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; | P= : af amivers, wd that those who bad mot, and | to prepare for it, or who will travel hundreds‘ able Benjamin P. Gunn, bursting to sty) were practising, would be ealed uo to\of miles and sit on an exposed stand for hows * Poor Smith! knew him wel. Insured for!

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undergo ao esaminetion, and who would, tosee a boat race, Yes, there @res me very teu thousand in our company. Widow left if the Board thought proper rece ve a licences, |cxtraordiaary things to be seen about mon and jn comfortable circumstances, Let me tuke) An ol jection fad been raised go the eff ct) women who say that they believe that they your pam. Shall) 17 He followed me that if an seedent fas pened, apd cue of have immorial souk, and who call themselves | every where ; uutil [ got 6o sick of Gunn's, those persons possessiy g ary skill in thes» Christians, but whether the angels do not see persecutions that I left town guddenly one

matters wes called in thas he would be fined what ig crdiuary with us to be the most ex+/ evening, and hid myself in secluded oounjry Bat he believed the Hil) contemplate ds othi.g | traordinary is surely a queetion, village, hoping to get rid of ‘1a At the end of the kind. He thought. oo the contrary, Wil, to go r. WM eColl began on of two weeks ] returned, reaching home at one that sweh gentieuren-sheald tecl than! ‘ul for Sunday with a Gelic, and J followed with ga) inthe morning I nad hardly gat into bed, such a measure, Thiswae the only Colony Eayleh sermon. Then came eight tables to! before there was a ring at the door bell. or country be kuew-of ‘but had such xn get; | be served, Gielic and Engiish alterpating j looked ext and there was Gunn, with another and Ae understood that eome serious cases Ou Monday morning | began, aud, while person. He asked if Max Adeler was at bad occured which went to show the abaolgte preaching, Mr. Dancan from Charlottetown! howe, 41 said I wag the man, Mr, Gunn) necessity that exieted fot such @ m agcre. Came in, Every fase wore a» yladdeped ex-) shen observed ti at he expected my return, and | The public required some safeguirds aga'ner | pression as he came iv, and so [ soon mage) thought he would cail around about that in-| quch a clase uf practiiioners, end is waa the | “4y for bim = After these services were over, /surauce policy. He said be had the doctor ducy of that’Committee to 39 that they had the Sacrament of Baptism was dispeased. and| with him. and it | would come down he would | them. Peo weeks ago he (I]on Atty Gen- certainly i never before baptized so many on take my name, and haye me examioed imme-| eral), had heen informed of causes where the same dav The re were 18 or 20 thus diately I was C10 lt dignant to reply. I death bad ensucd from improper treatment at F ceived into, the cbhureh, : [ then told the shut the window with a slam and went to bed the hawds of those homespun doctors The) Peo le that though no intimation had been again, After breaktast in the moruing | actenee of Medicine was too impo tan! to ba Ziven, § iil, that ifany had money with them, | opened the door, and tnere was Gann sitting

allowed to betaker pp py vpskillful men, A and wished to senda present to Mr. Goud-) on the steps, with his docto", waiting for me ! aman might be unskilled in other professions will, L would'tale charge af it. An elder at} He had been thee all night

As I evme out, ted do little injury, but it wae different when once stationed himself at each door with a! they seiz-d me and tricd to undress me there be came to deal with the wonderful m echan- Ph and about £4 P. E. I. cy., was collect

on the pavement in order to examine m:, I em of the buman body. we

Phen followed a talk with the elders on) retreated, and !ocked myself up in the gerret,

various matters, in the course of which I) wth orders to adm%t nodody to the house un-

“(at eee ee Ce Ga ae eS learned the only thing that displeased me ip, til [ came down stairs, But Gunn was got to S eS : , DeSabie, vig: that they were considerably | be baffled, He rented the house next door, tlert Detvs Sinn irp. in arrears to their minist I told them)! and stationed himself in the garvet adjoining #, > Se 4 > = plainly that men of the world would call that) mine. When he got fixed he spent his time we ON eee ene | diehonest, and that Chrigtiuns should ')« sure- ;o inding on the partition, and crying, ** Hal The following @hetehgwhich we find in the ly more careful of their good nam *, Of their|/to, Adeler! Adeler, lL say! How about that

“ Monthly Recapd: * will be iuteresting to O¥® obligations and ther h-reur. Zhe elders policy? Want 10 take her out naw?’? Avd sintie offer rGehdire <=! ¢ in on h district w wi } trast, we ” ' )thiss;—fo-, then he wou . tel me some anecdotes about * 5 “i a3 far as | could judge, they are not only men who were cat off immediaigly after paying

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i piety, but wen of ge: se the first premium. Bul paid no atleution t Next day— Tuesday — a irve Highlander, bim, and made no noise. Then he was silent ye me wectward 16 miles t a while. Suddenly, one morning, the tiiul conntiy to Cape Fruverse, the point trap-door of my garret waz wrenched off; and ’ ss to Nova Scotia in the upcn looking up, f saw Gunn, with the doctor for my tine did not alow metoyisies e Eat winter. We have a tittle church bere beauti- and a crow-bar, and a lot of death-rates, com- ern side, My own congreyation, "df? course, fully situated. a: d, as it was given out the ing down the ladder at me, I fled fram the thoug *t that I had gone of for a hol. y The day be fore at DeSable thet I would preach in| house to the Presbyterien chureh close by, following noses may explair wap igtocant by jt on Tuesday evening, } hud to halt for the and paid the sexton tvgaty dulias to let me & winiste:*s ho iday in pe: haps thea w: ity of -ighi.s: The church was filled with a fine look-| climb up to the point of the ste ple, and sit casts. I lef: Halivlax on Wedherday ; fgruiny, ing body of people, to whom I preached on ast ide of the ball, | promised him twenty August [6th, and arrived in Charloite:own al. the growt) and wanilestation of spiritual life. more if he would exclude every body fri in SP. M. Mr. Duncan had. iptimated that ] No whett did [eee a finer country or receive that steeple for a week. Once safely on the would address the conzr gation Llome atheartier welcome than at Cape Traverse. ball, three hundred teet from the earth,

Missions, and at 74 o’cloc kK, # respectable eon- Sues we dasjriet quited with another Mrelish-| mude myself comfortable with the thought

rough a beau | tor Not io the whole, but vuly to half of th bouuds, the Western baif of. the Pueshytery.| x here the muils cr

gregation had assembled in the Chu:ch. I speaking section should have a mitister for that I had Gunn ata disadvantage, and I de- had an bour’s falk with them, explayiing opr themselves. It would be a fine field, The termined to beat him finally if } had to stay present position as a Church, and ask ag them people are intell'grnt and wealthy, and there the-e a month, Abou: un hour alterward, io do thei ehare to make the whole Prez by- is a good Salt df pious mod atid women dmons wh le I waglouking at she superb view to the tery self supporting. Dr. Fraser an? J. W. them. Buz ifthey bave nota minister resi. west, I heard a rusiling on the other side of Morrison, Esqia,, fk owed with earnest prac- dent among them for at least half the time, [| the steeple JT looked uround, a1 q there was

tical sy eeches, and, as far as they cou Jg- tear their faatilies Wilt seatie, Aud: that veli | Be: jamip PR. Guan ereepi: g up the side of thai

3 ? ‘ >} ee © . ; . j ed their Luy Association to pay into the Trea- gion will suffer. : spire ina balloct, in which was the doctor,

Ps . » ‘ _ . oe ; : . surer of che Georgetow n m, ym gregatic £30 a G..M..G, with the tabular estimates of the losses of his year fcr the next two or thre years, hy which the OG : compary.fzom the Tontine system, As soon ary pn tap ~ be ac t : Su) ort its~ IRELAND FOR T! lb teu RISTS. i as Gon reache d the t all he tar w his graye sell, if it grows af the Puig it has laie!\, From comnsiee plang ir n }itd the shin les of the steeple, a: the spirit of the me Ony J should not woud [From the frish Times, ] asked me at what ave my father died, and it

' if the Collec tors raised the whole £20 on their a djany of. my atints ‘had consumption er hvei Grst quarterly visit. If 69, they cought to * Where sball J go for my holiiays?” is a complaint. Without replying, I slid down coltect a similar sum next quarter far the question which, perhape thoeusinds of our the steeple to the gr und, and took the first Poreign Mission, They can dé so; and what 'eedere are still themselves. The train for the Missisaippi Valley, Jn two weeks we can do, we ought to. Tue Charlotietow, S¥tss bo’el-keepers are suggesting an answer I waa ip Me I d.termiaed to go to the congregation seems to me to be in a hwalthier ‘svorable to their inserests by duly advertising jnterjor, and scek some wild spot, in gome State than ewer it was before. An i:terest ig We fact that that unweicome visitant the elevated regior, where no Gunn would ever shown in the work of Sabbath Schac!s, Bible cholera bas as yet given a wide berth to the dare to come. I got on a mule, and paid a Classes, Migsiona:y and Prayer Mee: ngs, and Bernese Oberland, and to the vale of Cha- guide to lead me to the summit of Popocate-

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im the Sche pes of the Church ; and tat isnot mounix, the Bouitaecs of Aegleshire and petl, We arrived at the foot cf the mountain abadi dey. Pecthehire, of luverness and Ohan haveals 4 noon, We toiled upward for about four, : > d eee asia iti os - " :

On T hursday 1 dri ¥e out to St. Peters Road ° inced a commendable _promp tude in bring hours, ust before reavhing the top I heard to hold gervice in the St. Columba’s in the ‘@z the attractions of their laces and moun- the scund of vojces, ard upon roandinga point evening. Though it rained, mest o! my olf teneander the notice of the British toy ist. of rocks who shoud 1 -ee but Berj min P. . vet ’ _— — rs Ws 4! “ in ere “ ane | : we : friends turned out to church, and afier preach. May we say, nt in the mterest ot a 'y hotele Gunn, seated on the very edge of the crater,

ing to them on Our dniy to the heath -m, { ad eepers but of the Irish peblic, that for the dressed them on Home Missions, ond ineie ‘etter there i go land im ine world which pres duty to themérives. The eongrvetion of St Peter’s avid Brackley Point R ads, emall, ought to be self easteini:-.

explaining the endowment plan to hig guide, ; and siepefying him with a mortality table, | Senié & Case Of Vaci ton tours more varied while the doctor bad the other guide a few though “ud beautifud than Trelasd, nor half sa ehexp yards off, examining him to see if be was g. At least 6d accessilde, Mr. Fioudes fortuigic in bealthy! Mr. Gunn arose and said he was any one who @eee cher broad acres. vad the ¢ Kerry bas brought into promisence a region vlad ta gee me, because now we could talk comfortable homesteads, and wico kiows what previously nevleeied, but which, whether for over that business about the policy without & hich spirited and intel igent people ‘hey are, 8@lence oF #ocial or historic mterest, well de- fear of interruption, In @ parc zysip of raze | would say so, and imavine thut they weaidhe 8¢rves the close and lovig study of the pushed nim backward junto the crater; and be the frstto claim such a position Jor them. travelling public. Of course, we did not fella thousand feet below with a heavy thud. selves. Gbebeve, from the response made Svexk ul Kailacr ey, nor even of Glengurif nor 4g pe struck the boitem I heard 4 voice by beth section@ of rhe comgeerwtion at our Kenmare. Th cee localities «re of world wide soreaming out something about ¢ non-forfeit- meetings, that at pexi Syned we siwll bear Ceolrty. Bit those who read Me Jroude’s ure ;"" but there was a euddem convulsion ot weil «f thenr. ABlerewing papers, will be inepired to follow the ananenla a cloud of emoke and I heard Ou Frittey 1 ‘ook a roandabout d: ve of 26 (bs exemple, and extend their steps beyoud nt wees.” bade ce won wo g. [know] thiles to Besokley Point Road Church, ad the odinary tourists traek to regiOus ©8 hud no right to kill Guia in that manner ; retaining @0! @!l but he forced me to do it in #-Ifadefence ; ard,

preavaed Ob vaIQn £40 a good Gon, e€vation s seullane apd bee utiful, and

and thea addressed them on oar et.se uns; and the charm of pameval lreabness, The west. T hope his awful f t> will be a warning to tieres'ter drove imte Chariotttowe. The ™ Higiends will, perhaps, even better repay other iusarance ayverts who remain amang us.” weather was delightiu), and the deuid was t2¢ labour of explorauen to him who lous a lovk.pz ts best, ond that is Saying put «a lit Wat ia novel and perieetly w hackneyed. —

tie smekers were busy in theduids wish Every Dubtner who travele at sl! has, of X; ~ i . 4 ~ Late Telegraphic News. Sy ay) ip

the last of thechuy; and the gra and roo: C¢&Eoe, **deue’’ Connemara, in the senee of ochinmeimmarnederecinnc: tbeterereencwnenry

ere ps locked rieb and juxurm:.t. fi be coun Urving along the road fom Galway to Clil- tey seemed made up ot geutiemen’s seals, aL den, aud through the pass of Ryiemore to the ternath g werh perks ard yardeus. Jt wid Killeries, and thence, via Wesport, home, look very detierent two cr threemoun hs hece; But cf the thousands who take the circular The Spansh war steamer “Chanexn.” fired ints but jor. asummer recidence wo ene could dee (ets of the Midiand Great Western, how 4 British slocp bound he e from Nassan with t! e site bette: thaw what P EL. cer: Mary ceviate trom this well-tracked route to al apes wane Oe es ea ‘On Sstuidey worning an old tric ud doove edplore the shores <f Lough Mask and Lough et pelaanee Tas alacn The Brtish Consul me ap to. Der ale, where J had bee > engavzed Curt, to g.ze ep the suviebeaten cl ffs of and whe Hay tien yovertument are trying to arrange to assist al the omiwunion en the {, ity

Jiowmy Arvan and Achid aid Beimullet, to ascend mutiers. dap. We acrived at the Ghurch at

Poet 4c Prince, Hart, dept. 16,

t 34.3. the brights of Meelrea or Neplive, cr to lin Quesec, Sepi, 26, A. M., and found tha: between cre and two 2eT imid the ruined cas:les, and abbe Fs, and huadree people bad assembled. The elders, Wonuments with which magy regious of Gal-

seated ander e@:d uround “he potpit, were Way urd Mayo ase richly studded? How

ping @ Gaelic hymn frog the bowk publish. “Wn 4 singie email Btetch of country is iv cd-ey ibeir date lamented pasiar, When it these memorials vi antiquity is to be seen from wes.ficianed Mr. McColl -cowiueted a shor; Sir Wilam Wilde's ceutlys; ublished vo-

‘Geheptad tio towed with ai Ruglish service, ame op Loveh Cormb, Let the ordinary The attention pard.was very marker! acd ihrsre 'Ourist, whe thinks he knows Connemara welt were. séveral other things that picused me enourh, jest look into this wo.k, a: d a glanee ‘Whe people froth each dseirict bes by them. ever the admirable iustr: thons with which it #elves. and s0, ingtesd.of being scutiered wyer §§ proiveely encireled, and he will eve that he) pjonr Qos fd the building, they, sa iv Cub pact! COM piruies, bas hithevte but scrat_bed the surface of a Corresponder ce has been discovered develo ping | and looked ike apotga:izedpody and ‘not a Tive Of imtellectual and @sihetic wealth, & pli te put Nepoleou on the throne of Belgiam | mub of seifish, uurts: My Soude eB aust unders Teen there is Dosezal whose beetling head- | tbe discovery occusion~ a sensation in Belgium. stand that,«t-the Comowien at De. | 0 6 wed suble ferds may we.) supriy the A ' ‘bp aigiteees 2. Subie, there is @ giext vatherimg of a ; lace of a Norwegian trip ta Uinse who love) There are rumors that a plot for t 1¢ restoration Mr. Rac eatin on the et ea : saonery for its own mt, whther it lies +t ¥ any hus been discovered tu Paris,and bro land West from Charlottetuwn. Hie has seven | their te doors or beyond the German Ocean. Wey Mi. ister of Foreiun Affairs assured Von eburches within these tx unds, besies smaher {ibe Grant 8 Caupeway is a household world) arnim that the French Govertiment will accord stotions,, and 4s, of conzse, je can bs in exch | ' Briiish tourists, but he who vis:ia it should ample protection to German residents of | yous | Odly GCE MD FeVEN Weves‘Unmn a\ erage, the

regard it only as the commencement of a tour Disurmament of Algerian rebels meets withob | people wreet by themeelyeson the cther — the main gijret af which choold be the Cunsts stac'es Tribes unserviceable arms, but keep the Gays, and, under the Jeadership of the eldeis,

5 itl» ood ouee. read of Antrim, with its gorgéous colering of “ j ‘ . . 4 . i " 2 : have .devotiousl exercises and Scriptured verdant fi ts ad purple seq aod the w lite The evacnation by the German Troops af the reading Iur two .or three hours. Then, on | sTanite of the ighervenjag roekwork. What-) four departments contigaous to Paris is completed the Saturday before the Commun on, the re,

ever be the direction the tourist in Leland Manrip, Sept. 25 presepiaiiyves ofesch me ting sit v the ehureh | *#F prefer, he wiil find ip every qr: ter clean Republicans in Spain have detectmiued to remain nau appoiate! place and. there 6. \ ccacion ia

ard comfbrtable hotelioang ‘very “mi derate qniet for a time, inquire suto ary matier sthe eldere report, acd Di. He wii] also find ‘in thé byeways of Bikne. Sept. 2, . a - , . . e | . . as ie itis duly myestizaied. The late Mr. McDon- | travel a complete absense of begvare whien!) Avnnal session Congress of Universal Peace ald was eydemily a man of high « -vanized Cun infest the hotei doors along the main toutes,) League opened in Lawranne. Switzerland to-day. pacity. e combrucd wiense -paritual fer) 2! d in place of them he will find, especially New York, Sept. i}. wour abd-esphugasm pwith a high sens: of the ™ Oonnemara, a peasun'ry remarkal.e forthe Gold 111-8 Exchange steady. yalue of furmsaod church ord vr, Thus, for, b8tlve grace and kindtiness of their munoers,, | Louis Joseph Papinewn, leader of the Canadian | instance, though I bebeve every cider that he |@M¢ ‘heir exireme readiness to oblige und as- | Wwemrireten oC 187 died at Montivelly on Sunday, | : a ' ; et him in bit tons. rej 3 a 7m o,d.-tued is able to preside or tab pary in a ‘t him in bis exploration There ip too in Josh Ward in answer to the challenge of Bixlin, |

The Rev W M.Punshon arrived here ‘in the ‘Nestorian’ yesterday.

Conductor Blouut on the Great Western Rai! road. was crushed to death while coupliag gare at Wellington Suqure, lust vight.

Losxpon, Sept 25

Queen Victoria is suffering from rh qmatism iv | the foot i

Neweastle inundated with fore ign workmen.

The Frinces of Wales will soon return from the | Continent

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Lonpon, Sept, 25 | Marshal MeMahop, in his examination before | the Committee on the conduct of the Way, assumes | | the entire yespor silility for the disastrous vegults | | of his march from Chalous to sedan, and-eays | Napoleon exercised neither sommapd vor jntluenge The following amusmg sketch hits off a So Le pre me ten 7. proda : 3 a4 Profound rensation, the Bonaparti: class of people that are well known in this : ? ee ae

me joy tyl over it, , Island, B. P, Gain is oue of the class, Thyireisutraid of assusinusion ang hia bed which hus some few cxcey tions ;—

?| chambey is guurded at night by Patrols oe Lox pox, Sept. 26. * Berjamin P. Gunn came to my office | A diaystch from Parig save the disarmament of fourteen times in one moining to see if he | the Webel tribes of Algeria, proceeds slowly. could pot persuade me to take put @ fife-in-| Meny of the chiefs hus heen cupiared, The

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nor appears to be between va and eee. command the attention of capitalists.’’ Indications iow are that the Convention will not . os : : pe npom a caudidate nutil late to night, if be- The ostensible reason given is that the de ere ee a? | a Je nlong the D°Mtures might realise par. We will show A ble fire is ragi in the woods along the ‘

intense a Luke Michi eao, dunaping "herman. und that there was no need to issue the debe ne

: tures except as the work goes on, in order to turn them into cash almost worth

eversthing in iis path Per euble:+ Shipments of spegie npan an enor- ther face. We believe that this was a mere put off and that the real cause of

mous seulercontimies ‘to be wade ju nearly every

sienmer leaving English poms tar the Un'ted the Messys, Walker withdrawing was be gause their agent, Mr. Leslie Peters, had

Sirtes % The health of the Qheen bas ypt jmproved. Mr tendered too Mr. Peters says that the ‘information which, in the ordinary

Gipdstone ig paving ber a vist at Balmoral. The Prince of Wales repyrmed to Kugland to-day from the Continent.

Consols 92}

Poston, 28.—Butler was defeated and Washbarn nomijvatod for Goverjor af Marsachueetts

New York, Sept ¥3,—Gold Lid 3-4; Light Ex- : ‘ change 9 1.8" ee Reta course of mail should have reached him be- |

A coolie vessel from Tudja. for Martiniqne bat gong filing the tender, gaye him to under- been lost on the coast of that [slaud, with all

low.

bands stand that their calculation was based upen Tw 2 » “nw: sd ‘ashore. ee : a : pir hang bodies ee weet vi ished ashore the supposition that the debenture payment ao . Sept. — ie es bens

for the work would be made equal to cash.” Suppose he was correct, and that unless the debentures were all issued at once, or im large smounts, that they would not realise cash, was he justified in saying that the loss of issuing the debentures in ac- cordance with the Railway Act. would probably be at the rate of £807 per mile? This would be a greater depreciation of our debentures than ever even the Latriot ol If Mr. Peters ‘knew his business he never would have made

The Examiner. ) it Gx te y ® ‘the value of the debentures, and the Gov-

;ernment did well in not heeding his repre-

Rate of discount at the Bank of Engtand bas advanced from three to four per cent.

rendstuils qniet.

Heavy gales prevailed last night and this morn- ing Qnihe Britigh Const. It is feared many ves- se's have been wrecked.

An amicable settlement of the dispute between the workmen and employers ap Newoustle is pro- bable

A colliery explosion ocenrred at Dewabnury, Yorkshire, by which several persong were killed und others injured,

Nopoleon remains at Torquay. lately from rnenmatism

humor soys the Emperor seriously dis poge ito abajc ale

He hus suffered Francis Joseph is

Islander dreamed of.

such erroneous calculations about

hy? , » yy] sntations. § , r conte rarie Ch’tow n, October 2, 1871. sentations ome of our contempo " s : seem seized with second thoughts within

a few days past, Why, they shriek, was not the Legislature called, so that the Act might be amended to issue all the deben- tures at once thatthey might realise cash, and save the country 430 00) by accepting Messrs. Walker's tender! They assume that the Messrs. Walker would still take the building of the Road at £4035 per mi'e, and gre quite willing that we should

THE RAILWAY CORRESPONDENCE.

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Tn oxr first article on this subject we showed that the way in which the tenders had been given out for building the Rail- road, had procured ys a number of offers for building it at a less sum than any Raul- road of the same glass was ever before built for.

en duty of the Government to see that the

commence to pay the interest before a foot

W ealso showed that it was the bound- : . They are willing

of the road was graded! that we should run the risk of agents doing wrong and Banks failing! Every man of ordinary Commion sense must come to the conclusion that the manner in which the

debentures are to be issued, namely as the

work is done, is the safest and very best way that possibly gould be adojted, The) writers to whom we allude would make road, and therefore, some say why be so legislation ® nena play, asking the particular about cld’ing the contract far a!“ United wisdom ” of the sountry to undo; few weeks or months,at the beginning of the to-day wht they enacted yesterday. The first year. ‘This sounds very well, byt we statement which we are about to make ¥ q shows that the debentures as they are to be issued, will realise as mych as if they were all issued at once. and proves, moreover

that the newspaper men of the hysterical stamp. do nut know what they are serib- bling about. Mr. Shreiber has disposed of|

Colony was secured against the possibi ity of loss, by having £100,(00 good security. We now come to the third question, were the Government justified and acting pro perly in giving somuch time, or not giving more time to thex@entracters to procure unquestionably good seourity. There are three years in which to complete the Rail-

must remember thst if the Government di not ¢lose with some ore contractor theyre was a possibility, almost a certainty of Jgsing the opportunity of getting the Rail youd built as gheaply as we have If one contractoy ¢quld keep the Government “¢ dilly-dallying ” for a month cy so, other contya¢gtoys would have given yp their ¢hance of building our raijroad. They would entey junto new transactions or would

ing an agent { per cent for negotiating | them. This gives him £99 4s, cash, for | every £1 0. The gouniry will be pleased |

take other contracts, and the work which a contractor gould do for 44,267 a mule, in duly or August he very probably might not be able to do for £6 000 or 6YeN more in October or Noyeyjber. Woyld any man building a house allow the masier builder or contra: tor who offered tu do it less than others, fritter away weeks and weeks before he gave sufficient security ® A prudent man} tainly glad that our views have proved after iwo or three days would say to such cnenees.

contractor. I can not let the other tenderers | make bew arrangements, ar enter into new engagements, as they prehably will unless

I close immediately with some one of then, |

If I wait for you any longer I may not get| V¢ 40 not conduct the Examiner after nd a : > | *

He knows that we deal “e

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high in the money market, and the people will rejoice to find that the goniractor has done so well 1m disposing of ihe deben tures Whilst the Patrioland Jslan’ er were | svying that the debentures would be sold at |

value of the debentures, and we are cer

DUTY.

THe Petiot is not pleased with us becanse

my house built for the sum which I esti | °W" heart ' mate it will gost, and ag some of the others public questions as an impartial journalist who have tendered to build my bonse are #"4 Bot as mere wading politicians, Ue! knows. moreover. that the readers of the}

competent man who has the mogt means, | EXAMANER are amongst the oldest and most |

ihe most experience and the best securities | Mteltigent inhabitants of the Island. But

. . . becauss he es ot ve ‘ “oive j , I will uot begrudge him something more | °°C'"S he cannot get us to “give in our!

below imy estimate, I will chooge the most

toan yeu askas I »m satisfied that he will} adhesion” to him he scolds tre. though not | so L.tterly as he can when his dander is up.

coustract suca a building as will be in|

write nbout. ance of the 20th of August, 1871, on the School Question, and if he entertains the same fierce. bitter spirit now as then, there is no hope of having any School Reform should he have any great influence in guid- ing our political destinies. some trust that the growing intelligence of

parties wij] spon settle the School Question |

the deebntures at 4 per cept discount giv |

to learn that the Co onial credit stands so wny personal natice of them

| }

loss of from 6 to 12 per cent, the EXAMtn-| | ER was the first journal that showed the true |

Before us we have his utter-| “Some of the Prince Edward Is papers are Jamenting the educational ¢otidi~

tion of that Colony, and the efficient charae~ ter of its public s-hools. Our brethren across the Strait ought to know that no publie schoo! system: however excellent it may appear to be as outlined on paper can be efficient in operation if not connected with zealous faithful and intelligent in- spection.--St. John Daily News, & se."*

That's so, but we should have w schoot | system that bas not outgrown the wants of

the people.

But we hare

the people, and love of fair play of all

upon a good, just and equitable basis. —_ —~> <e e- -—- -—__ -—

OUTSIDE BARBARIANS.

: Tue Scuoot Tax. — This week. the We give, in another column, the opinions gentlemen appointed as appraisers to ta’ e

of some of our contemporaries upon the . count of rentals, and va'ue of property Contract Question. The extracts, which ¢,, the School Tax, are going through the we present side by side, attempt at least to City. Whilst they will, of course, be trest-

reason about the svbject, and are not 80 04 courteously. let the people remember, filled with rabid, bitter, personal hatred as | that the majority of them) are paying for the utterances that sometimes disgrace the | what they get nothing, and ‘wany of the lacal a . , may say here ae the | others for what is worse than nothing,— opinions of outside papers ypen our affairs | ois that are in @ ‘* di ail. ied amount to simply nothing. They haye | ehools ths ern A, shogh not, in many instances, ths sligh’est know

ing and pestilential state.*’

ledge of what they are trying to talk about | How. G. W, HowLan was successful in hike the editor of a Halifax paper, which,| his contract to get off the Barque Nord- about a month ago, devoted a whole column = havet, which had stranded on the North to our railway affairs, and, in the very Shore. He sent her safely to Pictou got same article, acknowledged that he never $2400 for his lahor, and received the read the Railway Act Weremember some thanks of the Danish Consul. years 4.0 that an artic’e was re-produced | in a local paper, from an outside paper,, Those who talk of the Legislatare re, abusing in very gross terms the great moving the 2} Railway tax, seem to forget leader of the Libera] Party. It was parad- that the interest on the debentures js the ed us the opinion of outsiders as to the abili-| g..¢ charge on the revenues. Let the ty and character of one of the ablest men in| country hecece ef auch bled guides, and Island history. It was subsequently dis-| iso of tha datnoliesiin ehin tes sely aidaine covered to haye been written by some the connry os being in 0 oatste of sebeh wretched malignant ip the Island, who had pe : some petty grudge against the man whose’ lion, if their statements were a of shoe strings he Was unworthy to loosen. | their doctrines followed eyt, our Constitu.

A letter to the Halifax Reporter is foisted tion would not be left us a sivgle month. off upon unsuspecting readers as the opin-' Law apd order must prevail. All parties, ions of a Halifax paper, although it was'as well as the Goveroment, bad be'ter written in Charlottetewn! The Halifax «paye straight their (rail)-ways.”’ papers, if wes ould believe their own des es criptigns of each other, are the mostaban | Ma F. W. Hywpman, late of the Royaj sjoned,venal and untruthful papers in existe Navy, now Secretary of the Board of Rail- ence. They speak of each otheras “iat,” | wy Qomuirsioners, was married on Tues? “eae | Sag ® epayewesia,” day morning ast, in St, Paul’s Church, to August 20, we read as fllowes— | tb2 third daughter of Wellington Nelson,

g ollows :— . .

> fades seems to haye gone wild lately E 4 There was 6 large aud fashiovable with a portion of the Halifax ew We do attendance present, It 1s needlese to say, not like going inta persona ities 1D print—) har the bride aud bride's maids ; the bride- OR ee ee ee ee gro m ang bride.men, looked not only ex- We have seen | geediugly well, but exceedingly happy,

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“* Ityea contemptible business }his ranning In fact. we

down of private character

a gieat deal of this lately.

have seen a great deal of it for years past. Let us take a case,—the Reporter, The He- porter chooses to inginuate the yilest of scan- dals against some gesuieman who is sus

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M». 8, L. Gage has collected the largest oumber of Eggs, we think, ever got to- pected of being mixed up 1 politigs The gether at the same > this Island. He object of these insinuations, or perhaps bas packed aad stored in the warehouse on

vituperations, may see them and may feel por’ Wharf, 450 crates, each orate con-

assured in his own ywind that he is their) — . 15 d king in all 403.090

object. But if he is a high spirited gentle- | ‘89g Cees, making tn 6 '

man he wiil not, cannot, poenaee to me eggs. How is that for chickens? Mr.

is sense 0 . ‘

rsanal dignity will not allow him to rush wage has paid ou $15,000 ga ees during

nLo pyint to answer the conjectural lucubra the past few months. os still. <j

tions of an anonymous writer. *

* Last evening's Reporter now contains an We have not time ts reply to the polite article that we know we ave taking too much | on f notice of by mentioning itall. Itisone of the) attcations of the Progress; but be aboald dirtiest things in its tone that we cow'd pos ‘remewber that there is ao need of our city sthly awagiug. If mentions nobody by name ; | contemporaries belping us, when we do not but it insinuates the vilest of vices in private, : life against some body —we know net who.”’ think it necessary to take notice of every

The Reporter, on the otker hand, “ goes! little gyr that barks at us.

er

* At the Government caueus at Summers side op Tue-day last, we bear the Premier adwitied the existence of the railway ring.”

The above from the Pagriog of Saturday Comment ua~

in” to another paper with paragraphs head- | ed “Stop Thief.’ It says Sept 28, that) the paper spoken of is ‘making it appear xs if the stolen goods were its own property | instead of its neighbors,” \.

We said some time ago that we wou'd | is #0 absolute untruch, be very sorry to believe that they were half | seosepary. aa

bad ‘as th ted tl a ee

So Dad ‘as ey represented one another. | :

: we eet «| Rev. W. A, Bideweil, editor of the Ee. Some of them have recently turned their |

\lectic Magazine, is at present in Charlorte-

attention to the Island affairs. and we are | not surprised that they indulge in the low | town, In eppearange he resembles very

| pillingsgate style in wiich they are such istikiggly the Hon, Joseph Howe, Last

adepts The papers here that reproduced | evening he gave a graphic dessription of big their defamation of some of our leading! y),j¢ to the Holy Lands, ia St. James? men,—who have hitherto borne spotless

law, or something else that we will not

' security for the due performance of the

(G00 ey. That the said sum shouid, jn the

keeping withhis wel -know reputation as | a builder andthat will he well worth the | money he weats for building it. Besides| it ogcurs to me that if you can not immedi- ately get the security that I feel is neces- sary to secure we in getting my house com pleted in six months time, I wust come to the conelusion that you bave not the means to go on with the work. us you will have to provide the materials.

This, we belicve, illustrates the point we have alluded to, and makes jt appear evi- dent that the Goverument would not be justified in waiting any jonger than they did. Indeed, it appears to us that the Government shaul‘] have given not a day longer than one week to complete the securities. as no contractor had a right to tender until he had first provided his secu- rities In fact, the negligenge of any con- tractor to provide good security before he sent in his tender bears upon its very face either ignorance of the requirements of the

lame at present.

We now come to the Correspondence. Messrs. T. & C. Walkers tender, for the sum of £2 69). ste.. being the lowest, was accepted. The condivens relative to the

work within the specified time, were as follows: -

“That the contractor before signing the coutract should deposit in a Bank, approv- ed af, to the credit of the Government, cash consols, or the bonds of the Domiyion of Uanada, or af Nova Scotia, or New Brunswick. representing the sum of £100 -

event of any breach of the contrac.. be con sidered as liquidated and ascertained damages, and not in the nature of 4 penal- ty, and might be applied by the Commis- sioners towards the construction and com- pletion vf the roud. The interest and dividends on the deposit to he payable to the order of the depositor. *