ‘agaio Jieldéd ty Nurves the fullawiay year.

Sate to cute, brits, an d every species

et ee flamietion upon thd purfaye ol the body, os Muxoexs raom rue Maniziwe Pao-Bawily shyuld use it. vincus.—The Fullowing eulogiuia is from the} en II

C2 .3 "

Past isc"! All the journals, ali the members fy, and aif the inhstirunte of Ottawa, cep ognize at the u : nl ti ol olal of She arse miatives of the Mecitime im front of the eapitoi at Washibyten, or

wv

up what be haa. The Herald offers

bute $100,000 towards the bondre. Bennett wake a beginuing. -_-—-— woe - -— A earriage factory is to be started in and the leading feature of its business ¢ wadufacture of coached and ea

iBesdes.” We cemiiot opr to then: gay Speakers

-—-—- -<e- ---

Fringe Gsoesia papre we Inara that i . Sapir ‘ r 100 bashes athe

thief. Be forced K. to acce pt loan of S with wiweh to recommence Lnsiness. te said 4 ;

that Gartag the war he had nyade large sums of

$1600. The following are some of his per-

push acroas the bath, 36 feet ; swimming with ome leg out of water, swimming with two

Jodian wethod af crossing rapid rivers, ii-

poise, turoiag six sommersiults under the water, turqipg six backward sommersaulta

and feet tied fust, fouting backward and for-

, vr evolving om the surface of the water, flootin.- The Governor of St. Thomas fad returned with hands and holding feet ; alter Which he Wi ai

, ‘The Cansda pavers record the death of the Misses Morga”. of Ne@ Orieans, by a railroad secidegt ut Woodland on the Cincinnatti, the miltoy aad Day ton railroad, on Thursday, which is totally lost; the Susqucheng was alsy & Zloc Bt. The four sisters cums in the spring

Rossin House, Luronte. ‘they started for howe on Tussity, auQ were anfortuuately parsengers Or tae train when the fatal acci

wlegraph lead to the supposition that they

themsevies. ‘I'he four sisters who have thus met su tragic an end were well known ip the Spanish languages, at Aeumcion (tho capitel uf Toronto, and their death will be sincerely re- aretted. Mr. Charles Jackson, of Boston, lost his life 1p herowally eodeavoring to save

led with Mr. Dickéns, writes of uim as follows

is genial. He hates argument; in fact be is

sive characters who see the whole truth, and

pgestes appreciate all excellence. Ke id a gréat ~ Dick-

ens has singular pergonal activity, and is fond

intellect, with “no nonsense’’ about him. Sel- dom, if ever, has any man been more beloved

scene of a aanguinary affair. Two families lic, offers to accept one-twentiess part of thegrestding there, the Lawlors and Thorpea, had long been at variance. Last week, one of the Lawtora fred a shot and wounded a Thorpe ia she arm. The assailant, perhaps repent- ong of hie misdeeds, was {hen on his way to surrender hiargelf to Jos. Browner, Exq., J. ufter, whew victory bas secured the liberty aud P., at Sheet Harbor, when he was followed

ture. Two Lawlors—father and son—were arrested ; the latter asked leave to go in and

A vew machine is now in use in Paria for

révolutions -onnd the hed is said to be very agreeable, and the rapictmy with which it cuts cou mengeG fue the recovery of the rights heffthe hair is one of its recommendations to notice.

The Miramichi Gleaner of the 23rd ult, gene. In 1849 he embraced the canas of BS2V8:—Since our last issue we have had 4

provisions from Quebee are in the river, but

Puessay evening last, the Chatham Ferry boat

be realized. Lt 1 charged that the impeacn- ent report war secured for the purpose of putting up the price of gold, and that Secre- cary MeCalloch. to checkmate the gamblers, cew $25,000,000 upon the tharket and this

The People of Hungary, who have been eo long wil But a xing of their own, were wild ave the coreniiun of Fraucis Joseph, but those re joicings are fet to n° Compared with the plea- rare which ove feceivn® After applying Grace's

The New York Herald, whose plan to pay o e national debt by subscription 4 mut succeed > any great extent, bas hredthed another. I: operes to du it by a boutire of fiverninent bonds

YovseBNew York City Hall Park, exe) bilder to be tr

% aui0.

conposed of India rubber, for which bas been obtained.

entunt 10,000 nnd Pain Kitt.

ess hia

er. aud exclaimed :

tm tor

ertain- Mr. Alexander

. back wards.

duck. 4& por-

lief. Upon the first indication of pain, internal ovexternal, use Bloud’s Rheumate Compound

eee

—O Connell met a cunceited literary friend

oof

! your last pamphlet. ”* A teacher of swimming in New York hasfreplied lis delighted listener. ‘What was iuidlilliaay pouod of butter !"’

°

,

Slewart, the famous dry oods tuillionaire of New York. it is said WiUllerect block of dweilings, to vost $1,000,000, aad to be tevewer the home of the working women af New York. Itis to bea home where woe way find ood and suelter at prices within their reach, and Whatever revenue it may yield is to be ewployed in the erecuenu of other like iysCtutions

our highways, a statement vas appeared in the

suwn capital thing ig

Did you?’ eagerly Charlottetown, from thé opening of the navi age vu: gery '

> Bacley and Turnips, at £POLOS4. The state

Ament alluded to is useful and -interesting it

Bulfords, most opportuuely, the means of illus trating the necessity and advantages of improv

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ob,

ON THE pDEAtH Of THE HONORABLE EDVARD WHELAN.

tHe; Whose remains with solemn cttes, this day,

In the cold ozom of the earth we lay,

Wa dne by uature bappily designed,

a With rarest powers to bevelit mankind,

His was the generous heart, the o’erflowing soul,

eh, in the love of man, embraced the whole.

[rained ata wodern Camalicl’s fect,

(For such a master » disciple meet, )

With ease, his own be made each lofty view,

And e’en as pupil, Howe almost outgrew.

His was the facile pen, the fluent tongue,

And, ov his periods, Traut her pearls strung.

Bright wae his wit, his raillery yetined,

Aud eyes eoftenid by some meauidy hind.

‘Pius e’'eo when oppovents be surely bit,

No stroke of malice e'ot deturmed his wil.

A party leader, free frow party spite,

With power to slay, be off Lorbure to smite:

Aud, though the victor, o'er the fatlen, he

Ne’er triumphed with debasing mock<¢:y ;

Ne'er strove the huiwwbled to depress the mots,

Or reuder sense of loss wore heealy sore ;

Yet justly beld be, in a state reformed,

They who the stronghold of misrule Lave stormed,f

Aud swept the barriers to redress away,

Have the best right to governmental sway.

And thix, whilst freed-men owned his aiding hand,

Placed him auidst the rulers of our land,

Placed him in power, where, hovered, long heRpyo

A faithtul toiler for the people's good.

Long, with vur Coues, the Liberals he led, And, o'er their steps, the light of Wisdom shed ; (zave lo their cause, @ hulu and renown,

W hich, but fur them,that cause vot yet liad kuown.§ At length, howg’er, a darkling change came v’er, Men, who witb bim had tought and ou betore, By idle fears and rumors talse betrayed, (Which for the tiuse their gratitude outweighed, ) They gave his opponents complete success ;

But now of this euough; for ue’ertheless,

Phey who forsvuk him ehall, though laie, retern, And, o’er bia ashes, their defection. mourn ;

Ev’n they who ‘galost him venal wituess bore, And frow bis browa the wreath of vicwry torg, Sball now, perbaps, their caluwuies recant,

And o’e? his grave, the pilfered laurel plaut.

Yes, now, We trust, all parties will agree,

Te Lis rare worth, to yield their hounge free,

His faulte, bis failings—e’er the best lave some— Shall ne’er against hiu iu their judgueat come His virtwea ouly shall our records telj ;

On thet alone, our grateful people dxell ;

And meim'ty uf the powers for them Iss spent, Shall long be in their bearts his living wouument * Per hin—this hfe's probation fully v'er,

Dar Jordan crossed, and reaehad the happ)

Por him—the sorzaws of this life ail past,

Phew shaduws ox his soul no longey cast,

His grroré all, ‘tis humbly hoped, forgiven —

thave freely oped the golden gales «f Heaven ! But, here, his orphaned sou aud vidowed wife,

In this dark hour of their bereaved life,

Beneath the sad, the desulating glow,

Sunk in the depths cf lif&-consuiwzitg woe;

With the loved husband and Uear father, gone

All the fair hopes which on their fature shone !

For theni ahall not our better natures feel ?

Shall we not strive their wounded hearts to heal 24

Shall vot yur tears with theirs be truly shed—

Balm to tkeir grief, a tribute to the dead

In they, shall not our public wen, Behold

A legaty more rich than heaps ofguld ?

A legaey which gives them means ti shew

Ho genuine worth bow much themselves they owe ;

fiow well reposed the, public taith hath been

Which wade them zuiexs on our pyblic scene?

Gives them to prove that, here at least, are foundgto follow the old system. We enterdain a con-f

Patriots indéed, in inner jife most sound; po eigliteen, Rie came 20 this Island, which was

Meu whead free acts are proof that they believe

“Tis better far to give than to receive 7

To thei, bereft of nature's earthly etay,

Called, in his prime, frown their tond love awey,

hill they not haste With willing hagds to pay

W hat—beyond all emoluuwuts he drew—

In life itself to Ginn was justly due;

But much more now—since «il his labour o'er,

For love nor profit he can toil ne wore—

To them, for whom with cheerful heart he atsove F

And the bright dream of fond affection wove ;

But now to whom—of hia fond care bereft—

Except in Heaven, no other hope 18 lett,

Vhan that which faith in public virtue lenda—

it is a debt whieh, at our Rulers’ bands,

‘Phe voice of public gratitude demands.

he PEOPLE ask it, as for hin who broke,

From their galled necks, of servitude the yoke;

Who gave theus Freely the free avil to tread,

With form erect and elevated head—

Shall not also they,

His colletgces once, for whom he paved the way

Which plavéd them first in ministerial power,—

To which agdin they owe it atthe hour;

Yes, sball not they Gemand it, and enterce,

As they have power; ‘ta ‘doption of a courae

Which, whilst oo none a roug it would inAict,

Or with establixbed policy conéKet,

To his bereaved, protection woild extend,

And from new woes their narrowed fine defend?»

Yes, faith is atrong, by not a doubt repelieg,

That by the bends of Truth and Honor held,

by friendships true, and gratitude sincere,

By every feeling noble minds revere,

f their deceased Ahitophel and friend,

whese wie promptings still they could depend;

im who etill—whoever proved uneorind—

Poeir charnpign stood, ond firmly beld his ground,

stead mived wart they shall indeed respect,

acre, wd wit ep hiedirs hig legacy ageopt.

h which, to, trim, ‘all bonwdy €2¢ to chew, @at'to him they vive,

Hin Richmond Bay, and several, laden with oats

Areimain, we presume ice bound, in Georgetown the departure of these vessels has been retard

their grain cargoes, in consequence of the by

Beompelled to take half loads, and to be conten

the? might bave made two!

list are, Oats, 622,560 bush. ; Potatoes, 194, 9544; Barley, 4,184, and Turnips, 19,639

of the number of da, 3’ work of man anl horse

+ kp from, the |

eu

avery exactly to Bunyan's deseription of the

slough of despond,”’ at a most unnecessary sacrifice of time and strength. Every diecérning farmer will perceive how deeply he is indivi, dually interested in this question ; the fact, too, must strike every one thateach year the amount of our produce available for export increases, while the condition of the roads is little if at all improved. Every additional acre of land cleared—evéry winter's work at mussel-mud

Adisgiug—ercery summer's work at drawing lime

—by increasing the produce of the soil, readers mit the more uecessary that a system should be commencedin the vicinity of Charlottetown and

the principal shipping places, and gradually

highways throughout the Island:

It may, Nowever, be urged that i would be comparatively exsy~—wita liberal graits of Hmoney, witlr stone from Nova Scotia, 2 Blake's

fotone Breaker, driven by steam power, and the

roads near Charlottetown ; but that generally

Bat the present time, it by ue means follows

Os

from the engazemeat of a skilled superinten- i

once recognize the causeg which render certain

Spots more miry and daugerous than ethers.

The mdst common of these causes ig wetness,

garising frow, insufficient drainage. The first

care of the skilful engineer would be to get rid

of all stagnant and spring water; after which

Bimprovement on the sigtace would prububly Le successful,

A sain; a man of intelligence and experience

mained neglected or unobserved by his pre-

decessors, who being insufliciently pid, and

fident expectation that uo4 a few sourcys, fron, Bwhence materials may be supplied, will openg

ip, when diligent und persevering scarch isd

of surface stones, and that the rock may not

unfrequently be found cropping up by the road

ides, thinly covered with soil. We are aware sides, thinly covered with soil. V j

Atoo, of the existence of large deposita— not of

free from raud, 2s situtions where the traffic

fis uot heavy. Only the other day, the Clair-§

man of the Commitee to which we altaded in

hauling from, thein to a considerable distance, }

in preference to using mud and earth from the

oat aide; Another ventleman of extensive

experience, dnd whose business compels him to make frequent long journeys, pvinis out that

Mthe judicious use of brash, i. e., slat yar and

spruce boughs, carefully laid, will often, at a

‘mall expense, cure bad spoils, which we deemed past remedy.

Many people think the Island stone weless for laying on roads. We do not adwcate its Muse in situations where the traffic ix heavy; it has failed, undoubtedly, in seveml instances ; hut then it has been |sid in a manner opposed to all rule and experience. We believe tha good Island stone, properly broken, and laid gto. a sufficient depth upon a carefully drainer surfieze, would make a road which aight last, with ovtagional repairs, until the country. is ih position 40, overlay it with broken limestone. The view we have taken of this subject, hitherto, has bgen purely utilitarian --it bas had reference solgly to the cost of comgeyin par produce ¢0 market; bat there is ahoshe hich maybe ealled the social view, and which

' Their tre®, consenting leatte uo seltive views

* Tho lines which follow the astersich abovds the writer deews it proper to observe, were only an the Prough wheu those which precede them were seut to Mr. logs, for insertion iu the Islander; and, not Bhaving bad time to give them any thing like a finish before the issue of that paper, they bave been re- tained by bimw until t%, for pablication in the

hai nut only tully conceived, but fully written, beture be Js there not something RY theB ad beeowe aware of the genereds course adupted bv the Govermmbout wilh’ respect tu Lie issue ol the

PRR R RARER ARAN LRA LLL LAA A NALA AL LD

Since we wrote last week on the subject of Bcolugans of the Petréot, settin'y forth the amount

wee Value of the exports from the Port of

ration, i April last, to the present time. Ou contemporary values “produce alone,’’ by

awhich we infer that he means Oats, Potatoes,

Binany points of view; but to us just now it

‘gn ane Islander informs his readers, that.wo¥essels are frozen up in Charlottetown harbor, another

AWe should bé wrong, perhaps, in assuming that ed solely by the delay in bringing forward

uess of the reads; but it is certain that duriog Ax couviderable part of last mouth farmers were

‘

to make one trip per day, where in many Cases

‘The four principal articles of produce which are placed at the head of our contemporary’s

4 0 we wish our rea@ers, and especially those ngaved in agricultural pursuits, to note these Pqudr.titice, and consider the weeunt of labour Erhey ait. their teams have undergone in bring-ug these urticls¢ to market. No data, we believe, Aexist, upon winch an estimate can be formed vequired to bring this layre qnantity of preduce place of growth to that of shipment; Sinuch of it is, ro doubt, shippea at the wharfs and along the skores of the different rivers. and cleared from €8erlottetown. Still the ad fact remains unaltered, that nearly the

gwhole has been drawu through roads, answeritty