om

ae ee a A ON RO Sm en

-_ OE CE TE

coosing the lps ower tt, and having held it eo an amnesty to al! Trish political offenders,

a mor she wi ew it, and raked itabowe prisoners or not prisoners?) 3—Will it de-|

her head, keeping the other finger cloe ds cline the services of those who, under kiuesel ’

I finger thue warm and mort from the established #rotestant asendawey in the *Court w ns 5 asitive, and she easily de- of dustice,” and bade every Roman Catholic

tected! the de monet the current of air into ‘stand aside ?’

w! h she bad rareed ut That eurrent did _~=-_-- js

Hot < * fromthe entrance Iteame roma A CITY OF SkVeN THvi SAND IN

t 4 lv opposite HABITANTS DESTROYED BY FLOODS

I think,’ sued Nine to-hapeull, ‘that there AND WHIRDWINDS.

must be some opening to that diceetion ~~ ae a ee

thie air coms as though mM roomy space, : : :

. Awag—Th Loss of Life and Destruction and sure vy bears ¢ | ithe sea Ninta or Varieuk Aecounteol the Ti Dresa nay fin! a path whieh the Gipsies _ ee rac slamily.

Wir these words e+e started to her ‘eet Mazatian, Nov. 25, 1868. d around ther mistress had fallen The city of Alamos, situated in the southern a ind there wer none of the Gipeies in ' t oH the State of Sonora, has been swe | t sieht st fared not ta the candle whee aa eal’ octiatn by a visitation of nature th Gitana la eit bornir upon the talle, wely. a combined attack of the two great but s had + bel poss son quite & pirce wind and water. The terrible event whieh had been leit with themean the pre- ecu d durt i the yvreat sea storm, lasting vious eveomg, aud having lighted this, and mthe doth to the Tsth ult. From priyypte ewrcealed it as well as she could, she glided elters received mm t $3 cily, we transiale the earetelly way towards the tnner extremity ¢, iow accounts of the destruction aud loss ( \ rn. When ehe reached the rear if ‘ wall she saw a sorto! alcove turnong to the We have endured awful suffering. Torrents Tegkt sui (com whieh came quite & fresh cur) of rain, for forty-eight hours, inundated the rentof air, and it she bad not adrottly pro | city during the yreater part of the 16th ard t iher light ehe wo huve lost it At Lith, tolilowed by another torrent of forty. first this alcove gilered o thor paseage,and | ei cht hours, so t iat the houses not in the im- had +t not been tor the sweepay Arcece Nona} inediate way of bemy swept off by the force of would have turned back witivut feriher) she swollen floods, were crushed in by the examination As it was however, she Kuew yy eugth of the race falling upon them Seuvt that there must be sume opening beyond this) py ovo Fe measured the water im the tank port {ahe set herself at work to fied tf.) and found that fortv inches had fallen in 72 fo one corner, where the water bad worn’ fours Alainos ig po more. You may rest ebannel in the rock, and deposited a mass ot) assurred that unless some gew aod rich mines dirt and small stones apon the floor, our ad | are discovered, it will never be rebuilt. We venturess discovered an apertur and having) are impoverished and ruined. pelled away two or three stones from around Another lefter says: it she found it grow larger Presentiy she S horouble eveut has struck us with cora- came to two stones which Were welged €oWB. | sternution, and ruined a large propornon of With some difficulty she hited one of them, the inhabitants of this city. On the loth it and che other fe!] through, Sut this was not m™menced ty rain, and after seve ity tWo all Phe two stoves thus removed bad acted | jours, at ten o'clock at n eht, the sluices and as key-stones to an archof rubhb sh, and when) dams on the mountain broke loose, a furious th vy were gone the whole mass went t ma bling | it arose, the waters came dashing like thre gh into the darkness Lelow heuds, from the mountain sides, and brought At firat Nina felt weak and rightened for us face to face with the most ter. ible danyvers she feared that the norse the tumbling of Uh ‘Culmstance made us forget wll thir ra those stones might have reached th? cars vi; except that which is more precious thau all the Gipsies; but after a winle ber strength ¢h 13 -lite, an | especially the lives of our returned tober, and she doseended through ittle ones Three minytes after the full tide the opening she had made. Uere she felt the! of the food, and ewe rythiug wag swap away fresh sea-breeze very plaiol ind being eatis | as by a tornado. We soucht refuge in the fied that she had found 4 searet pagsage from i auins, trom where we could hear the the svero, she concluded to return for her erashi iy in of our houses Everything we mistress, and thus have co pany daring be had is lost. There must be cons.derable loss rest of the venture. She fonnd everything in of lite, but as yet lam not able tu ascertain t main cave asshe hed left it, the guard ghe truth ' ourside haying suspected nothin She then The fullest and probably the most reliable rroused Estelle and whispered into her ear account, is that of an American gentleman to For the love of Heaven, dea> lady, make) one of his frieuds here. We e py from aw peri no nose As [ live | think | bave tound a) yate Jett on way of eseape. Come—! have a candle— The agony that we have all gone through, t lve tu ust us a whl We must pot! within the past few days, is Ln possible to de- this one. Remember it ts life oF seribe, Probably you will have heard ere this, ath ! that the city of Alamos is in ruins ; but as * Leadon, good Nina. | am pot efraid to you nay not have had all the particulars [| will follow you.’ sive you what | kaow. On the loth it com-

Siowly and carefully, withaut notee enough menced to rain, snd on the 16th # genujne to awaken amegho the two girls glided away, | rain and wind storm set in, lusting yntil the ami were soun heyoud the confias of the [sth. It seemed as if the very tluod-g ibes of prison within wineh their Captu s belrewed heaven had oper ed, and that a St cond deluye them to be salely lodged was pouring upou the wuld. The wing. foo.

(Te be Continued ) roared with dresdfyl fury, and ab the elements seemed combined tor some dreadful carnage. |

a N We littie thought what was in store for our| European ews, teautitul city. But svun the tale was told aid see athe eterna serererweoecuceseres | Lit dest: uction ¢ plete, or almost complete.

lhe storm lasted until late on the evening of the Isth,

as il

FROM ENGLAND.

During its continuance it apy area liatieaX, January It ,

no human being copid Nye within its

sfer, trom Liver

t S City of reach. ‘Tie Alamos rover was swollen to s ' , via Q stuwn, 2 ved here at 1 30) rreat heishs, and, yu its wild headlong course, ‘i Satuiday. She brought only # few! carried everything hefore it. Houses were g a cousifdersbie quantity of swept away like go many straws, and whole t rt We append the most) biocks of buildings were thrown down like go stetus news Hot aotierpated by) many rotien trees. ‘The wind was no less ter teley ribie than the water. Houses were unroofed x ‘ ' M.P., for South La-rbyshire, and blown to shatters; tiles and like materia Ys 3 were scattered through the air like chaff; and levram from Erzer n announces that) strony trees were uprooted as if they had been t ( s mm that town has been! cornstalas. The b:st part of the cily 18 totally w f vy a lurkish cflhicer garrisoned in| desir yed. About the only buildings saved, while the consul was endeavering | worthy of mention, are the mint, the enurch ot t put a ftoa dis} ute between Euyilish the old State Colleze Those stood on hich tra ers vlicer ane’ sue of his com-| erounds,and this advantaze,with their sulidits is. However. the wou iutticted with a} saved them. Dr. Hill, an American resident, e l, is not very severe. had three houses carried away, and is a loser P s have been tiled against the return ly the amount of about $10 000 ee ow ‘ b evil gn me Bassskill eu the’ Lobinsou Bours, an Weta doing a bank is of bribe ry, treating, a ! intinmmed thi ws gz busines here, had his hanking h ruse Sweep a. st turd of Sir fd) aus fur 1b, away. Otherg hare BL fered severely. Tine vgreunds of bei 7 euiing, wand cor-) loss of ale bas been (purte la ve. Sixty dead setice , and aga the returu of Lord! budies have heen picked up. Some of them ot. Lawre and Sir RK. Biennerhasset: fur! were mnangied feartully and cou d searcely be Galway, on the grounds of bril« y, t€catins, recognised. M ay of the bodies were fourd lating, and undue influence. mies duwu the river. Uadsubtcdly, the nuin A e case of deter ined suicide has) ber found will be largely inereused by other t in Londun. The frie ds of a man! uy fortunate ones. | have written you those ‘ 1 Boueh gave him into custody fur) iew lines hurriedly, but do not allen pt to de va eile ual aftemst on his lite, but seriue OF ey piayu thes most extrac: dinary phe On Tis Wav to the station house, whilst in the imenon of wa se venty two hope’s whiriwind eeay trom the coustab €, aud and deluye, ! ' us could be overtaken inflict Wika a The ruined city of Alamos was the Athens rv ” : a aaa tnortal Cut ou his throat, nd North weetern Mexico, or, at least, had ea ney: Be that reputation Its women were reputed tu a. Wey robable story ts told to the effeet | he the loveliest and most intelligent theough- thai the (rovernment of the nited States, in| out the republic, and its citizens were hishely expression Of its sympethy with the Cretan in- spoken of as contrasted with those of other yw a : pre pra . 7 — ered f } — , populations. There was a great deal of wealth, , th og ¢lie ji ry ON Me SOM) rehvement and luxury eimuny the letter classes. s ®, the fate chief of the Geek Cabinet, | [t was a sort of sanct ied gerugaiem, where | ® Sulll Ht sui ol ties ¥ by achieve their ine the pr ud Svanish belo and brain held as- dependeuce, to be repanl five Yeurs aller that

vendaucy,aud wuld not be porwened with I. dias nud mixtu.e, Alamus, as a city, had fame betore the yreat metropolisof New York

It is also aaid 1! mi the | ted States are bu baild, for

auc'evement “at sume parties esto 7 ling, or ready to

the Cretans, a su

: Marine Wur-ship,| was known. It is old ameny the many old

OF mited at £60,000, towns of Mexico Surrounding it have been [he report that Lord Mayo is tu be recalled some of the richest mines iu the worid, and, mnow se neraliy dishelieved, though it is bY; irom whet the cies has iis Chicf support, At

Hy Means Certain that this us srraciw net at one time contemplated by the Hat there is

iS 4Ct Was | the time of its destruetion it contained a popu ation of about 7,000 souls, though geographi-

‘al dictionaries place the number at 10,000,

Cabinet.

one of the stutenu tx, which have

DENEMINATIONAL ers. GODLESS SCHOOLS. | —-—-— j

We learn from the Jannary No. of the | Cuthoalic World, the a General Convention 0° | the Protesta t Episcopal Chiurch, which re ce: tly sat in New York, among other subject mal

that of Epvecarion envrosses the attents

the veted was aetunlly pea pate d mn Neutral or Goadivgs sysleg) wed to «

1 possrDy

lone Chur h, to the

so

the ' rcp ithratye

raven tion aud upon by the Loman ‘ | reference tabli h Parochial

it was resolve Bi ler to

, m suve

by the

Sc hor ls, wherevet the vouny from preversia many popular

s of the d ‘ov. and the enrnest hope Is CX-

errot : renerauy b

pressed that the resolution wilt acted upon The World truly

“Tt is quite evident that any denominations

remark :— positive doctrines to tench must take care early to teach its children the principle s of faith, aud that a system of education Ch ;- tianity is effec tually an infidel system. When the Episcopalians “shall have built their paro-

they will he able to apprechme

without

ehial schools, the labors of Catholics, who, tar poorer, amd far more numerous, have nener Geen willing to] trust their children to the pudlic schools, Then} perhaps they will unite With us im asking the) state levislature fyr a gust proportion of tre funds raised -by fagidiion and devoted to the We could never see anvthins but sunple justice im the KE

carnied out, will be an advance in favor of our

ed iCamlon Ql dhe youn. demand, scopal Convention, if

this

’

The acuon of

practice, a! lan ar zune ..t for the propricty of aut claims.” ->

ATTEMPTED Sticaok — Yesterday morning a young Weman slepped inte a store in the viemuty of King’s Square, and called upon the clerk ether to marry her, or to witness her death by pomwon as the conseq ience of lis refusal Phe clerk, net suspecting anything serious, declined to wed, whereupon the young woman placed a plial to her lips and swallowed its contents, which proved tobe an ounce of laudanum. Dr. Berryman was at once called, but on the young woman re- fusing to take anything of a medicinal character te neutralize the effect of the porton, she was re- moved to the Public Hospital in a coach, The eflocts to relieve ber proved suecessiul, and ehe

inpow in @ tar way of deing well —S¢ Joka News. RED RIVER DISTRESS.

Thefollowing is an extract from a letter dated at * Red River 10th December.” The writer ia the Rev Black:—

“The famine issereinthe land. Itia as hard to get provisions, even when at Fort Abercrombie.

Set tleaent, Jobn

Yesterday had the honor of reeiving a commun- ation from Mr MeDougall, tue Oitawa agent at St. Paul. intimating that 320 barrells of flour bad been purchased by him with a remittance of $5,000 trom Halitax, Neva Scotia, which were to be at Fort Abercrombie on the Oth instant This, of course, | reported at once to the Cot- mittee, and we ure trying to get sleds efftor it

“Mr McDougall also reports having received | $1 vv trom Torouty.

‘“Joun Buack.”

The Mayor pf Toronto has remitted $1,900 and T1100 barrels ef Qour to Mr. MeDougall which bad het arrived at the date of the letter.

Letest News by Telegraph.

FROM LULOPE.

London, Jan. oe

Tt in neserted that Russa urges a meeting of | the corierenee new that Crete is quiet, with the View to prevent the expulsion of the Greeks from the Ottoman territory. Tt is intimated that the representatives of the Porte will leaye the Con ference if Ubis point is introduced for discussion

aud warne Russa of the danger of another Crimean War. It w eaid that Greece will introduce the

claims of the Cretany in the eonferenee about te mivet in Pana, ard will demand that they be allowed tu declare whe shall be their rulere by plebiseitum,

A Cariist conspiracy has been discovered in Rarcelonia with rawificatious in Sarragossa and other places. Many persons have been arrested for being Unpheated in the conspiracy, along them Coatello, a noted Carlist.

The peasants in Andalusia, pressed by poverty bave organized into plurdering parties, and are pillaging the rich landholders |

London, Jan. 6

Latest advices have been received trom Para-

guay The War news Was weagre aud unin

Mr. MeMahon the Ameripan ati ister to Para guay, had bad an interview with President Lo- pez, Aud the reenlt was unde retoud te be eminent saUistastory, full atonement tor the reeent out | rages to the American tlay having been guarau- teed,

Lendon Jan. 7. | The feeling amorg the tenantry in sume parts of Ireland is very bitter avainet iand holders. and

maby Coses of agrarian vielehce ure reported, London, Jan. 8

Consols 925. Liverpool Markets exhibit Jittle

change

Pie reported discontent amaguy the Irish tenant

TY is Utdeutidod.

: London Janu 8.

The request of the Sablime Porte for a Postpone meni of Conlerehys gu fastern question fora few lave, in order that time might be enined for iustrue: ing the Turkial re preschlative, has not been acceded to.

The Session of the Conference will certainly | Opel to murr ow. * cobsequenutly has been com) ciled to telegraph at length frow Con stantineple his justructioue te Diamei Mehemet Pacha, the Turkish ambassador at Peris There is no question bat that a pari of these instructions ure Uthat if the discussions tp the Couference ex-

lie Sullau

an. Despatches report that much agitation pre" vails in all parts of Spain,

the Session annovnced for to-day will probably he

who mual receive assistance or starve

jand generar unginess fia leadership. and declare Memorial, as

will be presented to the Privy Council next werk.| ticipate ino a fair share

| American salt

j neeQiot, trom the fact | luzed the rigid eensorship of the }

) copy et bis late atnuesty proclamation with a state

j ine Way, and he wished te have the question set-

London, Jan. 9. Advises from Candia by mail fally confirm the |

LLL LOO AAA A AAAS

previous report of the submission of the Cretans to | Turkish authority.

London, Jan, 42. | Charlottetown, fanuary 18, 1869.

For some wxnexplained reason the gpa hp ~ bissador at Parts, who, it was supposed, wead re- Le “Ett v 1 QUESTION. cau Grecee in the Conference, bas been refused | FES EOUCATION QU! participation in ite Session He bas protested | ee

nvainst Lis exelusion, and appealed to the Govern- | ° ww , . meut at Athens for ip-tructions, The Conference : will awnit the action of Greece in this matter, and from one end to the other, and as we have ; : i eth been often asked by our friends to place the postponed for a tline in cons. quence London, Jan, 1 The indications f the first day's seseion of Confer nee on the Kastern question leave little any. doubt of altimate success : The Turkich Government, through its represent-

consented to maintain the present status un-

question plainly before the pubhe, we shall en-

the . ‘ : : i¢ deavor to do so ina calm, impartial manner, without any desire of wounding the feelings of

any portion of our citizens, Our task is not an

ative, til the close of the Conference

i _g ‘ ipression that but one more Dee a> 't ei ald bie er ae Semen Torkey | pretty well, we venture on the task of ventilat- sesai n war be beld, ‘ i ‘ y d

and Greece will be « bviated. ine it with the desire of propagating drue rine “ee ciples, without ofending esther Jloman Catho-

FROM CANADA, Montreal, Jan. 6.

The Ontario Tuegislature re-asseimbled this alterneon. The session wil last about twa weeks Near Bowmanville, Ontario, a woman, in 4! subject to which we are about to address our fit of imaanity, drowned her two ebiidren ina barrel of water and attempted ig dyuway her- | ; i seit | ticles is generally believed to be a T rotestant— he Red River Executive Conperative oie We think that the Committee make another appeal for eontribu rs ‘ ie i t a They eat {34 families in absolute waut, | belief is true ; and we believe, further, that his

easy one; but, as we have stadied the question

lics Or Protestants.

The ERvaminer, before we became the ediior

thereof, published some able articics on the

selves. The gentleman who wrote those ar-

a Presbyterian, in fact.

jarticles were the outpourings of a sincere, out- Mouatreal, Jan 8. ca i lof lgtely confined ut Ottawa on spoken, generous loyer of his country and of

this morning

Patrick Doody, sivpicion of Ke: Ilay and Straw haye reached such a price here that pentlemen kee ping horses are purchasing saw

inism, died here

justice, aad of a genius who can, when a be-

fitting opportunity presents itself, give expres-

i for j blot if . . . is ie dest jor bedding, aud carrots for a porplon « sion to hig sentiments, in a style and dignity, fiutlder. . ,

Delegates are dajlr expected at Ottawa fron | not unworthy of the Poet Laureate of our Newfoundland to meyotuaie tor the adiiisslon «

i ° - nto Confederation | Motuer Country. One or two of our contem, ito Contederatio J two for Nova Scotia to ullairs of

that Province Kiore leaves in a dav or with

have wn jnterview llowe on the

labor will be in

Their

if we write what is just and true,let them

Provinees and if possible come to a palislaclory so all aout ourselves. lation

vain. Markets firm for Ploar.

Prices going up Montreal, Jan Sth Synod Chureh of Seotland at Kinston unant

mously resolved to ratwe by contributions not leas i :

than One Hundred Thousand Dollars te mainton matter of course, to * trip”’ us as Olfen ag they

Queens College, now deprived ef usugl govern

ment prant.

grant it. and approve of it; if we write what

ig unjust and uniue, they are at liberty, asa

loan. Dut we beg to tell them that we shall

Montreal, Jan 9 | not listen to mere bluster and sound; we must

The news from Red River is that Government work on the road tothe Lake of the Woods in : being prosee ted with vigor. Famine ia wide- is compelled to seek refuge in a corner, he spread io Red River, but relief is pouring iv from i Sparrow was aasaulted and stabbed | Oar intention is not to give offence to any man, by one Christie last night, near Madoc, Ontario. | or denomination of men, but to vindicate the

The Court House and Gaol for Ottawa County | was destroyed by fire (hia morning

The Quebee Chronicle, the L Evenment and condemn

have argument; and,if either of our opponents

ig aaa must admit it, or remain in “durance vile,

cause of justice and fair play to all. Last winter His Lordship Eishop Meclutyre Conservative

other papers atrougly

presented to the Government a very moderate inefficiency, meddling | '

‘hauveau for irresolution

es cae ae asking them to amend the present

thathe ie net te be trussed by either party or) School daw so as to allow St. Dungtan’s Lal-

een. leve ; hree other Schoo!s, to par- Phe Report of the Civil Service Commissioners ‘s"s and two or thre : is

of the School fund,

There are only 21 ships on the stocks at Quebee | His Memorial was treated with coolness and this yeur againet 34 last year limports at Mon- nie treai iast year were «ix nullion dollars leas than j disres, cet, f not wilh & 1867.) Members of the Qutarno Legislature have | Roman Catholies, who placed the Gov-

qotiiianed the Geese Gem He © amy ee ernment in power, felt keenly the msult offered

tive.

| ie : Ri Flour five cents dearer. Markets firm, Rain (them. Neither their Bishop nor themselves

i } . aaa Moutreal, Jan. 12 | asked anything unreasonable ; At the Dinner to the Mayor last night, Sir John | asked for a tair portion of the money which A. McDonald respouded to the toast fof ** ii Majesty's Ministers.” lu (ie course of ljs spece he suid thay he wax certaly that in a fe months} and from their hard earnings, for a few schools Nova Sco{ja would jn uame aud heart bear its part | a : in the Dominion, and be had no doabt bat that }in which they have configcuce, and which are British Columbia and New?! undland wold svou be | admitted into the Union. Tle said the yreat Ship C wal would be aundertakey by the Gayerjyment at au early day.

The epocet is logted upon as high ty important Tntercolon.ai Railway Comiyissioners have | arrive! Lowe iving terelled over the entire | : ; | ne of the Intercolonial from idifax, They were | Columns of this journal, and have been ably presept do wit. emouski and Kiver Vu Loup. and entertging | at a public luncheon at the latte: p ace.

Ihe safe cf the Bank af Montreal at St Catherines was blown open last night, aud $), 000 in Cauada Lex od teuders st slen

FROM TUE STATES. New York, Jan 6.

¥ ‘i : F . } *e i General Lersundi, ex-Captain of Cuba, sailed launder or Examiner in favor of justice to R

they merely

or ‘ . ih i they themselves pai; out of their own pockets, “| 3

admitted by a!l to be of a superior character. ie justice, the reasonableness, the practibility of what our Roman Catholic fellow-eitizens de

mand have already been explained in the

wal * ul

the Islander. eve ry man Of common sense,

rial of Wis Lordship should have been granted. to refute the arguments advanced by the Js

for Spain yesterday. ‘Jbe policy of his successor The reason is obvious—-thel: Geveral Dulce. is not Kuown, and bis Inauguia. The Patriot proclamation is awaited with mach anxiety. The Liberals draw favorable conclusions. im tais con-| sounded the “ toesin,’’ and the Progress inain- that be has already re Preeg. and bus; : cag allowed full liperty in the preparation and trans-|™ingle in politica. tuias lon ot Pelegrg; luc news despatches. : Washington, Jan 6

In the Senate yesterday, Mo Ferry off red a

resolution requesting the President to transit. a |on sufferance for a time.

manu Catholics.

arguments were unanswerable.

tained that hishops and priests should not Cogs } sure. '

so deliberately as did the one that now rules Not one member of

that Government would have ever had a seat

mentol the author y by whieh he issued it. Mr a : . :

Ferry said that he off red the resolution beeause, | in the Legisigture were it not for the voteg of although be favered an amnesty, fe doubted the | Catholies; and yet when those who placed right of the President te grant ip in this eweep-

had £ 135.000 in Bonds and Curreney stolen trom insult’ to injury, they expect that Roman

them during the interval between New Year's |

eve and Saturday A confidential clerk, who i

MISS ng ls Sis pe ected of the robbery : The money and gold warket remain without of free men.

quotable change.

Catholics will support their unjust poliey. Ss ’ . . . . . | They engertain a strange opinion of the spirit Many of the leading minds in

Necen Gad aoa our midst, although differing much from the Ne or el S.

A serious disturbance. growing out of resistance doz,mas ot Catholigs, sympathized with the to a Sheriff, is reported in Princess Anne County Virginia Three negroes were kill d and soldier mertally wounded ‘The excitement in the

latter, and de so still, at the ungrateful treat ment which they received at the hands of those

Oli

The Graminer.

| late dviasty were removed from the rquares und) school house of St

n 2 , ‘“ . on - s Ve * tend beyend the Suvhug Porte and altimatum po COUNTY Is very great, and the oops lave asked , “ il r reinforcements

the Greciau Government i to ‘ ‘ sentative ahaull immediately withdraw Money Marker unnehanged. Gold quiet. Business

The * ferqais ’ the official wewspaper at Con. | 8 Very aud, and within the last ten days failures t nople in ite isane of yesie dav said thatif the |‘? the amount of Siv O00 600 have oecurred amouy lurkiel “withdraws from the Con the Jobbing and Commission Dry Goods ilouses ference Wat Willi Giewce is inovitable,

Ma‘ ana. Jan 7 | ly liuprove.

that ihe Torki b repre

reprerentatie a | Other Disusters uve [eared tuicess the Uwes speed

i ae Last nicht, by order of the government all | New York, Jan. Y. riniules of Queen Isabella aud otner symboisof the) At Rochester last evening the floor in the

Peter's and St: Paul's Roman | Cathohe Church gave way while crowded with people attending a boliday testival. Three bun dred persons went down, and vigit were instant

public buildings in the city. General Dulce las isied bis anxiously awaited proclan ation it in addressed tp Cubans. tle says

whom they raised to place and power. Among the number was the Hon. J. C. Pope. Ou

the occas.on of a partial! election which tock

| place, not long since, Mr. Pope offered him-| he

thought that justice should be done to the |

self as a candidate, and declared that

Catholics. For openly and hongestly declaring The |

Government—to its shame be it said—used

these sentiments he lost his election.

As this question is now agitating this Island |

porarics will be sorely “ exercised” to discover |

lerision, by the Execu- |

een

STEAM CYMMUMICATION,

Wa nre much pleased to find that the suiject of Steam Communication between Georgetown and the Strait of Canso, or any suitable place

acrosa the Gulf, is «ttracting and receiving the

attenticn of our contemporaries as well as of the general public. That a steamer, suitably constructed, equip-

ped and manned for the service could, any | year, run with comparative regularity between | Georgetown aud Canso, or some other point on the Maintand, for a month or six weeks after the navigation is clos d in Charlottetown or Summerside, admits of no doubt. During the present season we do not believe there has been any thing as yet thet would prevent @ property coustructed steawer from making her regular trips. We have often heard of small

schooners, produce-'aden, leaving Souris,

Grand Kiver and Georgetown, foe market, as late as Cliistinag or New Year's, and some-

times all ¢hrough dhe month of January,

It may, perhaps, be objected that were a steamer of a suitable description placed on the the people |

above route for winter service, would not then rest satisfied until they had Geor zetown, Charlottetown, Summerside, and, perhaps, other places cornected by railroad ; for we have often seen the winter supplies of Charlottetown and Summerside merchants | landed jn Georgetown during the month of | December and even the early part of Jauuary, | when they either had to be left here till gpring or hauled, at a great expense, to their places of destination. Well, we can only say that if, | in theory, a railroad follows as a necessary | c nyequen e,and as a matter of course, from the |

proposed steamboat comimunigation, the soon-

e: the theory is reduced to practice the better.

Byt woulda railroad between Charlottetown and Georgetown, or any other part of the

Island, poy? Now, this is not the way in | which we would wish to see the question put ; | but by asuing ourselyes if a railroad would | help materially to give an additional impetus | to our commerce, and develop the resources of

the country?

Many persons will focm the} idea of a railroad ruaning im a direct line from | Southport to Georgetown, and then ask them-! selves what there is toemploy a railroad on such a route for even a cousiderable part of the year. Irgteag of opening a line by the most direct route from Bouthport to George: | town, our idea would be tu start from Charlottes |

town and take the north side of the Hillse |

| borough, through the heart of the coypntry, | ety 5 79)

with stations at the intersecting roads, through which the stock and farm-produce of the Settle- mewts of Little York, Brackley Point, Coye- tead, and Tracadie find their way to market,

continue through the interior of the country

|} till we arrive at some convenient and suitable

| place, somewhere between the back of Morel] t ,

| Settlements,

judvocated, for months, by our contemporary |

: jualso have of ordinary inteilect, concedes that the Memo. |

| The Patriot, or Progress, has never attempted ;

nt reazoning to be |

. . . ; could be **sca:pd up’? in seven years. Never did a Governmeut commit suicide | a: UF 5

jtied ‘Lhe resulution wae adopted which is almost universally adiyitted us such, | New York Jan 6 they are ignominiously refused. And, to add | Merars Cambleng & Pyne, 14 Wall street : ’

ithe rest

Head of Bt. Peter’s Buy and Grand River. We would form a jenction

somewhere in this neighborhood, with one

' | From the head of the Hiilsboronzh we would | | | } i ‘ | | branch running to Georgetown, and the other | to Souris, a harbor that offers almost the same | We would |

of Charlottetown |

advantages that Georgetown dovs. the branch west

carried, as far as possible, through the most | 7 aa We may be told that a rajlroad would, in a |

central and inland partg of the Island.

few trips in the fall, carry all the oats, barley, | potatoes aud turnips that the Island could pro duce in one season, and mizht be laid up for | of the told

ireizht all the ezyvs and butter that

year. Perhaps we may

also be that a railroad would

tts vne

Carry

But,

even admitting all this to be partly true, we

should remember that a railroad, once in opera

tion, would fiud many things to carry besides &c., Xe We

frequently seen supplies for shipbuilding pure

butter, €gys, potatoes, have

: . -. 1. | poses, such as iron, oakum, pitch, tar, chains them in power ask from them an act of justice, | t ? . » pitch, tar, chains,

lanchors, cordage, &e., &e., sent from Char-

‘uttetown to distant parts of the country by the land ronte.

We have also seen very heavy

| Spars, large quantities of ships’ plank, and

'

| who haye settled in the juterior of the country

other heavy lumber, hauled from Charlotte. |

town to the shipyards at Morell and other dis! tant parts of the Island, with a great amount of expense and tatizue to men and horses.

Would not a railroad facilitate the transit of |

such things with a great saving of labor and |

| Gomain of religions conseience,

and completed ina few days, This ee frequently done in the neighbouring Republie, ; See the same dane here before many years, Brick ag a building material is likely 40 come

long into more general use than ‘heretofore not only in towns, but among some of the well, to-do farmers through the country, and here

and we do not see why we may not

again for the carriage of such a heavy

the railroad would be found most serviceable, Many of the old farmers wou'd also find ing short time, that they would save Money ang much time and drudgery to themselves and horses, by using coal, to a certain extent, fog winter fuel instead of Grewood, which jg how in many of ihe old inland settlements very difwcult to be procared, whilst in others it is not to be had at any price. These are only e few amongst the many advantages that would result from railroad commu: ication jy oun Island. We would wish to see the Project well encouraged, or et least fairly aud impartially

ventilated.

DR. CAMERON'S LEY YERY REY. PR. CAMERON'S ,p ON EDUCATION, TITERS Tut Very Rev, Dr. Cameron, Vicar General of the Diocese of Arichat, has written go the Halifax Acadian Recorder two very able Jet. ters on the subjectot Education. This zentie- man is one of the leading Catholic Eeclesiasticg in the Lower Provinces, and the letters ig which we allude prove him tu be a man ot deep thought, clear ideas, and powerful reasoni> xu, We agree with Dr. Cameron in every wo ; waich he has written; ad we congratulate him on the independence and ability which he has manifested in defendi iz liberty of con. science Kvery word which he has Written every idea which be has expressed in condem, nation of the Comaon Schovis in N, S. are applicable to our “noble system.’ If the Patrict and Progress * boys” will be able, during the period of their natural lives, to ree

‘fute the arguments of the Doctor, without the jassistance of the all powe:ful **togsin” and

'sSmithtield” logic, then will we say that thes ure clever chaps, and we shall be prepared to reward their cleverness with a * penny-bunn ** As those letters are s0 apropos to the agitation now going on jn our Islacd, and as we ure certain that our readers will admire the clear, cali, arzumenta tive, gentiemany language in which they are written we shall have much pleasure in publishing them. Another reasog for our #0 doing is to allow the Patriot and Progress, the P, Pp. of P. E. ® the earliest

|opportuuity of beyinuing the task, which nq

doubt they are presumptuous enough to at tempt, of refuting the arguments advanced by the Doctor. We shall see whether or not “sounding the tocsin’’ and “ Smithfield’? wil} be at a premium, and reason, common sense and justice at a discount, The tollowing ig Dr. Cameron’s first letter :

Tv the Editor of the Diily Evening Recorder,

Sin,—We may make use of all the ambiguous phrases in the language, but we canuet disguise the fact that the taxing of a citizen to suppert a system of Schools trom which he cannot con- sctentiously derive any benefit, is persecution. It he be taxed. be must in return be offered ag equivalent which be is free in conscience to ae. cept, otherwise he does not enjoy civil aud reli- gious liberty in the intention and spirit ef our constitutional charter, Few persons. 1 beliews, will Venture to dispute the position | here take, fur if there be one principle. fiewly and consyicu- ously woven into the framework of Nova Seotia’s