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VOL. XXVT CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1876 NO. 9 ° é‘ ; d Mua Cad sv, @ Avid sid 4 Vitae DUAN. IF LVR sh ® ane Jt L 5 Of FP VU we rc ae ML wel Ree Se TL TR, GY Na ft ee er gr gor emen ee My. 5. Faso “ma TRO OA

a ¢ A — . i" . a » , ory ’ rif i. U4 (i, o> *% 44 +44 DUSLINESS © is POETRY in the clouds that rolled round the setting ative feelings, and a determination to run SIR JOHN A, MACDONALD. DEAT 1E DISHCLOTH, . j 3 ps ‘ ' . , I ' } | (i ia ‘ e se 48 iil i i} i i ee ee ee sun and deepened the gloom of the twilight away the first moment be could elude the F it ni - { lj that dure a! : ¢ ee iy , ' : : . . "ye nn (From tie Zoronto . on.) a . MackENZIE & STUMBLES VYVORAHS VOW hour. Many who, like Marcus, having their vigilance of his master. This he hod done ; os ing hen some of you | (i ' beings ebarged with the electric fluid, feel | two nights before. He had sought refuge } Standing aloof from party we have neve r t i typhoid fever; natarncncarve enn qine oe oon y ; a YT ~ ‘. : ° i . © ss ‘ . ahs d any artisan oa hh , ac iriaties ¢ ecting tnel ow A pI Hy 4 \ | EMSS ON Merchants x \ 7 fig! sm + rah said: on the approach of a thunder-storm, as if it in the ruined hut from the terrors of the shared any partisan unwilling « f lo just ai , ae Soo a ne osb lO AUS i 2 » earls sor ll not ed ‘ . 1 5 } . ¢ % qualities ans ‘aims of Sir Johr ' ‘ vr Av Te ‘otton a howld all the ae Ps ses ale were withdrawn frora themselves to give | thunder-storm, where he had kindled a 7 tee i or ro - claim ; = wn : the cause, ' ‘ \nd none be left but he and I; power and destructiveness to the elements, blaze and eaten the food some pitying Macdonald. Che following wh 2 stil sur: | jet mew per ’ ; k to your ~Y ‘1D 4 a Gas a a } ° ° . as Is {¢ RY 2S "hed ' t ay he “k ry * an ae { rENERAL A GENTS, For all the gold and all the gear, | an oppression, an attraction towards the | slave had given him on the way. He had | 74D is his fallen and somewhat besmirched = dishe! If they be black and stiff and OFFICE ° For all the lands both far and near, Marcus was banner, shows that he possesses in a high smell like a ‘boneyard,’ it is enough—

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77 North Side Queen Square, Phat ever valor ost or won,

Corner Queen and King Streets. I would not wed the earls son.” MsS—! \ Postage prepaid by Charlottetown. - - P. E. Island. : ale: tf weit Vetehee 30. t078.--1e “A maiden’s vow,” old ‘allum spoke, wit ; ; **Ts lightly made and lightly broke; ° v7 see Che heather on the mountain he ight Lun RATES, WILLLA i DODD, Begius to bloom in purple light; < ‘ . * ‘ aa i ‘i he frost-wind soon shall sweep away ; ' verded to Cotmmeission Werchant and dy auld eee a cae s year— UCTIVNEER But Norah, ere the bloom be goue, \\ ty ed the earl's son.” s $ 6.00 QUPREN SQUARE, ” , 1.00) CHARLOTPEPOWN, P. E. ISLAND | Comers tee Ss «hy ~ —9 ~ May irter for the ¢ igle Ss nest: y t but | CARVYELL BROS., I \we'’s fierce stream may backward ? i s en turn; , 5 AUOTIONEERS. Ben Cruchan fa’ as ' Kilchurn : Our kilted clans, whe xl is } ! ' en | Before their foemen turn and fly; - ~ |Commission Merchants, |<!" :%* Semen wm and ays” “ * 3 Z x AND Would never wed the earls son.’ Rgclaseeeeeerrrs| @ GENERAL AGENTS. | Still in the water Tilly's shade | t : = = < ; ie | Her wonted nest the wild swan made; | 3° 2 ~ | | Lower Queen St. Charlotietown, P, EB, L. | Ben Cruchan stands as fast as ever; ~ : - s 7 | me | SUll downward flows the Awe’s flerce river; | a eee ne ence] Me: ee AN Tree eee sca, | = “3¢ : = = - » 5 ie ei But Norah’s heart is los and on— : } x oe _— = ’ = a ou = da c*aheeRr zal Wier co Enzame | She's hin + tei tie Coa ate : > 3 Stn io te edin inte Beet ale COMMISSION AGIINT, ¢ §\SSSeanansenn| 6/4 UCZTIONEER & BROKER LITERATURE, | gE |SSSESESSSSSS | ~ 7) TRINITY CORNER, GEORGETOWN, PBI. ee Seneenere pee | 4, MARCUS WARLAND; | ¢ om SWI AS s “|< { AGENT FOR THE } S (ifs. ae i ; |OR, THE LONG MOSS SPRING. | E SSGSSenecee~| “4 Standard Life Insurance Co. | a ; | g slzee = “ ; a 7 : S| Sept. 1, 1873. ly Coates =~ Ceara. | a, 66% lice te et ie hi «tate | rte While she went to the cabin to get the | =e ~~s ro St — So oe | = . ° es : @ te — ==--. “ | ca 1 oe HASZARD BROS., mysterious packet, Marcus indulged his = 5 pio Sete 5 io | J on : | sincere avd heartfelt sorrow over the grave = ££ e- —-== = Te COMmssion Merchanis & Auctioneers, of his devoted friend of his desolate years. | g % | tn be 23 20 & mito Sod t 3/1 . How short a time it seemed since he,a mere | SiO Soaeece ane i> N " | 28 - se a i FORWARDING, MANUFACTURERS, boy, sat at his side, watching him peel the | | & i. ae i } AND bark from the smooth willows with his | oS 2 ‘igo (reneral aw @ e mts, | wrinkled hands, while he dropped comfort |

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rizon.

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}ing texts of Scripture into the listening |

G1 WATER STREET,

| ears of Milly, or sang with growing enthu- siasm, ‘The old ship of Zion, glory halle~ lujah,’

| There was a smooth white stone

| Opposite Merchants Bank, P]

P. Ef.

Haszarp, | Horace Haszarp. ;Os REFERENCES:

Messrs. Greenshields, Son & Co., Montreal,

Messrs. W. & R. Brodie, Quebec, Messrs. J. S. Farlow & Co., Boston,

Charlottetcwn,

J. E. lying close to the grave, such as formed the basis | of the fountain. Marcus knelt down, and | taking his penknife, carved the name of

| the old soldier on its yielding surface; then

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| Quarter, Isth day, 4h. S7m. & ™., | Henry Lawson, Esq., Halifax, N. 5. | placing it at the head of the grave, he pres-

J - pil - zor .@ ' << H ae "eo Davies, Charlottetown, eee oe sed the earth against it to prevent it from ’ z mh aay ; ov he Wine De Bo ay 3. 1875. j se ‘ a

aa aon |talling. He felt an irresistible desire to |

j t

SUN MOON | HIGH DAY’s x | consecrate the spot by some act of memory, |

AY WEEE want| saan far INSURANCE, | "pot by some act of memory,

se sets| ______| some token of human friendship. The

“uu oM!M Hi M | ferryman’s wife returned while he wes ene

; vo ia * re — MA FRIWN | gaged in this touching rite of remembrance

uf i. 49 211 10 DY 31 to the lowly negro, and she thought that }

5 49; 21/11 20 l 32 iNS she should never again fear to approach it, |

od 22 8 ; op, even in the darkest hour of midnight. In sil- |

- 5 43 94) ¢ ? {4 BY PRINCE EDWARD PSLAND. ; ence she dlaced the packet in his hand,th n |

5 8; 25/1 1 0 37 ——— | when he turned away she said,— s i 47; 2 2 18 ] 3 BOARD OF DIRECTORS: ds : ;

é; 47 7 7 12 $0 | , There is a wild rosesbush yonder , if!

. aa ftoperT LonGaworth, Esq., Presiden : } . "

1a 6; 295 4 5 43 7 oe ‘ a a oy Esq., President, | you like, I will plant it by that stone, and J |

‘ , « ‘ On. « S. { ( Ns i : i it }

. , : a. 4g 17 3B a 9 yo Hon. L. C. OWEN. | will see that it does not fall. If the moss |

191 ‘3 oi 9 1 Q $7 | Hon. A. A. McDonaLp, should grow over it, I will clear it away |

nS +4 $11 22 7 50 | Hon. J.C- Pork, = | from the name you have cut.’

1S ‘4 1 3 ) =1 | Tuomas HANDRAIHAN, Esq., : ji

* Monds 13 MI 5 =3 | GzorGE R. BEER, Esq. ‘uod bless you, exclaimed Marcus; you

3'Tues 431 $8 0 40 ] 55| . Risks taken daily at their office, corner| havea feeling heart; I honour you for it.

i Great George an sower Water Streets. | <y 9 i ' . Vedn’'s #2} 40) 1 48 a oe ray a one e acne | Yes,’ added he, to himself, as he led his calietdele a ant as a 8 "7 Cites Sik on 1875—ly _ppecadastieds | horse to the terry~boat, which had just

« i t- ~- « ti Lf » ARADO mas ae : i

99 Saturda { as. 6 0 4 ; | reacued the shore, ‘ this woman has native

93'S ) 45' 6 { bi 6 } f ‘ 3 y f y

4 iS ce ashe an 4 ST. LAWRENCE refinement and sensibility Iam glad she oa =| agi ¢ geio ¢: 11 : dwells near my beloved spring. There is

2 - y ‘ So ‘ « If be ‘ . ‘ : ; °

2 sd 6, #27 561 ! 13 | \ r | C > | something in its placid, silvery beauty, in

27 rsday 50,8 2111 35 15 | ‘ a Ine NSu ran G v0. | its deep continuous music, that creates re~

as Frista { . 8 S M - = OF sponsive beauty in the heart that is bathed

yi § 2 55.9 14 23 PRINCGS EDWARD ISLAND. | init. Inever approached it without feel- iM y i7 81/4 67} 9 28 j 26 | apenen ing my immortality, my eternity. My fa- | Ut aorizea Capital, - - $300,000. | ther’s soul, after going through a baptism ‘ear “er . . i . “* - . A es PRICES CURRENT. | Subscribed Capital, - 148,960. | of fire, here found the river of life. Poor r ' ' a —_—— | old Simon, no doubt, here held communion Ch wn, Jat , 187 . oo ay . : ai a ; : a BOARD OF DIRECTORS: | with the Great Invisible, whose image he FISH ARCHIBALD KENNEDY, President. beheld in the far depths of the waters. ( 50) 3-00 on F. ROBERTSON, | Beautiful fountain of my boyhood !’ con- , S7 { ARTEMAS LORD, : . i ;

5 48 to 0 = P. W. HynpMAN. | tinued he, casting one more backward , ia ay RaLtpu B. PEAKE, | glance, as he stood on the brink of the riv- BREADSTUFFS. THOMAS MORRIS, | er, my being seems coeval with thine; I

I it Flour, per Ib 03 to 0.34 | GEORGE D. LONGWORTH. ; :

: ns a : : : ' listen to thy murmurs, and feel as if I had

fiour, per bb 00 t0 7.00) Risks taken daily at their office, Exchange waitin .

Flour, per 100 Ibs 3.00 to 3.25 | Building. ' for ever heard them sighing, breathing,

Oatmeal, per 100 lbs 2.70 to 3.50 FREDERICK W. HYNDMAN, mingling with my soul; [ watch the wells-

S;OABDS. Ch’town, March 22, 1875.—ly Secrelary. ing, flowing onward, onward— never weary-

Hemiock, 100 feet. 81 to 0.94 ‘ ; : 4 ‘ ing, never pausing; full, exhaustless, deep

Pp 62 to 2.4 TOT \ . :

. ; 97 tol = \ ' and clear; and [| feel as if thus my exist-

Shingles, per M 2.11 to 2.48 i l he i ‘ ence had ever been flowing onward, onward,

> a POULTRY. and ever would flow along as God’s eterns» $/).30 to 0.80 E al days shall last. Ob! when! have real-

Ducks, (ea 24 to 0.35 | IMPERIAL ized the lofty dreams of my ambition,—

Fowls, (each -25 to 0.40) when my spirit has wrestled, and battled,

Pa iges, (each 0.25 to 0.30 ‘ “a ; :

+ “si gap dlp 0 80 a 1.25 i | I 6 | I$ l I d I ( 6b C 0 lll } d ll J and triumpied in the conflict with the

Gees ich 6.50 to 0.60 OF LONDON. stormy elements of the world, let me come

MEAT ‘ and bathe my thirsty lips in thy sweet tran~

Beef, (small pieces) per Ib $9.06 to 0.12 Subscribed & invested Capital, quilizing ways , and when, like the time-~

Beef, per by the quarter 0.05 to 0.08 -_ = 4 worn African, I lay my head on the clay-~

Ha per lb : : 0.10 to 0.12 £1.965,000 Sto. . y y y

om” so 0 to 0.00 cold bosom of our general mother, may the

1». per au e! VU 0 VU.

wae P —— 0.08 to 0.09 lone, mysterious accents breathe forth my

Mutton, per 0.05 to 0.10 PHENIX requiem, and thy silver gushings beautify

: k,(small pieces) per o : * ane the place of my repose.’

per i the carcass ANI PUIG | ° . . . Veal, per Ib 0.04 to 0.08 | INSU RANCE COM PANY, Lost in his meditations, he had not ob.« og slime : ’s wif si MISCELLANEOUS. OF BROOKLYN, N. ¥. served that the ferryman 8 wife was assists ‘ 0.80 to 1.06 ing her husband in urging the boat across ; & per Dusiei SO to id } ’ *, -<¢ ©

B ushel votoo7s Cash Assets, - $2,015,385.84. the river. But the moment he became

Butter (fresh) per tb 0.20 to 0.24 aware of this circumstance, he grasped the

. itter per Ib by the tub . = a pole, though she laughingly endeavoured

skins. per it ‘ > tO UL1S ° Wr TY i .

Cheese one a tk per lb 6.14 to 0.16 | The above Offices being of U NDOUBT-| to retain it.

Cheese, per } : 0.05 to 0.08 ED STANDING, grareneen perfect ‘ And thou, rejoicing river !’ thought he,

{ re or ) te curity and P ayme . “ aie

oie r * i, per | 00 ee ae security and ; rompt Payment benting over and watching the resisting

Vgzs. per doz ».20 to 0.2 F sse 4 .

Green Peas 0.00 to 0.00 | of Losses. waters gurgling and foaming round the ops

Hay, per ton 9.00 to 1000! DETACHED DWELLINGS insured for posing staff, ‘ thou, too, seemest a part of

i eS, pel eo = onl Oue, Two, or Three Years on SPE- my own existence. Strong and glad and

Hone ner th 0.25 to 0.35 . y , MAA ra

} lie * ‘on | CIALLY ADVANTAGEOUS i hant like thee, I go on my cours

Homespun, (men’s wear)per yd. 0.65 to 1.00 — ; : IUMPIARs UES tee, * & J my

' 4 ' 7 } f » .

Homespun, (women’s do)per yd 0.35 to 0°48 PERMS. receiving tribu‘ary -eams of strength from

i a Flannel, per yard 0.31 to 0.46 ‘2. [oh TDW y . T

Lard, per lb yee. 0.12 to 0.16 FEVEON i. VEW BERY. all things around me and about me. The

Uats, per bus (0.38 to 0.40 | AGENT. breeze that ruffles thy surface moves over

poittoes, per bushel 0.25 t00.32) Jan. 18, 1874. ly jand refreshes the stream of my thoughts,

ee marley ie to 0.04 | and the sunbeams that flash on thy ripples €pskins ( Y to 0.bv | — ” r y J . , init’ . ¥. per to 1.50 to 2.50 | THE LI ERPOOL & LONBON play and sparkles over my spirit 8 restless sllow per Ih 9.08 to 0.10 | waves. Weare one, O rejoicing river ; we |

Uraips, per bush 0.00 to 0.16 | ever have been, and ever shall be one,’

wouess Pes oy ane AND GLOBE | ever have been, an

NOW OPEN |! ional Hotel,”

“ International Central Street, Summerside, P. £. Istand.

the public thatI have of the best as well as commodious Hotels on this

WwW opened one

most

Is I am prepared to accommodate the ‘Travelling public with a first-class table, “eepiny apartments, and good stabling, ; s. dc.. where their horses will be tho- AIULUIY attended to

r Also, in connection with the Jlouse, are “m4ors Of the very best quality,— all at

Moderate prices to suit the times

Acall from the public will be thankfully Téeceived.

W. J.S. GLOVER, May 24, 1875.

{UBSCKIBE for THE EXAMINER

Ouse Dollar and Forty Cents a year., | Ch'town, July 27, 1874.—6m

Proprietor. |

When he had landed, shaken hands with

| the woman, whose promise about the roses bush had raised her so much in the scale of being, and ascended the steep bank, he | felt as if he were at the starting-point of his journey. He girded himself anew for

the enterprise, watching, with Indian Sa-

Fire AND LIFE.

i } | 1 | | gacity, everything that could indicate the | |

invested Funds, Ist Jan’y., 1574, $21,628,356 | route of the fugitives. He had made in,

apenteed WS SRT Te | quiries of the ferryman, but they had elicits al of Canada, 162,800 | @uiries : wey

Other Investments in Dominion ed no information.

of Canada, The weather was mild and clear, and as

| he swept along through the pine woods,

FAIR RATES | Prompt & Liberal Settlements. | atching glimpses of the effulgent blue of

| the heavens through the green dome above | and here and there the sparkling of bright

367,09!

—

inhaling the health and inspiring odour,

——

| inated by a flickering blaze in the chimney

earth painful and irresistible. | wont to associate the idea of Florence with | the lightning’s flash, and he always hailed

| its corruscations with rapture—but, as she

| herself had told him, it was rather the lam- | ed,’ he said, ‘to see what young master ‘bent glory that sports silently on the horiz- | got in his pillow.’ Marcus resolved to |

| on’s hedge, than the blase that herald the | thunder’s crash, that was the emblem of | the electric L’Kclair. Deep into the night

ar | be rode through the gathering storm, for | letter.

| the place to which he had been directed for

' shelter was still far ahead, and he began to |

| think he had turned into the wrong road.

| At length his horse, dazzled and scared by |

| the lightning, stopped short, and refused

| to proceed, He perceived, at the same

time, a hut, a little removed from the way- | side, which he thought might furnish shel. |

ter for the night.

concluded that it was inhabited; so, obeys |

ing the instincts of the horse rather than | his own, he dismounted and led the animal toward the hovel, guided by the lightning’s | flash. Fastening his horse under the stoup | that projected towards the road, he opened the door and looked round the dark unfur- | nished apartment, that was partially illum. | y. | A frame, which was probably erected for a bedstead, stood on one side; a pile of old | planks were placed diagonally resting against the front and one end of the build- ing,and all the shadows gathered in the vacuum behind this rude rampart. Marcus gazed with surprise on the fire burning on the lone hearth, the only sign of inhabitancy | in the desolate place. Perhaps some travels | ler had paused and lighted that blaze to | cook a hasty meal, hurrying away from the storm that had so long seemed muttering behind. This idea was confirmed by a crust of bread and morsel of sweet potato lying on the hearth. Marcus threw another knot on the blaze,and spreading his blanket on the boards, while his valise served him as & pillow, he soon slept the sound sleep of the youthful traveller, though the rain drifted in torrents against the roof, and the thunders shook the timbers, and rattled the dust from the rafters,

‘Hal’ exclaimed the sleeper, suddenly wakened by the falling of his head against the ‘Hal’ feet and making the old planks ring by the

boards. springing up on his |

rebound. The pine-knot still sparkled with | an intermitting light, and he could see, for | his vision was clear, a black spectre leaping toward the door with his valise in his hand W hile it was fumbling for the latch, Marcus, darting after it, imprisoned its arms with a grasp that made it ery out lustily for mercy. | ‘Ob! master — have mercy — mercy! | Please let go. I jist went to see what} you had for a pillow,’ cried the negro, his | teeth chattering with terror, for Marcus had |} the strength of a young lion, and his gripe was like steel on his muscles. ‘You were taking it out of doors to look at it, were you?’ said Marcus, smiling at the terrified countenance of the negro, on which the fitful blaze made fantastic lights | and shadows, Come this way and let me see what you are. Dragging him unresisting, toward the hearth, he perused the cold black face, in

which the eyes were revolving with incon- ceivable rapidity. There was a long, deep scar on the right side of the forehead, which gave a peculiar expression to the orb bes } neath. There was something in the face, | the scar, the facial angle, that gave hima vague and troubled feeling of remembrance.

‘ Hector!’ involuntarily fell from his |

ips i

—‘ Laughing Hector.’

‘Yes, that be me,’ said the trembling negro. ‘Oh! oh! how you know my name, master ?’

‘ Did you ever have a master by the name of Warland ?’

‘Yes, master, that I did. too; but he fella drinking: people. You

Cood master,

then he sell | his coloured know him, master 7?’

‘Hector, would you rob your own mas- ters’s son? Would you rob your mistress, now laid in the grave ?’

‘Little master Marcus!’ exclaimed the African, his sable features lighted with a gleam of recognition. ‘You don’t say so. Grew so fine and strong, too, rubbing his aching arm. ‘Oh! young master, pray forgib Hector; he no know it be you. He jist wanted to look—to see—a’—

‘Never mind, Hector. 1 hope you will have more respect for the next traveller you chance to meet, or you may fare worse than you do now, Iam sorry to see you have forgotten your com:andments, Hec- | tor. If I recollect right, my mother taught ' them to you,’

‘Yes, [think she did; long time ago, though:’

-l am afraid your present master and mistress do not set you a good example. who is yovr master ?’

Hector rubbed his head,with a perplexed air.

‘1 got no master jist now; I run away.’

‘Bad case, name ?

‘Master Arsold, he calls him,’

Marcus felt his blood bound in his veins. Providence directed him to that lone hovel. the lightning’s flash was the flaming beacon That he should dis-

to guide his track. coveran old family servant, equivocal act of robbing him, was a most interesting incident; escaping from the very man of whom he could certainly direct him, was indeed pro- vidential. Seating himse f on the wooden frame he drew from Hector a clear states ment of all he was desirous to learn, As we can probably give it in fewer words than the African, we will explain tothe reader all he repeated to Marcus,

Arnold was indeed bound for Texas, as Marcus had supposed — what particular lo- cality he had selected, the negro could not tell. He had sent on detatchments of his slaves under the charge of overseers, at ditferent times before his decparture, and

side of the Mississippi river. Sickness had

Insurance against Fire effected upon Pri- | waters by the wayside, and the flow of the vate Residences, Household Furniture snd | rynnel across his path, he felt the joy of a Farm Properties, for

Que, Three or more years,

At Reduced Rates, an adventure, or any clue by which he could

Office—Great George Street, Charlotte | girect his course, his buoyant spirits began

town, P. E. I. R. R. FITZGERALD, Agent

| broken out among them, so that they | been detained on their journey, and there

| young traveller, and though, himself incap~ {had been an evident spirit of rebellion | bersbip ‘able of fatigue. But when after several among the negroes,most of whom had been | ficials, | days continuous riding, without hiving met | compelled to sunder some tie of nature or | Leader. | of love. Hector, who had pleaded hard | tha with his master to purchase his wife,so that | | to losea little of then elasticity, It was | she might accompany him, and had been | gimilate the United States to the English probably owing to the electricity gathering | coldly refused started with hard and vindics | form of Government,

He could see a gleam | of light throught the wooden shutters, and |

Heetor. But what is a

though in the

heard Marcus fastening his horse under the |stoup, and concealed himself behind the | planks, where he crouched till the young |. traveller was asleep,when, ‘old Satin temp-

write Mr. Vellamy, and inform him of the discovery he had made, and to send Hees tor immediataly to Hickory Hill with the He had no reliance on his fidelity ; | but as his wife lived in that vicinity, and as he assured him that Mr. Bellamy would re | ward him liberally, he hoped the intellig~ would reach his benefactor, and

ence re-

lieve him of much anxiety. He gave Hees: to money to lift him above the tempta- | tion of stealing, and a written passport, which he might exhibit if arrested on his way.

j

MR. DISRA “LI,

of Mr. Disraeli, the London

‘« Everyone is gratified

Speaking Spee fiutdor Observes :

when a man of note is able to work out in

real life that conception of his career which | } oe : ; | has been elicited from him as his own ideal

And Mr. Disraeli |" : , | crisy and cowardice with which it is being

in his previous writings. has at last, as Prime Minister, done somes thing which in some extent reaiises his own early idea of statesmanship, something the mind ‘ Coningsby,’ ‘ Tancred,’

Even Mr. Kinglake will be

bearing on it the impress of

which produced and ‘ Alroy.’ pleased at the first step towards the literal |

fulfilment of his own youthful prophecy,

that the Englishman, straining far over to hold his loved India, will plant a firm foot on the banks of the Nile, and sit in the seats of the faithful ; and all who have thought that the revelation made to Mr, Disraeli’s Tancred on Mount Sinai, that he was to an- nounce the sublime and solacing doctrine of theoratic equality, and to ‘find a ready instrument in every human being,’ bad perhaps some slight connection with Me. Disraeli’s desire to give the suffrage to the masses, and so to find ready political mstru- ments for a grand policy of his own in the enfranchised residuum, will be gratified to find their suspicious confirmed by the crop ping up of other leading notions of the same work, and especially by the secret

and dramatic negotiations through ‘ Si,

donia’ of a loan which gives England a vir~ tual protectorate in Egyptand makes one step towards the solution of the Eastern

question, if not towards the penetration of

‘the Asian mystery’ so closely connected | with it in Mr. Disraeli’s imagination. Hith- | erto, certainly, Mr. Disraeli as Prime Minis-

ter had done scant justice to the political

ideas of his youth. He once wittily ridis

culed the Conservatism of Sir Robert Peel, | by declaring that it could not be better described than in the words ofa Paris ad- vertisement, ‘Grand magasin de nouveautes tres anciennes; prix fixe, avec quelques rabais.’ But till nc: his own policy might have been quite as aptly described in the | same terms. His novelties have been very old ones, and his terms absolutely fixed— except for certain abatements whenever the opposite parts insistedon them. He had told us so often that ‘man is only truly great when he acts from the passions, never irresistible but when he appeals to the im-

aginaton,’ that it was nearly a disappoint- ment te see the tedious and even stupid | reasonableness of his Government, which in | its

far less appeal either to the passion or the |

milk.ands water moderation contained imagination than th t of his predecessor. We began to fearthat Mr. Disraeli might | illustrate in his own person his own ap- ophthegm, ‘ Youth is a blunder, Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret,’ and that after preaching for half a century that ‘all is race, there is no other truth,’ he naight re~ tire from public life without even leaving | one grandiose or characteristic act to illus-

trate the premiership of Conningsby and the counsels of Sidonia. It is therefore singularly pleasent to know that it will not be so; that Mr. Disraeli bas at lost manag~

ed to rise about that dreary fate which, to use his own words, condemns ‘the most energetic men in Kurope to be mere

busybodies, empires to be governed like parishes, and great statesmen to te only select vestrymen.’ Certrinly he has done something at last to associate his name | with the growth of the British Empire, and especially with its growth eastward which will tead torepay the benefits derived from the loan of that ‘Semitic idea,’ of the power and fruitfulness of which Mr. Disraeli has said so many magnificent things, through all of them sailing short of absolute belief in its truth. And if, as the result of this great step, he seals Nidonia, as rumor anticipates, among the the Peers, he will certainly have realized more than most ambitious men of his early dreams, by proving the great resources of the Jewish race, and lighting up with a gleam of Eastern splendor the parochial conservatism of his party. In his first premiership, when Abyssinia yielded to our arms, he anncunced, in that roc co style of parliamentary rhetoric which he has made his own, that ‘the standard of

| St. George floated over the mountains of

| the Rasselas.’ If he is able to announce

in his second premiership that the stand- iard of St. George floats over the historic | waters where ‘ Israel saw the Egyptian dead upon the sea-shore,’ and so secure for us as safe a passage to our political destiny in the East across the dry land which a nation of sailors so much dreads, as even Moses

that he should be | secured for his people through the divided | most valuable points.

| waters of the Red Sea, he will, indeed,seem to have been the link between the English | race and those countries 0! grand Oriental | tradition across which his own ancestry | travelled to us, when they first adopted | that national policy of seif-expatriation de scribed by Mr. Disraeli as, ‘purely an | Oriental custom.’ j a | The New York Herald professes to have | discovered a secret society,—the ‘ Order of | the American Union,’—having Gen. Grant, |} the Postmaster-General, and Mr. Blain, | among its members, and having for its ob- | ject the election of Grant fora third term. |The society professes to be based on Anti-

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| gotten serious

; advantage were thrown away.

| of a really national Government

| to

degree the gift of making and friends. He has though it must be remembered that mere continuance in office is not always service rendered He the |} country, snd has aspirations for her great-

keeping } long served Canada,

to the public loves

ness which we do not the less respect

because we are convinced that the visions

with which they are connected wi soon As an gone right

whenever there was not a very strong party

| vanish like the morning mist. | . eo he |

hile has probably

temptation to do wrong. Party seems to

him an eternal necessity, while it seems a

ana act-

| noxious and transient absurdity to us

| it is reasonable to give him credit ior In | setting an example of individual courage and manliness, he has not failed ; | he was in power the country at all events

ing in obedience to the everlasting Jaw.

| s w before it its real head, a gallant and | self-reliant man, not a huge wire-pulling | apparatus with an intriguer at the centre of | it, the with which we fear he infected public life, |

Perhaps even corruption with

was hardly more pestilential than the hypo- |

infected now. We can well understand | how he may think that on the whole, he held things together in the best way pos

and that the of national judgement rather than its justice,

led to his fall

sible, narrowness the |

His personal character asa

| sensible, courteous and tolerant man of the |

world, affords so agreeable a contrast to rabid and tyrannical Pharaism, that people who do not care for his public opinions, may weil be ready to fly to him as social deliverer. But what the country needs, and begins to be conscious that it needs, is not whit the

Nontreal speech courts—a reversal of the | national verdict of 1872. What the coun- | try wants is a change of system such as | shall give it a strong, stable, honest and | impartial Government —a Government round which all citizens who have no object in view but the good of the country, may rally with a feeling that loyalty to it is a

jin the mana

virtue, and which with general support and sympathy may steer us over the danger waters that now too surely lie before us.

us

One step towards such a change of system | has been gained since bad times have be. | It would be a| pity if through any impatience under the }

reflection,

existing reyime, however disgusting, the That John Macdonaid might well be a member

or

no one

who is not prejudiced against him by rivalry

| would deny; but we must have surer guar. |

antees for the satisfactory employment of | supreme power than his history or that of his leading associates can afford,

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A VALUABLE DISCOVERY,

Very important discoveries are made almost accidently. A gentleman residing in Newark has in this manner be-

often

| } come the fortunate possessor of a secret | nature which will, if it realizes all that is | expected from it, not only number him among the celebrated few who have contri her most valuable coveries, but will prove a souree of the most ample to himself. Edison, the discoverer of what he

buted to science diss

revenue Mr. Is ple <ed whether appropriately or not, to call the

etheric force "’ was in the employ of the

Western Union Telegraph Company dur- ie i

tive genius, which he has frequently turned

ing the war, 3 possessed of an inven

account in improving the apparatus |

used in telegraphing, and with such suc- cess as to be able to abandon the business of operator. His most important invens tion hitherto had been an ingenious piece of mechanism for transmitting four mess sages simultan: ously through a single wire In the course of his new occupation as an

ardent student of electricial was in the habit of making frequent ex- periments with the mysterious and subtle | agent of which he was daily witnessing the practicial effects. It was while dallying in | this thoughtful and observing manner with | his instruments that he made this great | discovery. He noticed that the accidental contact of a wire with the cone of the mag: | net caused the production of a peculiar

science, he

bright spark when a metallic substance was applied to it. As the story is told by an eye witness of his experiements the same

manifestations had frequently been ob- served before, but he was led into an investigation of its orign, “He was amazed to find that the spark failed to respond te any of the tests usually employed to discover the presence of elec- tricity. The galvenometer was unmoved by it; the dainty gold leaf of the electro- scope showed no signs of deflection; the tongue could detect no sensation; aLynden | jar charged with it posessed no property that is not contributed to it by electrical | contact. In a word it was the display, | recognized for the first time, of a principle hitherto unknown. It had been usual | when the circuit was open or broken to allow the power started in the magnetic coil to dissipate itself, no one ever having been conscious that it had acquired new and valuable properties. Since Mr Edis

worked it up with an earnestness and confidence in the result which contributed, perhaps, as much as anything else to his success. He now feels himselt in @ position to claim for the ‘ etheric force | that ‘itis not affected by the contact of ‘earth, but performs its operations inde- | pendent of insulators.’ This is one of its It does away with