Correspendence. |

aw ii . . ° eee oa : the opinions or stritements of correspondents,

~ : slq > Lettér from Messrs. Sterling’ &

Harris.

Cuancorretown, 14th -April, i875.

Po the keditor vfithe Examiner:

After re letter of Dr. Jen kins which appeared lately in your paper, we

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feel bound for owr oWn reputation and in the |

wterests of honesty and fairplay to reply.

There has been a tremendous deal of talk lately about the Asylum walls. Now, every body can understand that when a large work ot this kind is at all defeétive, it requires but a very little imagination | to appear very bad.

We, of acknowledge and have ali along done so, that there are some portions of the work built in av unworkmanlike manner, and that there are stones here and there throughout the structure which have gone with the frost and damp of the past winter ; but for persons to con i

account of certain portions being bad, 1s, in | ray ‘ i

make

course,

L mary ++} OHUEHIPLYD

our opinion, & mest emptible quibble. Phe wall is twelve hundred feet long and nine fee high, and to make a thorough and minute ex F 6thi i first at the

amination of this w inside and then at the

wk, looking

noting

; . » fare OUWSIUAS LACS,

where bad material shows itself, examining |

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the whole of the bond and where the

. ° M4 7 tion is not ot good quality (w hich we intend doing as soon as the wall has had the benefit

construc

of a fortuight or three weeks of warm weather), , would take a considerable time; and yet opinions condemning the whole work have!

:

been formed by persons looking at the work du companiment of a dirty drizzling rain.

who spent a few hours ring the unpleasant ac-

The contractors had an in January last, notifying them to remove all stones touched with trost, and to take down the bad work, and reconstruct it with good materiais in the spring, befere any brickwork was commenced.

The portions of the ‘wall in which the bad work appears, were built late last Autumn, at a time when the stone was very wet. fyot of this stome will about seven tenths of a gallon of water, thus keeping the mortar in the heart of the wali in a very damp

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eondition, and, consequently, much of it will not set-—uatil it has the benefit of warm wea- ther. A similar case of mortar not set-

ting in the interior of a stone wall, may be seen in St. James’ Church. In the heart of portions of the walling built in Oetober last, the mortar is only now beginning to set, while on the imside and outside faces of the same portions of the work, it has set almost as hard as the stone itself. ‘The mortar in the exposed faces of portions of the Asylum wall has been ched with frost and pulverised,

, af course whenever the mortar inside the wall has gone with frost, the same will be taken down and re-built, as the contractors, by agreement, are responsible for all effects of the weather on the work.

The upper portions of the wall would never fiave been buiit last autumn; but that we par- ticularly wished to have the whole foundation wall completed, so that it would be submitted to the winter’s test, before any brick walling was

“placed upon it. Building it at that season, of eourse, was rather risky for the mortar; but whether portions of the mortar have have gone

r not—and at present it carnot be exactly

wn—we congratulate the Coverument, the contractors and ourselves that this work was completed,and has had athorough test applied to the stone as a material; and we consider that the test is worth to all parties concerned jar more,than the. amount that will be required to take down and rebuild portions of the work. Many bad stones have gone, but the good ones are very well rid of their com-

any.

The total cost of labor and mortar in the whole foundation wall is $2,332.40.

For re-building one quarter of the rubble work above surface-line (this is about the quantity of condemned work in Mr. Cunning- ham’s evidence), and replacing defective stone,

it would cost the contractors about $670.00— a sum not very large in proportion to the con- tract price of $76,000.00. Of course we can- not tell what proportion of the work will have to be re-built until we make our special exam- ination in about a fortnight.

* This is a very small matter to start a politi- cal scandal! about.

In regard to J. T. Jenkins, Esq., we will acknowledge that the Doctor is a fine speci- men of a muscular citizen; and we have often admired him for his principles of pluck and fairplay ; but in the present instance we feel rather indignant. Rascality and incompetence are hard potatoes for any architect to swallow, and we wiil refer him to the contractors of St. James’ Chureh, so that he may be further ad

WVised tegarding our character as architects. ‘.¢@We kindly ask our friends and _ fellow-cit- izens not to believe all the political hue and «dry that has been raised on account of some -defects that have crept into a large foundation wall, and which will be thoroughiy remedied ere a brick is laid on the top of it.

_All this unnecessary noise about the Asylum walls is beginning to damage our reputation, and people will begin to imagine that we in- tend, by the ‘‘migity superstructure” of the ‘Lunatic Asylum, to force the bottom clean out of the Island, and eyentually to seuttle cur poor old ship in the gulf,

If any persons would like to see our work, both in regard to design and superintendence of construction, we will refer them to St. James’ Church, where they may go and judge for themselves. It will be much more satis- factory to do this than to believe all the evi- dence given about the Asylum walls. We are in possession of a few facts which, were we to publish them, weuld make the flesh creep al over the body of one of our defamers.

We remain, yours respectfully, Sirr~ixne & Harris, Architects.

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A Great Man in Obscurity.

To the Editor of the Examiner.

Sir,—Ths sketch written by ‘ Roderick Random,” which appeared in your paper of the 9th inst., created within me a ‘burning desire to show my admiration for the great talents, I might say genius, for public business of our représentative--the Hon. W. D. Stewart. The expressed intention of William Welsh, Esq., to

ve the arena of polities prumpted your cor- ‘Tespondent of Kinross t» write his sketch. I write under different circumstances and from a afferent motive than merely to pay a tribute of

tto alife-long friend who is about to

the unsatisfactory field of, politics which |

{ | positive statement, has been given of any in

da not hold ourselves re sponsibl. FOr |

the whole

lemn the whole foundation on |

order from us|

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he had heped would afford him a pleasant pas- time. Notevena hint, to say nothing of a

tention of the NON. W. D. STEWARI to retire from public life. his responsible position. Caring very little shout the Commissioner of Public | Works or the salary attached to the office, he is solicitious only for the welfare of his con- stituents, whom he believes might be repre sented by a manof inferior abilities if he re- tired from olfice. My motive in writing this ,epistle springs from a generous desire to give leredit to a man of great. intellectual endow

He fully appreciates

ollice ot

ments, and who has rendered important ser- | vices to his country. A man that, up to the ipresent time, has remained in_ obscurity

ithrough his. extreme bashfulness and a fine 'sensibility, which causes him to shrink from ithe applause of the vulgar, choosing rather that the calm, cool judgment of posterity

ishould do him justice, than to be borne jupon the crest of the wave of public | ad “hich as le . cs jopinion, which cannot fully comprehend his | } . ‘ . .

lite and acts. DeQuincey recognized the

}merit of the philosophical ‘poet Wordsworth |a quarter of a century in advance of the great literati of Europe, and when all the world were hastening to doin chorus what he had ny years before, he | then pointed to his discovery of the poet's |genius with pride. I must to a little anity myselfin being the forerunnner of pub the ablities of our

lion. W. D. I anticipate, asure, the time when the public will | swing round and follow in the wake to do | honor to a great man. I hardly know which o!

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tne mtreplaity to do ma i }

contess

ic opinion in discovering

_— tats, +t, resentative, the |

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. . o . . . lthe peculiar talents of this many-sided man is most to be admired, is the breadth of

the intellectual

' There jmind, the mental vision, and power Which can grasp abstruse questions of | political econony. The more and j misty these problems, the greater is his delight jin diving into them, grappling with them, and moulding them into something definite and In this he resembles his great mas-

austruse

| tangible, Bali,

;' } sin: BED my aanlen tes iter, John Stuart Mill. Then. again, his |

TALENTS FOR DIPLOMACY

\have struck me with peculiar admiration; but ithe crowning excellence of this great man is this devoted piety. His manner of dealing with labstruse questions, such as employed the mind understood in the mild |and kindly criticisms of the Editor of the Her. ‘aid, which have secured for him the friendship | of the great Stewart, and which | hope to see ripen into intimacy.

'

'of Mill, can be better

THE PIETY jwhich forms the chief charm of the great man’s llife I leave to be described by the Kditor of the | Presbyterian, who himself has attained to such heights and depths, and lengths and breadths of rich Christian experience and progress as to be the most capable of measuring the depth of piety whi¢h has been reached by his illustrious Christian brother. But the talents for diplo- macy of the great Stewart have not been brought to the notice of the public se prom- inently by the writers ‘oi the day as his other accomplishments, and I therefore hasten to perform that act of justice which an ungrate- ful public has omitted. 1 might here remark that that which observers who cannot see be- neath the surface call an air of self-sufficiency in the manner of the Hon. W. D. is the com- placerey or Brand which ‘distinguishes the genuine diplomatist from the mere political trickster. Among the itirst opportunities which our subject had of exercising his great talents were in connection with the School Question. A great religions denomination had supplied a long felt want by erecting a com- modious school house, but the Trustees had discovered that Government aid would be necessary, unless the school were supported more liberally by the public. If the Govern- ment of the day afforded the aid it would open the door to rival schools that had ineffectually demanded the same boon. Our hero was equal to the oceasion, An election was in the near future; he saw that the indigent circumstances of the first mentioned school might be utilized in the campaign. He accordingly framed the articles of what is known as THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE,

in which three denominations agreed to make a sacrifice, by supporting the Academy out of their church funds, and thus preclude the pos- sibility of their rivals receiving the aid which was sought from Government, and at the same time avoid the terrible infliction of denomina- tional education. The Hon. W. D. Stewart, by way of inducing his denomination to concur in his plan, offered the handsome contribution of $100; and had sufficient influence over an- ether pious gentleman, who occasionaily sits at the Council Board of the same church, to offer a similaramount. Hisinfluence extended beyond the limits of his own church; and a well-known politician was induced to offer an- other hundred if the Alliance were formed. But, as your readers already know, this scheme

wi anew. eepnchmnet

iwas not intended to bea permanent arrange- ment, but intended to bridge over the difficuity | tili after the elections. We judge that the scheme was merely temporary, from the fact that we have yet to learn that the hundred | dollars were paid. The election being over, | and matters having nearly run in the channel which was desired by the Hon. W. D., a difficulty presented itself in connection with the school again. A

MR. MANNING

had stipulated for a fiye years’ term, in which he was to be fed, clothed, warmed and housed. How to provide for the ‘‘White Elephant” was the cause of not a little uneasiness;,in the minds of the Trustees ; but our hero was equal to the emergency. The-office of Superintend. ent of Education for the Island evolved from his gigantic brain, and the ‘‘ Elephant” com- ; fortably located, with ample provision for his travelling expenses when the Government see fit to exhibit him to the children of the various scheol distriets. Thus, by a happy selection and arrangement of circumstances, most satis- factory results were reached through the abil- ity of our representative.

; Now all these acts which I have mentioned ‘have been characterized by short-sighted and 'narrow-minded individuals, as mere

‘* POLITICAL KNAVISH TRICKS,”

jaud if it be admitted‘ that ,these acts are not | auch asa great and masterly mind should be | engaged in, on the other hand, we are com- | yelled to acknowledge that the limited circles | of Island politics does not afford sufficient | scope for'the display of brilliant diplomatic | talents. Were the Hon. gentleman in Europe, | the present crisis would afford an ample field | for the exercise of his genius, and, might we | not hope that the tension of feeling caused by | the prolonged uncertainity of affairs, would be released. Who will deny that hordes of com mentators would not hang over his sentences, as was the case when Lord Palmerston dictated the policyjof Europe,and is now the case when

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caida Bismarck speaks. All must admire the pa- triotism of one whom nothing will canse to ‘* EXPATRIATE” himself frem his country; but{is content, from love of her, to experiment upon the filling up of ruts in her hghways, the building of cal- verts, the awarding of ferry contracts, and the examination of cellar walls. Some perverse and impertinent critics, who cannot conceal their jealousy and chagrin at the success of the measures of our representatives, resort to the desvicable system of criticising bis fondness for KID GLOVES. They persist in attributing to him vanity, while sensible men look upon the fondness for kid-gloves as one of the idiosynerasies of the great man. Disraeli, in early manhood, had a fondness fer kids, These traits connect men of transcendant genius with the rest of humanity. The political opponents of our representative say that HUMILITY and condescension are graces seldom or never practiced by him. Iam pleased to be able to record an instance of humility, and even ten- derness, which shows that when our great man unbends himself he can display a degree of condescension rarely reached by politicians. During the last election campaign the Hon. W. D. visited house after house in our district enquiring about the health of the families of each house, discussing the crop prospects and affairs of state. The monotony of a round of visits was occasionally relieved by a word of prayer. The junior members of the house- holds who, in most cases, showed their distaste for the trammels which society puts upon the: free exercise of the nether limbs, located them- selves upon the knees of our hero. The accu mulation of dirt caused by the free use of molasses and oatmeal, with here and there a fragment of egg shell stuck fast, were no bar- riers to the caresses of the great man. But the male members of the family above the age of twenty-one received the largest share of at- tention ; lessons in manhood suffrage, elective

franchise, statute labor and commutation money being willinglyimparted. The -

VERSATILITY OF TALENT in our hero is wonderful. At apublic meeting held near Rustico, at which the Hon. W. D. was present, some cynical critic, dissatisfied with the definition given in Manning’s Spelling Book of the word ‘‘Mare,” was instantly silenced by the great man who showed his talent for lexicography by exclaiming, “Tf I know anything about the structure, of the English language, a ‘Mare’ is a female horse. HIS PARLIAMENTARY UTTERANCES THE PRESS

ON

show’a narcotic indifference to the strictures of independent papers, and rather a weakness | for mercenary and servile writers. In this re- | spect his opinion coincided with his great con- temporaries, Bismarck and. Blake. When some one had the intrepidity to say that the opinions held by those men, respscting the liberty of the press, were somewhat autocratic, he, with a slight change of the words of the poct Shelley, exc'aimed: ‘‘! would rather be

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politically damned in such company than be

saved with those independent newspaper writ- |

ers who mould public opinion.” His : ORATORY

is not of the vehement and impassioned kind, | his sentencs» heing of that cart whieh &. tewned | ‘darkness visible,” and only successfully em. | ployed by men. of genius. It has been said that an historian can never exhaust the lan- | guage, but an orator can. Our hero will not | allow himself to be trammelled by the arbi- | trary rules of syntax; the English language he knows is plastic, and he makes it bend to his own ‘‘sweet will,” believing that genius is |

above all rules. In fact, those instances in |

which he rises above the rules. of} grammar are the best indications _ of |

his originality, I shall end, Mr. Editor, by giving an extract form one’of his Pom upon the examination of the cellar wail at Faleon- wood, or upon public opinion, | am not sure which—-‘* Mr, Speaker, the Hon. gentlemen who compose the Committee of Examination, however stern and severe their logic, or nice their rhetoric, can’t disguise the fact, that in their crowbar ramifications, they was as pleased at the discovery that theginternal structure between the parallelogrium superfies were as dissicative as the desert of Saraha—was as gratified, I assert, as Euclid when he discover- ed the forty-seventh problem. They may af-_ firm that their actions was only tentative with | a view of averting similar momentously, cala- matous circumstances as sepulchred the arti- zans at the Tower of Babel. ‘Their aggravation examinations are actionable ; it is beyond the powers of the human mind to erect a fqunda- | tion of the same solidarity as the rock of Gib- ; |

ralter,”’ MICAWBER. Strathalbyn, April 13, 1878.

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not exceeding half an inch, will be insert- ed for Ten Cents per day.

ANTED—Two or three respectable

OUND — To-day, April 15, half a dozen SHIRT-FRONTS. The owner can have the same by ‘paying expenses, on application at the EXAMINER Office. April 15—

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SHEETINGS, PILLOW COTTSH, WINDOW HOLLAND,’

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Auction Sales.

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TRADE SALE!

WE will sat at AUCTION, on

Wednesday, the 17th inst.,

AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK,

100 Bbls. Spring Extra FLOUR, 50 ** Fane do., 50 ‘* Howland’s do., 16 Om { English Refined SUGAR, 10 ** Granulated do., 5 ** Coffee do.,

i} Casks Kerosene OIL,

50 Sides SOLE LEATHER. 20 Coils Manilla ROPE,

10 Boxes CHEESE.

soa FENTON, %. NEWBERY & 00.

SALE OF STALLIONS

-AND—

FAT CATTLE.

J HAVE been instructed by the How. J. C. Pore to offer, at AWOWEON, on the Market Square at 12} o'clock, on

+1, ‘ ;

Toesday, tiie, 16th April next,

The splendid thoroughbred HORSE “WARERGGR,” 7 years old, imported by the Government in 1875. His Colta, which can be seen at Kensington Brewery, are very promising, and prove him to bea first-class stock getter

Also—The handsome and powerful Draught HORSE * CHAMPION,” 17 hands high, weight 1,600 Ibs., compact, active, and a splendid worker.

Also—3 FAT OXEN. e@ The Stock can be viewed at the Brew- ery any day previous to sale, WM. DODD, Anctioneer. Ch’town, March 30 —

AUCTION |

MORTGAGE SALE.

To-he Sold by PUBLIC AUCTION, os WEDNESDAY, the i5th day of May next, A. D. 1878, at the Court House, in Charlottetown, at the hour of ‘iwelve o'clock, noon, under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in an Indea.- ture of Mortgage, bearing date the Six- teenth day of December, A. D. 1873, and made between Alexander McSwain, junior, and Gulielma, his wife, and Alexander McSwain, senior, of Township Number Twenty-one, ur Queen’s County, in Prince Edward Island, of the one part, and George Peake and Ralph Brecken Peake, > settSzarlottetown, in the said County and Island, Trustees, under the marriage settloment, of Fanny Leigh, of the other part— { & Lithat Tract, Piece and Parcel of Land being on Lot or Township Number | Twenty-one, in said County and Island, bounded as follows, that is to say: By a line commencing at a stake fixed on the northwest- side of a road from Haslam’s to Rattenbury’s Mill, in the southwest angle of farm-lot num- ber seventy-four; thence (according to the magnetic meridian of 1764) north. fitty-sevem chains, or to the rear line of farms fronting em | the Wigmore Road ; thence along said aaa | West eight chains ; thence south to the afore- {said road ; thence, follawing the course of the isame, northeastwardly, to the place of eom- ! mencement,—said land being known and dis i tinguished as Farm-Lot Number Seventy- three, as laid down on a plan in the margin ef a Deed thereof, from the Governnient of said Island to the said Alexander McSwain, junior, —containing Fifty Acres of Land, a little more er less, together with ali Buildings and Appar- tenaunces thereto belonging.

For further particelars apply to Messra, Hodgson & Mcleod, Solicitors, Charlottetown:

Dated this Eleventh day of April, A. D. 1878.

GEORGE PEAKR. RALPH B. PEAKE.

} April 11, i878—t sale

Men's and Boys’ Hats, “¥OTION!

Fishing Station ab Rustieg,

| TO BE SOLD, ON

‘Thursday, the 9th May next, at 11 o'clock, on the premises, | HE FISHING STATION of the late E. E. Churchill, which comprises all that tract of Land situate on Rustico Beach, in Lot ‘24, bounded and described as follows : Com- imencing at a stake set in the west side of | Water Terrace, arid in the northeast angle of | Fishing Station No. 1, in possession of R. B. | Morrison. and running thence by the Magnetie Meridian of the year 1764, south sixty degrees | west, two hundred feet, to the shore of Rustieo ' Bay : thence north sixty degrees east to the. isaid ‘Terrace ; and thence southwardly along the same to the place of commencement—te- gether with Buildings thereon. ALSO—

4 Vishiag BOATS,

8 DORIS, ‘ 28 PUNCHEONS,

Lot of Fishing Gear, Baits, Barrels, &e.,

&e., ke. 3

Terms at sale,

J.

8. CARVELL, ‘Administrator, Uh’town, March 11--cod wkly ¢ sale

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OR SALE,

TQME PFast-trotting Canadian STALLION “Kemble Morrel.” Was imported

iato the Island about three years ago. It can

be shown that he is the sire of the most prom.

ising Stock, in shape amd gait, that the {eland

can produce. If not sold at private sale before

TUESDAY, the 6th inst., he will be offered

anata day at Public Auction. £* Terms

PETER DOYLE. Ch’town, April 8—t sale