Che Examiner.

Charlottetown, Oct. 16, 1S76,

MR. LAIRD AND THE VACANT SEAT.

Tur Hon. Davin LAIRD Was bever very popular. He never could command the respeet or admiration of the people. Ile was thrice a candidate for popular suffrazes before he obtained a seat in the House of Assembly. He suce eded in gaining the support of the people of Belfast by denouncing the railway, and he maintained himself in power by building the branches. To obtain power he de

nounced Mr. Pope for contractivg with Schreiber & Burpee to build the railwey, and when in power he contracted with Schreiber & Burpee to build the branches et an additional cost of $1000 per mile. While elevating his horn he denounced | Mr. Boyd as au incapable truckler, and | when his horn was elevated he gave Mr. | Boyd the superintendence of the railway works. When in Opposition he professed | to abhor the idea of Confederation ° best to

in the Government he did his

effect an union with the Dominion at an |

anou al To gain a seat in the House of Commons, he professed friendship for the Govern- eot of Sir Joho A. McDonald. After obtained the seat he deserted Sir John in his extremity, to accept a Cabinet office in the McKenzie Administration at $7000 per year. He deserted Sir John on the ground of corruption ; has been hugging a party individually and collect»

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ively corrupt ever since, —witness, the decisions of the judges on the contro- verted election trials ; witness, Madiver’s laconie “ come along John, we’ve got lots

of money” ; witness Brown's “ Big Push”

loss to the Province of $24,000. |

aa Haviland, when they settled the terms of | union; and we receive annually (ve proportioa of the interest of $30,000,000 So |

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which we will be required to pay. that the building of the Pacific Railway will be no loss to us; and the Patriot's computation is a mere bug-bear. The |

fact is that the railway must be built |

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whatever Government is ip power. Cana- da is solemuly pledged to perform the | work, The only question is whether it | shall be performed under Mr. McKenzie, | who is by sheer iheapacity, fast driving a

‘“ glorious Provinee’’—the Pacifie key to the Dominion—into secession, or under a Government capable of grappling with the question, and preserving the union intact. Th s question, we commend to the at- teution of the people of Queen’s County at the present juncture.

We trust tht in the comiag election they will follow the example of Ontario in signt- fying their detestation of corre »tion and hypocrisy, and their disapproval of in- capacity in the Government.

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CIVIL SERVICE.

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al Tue new Government is neither well re- when | ° ° | presented nor ably defended by its Press.

We search the columns of the Argus and | Patriot in vain for any indication of | its policy or any vindication ot its acts, |The organs have not yet risen to the dignity of their positions, The does nothing but criticize the Opposition, while the Argus argues that Hayes should be President because he has a wife!

Yet the Government have already been charged with offences which have chal- lenged the attention of the Press of the neighboring Provinces, and which, if de- fensible, should certainly be defended by its organs. We are free to admit that it is a difficult task to defend the members of a Government who know that

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and Senator Simpsoa’s plethoric bank ; | witness, the bribery of the first Common- | er of Sanada by twenty per cent over and | above the cost of the Post Office printing | of New Brunswick. All this corruption of the hypocritical party has _ been brought to light and proved beyond the possibility of a doubt, since Mr. Laird threw from him in well effected disgust the blue book in which the evidence of Sir John’s guilt was alleged to be set forth. And yet Mr. Laird clung to his office and pocketed his $7000, till the very day of his appointment to the Gov- ernorship of the North-West.

Mr. Laird’s political career has been marked by falsehood and selfishness. Ia every pcominent act he was,to serve his own purposes, false to the principles he pre- viously laid down and the cries he pre~ viously He false to the people of Belfast and he gained a seat in the Government of this Island, He was false to the people of this Island and he gained a seat in the House of Commons. He was false to Sir John and he gained $7000 a year. He was faise to political morality and he gained the Governor- ship of the Northwest. This consumma~ tion of his falsehood and _ his selfishness has given infinite pleasure to the people ot this Island. The politically “ evil man ’’ has been removed far from them.

The people of Queen’s County will soon be called upon to elect a member to fill the seat which he has vacated. In making choice of a representative the first con- sideration should be THE MAN. He should be a man of integrity and intel- ligence, versed in politics and capable of taking part in debate. We agree with the Patriot that there is no necessity to

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elect a respectable nincompoop or an igno- rant unlettered boor who may happen to have local influence. There are several men in the community who possesss the necessary qualifications. Then, the elec- tors should see to it that they elect a man who will be loyal to the Dominion; who will not support a Government, the policy of which is calculated to bring abouta disruption of the Confederation. The Pacific Railwgy Policy of the present administration has already caused a gréat elamour and some dissaffection in British Columbia. So grave was the situation in

the Pacifi? Province that the Governor General, when there, deemed it his duty to make a speech for the purpose of. re-

assuring the people and restoring con- fidence in Mr. McKewzie. His Excel- lency showed very clearly that Mr. Me

Kenzie was honest in his endeavors to build the railway. He declared that in his opinion, the Pacific Railway had fo more sincere friend in Canada than Mr. McKenzie. Yet, British Columbia has been driven to the verge of rebellion by Mr. McKenzie, on account of the railway. Herd surely is ground for suspicion as to Mr. McKenzie’s administrative ’ ability. Had Mr. McKenzie been, like Mr. Blake, avowedly opposed to the Paciffe railway, no one would have wondered’ at the dis-

satisfaction of British umbia; but being its sincere frie grave doubts must be entertaingd th r. McKenzie

(willing he is,) is no with the Pacific way question.” Since he “obtained r, Mr. Mackekzie has promulgated at least three distinct ilway. Yet the

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policies concerning Governor General, lay the discontent of British Colum a, felt compelled to announce that thé original policy of Sir John A. Macdonald had been returned to, and that the contracts would be let as soon as possible. Under these circumstances the statements of the Patriot of Saturday are most unfairtand dishenest. The Patriot says:

“The loweSt estimate that we have seen of its cost is within a trifle of Eicuty Mitiions oF Hou.aks. Weare afortieth part of the Vom‘nion cousecuently, our sbarelof the debt contracted to build the Pacific Railway will be $2,000,000, which, at five per centsywould be a burden oa the Island alone of $100,000 @ year.” "+

Under Sir John Macdonald’s scheme, (whi 8 at last been adopted by Mac ken e contractors are to have 50,- 009 acres of land gn the No est Ter equal to at Mast oapaiee. N t of that will come out of the

f the people of this Island. Then have $30,000,000 as the work - Of the interest of this amount ward Island will, of course,have tits share. But the Government to reserve 50,000,000 acres of land

Northwest, by the sale of which the

inion Government will reeeive a

sum sufficient to repay us all the money we lay out. Besides the

the building of the Pacific Railway was

their acts are unjustifiable—who them- selves believe that what they have done is opposed to the trve interests of the

country.

The practice of removing officials mere- ly for the sake of rewarding the political friends of a Government, is uaiversally condemned. What answer has the Argus to the following trom the Halifax Chron. icle ?:—

Uur sister Province of Prince Edward Is- land has yet to learn an important lesson in the matter of Civil Service. The general election held in the Island a few weeks ago resulted, as already reported, in the triumph of the secular school party and the formation Of & Lew governmont under the leadership of Mr. Louis H. Davies. As the first result of the change of administration we have the announcement that a batch of oflicials, high and low, have been dismissed on politica! grounds, and their places filled by others whose political views are more in iccord with the policy of the new Government. It is not pretended, so far as we have seen, that any of these officials has been unfaithful to his trust. The presumption is that they were efficient public servants. But because they were notin sympathy with the triumphant party they have been removed and others put in their places. To many readers in the Dominion this proceeding will seem little less than an outrage on good government and the commonest principles of justice. But Mr. Davies's Government mnst not be too hastily condemned. The circumstances of his situation and the practices of the past must be taken into consideration, and these may be held to justify the changes that have been made. Other Governments in Prince Edward Island dismissed officials to make room for political friends, and consequently, from the Island point’ of view, Mr. Davies’ administration has done nothing extraordin- ary. But while custom may justify or ex. cuse the action of the Government, it cer, tainly cannot defend the evil system under which the dismissals have been ordered. The practice is a bad one and should be abandoned. So long as electiuneering ser- vices are counted of more value than faith- ful official work the civil service will be in- efficient, if not corrupt. The evil of sucha system may be seen in the demoralized cone dition of the civil service in the United States to-day. * * ° * The civil service should be non-political and every member of it should be secure in_his office so long as_ he faithfuliy performs his duties. The leaders of both political parties in Prince Edward Island would act. wisely if they came to an agreement on this basis. The public service would gain Ly such a system, the politicians

would be relieved from much of the oflice se~kers pressure which they must all feel to be a burden, and the political] contests of the country would be marked by more patriotism and less seltishness than at present.

Will the Patriot advise the Premier to | take a friendly advice of the»Halifax Re-

The Reporter alluding to the

recent dismissals by the Davies Adminis—

tration remarks :—

These men are dismissed from office for no greater fault than that they could not see political maters through the same spectacle as the members of the victorious party. They are not accused of actively engaging in the political contest which has just closed and driving their friends from office and from ower. They belonged to the tosing party the struggle, and that is sufficient. There | ee in this prnciple of action so re- pugnant to every feeling of our nature—so subversive of freedom —so pregnant with evil to the State—that the wonder is that it has ever found a footing in any civilized land—much less in one boasting of its free institutions—or laying any claims to being guided in its Government by British prin- ciples. Inthe United States this principle has full swing ani the fruit itis yielding has aroused a storm of indignation among the people, which it is to be hoped will result in a much needed reform in the civil service of that country, where fraud and embezzlement among the officials is almost a matter of every day occurence, * * * * Will Mr. L.H. Davies, the:leader of the Government, take our friendly advice. He is young, but not inexperienced. He has had greatness thrust upon him, but he should not abuse the power placed in his hands. Should he do so, he w:ll have cause for regret in after years, when, perhaps, his well-known talents will have placed him in a more commanding position than he occupies at present.

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The vile system which the government has perpetuated on this Island is doomed in the United States. The following re- solutions unanimously adopted at a great political meeting held in Indiana, indicate the manner in which the greatest curse ever fastened upou a free country is re« garded in the neighbouring republic :—

** Resolved, That we heartily indorse and approve the declaration of principles of the Republican National Convention, and we especially commend and approve the manly and courageous sentiments of the letter of acceptance of the nomads of the said Convention for Presideng® of the United States ; that by said declaration of principl ra and letter of acceptance of the nominee for President, the Répufican party stands fully and squarely committed to a radicéj and complete reform of the civil servige of the Government, to the end that offices Shall no longer be towed as rewargs* for party services, DOR services in beh { any indi- vidual or individuals of the dominant party but that the good cf the public service ‘honesty, fidelity and capacity,’ shall be tae sole test of preferment} and, in the language of the national! pla f the party, «that Senators and re entdlives, who may be judges and accugers, should not dictate ap- pointments Lo office.’

Resolved, That we require of the nominee of this Convention, in case of his election, that he faithfully observe the doctrine of the fith resolution of the national platform and the doctrine of Mr. Hayes’ letter of accept- ance in reference to civil service reform, and that he shall use such power and influence as he may possess as repsesentative to secure the adoption and carrying into effect the doctrines of said resolution and letter of acceptance as the ‘invariable rule’in the bestowal of and removal from office.

Resolved, That we denounce asa glaring offence against good morals and public policy the bestowal or promise of bestowal of oflice for services rendered or to be ren-

taken account of by Pope, Howlan, and

dered at party caucuses or nominating con-

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ventions, and*that we regard su

| only secon:! to the crime of selling offices for a stipulated price, or a share in the emolu- |

ments of the same,” s

The last resolution is worthy g \at- tention of the magnates of Tooley « ‘eet and all our local politicians. So also is the following from the writings of the late John Stuart Mill :—

“The entire business of government is skilled employment; the qualilications for the | discharge of it are of that special and pro- fessional kind, which cannot be properly judged of except by those who have theme | se,ves some share of qualitications, or some practical experience of them, The business of finding the fittest persons to fill public employments—not merely selecting the best

who olfer, but looking out for the absolutely best, and taking note of all fil persons who

are me! with, that they may be found when wante!—is very laborious, and requires a delicate as Weill as highly conscientious dis- cernment: aud as there is no public duty which is in yeneral so badly performed, so there is none for which itis of greater im— portance to enforce the utmost practicable amount of personal responsibility, by im- posing it as a special obligation on bigh functionaries in the several departments, All suborfinate oublic officers who are not ap.

pointed by some mode of public competition should be selected on the direct responsi- bility of the minister under whom they serve. The ministers, all but the chief, and the chief himself, though really designated by Parliament, should be, in a regal govern- ment, officially appointed by the Crown, The

functionary who appoints should be the sole person empowered to remove any sube ordinate officer who is liable to removal ; which the far greater number ought not to be, except for personal misconduct ; since it would be vain to expect that the body of persons by whom the whole detail of the public business is transacted, and whose

qualifications are generally of much more importance to the public than those of the minister himself, will devote themselves to their profession, and acquire the knowledge and skill on which the minister must often place entire dependance, if they are liable at any moment to be turned adrift for no fault that the minister may gratify himself or promote his political interest, by appointing somebody else.”

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OUR JAIL.

Tue old-time, dreary, and forbidding appearance of the jail in this city, has lately given place to an aspect at once fresh and attractive. But for the high fence which surrounds it, it might now be taken for a daily rendezvous for our public officials. The rain-worn roof—at which many an impatient prisoner, anx— ious to escape, has cast a longing eye— has been removed. The dingy walls have been stripped. In short, the entire build- ing has undergone a metamorphosis. A story has been added to its height. Its length has been increased some twenty feet. It has been re-shingled and re-painted, Its entrauce is quite as ¢legant as that of the private abodes of many of our most law-abiding citizens. If an old jailbird, who had left his country tor his couutry's good, were to pay a flying visit to the land of his crimes, he would hardly know the place of his punishment—

** So chang-ed is the scene.”

The keeper’s apartments, we are specially pleased to note, have been greatly improved. They are now at the southern end of the building. With windows overlooking the jail yard, is the keeper’s office; opposite is his dining room; and adjvining are bed rooms for the use of himself and fam- ily. Below is the kitchen, a root cellar, and a room for general uses. In the lat- ter there is a force pump by means of which the water uceded in the prison is drawn from a well in the yard, and, when required, furced to a tank in the third story. The half only of the second and third flats of the new building are set apart for the use of the keeper. The other half is divided into rooms in which unfortunate debtors are to be incarcerated. The rooms on the western side com- mand pleasing views of the harbor ; and, if it were not for the checks which strong locks and bars impose on liberty, they would not be dreadful places of abode during the winter months, From the third flat of the new building a passage-way leads throvgh the middle of the story which has Leen added to the old prison. Twenty-one apartments have been added. Each room is ventilated. A bath-room is among the improvements. Gas-lights are provided for the keeper’s and debtors’ rooms and for the several halls. Inthe yard there is in course of erection a small brick building, 80x18 feet, in which to do the cooking and wash- ing of the establishment. This building will contain —besides the cookery, ete.,— a morque and a storeroom. Attached to it will be four dry earth closets. These will be provided with boxes (on runners or wheels) which may be drawn away without expense or offence. A drain (of Nova Scotia tiles) is being laid trom the jail to the shere ; so that the cesspool which has higfferto heightened the ap- pearance ofthe jail-yard will be.no more seen. Altogether, the changé* effected has been a good one. The néw arrangements reflect high credit upon Richard Weeks, Esq., late Superjgftendent of Public Works for Quegm’s County. The work performed upder the inspection of his toreman—Mr. Profit—has been well done. We need hardly remark that Messrs, Hermans and Trainor—who did the gas- fitting and painting— performed their parts in a workmanlike and finished manner.

We trust that the attention of the Com- missioner of Public Works will now be directed to the provision of labor and dis- cipline for the criminals,

THE NEW MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR.

It is announced that Mr. Cauchon is Minister of the Interior in the room of Mr. Laird. There must surely be some mistake here. The Government would never give the care of the ‘‘ poor Indian ” to the man who, for starving poor lunatics, was denounced by the Toronto Globe as one whose ‘crime is rank and Smells to Heaven! ”’

GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS.

To be Commissioners of Highways’—Mr. Docald Crockett for the fourth District vice Thomas McGrath, Esq., whose papeintment has been cancelled; Mr. Daniel McLaren tor the eleventh district of King’s County vice Mr. Joha F. Holland, whose appointment has ‘been can- celled; Mr. Richard Pooley forthe ninth disirict of Prince County vice Mr. Heury Dawson, whose appointment has been cancelled.

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Tue Nova Scorm Gianress.—Captain Bates and his wife, formerly Miss Anna Swan, the glants, whose marriage in Lon- don attracted much attention several years ago, have retired from show life, and built a fitting residence near Rochester, N. Y. zie is seven and a half feet high, and she is an inch taller, and each weigh over four hundred pounds. The rooms of tneyeppase are eighteen feet high and the doors twelve

feet. Their bedstead is ten feet long, and

all the furniture is proportionately large.

FARL DUFFERIN ON BRITISH | COLUMBIA. The following is the opening Put of | Earl Dufferin’s speech at Victor's, as lished in the Toronto Mail :— GextLEMeN,—I am indeed Very glad to have an opportunity before qui ing British Columbia of thanking vo". vied rough you | the citizens Of View, BEY ily for the | general kinduess and courtesy 1 have met | with during my residence amongst you, but especially tor the invitation to the banquet with which you have honored me, [regret extremely that my engagements did not ermit me to accept this additional proof of your hospitality; but my desire to see as | much as possible of the country, and other ‘engagements, forced me most reluctantly to decline it, [sbail, however, have a final opportunity of mingling with your citizens | at the entertainment arranged for me at | Bacon Hill this afternoon, to which | am | looking forward with the greatest pleasure. | Perhaps, geptlemen, | may be also pers | mitted to take advantage of this occasion to express to you the satisfaction and en- joyment | have derived from my recent progress through such portions of the pro- vince as I have been able to reach within the short period at my disposal. I am well aware L have visited but a small proportion of your domains and that there are import- ant centres of population from which I have been kept aloof. More especially have I to regret my inability to reach Cari- boo, the chief theatre of your mining 1D» dustry, and the home of a community with whose feelings, wishes, and sentiments 1b would have been advantageous for me to become personally intimate. Still, by dint of considerable exertion, | have traversed the entire coast of British Columbia from its southern extremity to Alaska, I have penetrated to the head of Bute Inlet, I have examined the Seymour Narrows, and the other channels which intervene between the head of Bute Inlet and Vancouver Is~ land. {[ have looked into the mouth of Dean's canal and passed across the entrance to Gardiner’s Channel. I bave visited Mr. Duncan’s wonderful settlement at Metlak~ atiah, and the interesting siethodist mis-~ sion at Fort Simpson, and have been able to realize what scenes of primitive peace and innocence, of idyllic peace and beauty, and material comfort can be presented by stalwart men and comely maidens of an In- dian community under the wise adminis~ tration of a judicious and devoted mission~ ary. I have passed across the intervening Sound of Queen Charlotte Island to Skide- gate, and studied with wonder the strange characteristic of a Hydah village with its forest of heraldic pillars. Ihave been pre~ sented with a sinister oppoftunity of descending upon a tribe of our Pagan savages in the midst of their drunken orgies and barbarous rites,and after various other explorations | have made have had the privilege of visiting under very gratify- ing circumstances the Royal City of New Westminister. Taking from that spot a new departure, we proceeded up the valley of the Fraser River, where the river has cloven its way through the granite ridges and bulwarks of the Cascade range, and along a road of such admirable construction considering the engineering difficulties of the line and the modest resources of the colony when it was built, as does the greats est credit to the able administrator who directed its execution. Passing thence into the open va'leys and rounded emineuces boyond, wo had an Opportunity of apprevi- ating the pastoral resources and agricultus ral capabilities of What is known as the bunch grass country. It is needless to say that wherever we went we found the same kindness, the same loyalty, the same honest pride in their country and its institutions, which characterize the English race throughout the world, while Her Majesty's Indian subjects on their spirited horses, which the ladies ot their families seemed to bestride with as much ease and grace as their husbands and brothers, notwithstand- ing the embarrassments of one baby on the pommel and another on the crupper, met us everywhere in large numbers, and testi- fied in their untutored fashion their genu-~ ine loyalty and devotion to their White Mother. Having journeyed into the ins terior as far as Kamloops and admired from a lofty eminence iu its neighborhood what seemed an almost interminable prospect of grazirg lands and valleys susceptible of cultivation we were forced with much res luctance to turn our faces homewards to Victoria. And now that lam back it may perhaps interest you to learn what are the impressions I haté derived during the journey. Well, I may frankly tell you that I think British Columbia a glorious Pro- vince—a Province which Canada should be proud to possess, and whose association with the Dominion she ought to regard as the crowning triumph of Federation, Such a spectacle as its coast line presents is not to be paralleled by any country in the worid. Day after day for a whole week, in a vessel of nearly 2,000 tons, we threaded an inters minable labyrinth of watery lanes and reach- es that wound endlessly in and out of a net- work of islands, promontries, and peninsu - las for thousands of miles, unruffled by the slightest swell from the adjoining ocean and presenting at every turn an ever shifting combination of rock, verdure, forest, glaci~ er, and snow capped mountain of unrivalled grandeur and beauty. When it 1s remem-~ bered that this wonderful system of navi- gation, equally well adopted to the largest line of-battle-ship and the frailest canoe, fringes the entire seaboard of your Pro- Vince, and communicates at points some- times more than a hundred miles from the coast, with a multitude of valleys stretchs ing eastward into the interior, at the same time that it is furnished with innumerabie harbours on either band, one 1s lost in ad- miration at the facilities for’ inter.commu-~ nication whic are thus provided for the future inhabitants of this wonderful region. It is true at the present moment they lie unused except by the Indian fisherman and. villager, but the day willSurely come when the rapidly diminishing’stores of pine upon this continent wilt ull further exhaust. ed, and when the nations of Europg as well as of America will -be obliged t& recur to British Columbia fora materif6f which you will by thatfime be the clpal deposi- tory.» Algéady from an_g@joining * port on the maififand a large e is being done in lumber with Great tain, Europe, Aus. tralia; and South America, and I venture to think that ere long the ports of the United States will pe® force be thrown open to your traflic. I had the pleasure of witness- ing the overthrow by the axes of your woodmen of one of your forest giants, that that towered to the height of 250 feet above our heads, and whose rings bore witness that it dated its birth from the reign of the Fourth Edward, and where it grew and for thousands of miles along the coast beyond it, millions of its contemporaries are await- ing the same fate. . With such facilities of access as I have described, to the heart and centre of your various forest lands, where almost every tree can be rolled from the spot upon which it grew to the ship which is to transfer it to its destination, it would be difficult to over-estimate the opportuni- ties of industrial development thus indicat- ed—and to prove that lam not over-san- guine in my conjectures 1 will read youa letter recently received from the British Admiralty by Mr. Innes, the Superintend- ent of the Dockyard at Esquimalt :—* From various causes spars from Canada, the for. mer main source of supply, have not of late years been obtainable, and the trade in New Zealand spars for top-masts has also completely died away. Of late years the sole source of supply has been the casual cargoes of Oregon spars, imported from time to time, and from these the wants of the service have been met. But my Lords feel that this is not a mode to be depended upon, more especially for the larger sized spars.” Their Lordships then proceed to order Mr. Innis to make arrangements for the traushipment for the Dockyards of Great, Britain of the specified num- ber of Douglas pine which will be required by the service during the ensuing year,— and what England does in this direction Other nations will feel themselves compell- ed to do as well. But I have learnt a further lesson; I have had rtunities of inspect- ing some of the spots ‘where your mineral wealth is stored, and here again the ocean stands your friend, the mouth of the coal- pits I have visited almost opening into the hulls of the vessels which are to convey their contents across the ocean. When it is further remembered that inexhaustable supplies of iron ore are found in juxtaposi- tion with your coal, no one can blame you for regarding the beautiful Island on which you live as having been especially favoured by Providence in the distribution of these natural gifts. But still more precious mins erals than either coal or iron enuance the

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value of your possessions, As we skirted the banks of the Fraser we were Qpet at every turn by evidences of its extrabrdin-

ary supplies of fish; but scarcely less fres quent were the signs afforded us of the

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sures it rolls down, nor need think it strange to see the Indian fisherman hauling out — on to the sands, from whence the miner be- | sifting the sparkling ore. But | the signs of mineral wealth which may hap- pen to have attracted my personal we tion are as nothing, | understand, to : rat is exhibited in Cariboo, Cassiar, and along | the valley of the Stickeen, and most griev- | ed I am to think that ] have not had the time to testify by my presence — them to the sympathy I feel with the ~~ |= venturous prospector and the miner in their | arduous enterpri‘es. I had also the satis- | faction of having pointed out to me where | various loads of silver «nly await greater | facilities of acces to be worked with profit and advantage. But perbaps the greatest | surprise in store for us was the discovery, on our exit from the pass through tha Cas~ cade range,of the noble expense of pastoral lands and the long vistas of fertile valleys which open up on every side as we a ed through the country; and which, as could see with my own eyes from various heights we traversed, extended in rounded upland slopes or in gentle depressions for huodreds of miles to the foot of the Rocky Mountains, proving after ail, that the mountain ranges which frown along your coo<t no more accurately indicate the na- ture of the territory they guard, than does the wall of breaking surf that roars along a tropic beach presage the softly undulating sea that glitters in the sun beyond. But you wiil very likely say to me, of what ser.- vice to us are these resources which you describe, if they and we are to remain lock~ ed up in a distant and at present Inaccess~ ible corner of the Dominion, cut off by a trackless waste of intervening territory from all intercourse, whether of a social, or of a commercial character with those with whom we are politically united? Well gentlemen. | can only answer :—Ot comparatively little use, or at all events of far less profit than they would immediately become, were the railway upon whose construction you natur- ally counted when you entered into Cons federation once completed.

We regret that we have not space for His Excellency’s remarks on the Pacific

Railway.

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THE HARRISON TRAGEDY.

A CRAZY LOVER'S ATTEMPT TO KILL A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN — PRESIDENT HARRISON'S GRANDSON TURNING THE HOUSE OF A FRIEND INTO MOURN- ING—A STRONG WOMAN'S FIGHT FOR LIFE—A TERRIBLE SOENE, ETO.

[From the Cincinnati Enquirer, Oct. 4.)

The people of Boone County, Ky., who lived along the river nearly opposite to North Bend, in sight of the tomb of Harris son, and only about fifteen miles from this city, were appalled yesterday morning at the intelligence that William Henry Harri. son, a son of the late Symmese Harrison and a grandson of a President of the United States, had entered the residence of Major John H, More and stabbed to death Miss Mary More, the only daughter living at home. In the early part of the summer young Harrison began to visit at Major Harrison’s oftener than usual, and it was soon suspected that he had designs on Miss More. Harrison had received no encourage~ ment, and was never by word or look given to understand that his feelings were reci. procated or that his attentions were agree- able. He had conceived an idea that Miss More’s father was his bitte ene and when that gentleman was Tome he rarely came to the house? t Mondg¥ morning Major More came up’to Cincinatti and Cov- ington. Monday night, and in fact nearly all day Monday, Harrisore availing himself of the Major’s absence’, hung round the old More homestead. During the day he obs tained intimatidh that Major More would be home Monday evening, and it was during that evening that his hellish ambition was first developed.

He slipped into the sitting room unan- nounced, found Mary their, and, it is sup~ posed, made some proposition of marriage to her, which she rejected. He had been in there but a moment, however, when he begeu yelling, ++I’ crazy, I’m crazy!" whisked out a formidable jack knife with a blade as thjck as @ razor, and dashed at his victim. His first lunge resulted in a ghast- ly wound in the breast, just to the left of the breast-bone. He struck again for the heart, and another wound was made in the left breast, and still again a third wound spurted blood from just over the heart. Then he lunged again, this time for his victim’s throat, and a bloody slip, down the left temple was all he accomplished; then again, and a wound in the left cheek was made. By this time Mary caught the knife-blade in her hand, but her assassin drew it through, and her hand, with every finger wounded, was helpless. Again, with uplitted blade, he sprung for her throat only to plunge his ugly weapon into her le arm which she raised for defense, and ftill again and again until.five gapifg wounds were bleeding in her arm and still the de-~ mon followed. Harrisén walked deliberate~ ly out of the house and towards his own home. Apriving there he told his boys that he had kilied Mary More —*‘ She would not tnarry me, and [ killed her ’’—and that he was now going to kill himself. He then took his own rifle in his hands as if to shoot himself, when his son Pike seized it. A struggle ensued, but Pike, discovering that the rifle, too, had no cap, ceased struggling. [arrison made the discovery, or pertended to about the same time, dropped the rifle, and with the same yell, “I’m crazy! I'm crazy !” ran to the cistern and jumped in. The cistern contained only about four feet of water, and the supposition is that Harri- son knew it, for had he been bent on sui- cide the Ohio river would have answered every purpose, and that was only a few rods away: He floundered around in the cistern a few minutes, keeping up his cry of ‘I’m crazy !’’ until his sons fished him out; then he made a dive for a small medi- cine-chest in the house, saying he was going to poison himself, but when our re<« porter left he was still alive and trying to devise some means of self distruction. [he room in which the deadly scuffle occurred was still as it was left in the morning, and presented a horrible appearance. The matting on the floor was stained with blotches of blood, and the door where the fiercest struggie had occurred was all stain= ed over with the crimson fluid, as were the doors in William More’s room. From the sitting~room clear across the kitchen the struggling woman’s course could be traced in blood,

On Saturday afternoon about half past five o'clock, as the son of James L, Holman, Esq., was driving a team down his father’s wharf, he was run into by the shunting engine. He had barely got over the rails way crossing when the engine struck the hind wheels of the carriage and hurled it with the little boy in it, to one side of the track, tearing it clear of the horse, and completely smashing it to pieces. The little boy was considerably hurt, the result of the fall causing concussion of the brain, Had the carriage been an open one the boy would probably have been killed. Fortuns ately he was wrapped up in an apron. This and the carriage top, no doubt, pootected him from receiving injuries which otherwise might have proved fatal, The engine, Mr. Holman informs us, was running back and forth at a furious rate, only whistling occa~ sionally and not ringing the bell at all. Drivers should rut their engines cautiously around that. part of the tract crossing

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