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Ch’town, August 17, IS74.

UNION OF THE MARITIME PRO- VINCES.

Ws are informed that, atthe luncheon in the ‘Ocean House,” and in conversa: tion, the Hon. Edward Blake, who last | week paid us a visit, expressed himself strongly in favour of a Legislative Union of the Maritime Provinces. In fact, he | séid, it is a pity that such a Union was | sot consummated before the Maritime Pro- | vinees joined their po-itical destinies with | those of Quebec, Ontario, and the rest of the Dominion. The opinion of Mr.

Blake carries none the less weight because he is an Ontarisn. That fact should, per- | haps, entitle it to the greater respect.

Mr. Blake is an interested spectator. He

looks upon the Lower Provinces with the | eye of a Canadian ; not with the eyes of a Provincialist. His judgment concerning them is not swayed by local prejudices or by party influences. He is, moreover, 4 patriotic Canadian who desires to see the | Deminion grow, and prosper, and become @ great nationality. It is, therefore, but reasonable that he should study wit) deep interest “the situation”’ in these Maritime Provinces ; and it is but reasonable to sup- pose that he watches the political chess— | beard with as much interest, as much discriminatios, and more impartiality than than those actually engaged in the came, And he thinks that a Legislative Union of the Maritime Provinces is a “ consumma- tion devoutly to be wished.’ The fact that this is the avowed opinion of one of the foremost statesmen of Canada, must | be pleasing to all in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edvard Island | who fevor the Union ; and it should stimu- late them to work it out.

If a union can be effected on fair terms, it cannot but be beneficial to the three Provinces. They are one by natural affinity; and they should be one politi- cally. Were they united the Government and legislature would be stronger azd more | dignified ; while their cost would be <ome | $200,000 a year less than those of the three, disunited as they now are. Our local politicians would have a wider field

s will |

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better training for the higher sphere at | Oteawa, and greater weight and influ- ence in the Councils of the Dominion. |

“EXTRAORDINARY. |

Since the indictment of Dr. Mackieson by the Grand Jury, we have refrained from adverting, at any length, to the} Lunatic Asylum Scandal. The Super- intendent of the Asylum is in the hands of the Court, which will, we trust, deal | justly by him and by the public. There | let him remain. We protest, however, | against his being permitted to exercise his functions as Superintendent any

ager. Itisa strange, an almost incre- | dible circumstance, that a man indicted | for a misdemeanor should continue the office in which the misdemeanor was | ssid to have been committed. Guilty or ignocent, common sense and common de- ' eevcy alike, would suggest that he be dis missed until his guilt or innocence be | proved, Yet Dr. Mackieson is still Super- | imtendent of the Asylum. He is stil! the euly person who discharges the duties, | for neglect of discharging which, he was |

in |

be

formally indicted by the Grand Jury

Dr. Mackieson asserts that the dis- graceful state of the Asylum is mainly | due to the neglect, carelessness, and false | reonomy of the Trustees of the Instita-| tion, and the Government. The fact that | the Superintendent was allowed to con-| tinue in office a single day after he had | beee indicted, is a fact whéch proves | clearly, that there is a good deal of truth ie Dr, Mackieson’s asvertion

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GAS, OR NO GAS

Tur contract between the Gas Com- pany and the city for nightly lighting our street lamps, ete., will, we understand, lapse at the end of this month ; question —gas, or no gas? will then come up before the City Council. The «ues- tion must, of course, be answered in the affirmative. Yet, by the terms of the contract, it would be well, we think, to bind the Gas Company te supply a better article in the future than they have in the past. Last winter, as we all well remember. the supply was insufficient. On some of the darkest nights our citizens had to grope their way slong unlighved, dismal streets. We} trust the possibility of a like oceurrence |

and the

We must have Gas.

will be provided against.

Visitors From Ontario —A greater num- ber of leading men in the Upper Provinces have this summer visited Prince Edward Island than, we believe, ever before. The Hon. Edward Blake, Mr. Moss and Mr. Kerr, who visited us last week, were no! the least distinguished. We trust that our “Island Home” and its people male a fayorable impression upon them. They

day, accompanied by a number of gentle-

tuncheon. ('n Friday they visited our Public Buildings, etc., and afterwards accompanied by several members of our Local Government, and others, took pas. sage in the train for Summerside, ‘here they had luncheon at the Park Hotel, and adrive through the surrounding country— St. Eleanor’s, North St. Eleanor’s, Mis-~ couche, etc.

' town possession of forty acres of Govern-

| That we may not again be charged with

| less active means were

| organ of the Administration that they ‘

| had continued their line to the border.

| We are glad that this step is now taken,

| tions of the present Giovernment.— 7h

| granted to the United States, who give up

rangement,

| yielded. | to employ a French vessel.

| some say he is in Spain. | the fort have been arrested.’

‘THE PARK BILL.”

In the matter of the ‘ Park Bill” the editor of the Putrict has argued like, ill His

endeavor to create

what Sydney Smith would call, an “

logieal pig ’’—and he knows it

dernier resort is an

the that our legislators at- tempted an act of spoliation when they | the citizens of Charlotte-|

bmpression

tried to give

| ment Farm by means of the “ Park Bill.” |

misrepresenting him, we quote

“Ifthe city wishes to have any man’s house or land it must get possession of it by honest means, and not ask the ~~. | lature to commit an act of spoliation for its benefit.”

The city wants » park. Mr. Pope

exerts his influence to obtain part of

| Government Farm for that purpose. The | Government of the Dominion agrees ; ‘the Lieutenant Governor tacitly agrees ; the

Queen, whose interest in the farm is merely nominal, it is presumed, will agree. Then, how can the Legislature be justly charged with committing an ‘‘act of spoli- ation "’ when it attempts, (by constitution- al means) to transfer the property in

forty acres of Government Farm from |

these mutually agreeable parties to the | city of Charlottetown. If Sir John A.} Macdonald remained in office, he would, in terms of his agreement, have advised the Queen to assent to the Park Bill. Because Mr. Mackenzie and his coadjutors declined to carry out the agreement of their predecessors in office, the Queen did

not give her assent to it; und so the park is lost to the citizens. The Patriot's “‘spolia- tion ’ argument is just a little more ridi- eulous than his * liament had no right to legislate it (the ’

contention ” that “Par-

farm) into the possession of the city’

we beg pardon—than his “contention ”

‘that the “ Legislature had no more right |to give Government Farm away than it)

had to make the city a present of Con- |

nolly’s breastwork, or Welsh and Owen's

brick building.’

“com ©

PRO VOARD To

ACTION

Mr. McKewnziz would seem to be at length somewhat alarmed at the aspect of affairs in Manitoba, where, as well as in British Columbia, his repudiatian of the railway scheme of the late Government has given | rise not to so much uneasiness only but to positive distress and suffering. It had be~ come a problem, what was to be done to prevent a calamity which was inevitable un-~ taken to pre<j vent it. Though it places the Government in the attitude of opposition to their own announcement during the late session. it is a relief to find it announced in an Ottawa ‘will | at once call for tenders for the construction | of the Pembina Branch of the Canada Pa-~ cific Railway.’’ /‘Yesterday,’’ the organ adds, “the Minister of Public Works tele- graphed to Governor Morris the text of the call for tenders, so that the people in Mani-

| toba will have an opportunity of competing | for the contract. | Government to have the road

It is the intention of the under cons struction by the irst of September.” Dur, ing the session Mr McKenzie declared that | work would not be commenced on the Pem~ bina Branch until the American Company We pointed out at the time that the most cer- tain way to induce them to continue the work of extension was to give practical

| evidence of her own intention to build the |

road between Pembina and Fort Garry.

for it will prevent that distress in Manitoba | next winter which was certian otherwise | to have come upon the people of that Pros | vince. Let us hope that the letting of the tenders will be free from that jobbery which

has characterized somany of the transac-

Mail. =>. <P> + > THE TREATY. The Pall Mail Gazette discusses the pro-

posed Reciprocity Treaty frem a purely | commercial point of view, and sums up as | follows: ~ “It will be seen that the draft treaty consists of three different parts, which have little or no relation to each other The reciprocal concession of fishing rights

| means substantially an enormous advantage

little or nothing ; by the Canadians, who sur-

render a most lucrative monopoly. The ins terchange of canal and river navigation

| rights is more equal and equitable in its

operation. The emancipation of trade in respect to the commodities scheduled under the fourth article of the treaty is, of course,

entirely unobjectionable, and should be

| kept free from any criticiem that may be

bestowed upon the other parts of the ars

It may fairly be argued that

the United States yave up too little and demand. | ed to much ; and the point for England, or rather for Canada, to settle is simply whether the gain by way of free trade is great enough | to outweigh the loss in the abandonment | of monoplies in fishing rights and canal | navigation,”’ j

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BAZAINE’S ESCAPE.

Marsa: Bazaine has escaped. In a depatch from Paris it is stated that he left his Prison Isle, St. Marguerite, on the night of Sunday, 9thinst. During the previous | day a vessel was seen hovering about out- | side, and « rope ladder was found hanging from the window of his room. It is posed that these were the means of his escape. ‘The escape has created a great sensation throughout France.

In a press telegram received since the above was written, it isreported that ‘“ the

sup-

}

i \ } j |

| plan for Bazaine’s escape was arranged six

weeks ago. It was the work of Madame | fazaine. The Marshal refused at first to | fly, but finally, owing to his failure to ob- tain some modification of his sentence, | We sailed from the Island in the steam yacht Faron Ricasoli, belonging to an Italian Company. The prisoner refused

le was ac~ companied in his flight by his wife and

brother.

| |

His place of refuge is not known; | The domestics at |

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TRAGEDY IN CHURCH.

In a special telegram to the Halifax Jie. | porter, dated “Carlisle, Kentucky, August | 11"—a terrible tragedy is reported as fol. | lows:—* A man, last night, disturbed a} | Methodist meeting by entering the build- |

arrived on Wednesday evening. On Thurs. | ing and flourishing 4 pistol while standing f

on aseat. Deacon Shaw coaxel the man |

out, Shaw informed the man of the penals ity he had made himself liable for by his act. The man turned suddenly, fired his | pistol, and shot Shaw dead on thie spot. _- — A deputation of the city Council of Mone | _treal, lately sent to England, has placed a new loan of $3,000,000 in thirty year five | per cent bonds at 90 cents, | approved by the Council.

| for the use of the Governor, the assent of

| for other purposes.

| had explicitly assented to the ’ the property, and its transfer by this

, been altered

| payment of three months

| Mr. Brydges and the Government really | ignore and despise our representatives in

| drink to drown their despair ?

RIT T BILL.

THE PARK Nation.

Charlottetown Park ; Legislature of Prince Edward Island passed an Act which, it was supposed, would give effect to the inhabitants of the capital the method of acquiring a public pleasure ground which it sought to legalize was €X>

wanted a and the

wishes of the

Its provisions were few, as

cessively simple, consisting, as it did in the transfer of half of the Governor s

It is alleg-

Farm to the Corporation of the City. ed by the Island press that this Park quess tion, though not one of the written strpulas tions which preceded the admission of the

Province into the Confederation, was ven- tilated at Ottawa, and that Sir John Macx j donald not only agreed not to oppose any

obstacle to the acquisition by the citizens | of this coveted plot of ground, but also suggested that a passage of an Act by the | Local Legislature, appropriating it to the

purpose mentioned, would be the simplest method of proceeding. The land having been ceded by the Crown to Lord Dorches~

ter, as Governor of Prince Edward !sland,

the Crown was necessary before it could be transferred to other persons and used The Bill, which was

passed in June, 1574, was transmitted to

the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and was by him referred to the Governor Gen- eral, with the request that His i-xcellency’s

| advisers would say whether Her Majesty

might be proper'y advised to assent to such a Che Privy Council on the advice of Mr. Dorion, the then Minis- | ter of Justice, advtsed that the Act should be disallowed, because having been passed

measure.

on June 14th, whereas the Addresses ex

pressive of the desire of both branches of | the Legislature to enter into the Dominion } are dated the 28th May, it dealt with “ pro

| perty which equitably had become part of |

If this is the real reason,

Mr.

the Dominion.’

and especially sf Dorion’s predecessor transfer of means, | of the

somewhat of sharp

the decision

that

savors

it seems to us Privy Council practice. had made :

fhe Province and the Dominion

bargain, and, of course, it was

not-competent for them to alienate pros

} perty which had been taken into account

in striking the bargain, and which would,

when the contract was complete, become But under

that the

the property of the latter. the

circumstances —and we the Cabinet Isl and

aware, and have notified (7) his colleague

presume

membe r of who belongs to been

sof ungraceful

Prince Edward must have them—it would have been not for the Privy Council to have waived their right to the few acres in question. Still we cannot quarrel with a vigilance which looks after the interests of the public; and ifthe same regard for Goverment property and Government money is manifested over

greater matters and larger interests as has now been shown in preventing the aliena

tion of this small Maboth’s vineyard, even the now exasperated Islanders will condone the seeming harshness of the Dominion Cabinet.

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GOVERNMENT ON COMMERCIAI

PRINCIPLES.

fi E’ It is exceedingly difficult to understand what motives actuate Mr. Brydges in the

administration of the Lower Province Rail- ways, and as difficult to understand why the Government should have supported | him so long in his destructive and exaspers | ating career. Since Mr. Brydges assumed the control of the lines the most startling changes have been made, and sweeping ‘reforms’ have | been proposed, if not yet carried out to completion. The running of trains has [t was proposed to deprive Halifax of the day express train to St. John. Men have been discharged in dozens from the tracks, making it absolutely certain that some portions of the road will fall into des- pair and endanger the lives of travellers. The ticket sytem has been tampered with, and the original plan resorted to after all And to complete the unpopularity of Mr. Brydges

under pressure from the press.

and the Government, week after week we have seen men of large experience and usefulness in every departinent diss further than the le [hese

SAAary .

tried charged without notice,

men have in many cases spent the best part of their lives in the employ of the railway | department lhey bad special duties, and acquired special knowledge, and were par- ticularly valuable in their different sphere yet on such short notice they have been j

| heartlessly flung out of an employment the |

like of which is not easily obtained in the lower provinces, and with the long winter coming on, haye to face with their wives and families,the undeserved fate of idleness and poverty.

Truly the new Government is bound to run our railways upon “Commercial Prin- ciples!’ and to make them pay even if they have to squeeze the money from the | mechanics and laborers on the road! Do

the Cabinet, our power in the Commons, and particularly, our members in this coun, ty? Is the latent hatred for the Maritime | Provinces, which, at different seasons, has broken through the political mask of the present Premier getting, uncontrollable at Or does the Government secretly feel

| last.

that such influences of Opposition are at

work, that they cannot keep their seats for

another session, and so they are deters |

mined to work their will while they can, |

like the demoralized sailors, who, hopeless |

of the ship, break open the lockers and | )

There must be a sudden end to this reckless and defiant mismanagement of out railways, or there will be a sudden end of the Government. ciate an economical policy , here in Nova Scotia does not appreciate a

Ihe public fairly appre: but this public

policy of economy which saves a few thou. |

sands of dollars a year at the sacrifice of the | means of existence of old and trusted offi- | cials, at the risk of the safety of the public works, and the jeopardizing of the best in- terests of Halifax. --> —_ ++ © i fhe English wheat crop promizes to be of average quality and growth. | It is said that during the existing contro- | versy Beecher ignores all newspaper read-~ ing, and confines himself to ancient history. |

Shocks of earthquake accompanied by unusual noises underground have greatly startled the inhabitants of the quiet Parish of St. Brazil, County of Portaeuff, who are reported as fleeing from the locality where these strange phenomena are occurring, possibly in the expectation that a vclcano is about to break forth and inundate the | surrounding country with a sea of red hot | lava, Further developments are looked | or.

The Queen’s speech, on proroguing Par-

foreign powers, and England’s position in regard to the International Congress at Brussels; it fayors the renewal cf the Res |

ciprocity Treaty between Canada and the |

condition of Spain, but favors non-inters | vention; it rejoices at the suppression of the slave trade and the pacification of the

" ‘ | Gold Coast; the passing of the factory Act which action my Pe ie overswork will be prevented ;

the Public Worship Regulation Bill,

rules and economies that govern it-

|some general to all. ' vents the enumeration of them in this paper,

; per

, the

| rightly placed before your customers

Sis cae OT

CASH AND CREDIT. From Tur ToRONTO M@eRcHANTMAN. | “Going into business,” as it has been termed, like entering into that other ens gagement, considered the most solemn and bindinz in life, matrimony, carries with it if not many risks, certa‘nly many respon- sibilities,and these responsibilities are made heavier in proportion to the lack of kno-v~ ledge one may have of his business and the Un- less men have an insight into those econom- tide their

ies and principles that own

business in particular, an: -very business In

general, they never cat nake successful

merchants ; knowledge is power, an! in no department of life is this statement more What then, we may ask, are these principles so necessary to be studied? They are many; each trade has some peculiar to itself, every trade has Want of space pre-

verified than in business.

we shall therefore confine ourselves more

particularly to the heading of this article, |

When we say that some hundreds of thousands of dollars are annually lost in business through bad debts, we make a very mild estimate. In taking stock at the end of six or twelve months, or perhaps a longer period of time, the number of accounts which merchants, who carry on the credit system, find it necessary to charge to the wrong side of the Profit and Loss account, is an item which, were it not for other con~ siderations would ruin any business in avery few years.

Take one side of this credit system only, and see what a hindrance it must be to le- gitimate successful trading. Every mer- ceant who does a business of any moment whatever, if conducted on the credit system, finds it necessary to employ at least one clerk as The

clerks, if there should be

or more assistants

more than one,

| will average probably some thousands ef

dollarsayear. Ofitself this is an expensive

item, but here the matter does not rest:

| the additional wear and tear and anxieties

it gives to the merchant himself, is enerva- ting to the man, and especially so to his business energy. ‘rue, if he has a trust- worthy book-keeper, these matters may be left largely in his hands, yet it is a fact re- cognized now by most business men, that mal oversight in every department of business, is a necessity, and more in

line of

one here the greatest and most serious losses

may occur. Could a certain limitation, however, be placed upon the credit system the annual losses might not be so great,but in this case it is a good deal like acquiring bad habits ; once inaugurate a cre litsystem into your business and every year it be- comes more and more burdensome, risking and losing; accounts accumulate, and from an over abundance of new ones the old ones are neglected or allowed to run on and ins crease until, as we said before, a ‘big’ sum is found on the wrong side of the Profit and loss account

But let u the positive side of the question.

s look at the negative as well as e have

shown very briefly some of the losses in

| trade when the credit system is carried out

to any great extent, and that they always

| viz.. the Cash and Credit systems of trade. |

book keeper, with frequently one |

salaries of these |

financing than in any other, for |

GOLDSMITH MAID. BAD FARM HORSE BUT A VERY RACE HORSE. (From the Ever The early life of this wonderful animal was distinguished by many striking pecu- liarities. fer great powers of speed, the sagacity and pluck manifested in her ma- ture years, shown especially in races made

4 VERY GOOD

ville Journal.)

horsemen anxious to know something of! her colt life; and to gratify this curiosity, | the very enterprising newspaper corres pon- ent has pushed his way among the meadows where first she saw the light, and interview~ | ed her owner, gleaning the incidents of her | early life. It seems. that the ‘ Maid’ was a wayward | child, From the date of her birth, on the | farm of John B. Decker, in Wautage town» ship, Sussex county New York, in the spring

of 1857, to the age of six years, she distin~ guished herself many ways, but never as a

trotter. She was undersized, nervous and fretful, and utterly refused heavy farm work. Mr. Decker, her owner, says he

never got any work out of her but twice, one half day in plowing corn and one half day in drawing stones. Once she was hitch- ed to a harrow, but after’a short distance she reared backward and entangled both her hind legs in the cross-piece of the har

row, and so injured those members that when she goes to walk, it is said, she still shows signs of stiffness behind. caused by this fall in her early life. From the time she was two or three years

| old until Mr, Decker sold her at six,she was |

used as a race horse, though without her

/owner’s knowledge. The boy on the farm,

of course, as all boys do, were anxious to know which was the speediest horse, and at | an early day they found that it was the | ‘Maid.’ And so, after the “old man’ had gone to bed they would take her out of | the pasture or stable whenever a race could | be made up, and run her on the road after | night. She beat every thing that could be brought to run with her, so that finally none | but the unniformed from a distance could be found to bet against her. These races

were made up ost the country stores and lounging places in the evening after farm work was over, and the race run the same night, after the ‘old man” had gone to bed, No training, no grooms, no jockeys, no weight for age—just a man or a boy in his bare feet, mounted bare-back, with his toes hugging the mare’s belly like a leech was the style, and the Maid no doubt enjoyed it more than she has some of her late races in the trotting ring.

(ne of the most singular freaks of the

crazy headed little mare during her farm life was a habit she had of taking a month. About orice a month, no matter how high the enclosure,

ly trip through the country.

she would break from her pasture and go sailing over the neighboring farms, leaping and flying over fences, ditches, stone walls streams -

and through fields of growing

crops, meadows, wood and pastures, up steep

hill and down until making a circuit gener- |

| ally about six miles, she would finally and |

occur is a proposition hardly likely to be |

questioned by any who has had experience the matter. Let us now see the gains when it is dropped and the Cash system es- tablished. In the first place,it is not mere cant to say that the man who sells alto-

in

gether for cash, does, or at least can, sell

the cheapest. Ready cash is, at any timea

| consideration, and when, in coming to sum

up the receipts of one’s trade, these all show

up in cash,not represented in so many items |

in the Ledger from which the money equi valent may not be realized for some con-

and bought her off them for 7260. The |

| two men also knew her, and were pags that the mare had great speed, and believ- |

|

siderable time, a fair and safe calculation | can be made as to the profits of the business. |

When thisis not the case one may approx- imate but never know exactly what are the profits, because who can tell that the largest account in the books, and considered pers

haps safest, may not before many months

by some unforseen event, be completely |

annulled. Then, again, when one sells als

together for cash he can, as we have said

before, sell the cheapest, because knowing just what his receipts are, and they being all in cash, he can conduct his business on very much less capital and may be said to hi the

“Quick sales with small profits.”

carry out in business motto of Phe man who sells on credit in marking up his goods must count the probable losses from bad

debts,among his insurance, taxes, and other

| Grove, Orange county, New York, for $690. | ee ee w York, for 9600 | stavs away from where we are ill treated. |

j

expenses, and consequently put on an extra |

‘on this account, for which the pay.

“advance,

customer must The man who sells

for cash only has no such item of expense ; | his business being thus run on a less ex

pensive scale he is same advance as his;neighbour,and yet sell his goods at a much cheaper figure. Here,

|

enabled to put on the |

| he did until this driver so brought out her

in the field from which she started, behav-

ing herself in a steady manner for her, until | the next run. ime that she would be out during these trips was generally about forty minutes

the

A few stops by the way to |

have a little gossip with her neighbors probaly accounted for the time being as } long as forty minutes.

Cne day, in the summer of 1863, two }

men were out buying horses for the army, and stopped all night at Mr. Decker’s. and | in the morning bought the Maid of him for $260, and started for home, leading the mare behind them.

On their woy they met a Mr. Thompkins, who knew the little mare,

ed that she could be made a trotter but were willing to make a hundred dollars by | their morning’s bargain. The next day | Tompkins sold her to Allen Goldsmith, an | excellent judge of horse flesh of Blooming

From him she took the name of Goldsmith | Maid. He kept her in pretty steady train

ing under a driver named Wm. Bodine, to whom, more than any other living man, | should be awarded the credit of first bring» The renowned Budd Doble, who now drives her so handsomely, |

ing the maré out. had not then either seen or heard of her.

While in training for the trotting course,

tful and irritable, so deter-

mined to ruin at every opportunity, instead |

of trotting, so hard to bring to a trot after

breaking from that gait,that Mr. Goldsmith

she was so fre

many training and sell her at any price, but his patient driver maintained his abiding faith in her, and assured his employer that she was the fastest animal on his premises, and would come out at last a great trotter, and finally persuaded him to keep her, which

times determined to give up the |

points that Mr. Goldsmith, in Novem. ber, 1368, sold her to B. Jackman and Budd Doble for $20,000. These gentlemen sold her to Mr. H. N. Smith for the sum of |

1 -. on aware eeennens ‘ > * of itself, is an evidence favourable to the | $37,000. Mr. Doble still drives her.

cash system in trade which will well nigh counterbalance all others ; selling store, other things being equal, will of course attract the greatest number of customers.

haps become patrons of the credit system,

but even they, unless among that class who | fet from the inside rail; and the accuracy obtain goods without any intention of pays | of the time wasestabjished beyond dispute.

the cheapest in August, 1865.

Those who have not the ready! the track and the time. | cash, and therefore desire credit, may per-

| |

She made her first appearance in public When she trotted in 2.17 at Milwaukee, September 6, 1871, there was great excitement everywhere among horse- men. Ihe majority doubted the length of But the track was measured afterwards by competent engin- eers, who testified under oath to its being a full mile in length when measured three |

ing for them, will make an effort to procure Ever since then vast crowds have attended

the cash and thus economise by placing the

difference in price into their own pockets. | citement is again revived.

To the customer who has the cash it makes very little difference where he buys, and if

A sells cheaper than B, because his business | ¢,)5 Park Association, on Friday, Goldsmith | | is carried on more economically, then A is| Maid beat her owm time, trotting a mile in | pretty sure to secure that customer’s trade, , 2:15}, the fastest time ever trotted. The

Of course, in objection to all this we must be told that competition in trade is so’great that unless credit is given trade cannot be had. erally the case. I[f for several years back a business been conducted on the credit system and it is now desirable to sub-

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stitute the cash principle, let the matter be | than the crowd expected, as Budd said he and | wouldn’t more than warm her up on the

for those who are worth retaining no loss need he expected.

change their grocer or their shoemaker,

| but a little reasonable explanation cannot

but convince them that the new mode in

troduced will to all parties prove profitable and agreeable. Just as itis lack of moral courage and mere mock modesty that pre- vents many people from abandoning habits and customs, social and moral, they know to be wrong and puerile, so it is an over cautiousness and fear reflecting no credit on the sagacity of the merchant, that prevents him from conducting his business,on the principle we wouid have inculeated. Let these fears be banished, and the Cash Sys. tem adopted by the retail dealers of Can-~ ada, then Reciprocity or no Reciprocity, a Grit or Tory Administration ruling the af-

men, they drove out to Rustico. and had to go out, and succeeded. While going | |iament, refers to the friendly relations with | fairs of the country; standing on a sound

financial basis they will have Little to aps prehend either from the dull times or any other of the blighted omens being cons

| United States; it expresses regret at the tinually flaunted in our faces.

Mx. J. Kino, of Halifax, has obtained the contract for the conveyance of mails be- tween Pictou, Prince Edward Island, and the Magdalen Islands,

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| running mate to stimulate her. We do not believe that this is gen- |

For the moment they the —— back may be inconvenienced and disposed to} full.

all her races. Since her last great achieve- ment at Mystic park in 2:16 3-4 this ex-

LATEST FROM THE MAID,

At the ninth annual meeting of the Buf- |

great feat is reported as follows ;— Goldsmith Maid was then brought out to trot against 2.16, for $2000. She hada The Maid was cheered by the people as she appeared en the track with Budd Doble. The first heat was made to the quarter pole in 34, to the half in 1.08, three quarter in 1.43 3-4, the heat in 2.184. This was nothing more |

first heat. When she came out the second time. the crowd almost went wild, pushing | and filling the track On the second heat the Maid trotted out, with her running mate, in fine condi- tion, betting, in the meantime, being heavy | that she would not accomplish her object. On the word being given, with her running | mate at her wheel, she made the quarter in 33 seconds, and the half in 1.06. On the home stretch, being collared by the running | horse,she shipped, but, getting down quick~ ly toher work, came in under the wire in 2.154, amid thundering applause from the thousands of spectators. The 20,000 specs tators nearly went wild, and insisted that the Maid be brought on the track. Doble soon appeared, leading the Maid by the halter. He was called to the stand, and Chandler Wells, President of the Associa- tion, said: “Gentlemen, allow me to intro- duce you to the driver and owner of the | fastest horse in the world.’’ The crowd | cheered three times and a “ tiger,’ and the ninth annual meeting of the Buffalo Driving | Park Association was ended.