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| J. W. MITCHELL, Otiice Sup’t.

Tue Dairy EXAMINER. "oh, FEBRUARY 3 1873.

The Mails.

So Jong as the Noritern Light is shut up in the ice aud rendered powerless, we manage to get daily mails with great punc- tuality. ‘The service by the capes is, in- deed, performed with a precision that satis- fiag every one. For some days back the r-/alarity of the mails has been hke an In- dian summer, amid the gloom and the dis- oppointments occassioned by the sposmodic and unreliable efforts of the Northern Laght. This will cease, of course, as soon as Mr. Sewell’s prodigy gets clear of the ice. Then we will be put again on weekly rations as to mail:, and have them doled out to us two or turee times a week, at very uncertain hours of arrival. When the service ia performed across the Capes, the people of Prince Ed- ward Island are enabled to read their let- ters and papers from Halifax and St. John the day after they are written or printed. It is not so when Mr. McKenzie’s postal ar- rangements, prepared for us through the miedium of the Northern Light, come into play. We have to wait patiently from day to day, first till it suits the Northern Laight to make her appearance, and the ice to relinguish its hold of that costly transport.

Does the Dominion Government imagine that it is pertorming its duty to this Prov- iuce, when it provides us with the desultory

woatal service, that an experimental crafi like the ‘‘Northern Light” performs! The announcement may not be flattering to- the Government, but it is nevertheless true that there is a feeling of contentment anong the yeople here when Sewells patent is dis- abled, for then the mails may be expected with certainty almost to an hour.

We cannot imagine that the Dominion Government is so imperfectly informed oi affairs that it does not know all we have said; and if it does know, why, may we ask, is a remedy not applied?) Why are we har- assed with the vam attempts of a foolish ‘-experiment”? There, at the Capes is the shortest and most direct passage—build on either side connecting branches of railway, and garry out the conditions of Confedera- tion in the most sensible and obvious man- ner, instead of trusting to a craft which has only achieved the smallest teasure of suc- cess even in mild winters, and that at an expense which the public accounts will show to be enormous. We of the Island have little interest in the visionary projects of shipbuilders, even should they be the very dear friends of Mr. McKenzie. What we want is a regular postal service, or a3 near $> regularity as can be arrived. With noth- | ng less can we be content.

The “Indignation Fizzle.”

Tur Argus of this morning styles the School Meeting called by His Worship the Mayor at the Market Ha 1, on the 5th imst., in compliance with a requisition from citizens, ‘*Lhe Indignation Fizzle.” If the Queon’s Printer be correct in his conclu- sions, who, we would ask, signed the requi- sition asking for this meeting to take into consideration the contemplated erection of a very costly school building im an extremely remote part of the City.” On the document in question we find the names of rate pay- ers who huve been, and woe be to the Queen’s Printer if they are not, supporters of the present Government. He says the meoting was called principally by the opponents of the present Government! What! Can it be possible that the Hon. Ansus Bb. Me- Kenzie, Joseph Knight, Dr. Beer, D, Farquharaon, John Beer, Benj. Balders- ton, William Findley, and, as an old friend of ours would say, a host of others whose names were appended in support of ‘‘ The Indignation Fizzle,” are, according to the Argus, opponents of -he Goverament? If} go, we would advise the Queen's Printer to beget himself again to the highest rail on tie fence with all possible speed and stop! his crowing. Who, we would ask the Queen’s Printer, proposed the resolu- tion at the meeting in question, ob- | jecting to the contemplated site for the new | a:hool edifice? Not by any means an op-

nent of the present Government. If, | therefore, as stated by the Argus, “the real | object of the meeting in question was to!

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| Russians can bring.

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Tho Defanc> of Constantinop'e.

There is one point connected with the

! ant . 1 ‘i ru Eastern war which has been overlo yked. At

is the defence of Constantifiople. An Kag-

lish correspondent, riting from Bucharest,

states that he has talked with all the mult | hes with the Russian army and on this sub- |

tary attac with imany and it opinion that the Fingland,

Russian oflicers

ance from t

I It 1s pretty certain the

Russians would never have ta

4nforeements and supplies.

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of

front ‘onstantinople,

or surrounded, or starved out. thay can go certainly, but it tain they can go nofarther. There is every reason to believe that the Russian military chiefs have abandoned all idea of an attack uson Constantinople. If the Turks refuse to make peace with the Russians at Adrian- ople, the latter would prefer simply an at- ‘itude of armed observation until the former vielded and cane to terms. This waiting rame the Russians could stand longer than the Turks, because they would have the whole of Bulgaria, from t.o Paaube to Salonica, from which to draw supplies. As this state of suspense would be detrimental to the interests of the whole of Europe, the Powers would probably bring their influ- ence to bear to compel the Turks to make peace.

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Rev. Leonard Gaetz on Policy. (From Moutreal Witness of 6th. )

A third want of Young Canada was the wise encouragement of her industries and development of her resources. It is a mat- ter of the utmost moment to see that in the sommodities which our country is capable of producing the supply is brought up as

ie) 1 “lye i arai t | which is struggling agaist

‘capital already invested in

is the universally expressed |

a Saas -e | : : ken Plevna if) },.9: and shoe business is )} Osman Pasha had nob been eut off froin re- } market is limited at best, and t z~? | ‘ . J s : Now, as long) cans ave crowding us OF ss the ‘T'arks have comand of the sea Posi- | the for- | | : Ps ‘ . . ‘ ° c »jes cannot be cut off Fie, eet , ‘midable Kujuk Chekine}« a vee New Y ork, passing through the | - noe i for his summer vocation, left me an order is equally Cer | fo. 4 few hundred dollars worth of goods. I was to add the duties and express charges, and s-nd him the invoice when they were When he saw the fearful he apologised, and counter- ad to unpack nd put them back in the drawer, best way I could.’ ‘ Our business we have had to discharge our nen these auctions The Americans, after taking own markets, bring the

nearly as possible to the demand, and that those things which we are not able to pro duce shall be secured by the exchange of; the fruits of industry, rather than by the expenditure of gold, lest the balance of trade against us should deplete our ex: chequers and involve us in hopeless bank- cuptey. For this purpose we need the gen- erous encouragement and wise discretion of our home industries. These are the hife- blood of the nation. The strength of Can- ada is not in her Parliaments, but in her workshops. But admitting this, we would further observe that of these national in- dustries, the Government of the nation is the natural and appropriate guardian, and we doubt if the Government of any country has a more sacred and important trust com- mitted to it. On way in which government may most effectively encourage home pro- ducts is by the WISE ADJUSTMENT OF ITS TARIFFS.

Let me say here that L know nothing of politics in this matter. As | understand it, it is not a political question in the popular acceptation of the term, but a national ques- tion of business, and in the utter absence of any political bias or prejudice of which | am aware, I frankly confess that I am not a Free Trader, if by free trade you mean 27 per cent. on one side and 17} per cent. or nothing on the other. I am fully prepared

'to admit that free trade in the abstract is

the grandest principle known in the entire region of political economy, and perhaps there is something noble and magnanimous in this young country, with less than four millions of a population, setting a lofty ex- ample of free trade to forty millions of com- mercial foreigners, only a few gunshots from our doors, an example on which unques- tionably our immediate neighbors look with unfeigned admiration. But will the ex- ample pay? Is it wise and safe to experi- ment with a policy which is grand in the abstract, but utterly fallacious in our actual situation? It would seem to ordinary mor-

tals that to harness up four millions of people with undeveloped resources, with forty umullions> whose resources have been developed under a_ pro-

tective policy for many years, on an equal footing, would be trying enough in all conscience, and a good deal like the bar- barous old Hollander who yoked his ox and his wife together in the same plough team ! (Laughter.) ‘to add to the natural disad- vantages under which the young Dominion labors, as compared with other and strong- er nations, by facing a high wall of protec- tion all round it, with the grand thecry of free trade, is something that even a Dutch- rcan would never dream of, unless he in- tended to force Canada into annexation. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) With her ac- t: al disadvantages, however, Carala was prepared fora fair field and no favor, and are prepared to stand or fall by the conse- quences ; but for the sake of humanity and the love of country let us have a fair field— either no protection on either side, or equal srotection on both sides. A great many of those free trade visions are built upon a cur- rent fallacy that all imports are paid for by exports—or, if by bullion, that very gold is the return for goods exported. However

correct this may be in nations of nearly equal producing capabilities and natural re- sources, it does not apply to Canada.

some cause or other th

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vantages to provide for oursel those commodities of which our country b capable. It would hopelessly swainp the and drive from our country mien that we want as we do the sunsiine. then gave ILLUSTRATION OF THE LOSS

occasioned by the shutting down of fact ion. Going into a boot not far from here, enquir the answer was: ‘ Business overdone ; oul

their tariff completely 5 markets. Why, said he

ready to ship. item of duty, manded the order—so that I h the goods a and dispose of them the A furniture dealer told me: is dead ; and give up mat are killing us.

the run of their balance of their stock, which it would pay

ng ;

vufacturing ;

them to sell at any price, and slaughter it

right at our doors. Their facilities for ma- nufacturing are greater than ours, and their high tariff shuts us out from any fair com- petition.’

“T know that there are those who say with some considerable plausibility, ‘ I do not care where an article is made ; I want the cheapest, come from where it may. But beside the fact—which might be easily de- monstrated if we had time—that the home manufacture, though at a nominally higher price, is really cheaper in the end, the ques- tion resolves itself into this: Is it possible for us to exist as a nation, occupying the relation to other nations, either largely or entirely, of consamers and not producers ! Can we afford to have our manufretories in the United States ur anywhere else! Where the manufactories are there will be the centres of population, and where the centres of population are, there will be the markets, and there will be the vommercial strength. Sir, to turn this Dominicn into

A NATION OF CONSUMERS

you might as well people it with Colorado potato bugs, Nevada beetles and Manitoba grasshoppers. We will repeat the sad ex- perience of the Kilkenny cats, which begin- ning at the head devoured each other until there was nothing left but the tails.” He again demanded either absolute free trade or equal protection on both sides. It was probably the most difficult, but certainly one of the m st important problems in the administration of public affairs to hold the balance evenly between the various inter- ests and classes of the nation; and so to ad- just our foreign trade relations as rather to turn the scale in favor of home enterprise, capital and energy than against these. “J have touched upon the subject, not to air political notions, much less to counsel gov- ernments, slow at any time to take the ad vice of a clergyman (unless indeed he chances to wear a cardinal’s hat), but our object is rather to lay stress upon the true sources of national strength and prosperity, and to in- dicate what seems to us a real want of Young Canada. (lh nictinbiaebeeellialial ee. Hemp Tuerr will be a meeting of the City Council this evening at 7.30 o'clock.

Tu meat market to day was very small, and the upper department of the Market House was almost empty.

I. O. O. F.--Regular Convocation of ‘Port la Joie Encampment, No. 13,” to- morrow (Wednesday) evening, at 8 o'clock. Visiting Patriarchs cordially welcomed.

AvnorHer SvuccessFut Istanpsr.— Miss Isabella McMillan, of New Haven, P. E. I., has graduated for professional nurse at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Bos- ton, on the 14th ult. We wish here every success.

Tur ‘‘ Northern Light” ia still ice-bound off Pictou. It is likely she will remain in her present position for some time, as the field which binds her is large and apparently very solid. Our Railway Superintendent is a passenger on board.

License Grantep.—Mr. John Kelly, of Grafton Street, who received a_ license to sell spirituous liquors from the Licensing Board in December last, has just received the assent of the rate-payers of the block on which he resides. Evidently there must have been a serious demise of the Blue Rib- bon in that block since December.

Tur Directors of the Rustico Bank resume business to-morrow in the new Bank prem- ises. Mr. Joseph Gallant has been appoint- ed President, and Mr. Adrian Doiron takes the place of the late Marin J Blanchard, as Cashier. The notes of this Bank are now takon at the city Banks at their face value.

| We wish the institution every success under From

| e balance of trade’ condemn the School Board, and through has been increasing against the Dominion |

its present management. —-Argus.

In the ‘‘List of New Vessels” which we

them the Government,” among the promot-| for the last few years at the rate of from’ published a short time ago, there appeared

era of that object were ratepayers hereto- | fore recognized as strong followers of the Government; but now designated by the Qneen’s Printer as promoters of an ‘ In-’ dignation Fizzle,’ and opponents of the Government, beeause they desired to enter their protest against what they conaidered a lavish expenditure of the public money. _—————— ee —-

Ata recent meeting of the City Commcil a report was read from the Tax Collector showing that several parties had been im- properly assessed, which was very properly

ordered by the Board to be remitted, Would it not be advisable to publish the Collector's Report. for t

fex-psyors

he informaticn of a.

eight to ten million dollars, and the actual, cost of our imports from the United States!

over our exports reached last year the en-

ormous sum of between twenty-six and How long. While it. would be a gross wrong to the consumer, ‘under any c/rcumstances t)? impose such a

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twenty-seven million of dollars. can we stand that pressir2?

rotective tariff upon foreign commodities as ‘o enable the home prod: ce> to run h's wires ud to starvation jri es, it would be wrong to the home manufacturer and ul i- mately detrimental to the country asa whole, to allow our markets to be flooded

with foreign manufactures with which we'

two errors in connection with the class of two vessels owned by John Gillan, Esq., viz., the reference tothe brigt. Fleetwing which reads ‘‘ Surveyed to class 7 A,” should be, ‘‘ classed 74 ;” and the Irean, which reads, ‘‘Classed at English Lloyd's 7 A,” should be ‘‘7 Al.”

A cCoRRESPONDENT from Malpeqne informs us that the work on the Breakwater of that place, is being rapidly pushed forward, 200 feet of the Breastwork has been completed, and 300 feet more nearly so. The Engi- neer in charge, expresses himaclf as well pleased with the progres: made. Mr. Doyle

are not yet able to compete, This must is determined to push the work to comple- certainly strangle the energy aud enterpriso‘ tion as soon as possible, —S, Progress.

imraense disad- vea at least |

our factories, | G R hy | 5

The lecturer

ories i en rs owt « ’ pet ‘ ° is A

furks, without any assist} 5) Gunada, owing to unsatisfactory protec: | can alone, and unaided, | { defend Constantinople against any force the |

and shoe store ing about business is dull; the}

he Ameri- 1 every side, while huts us out of their ‘a gentleman from provinces

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New Advertisciments.

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CONCER

ON THE

| 14th February, | ship the Bishop of Charlottetown.

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THE MEMBER3 OF

respectfuily announce to the public that a

GRAIN IS

OF Vocal & lust‘umental Music

WILL BE GIVEN IN

On Thursday Ev’g, Feb. 14,

At which some of the best will assist. From the success which has at tended former Concerts of this Society, the public may rely upon the Com- mittee of Management leaving no- thingundone, on their part, to make the forthcoming Con- cert worthy of their patronage.

Tickets of admission, 25 cents; reserved seats, 40 cents. Voncert to commence at 8 o'clock. THOMAS FLYNN, Sec’y to Com. February 12 1878—2i

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ON SALE.

H} ' cents.

Sweet Oil.

200 bbls. Castor Oil and

HENRY COOMBS.

hy h 40 Quintals good Codfish, 500 #15 s boxes fresh Smoked Herring, La- brador Herring. Good and cheap. HENRY COOMBS. Fri 90 Boxes Raisins, at from 9 to s 12 cts. per ib; 700 tbs Dates, 7 cts. per Ib; Oranges, Peanuts, Cocoanuts, Figs ; 500 ths. Dried Apples, Cranberries, Canned Peaches, Plums and Cherries. HENRY COOMBS.

Good American Beans and Split Peas. HENRY COOMBS.

Beans, 9 Gross Bartlett's best, 15

blaeing, Gross Pickstone’s Washing

Crystal, at low prices; 3 Casks Sods, Whitening. HENRY COOMBS.

Acid,

10 tbs. Citric Acid, Senna, Salis, and Magnesia.

HENRY COOMBS. Corks 50 Gross, from 40 cts. to 60 cts. ' HENRY COOMBS. Matches 50 Gross Byram’s best.

' HENRY COOMBS. Y mM Cracked Corn, Cheese, Onions, ud + Brooms and Brushes, from 8 to 30

cents. HENRY COOMBS.

asks Empty Casks, Kegs, Bottles, 1 Demijohns and Oil Drums on

sale. Repairs attended to. Cooper Shop

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on premises. HENRY COOMBS. Drinks 10 gallons Lime Juice, Lemon t Syrup, Raspberry Vinegar. HENRY COOMBS.

Ch’town, Feb. 13—3taw

TENDERS.

Mayor's OFFficx, Charlottetown, Feb. Sth, 1878.

TEXENDERS for PRINTING & BINDING

300 Copies of ‘‘ The City Bye-Laws’” will be received at the Mayor’s Office until noon of FRIDAY, 15th inst. Samples of paper, type, and binding can be seen at this Office.

WM. B. MORRISON, City Clerk.

Feb. 8—i INSOLVENT acl OF Isia and Amending Acts.

In the matter of SYLV ANUS KEITH, an

Insolvent.

LL persons indebted to the above Insol- vent are hereby notified to pay their ac- counts to met, and to me only. Cc. V. McGREGOR,

Assignee. Charlottetown, P. BE. Island, Feb. 5, 1878—tf

Clothes Cleaning Depot,

(Above Mr. D. Parquharson’s Store),

/Cornner or Quess & DorcuesteR SrrRests.

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Renovating and Repairing Clothes. R.

M PATTERSON guarantees that no i¥i_ matter how badly faded or stained gar- ments may be, he will restore them to their original color, JOHN PATTERSON. Feb, 9—

me

Th Dorsey

Under the Patronage of his Lord-

IN AID OF THE POOR.

st Patrick's T, A. Society GRO

CONCERT!

ST, PATRICK’S HALL,

talent of the City

Doors open at 7 o'clock ;

30 Casks best American Oil, at 36

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| New Advertisenents.

j aq & Jost's Debtors! Te ALL PERSONS INDEBTED TO Us, | we hereby g ve notice that after the ‘Tenth Day of March next they will be liable to law expenses for the collection of their accounts.

We would rather not adopt the above course, but we have piyments t» make, and mugs | positively collect our outstandias accounts.

DORSEY & JOST.

‘h’town, Feb. 12,1878.—3taw we ar till mar,J0

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PTOMSiol

Cor. Great George & Kent Sts,

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E Subscriber wishes to inform his friends and the public generally that he still keeps on hand a choice assortment of

Groceries and Provisions,

AT HIS OLD STAND,

and will be pleased to have them call amé inspect for themselves.

ON HAND, 10 CHESTS CONGOU THA,

(*‘ New Season ’’) 1,000 Lbs. Canadian Cheese, 10 Casks American Keroseng Oil,

(120° test ; 36 cts. per gal.)

20 BARRELS SUGAR

(all kinds),

100 Bhls, Sap, Extra Flour,

3 Puns. Very Choice

MOTLASSHS 20 doz. Pickles, 20 doz. Assorted Jams 30 boxes Dessert Prunes,

100 Tins Sardines.

CANS PEACHES, PINEAPPLES,

STRAWBERRIES, TOMATOES,

NEW RAISINS, ZANTE CURRANTS:

DRIED APPLES, STEWING PRUNES, 300 QUARTS CRANBERRIES,

| GREEN GRAPES.

$00 LBS. SMOKED HALIBUT,

25 QTLS. CODFISH,

100 BOXES DIGBY HERRING.

and all goods usually found in a First- Class Grocery Store.

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FAMILIES SUPPLIED BY THE MONTH DONALD NICHOLSON.

Jan. 16, 1878—y.

NG SQUARE HOUSE!

WE HAVE A COMPLETE STOCK OF

CARRIAGE GOODS

Consisting in part ofj

Iron, Steel, and Castings, Spokes and Rims, Axles and Springs.

We call special attention to Henry's Parere Srveie Pry

Cast Steel Carriage Springs,

for which we are agents. We warrant

each Set. a@ OUR PRICES ARE VERY LOW “a

BEER & SONS.

Ch’town. Jan. 9, 1575.

OUR STOCK

——FOR—

GARRIACE BUILDERS

IS VERY COMPIGTE.

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Over 50 Tons Bar Iron,

40 Bdles. Tire Siecel, 200 Elliptic Carriage Springs, 110 sets Axles.

ASSORTED SIZES, from § to 12 inch,

a very large Stock o

CARRIAGE & MILL BOLTS, RING BOLTS, STEP PADS, &6.

which we offer to cash and prompt paying customers at better prices than ever before.

W.E. DAWSON & CO.

Jan, 18—2aw ar 3i

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