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AGRICULTURE

aND Local Industry. rye

COMMISSIONERS = apporated

by Hie Exeetieoney the Lientewant Governor

, Cogueil to curry into effect the intentions ¢ Legisixiare relative to the appropriation of

Beeson ar Lees! ludustry

FAIR aud EXHIBITION ts de held in CHARLOTTETOWN on

have ordered a

the Inst che encouragement of Agriculture and

WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, the 9th

and lUch days of OCTOBER next atthenew MILITARY DRILL

near Government Howse — His

Comms

SHED Bxcelleney the ler-iu Chief baviug been pleased to sanc

tien the uve of that large and commodious Bu) ding

for (hal purpuse

at whick the following PKIZES

wil be awarded for the eucouragemenut of Loval

ludustry aud Agricaltare, wis

LIVE STOCK —HORSBS. Best Entire Horse of any age er breed gud best de r Beet Entire Cart Horse Jod best @u Best Mare with ber Peal Zod best do Best Siood Filley, under 3 Zod dest ao d Best Filly ender 3 yeare old ted best dv

£2 10 110 19 10 19

years old, s

CATTLE.

Best Ball under 3 years old

Qed best dv

Best Bull of any age, any breed

Zoe best de .

est Cow iia MUEK

Zid Best ae

Best lleifer in Calf er Milk, auder 3 yeerevld

2ad best do

Best Yoarliag Heifer

2ad dest de

Best Fat Cow

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Best Raw of any age Jad best ae Best Yearling Kou Fad & sat de Best iam Lamb Jad b-xs do Lest Pow of four Ewes of any age having

reared a laws (Gls se4800 Sod dext du ds Bost Peo of foar Yearliag Bwes Jui Dew de ao Best Pea of four Bae Lambs gud bess de de

Pigs.

Beat Bear Pig gua best du Best Bi eodiag Sow Jud best i Beat Pen of turee Pigs under 6 wmvatas of

age 2ud best iseot fas Pig Qed best

do do de POULTRY. Beat pair Terkeys, Koscer sad Wee Hest three tpring Geese Bess Gera-dvor Kuoster suk two Pullets, aay breed, Best thres Ducks Bost tures Bisce Spanish UnALN,

Best three bushels Wheat 2d best d: dy Best three Lusaela two-rewed Bs ud best a. du 4 Beat three bu-bols foar-ro wed Barley Zod best dw d» de Best tsree bu Beles Usis dau best dy do Brd best do dw

PEAS & BEANS. Best ene buche! Peas Best cue Ousael White Deans

BUCKWUEAT.

Best three bucheis Buckwheat Sad Dest de do

@RASS SEEDS, Fest 2 bushels Ti nothy Swed Hest 56 joe Ked Ciover Bust 26 ios. White Clover

FLAX.

Best turce bushels Flex Seed Jad bwat do du Best sample of Piax ia tae Siraw Jud dest do de Gest sample of Flax Scutsned Jad best de do KOOTS.

Best Dosen Swode Turuips Bod bes du Beat Twenty Field Carrots

BUTTER 4 CiEBSE.

Bes. Cheese not less than 20 ibs weight

Bud best deo do de

3d best de do de

B.ot Tut of Butter not less than 28 Ibe.

Bod best du do do

Bri bess de do do HORTICULTURSB.

Best one dosen Onicas

De do Beets

be du Parsnips

De do Carrots

Beat three Cauliflowers

Best one dosen Kars [udien Cora

best Squasn

Best one dosen Tomatoes

De do Mangold Wurtaels

Lest three Cabbages

De do Savvy do

Best bal{-dosea Roots of Oviery,

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Best Hive Bes Rest Box of Muncy FRUIT.

Best basket Cueking Apples Tod bests do ue Best Eating Apples 2d dest do Rest basket Wiater keeping Apples Jad des. ae do do Best sample Green Gages Ds do Plums De do Damsone CARRIAGES & SLBIGHS,

Best Dowble-seated Wagon vader Forty Plands value

Jad best de ra Best Single-seated Wagen jad best = do de best Family Sicigh 2od dest du Boss Single Sicigh

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Best [ron Spindie LEATHBR.

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CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. °| VALUABLE BUILDING LOTS !

| or? XO be sold by PUBLIC AUCTION, | atthe COLONIAL BULLDING in Charlotte. | . town, on FRIDAY, the 25th October next, at} © | 12 o'clock, noon, PWO VALUABLE BULLDING LOTS, fronting 40 feet each on Dorehester Street, and extending back 80 feet, being part of Town Lot No.7. inthe second hundred in Charlottetown 0 These Lets adjviu the property formerly owned 0 by Mr. Wm. McKay on the East, and the dwel 0 ling house and premises now in possession of 0,;Mra McPhee on the West, and froin their central @ , and eligible p sition, are ameng the most desirable 0 for business purposes in the City Q Tees oF SaLe—A deposit of 25 per cent. to be o paid down, and the balance to be secured by mortgage on the premises, payable by 3 annual Shall shame thy pride no more ; |iustaimenta with interest. Po ue 0 | Por particulars as to title, &e, apply to the No fettered feet thy shaded margius press ; ©! Hon. Joux Loxcworrtn, Attorney for the owners, | @ | John Burelli and Juseph #. Barelli, of London, squires.

Best Women's wear, plain, 10 yde. Ind best do do Best do faucy patterns | Bad bert do do dv ' Best Gentleman's Plaid

Zod best do

Best Woman's Shawl

2nd beet do

Best pair of Horse Rugs

Dud beat do

Beat pair of Blankets

Best t0 yds mixed fabric Drugget Bad best do do de Best Faney Shirting

Jod best dy

Best Hearth Rug

2od be-t do

Best Door Mat

2ad best do

Best 10 yds. White Piannel

2nd best do

POETRY.

FREEDOM IN BRAZIL.

BY JOUN G WHITTIER.

With clearer light, Croas of the South, shine forth In blue Brazilian akies ; And thou, O river cleaving half the earth

do

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From sunset to sunrise,

From the great mountains to the Atlantic waves Thy joy's long anthem pour.

Yet a few days (God makes them less!) and slaves

But all men shali walk free KNIT @00Ds, Best pair of Men's Drawers Do do Under Shirts | Best three pairs Socks Jad best do Best three pairs Stoekings Best pair Winter Gloves Do do Mitts Best colleetion of Kuit Work

MEASURES, &e. Best Nest of Measures, te contain one bushel, § bushel aod | peck

Best Pork Barrel Jod best do Best 5 gallon and 10 gailoa Keg

Best Butter Firkin Zod best do Best pair ef Ach Oara, not exeeeding 14

feet Best 1 bushel and § bushe! Potatoe Back- ets of [udiao mauulfactare do of Osier or other material FLAX MANUFACTURE.

| Best Sample Grain Sacks

Best balf dozen Towels | Best Table Cloth

Lee. pair Linen Sheets

POTTERY.

Best Sample of P..ttery ret Sample of 12 Isisad made Bricks Jad best do do do

CASTINGS.

Metal Castings FURNITURE, Best Set of Drawing Koom Furniture Deo do Dining Room do Do do Bedroom dv

| Where thou, the high priest of the wilderness, WILLIAM DODD, |

Charlottetown Sept 23,1867 Auctioneer. |

Hast wedded sea to sea.

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| Prince Edward Island.

IN CHANCERY.

| mouth

The word ef God ia said,

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Dudley Wright, Margaret Theododia | South, Wright. Matilda Aun Wright. Martha | Lift up thy honored head. Maria Wright, and Isabel Christiana | Wear unashamed a crown—by thy desert,

Wright, Infants, by Betsy M. Wright,| | Mure than by birth—thy own. their Guardian. | Careless of wateu and ward, thou art begirt

6 pursuance of a Decretal Order, made | 0 by His Houor the Master of the Rolls, in this | The meated wall and battle ship may fail ; cause, bearing date the 2uth day of August last, | there will be sold by PUBLIC AUUTION, ou the | Premises, at Phunk Kiver, in Prince County, in this | Stronger than ygreaves of brass or iron mail,

0 | island, on WEDNESDAY, the sixth day ot | 0 NOVEMBER next, at the bour of [Zo clock, noon, fall that valuable Freehold Farm, or tract of Land, g | situateon Township Ne 26, containing 125 acres, a a} little more or less, with the Messuage, Mills, | Buildings and appurtenances tw the same belonyginy,

of which Geerge M. Wright, the father of the | ubove uamed infants, lately died seized and pos. |

| seaxed ! In Time's Valballg sure.

0; The Farm and Premises above mentioned are é i 5 : © situated ou the Main Kead, between Somerset | Lo! from his Neva's banks the Scythian Czar Stretches to thee hia hand,

@ (formerly South-west settlement) and Freetown, | Bedeque; having a frontage of 125 chains on the | wy, ; .

said oad, and being 10 chains in breadth, a little | Who, with the peveil of the Northern star,

more or jess Wrote freeduin on his land.

the land is of superior quality, about sixty acres of which are cleared and iu a good stale fur calti- | vation, the residue being covered with a tine growth ot hard and soft wood. The principal Dwelling House, a 13 storey building, is Jo by 23 feet, wih « kitchen iu the rear 2o by 18 f

By grateful hearts alone. But safe shall justice prove:

De The panoply ot love.

| Crowned doubly by man's blessing and God's grace, Thy future is secure ; Who trees a people makes a statue's place

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| Best Collection of

And he whose grave ia holy, by our ealuw And prairied Sangawon,

gaunt hand shall drop the martyr’s palin,

0 uv 0 G From his PISH. Best barre] Mackerel, [sisod catch

feet; contiguous te | 0 which are Wood House, Carringe House Stables, ”

0 To greet thee with * well done!

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Best 4 do do Best Quiutal Codfish 1@ 2ad best do a N. B. No Prizes will be awarded to imported Stock Ocuer Prizes, besides those above enumerated, will be given at the recommendativa of the Judges, A PLOUGHING MATCH, in connection with the Exhibition, will also take piace, nutice of tue time and plice for which will be given in due time f Toe Commissioners will endeavour to make ar- | ity of about 70 acres, with the Dwelling ilouse

10 g Workshop «nd Barn, the latter 45 by 30 feet. UV Mills, comprising a very superior Grist Mill (with © 3 pairs ranners), Shingle, Saw and Carding Mills,

are propelled by a powerfal stream; and their

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unequalled in the Island. The property will be oltered in Luree separate lots or sections. One lot comprieing the Mills, with a Cottaye 20 by 18 feet, aud a Workshop 18 by 15 feet, tor the use of a Miller, with 20 acres of Land attached. The

rangements with the P. B [sland Sceam Navigation aud vtuer iuildings wbove described; aud the |

remaining Yo acres, being the northern section of ithe tract, and all cleared, will form the third let Should iitending purchasers prefer it, the whole

Compauy for the conveyance of articles for Bxbioi- tiog from Priace and Kiag’s Counties.

sivantiou for business purposes is considered to be

secoud fot willeomprise the Farm proper, consist- |

Ihe |

‘And thou, O Earth, with smiies thy faee make j sweet,

And let thy wail be stilled, Te hear the Muse of prophecy repeat Her promiee half fulfilied. The Voice that spake at Nazaroth speaks atill, No sound thereof hath died ; | Alike thy hope and Heaveu's eternal will Shall yet be satistiod. Che years are slow, the vision tarrieth long,

Further particulars relative to admission, 4c, Aud far the eud may be ;

property will be svld in one Lot hereaiter.

Pexus—len per ceut. of the purchase money to be paid down at (he tine of sale, and the residue ol one-third of the purchase mouey, 234 percent, Hpou the execution of the Deeds. The remaining two thirds lu be secured Vy Mortgage ov the preudses, 1 thunner ere deliuitely lo be eXpressed il Lhe

B ; But, ous by oue, the fiends of ancient wrong y order, A. McNEILL,

Seeretary to Board of Commissivners. 19. 1307.

Go out and leave the free. — Atlantic Monthly.

- MISCELLANEOUS,

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MEXICANS AND INDIANS.

Charlottetow

Aug. conditions of Sale. |

, . > EKSK:iN 5 . Dated at Charlottetown, thie 10th day of Sep

BRAHEESJGAR POWDERS, “"""

A Tonic and Uufailing Remedy for

J. LONGWORTH, Master iu Chancery.

[sep 1s)

Rheumatism of ali kinds, Neuralgia, The Gantre of Attraction Lumbd.go, Sciatica, . As alee fur FACK- ACHE, TOOTH-ACHE, EAK-ACHE COUGIS, and all

affections trom Colds.

8" See Lancet, under Mevicar Patrosace

WM. RK. WATSON. City Drug Store, Vietoria building,

(Queen Mtreet, Sept. 16, ios

NEW HERRING! SOUR Sale, 3V0 barrels Newfoundland HERKING, (caught this seasou), just arrived |

ex schooner © Lily vt the Vatiey,”’ wad for sale | cheap fer Cash or approved credit.

A. McNEILL, Aucuionéer. Reading Room Building, Sep. 16, 1867

UNDERTAKING, Cabiuet-Wakiag and Upholstering, AT THE Old Stand. Great George Street.

JOHN HOBBS, HANKFUL to the public for the many

favors he has received for the last 30 years,

Hodson, Solicitor.

the idea of ao Indian.

not jare suggestions of 4 sine ae nn ‘phants, and of such skilied workers in cot- ROBERL YOUNG'S, | _ Ss _ | Uneppreachable in excellence. And we im- Se |agine all that we have read or heard of that \isod. A Seminole Indian in the Swamps, The Best and Cheapest

Eioop ju the Trade, are at

Rk. YOUNG'S.

Sixirts |

; him to the first, except bis vame of Llodian.

(8 a0 lodian? Let us examine.

| As Columbus calculated that he should reach the original [ndians—in Asia—by | sailing westward, lie gave the same name to what he did discover. The King ot Spain, to whom the Pope granted perpetual dominion over all the Americans.—the bull \is still in force, although a little obsvlete,— . . as lentitled himself ** King of Spain and the : Fhe Chanpest plase to hey | Indias,” as any one an all on the Spanish Shawls & Mautles, | coins. All the inhabitants of America at its

is discovery, and all sinve descended trom them

YOUNG’S.

The Beat Assurtweut and Newest Styles of

Summer Dresses

are at

ROBERT YOUNG'S.

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are, accordingly, Indians. He that is nut of European origin must be an Indian, | Asiatic blood might give the title of Indian, but it may be assumed as the common opinion that the American Indian i one whose ancestors were either originally created on this continent, or came hither

The cheapest COTLONS are at citizeus of Charlottetown and inhabitauts of the R. YOUNG'S. isiaud geuerally, that be stil] coutinues to carry

vn the |

} patronage.

Ladies and Gentlemen's Paper Collars & Cufis fur the Million at

ROBERT YOUNG'S.

Business in all its Branches, at the Old Stand, and trusts by manufacturing all | articles of FURNITURE, in « very substantial, | neat aud workinanlike manuer, aud in all the | modern styles. to merit and receive not ouly a | contiuwauce, but a large increase of the public |

UNDERTAKING. |

J. H. would also inform those who may require |

the vervicex of an UNDEKLAKEK that he has |, os , ase . “2 just completed the bailding of 'a very neat and ap | The Original ee ee the

propriate HEARSE, and would attend toallealls in | 7 BOBERT YOUNG'S.

that lime with that prowptitade whieh his long |

Beauufal BONNETS and HATS, cheap at

ROBERT YOUNG'S.

| experieuce has taught Lim the subject requires.

| margin, or otherwise in the paye, of the Sailing |

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ecoccoeoocso

| the 10th day of JULY,

to The Heanse, with Daiven, would also be furnished to any person requiriug the same, at | Real Paisley Shawls for less than they ean be moderuie charges. imported, at

Se ers ROBERT YOUNG'S.

3i

The substance of this Notice, a8 soon as it is re- | ceived ou hoard, ia to be inserted in red iuk on the | ’ : de sia sl : Charts affeeted by it, aud introduced iuto tne | Ladies’ SERGE BOUTS, from 7s 6d per pair, & first rale urticie, at

R. YOUNG’S.

Directions to which it relates Navigation and Pilutaye, p. 172.

Notice to Mariners. [No. 40.]

Gulf of St. Lawrence---Piince Edward island.

Fixed Light on Kast Poiat. |

HE Government of Prince EKiward | Island has given Notiee, that on and ufter | 1867, « light will be eX- | y ereeted on Exst |

See Instructions, |

| FIKSE RATK THA, at ROBERT YOUNG'S. Charlettetewn, 5th July, 1867. tf

Insurance! Insurance!

FIRE & LIFE Royal Insurance Company, LIVERPOOL, G. B.

Capital, $10,000,000.

T

hibited from a Lighthonae recent!

Point, Prinee Edward Island. The light will be a fixed white light, at av

elevation of 130 feetabove the level of high water, and in clear weather should be seeu ut a distance |

| of 18 miles. | : 3 ), and o _ oo... is octagonal. white, 60 feet high from | Annual Income exceeds $:,000,00U

buse to vane, and stands 200 yards in shore from | "#pdly imecreasing. Axgregute losses paid in Province of Nova Scotia

the sonth side of the point, and m lat. 46° 27° 9" during last 12 years, « quarter

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N., long 61° 58 15° West of Greenwich. of @ million dollars.

By Command of their Lordships, GEV. HENRY RICHARDS, Geveral Agent for Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Hydrographer. Istand—HUGH HARTSHORNE, Esq, tHalifax. Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London,

4th July, 007. “EXILE Subscriber having been authorized

i i : : to accept Risks fer this Office, in all parts of asta ca aa eee Prince Edward Island, respectfully intimate that és. Lawsence Sheet 9 No ‘a3 ° ian St + | he is prepared to receive proposals in both branches ie me a ae 2666 5 ? * from parties desiring Policies yee ti te Raliéas., He, 3006. The well-known eharacter for promptness and September 23, 1367. liberality possessed by this Office is the best yuar- i al ae ~ | antee to Insurers.

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London House. Established 1820. T

HE Subscribers have now completed their

‘Importations for the Season,! q. . ier sc, 1907. | Per Ships L. c, Owen, and Helen Malcolm, frow | “TOWNEND'S | Livervool, Empress, fron Giascow, Lotus, | trew Loxvons, aod Brigt. Helen Daves, trow LARGE sTOCK of the above, receive a aca Sh ex” Lotus,” from LONDON, of the vewes

WHOLESALE & RETAIL, STYLES and SHAPES— ut their usual low prices for prumpt payment. Good Silk HATS, 78 64 to Ids.

Paris Velvet de, 20a 278 6d. Ch'town, June 10, wa” 6, POVAM, Townend’s beat do, 328 Gd.

Boys & Gent's, FELT HATS IRON, variety.

230 BARS | inch ROUNDIRON. For

Ch'town, June 24, 1967.

on application. The Company's blanks will be transmitted on request ; and proposals may be sent,

post paid, to

Jos. F. ELLIs, General Com. Merchant and Lasurauce Agent, Pictou, N.S. 6 moe

HATS AND CAPS. d t

A large Stock of Tweed a oar... ies’ A ATS. &c.&e. sale eheap tor cash. And alsoiu Ladies eae a a iiiae G. & 8. DAVIES. . : >

Obarlottetown, June 7, 1367.

| previously to its discovery by Columbus. | The belief that the entire human race has descended from a single pair, we might ex- pect, would be accompanied by a teeling of equality, and of unity in general 6 pe motives, affections, and destiny.

number of those who religiously profess to believe in this origin of man, and morevver, that ata later peried all the buman race was destroyed except the eight individuals saved in the ark of Noah, have denied to one race | eneential characteristics and rights which they }claim for thor own.

The old historians speak of expeditions

| away, @ | wards.

jand currents have given the possitility and tactity with which these ships could have been driven to the American coust. The early Catholic priests declare that they had found a cross carved, before the arrival of the Spaniards, and explain it ag a result of the preaching of Si. Thomas or one of the original apostles, (1 can add }in witness o i the statement recorded by those holy men ) | But, among other certain remains, L have examined and measured the Aztec Calender, which was buried beneath

_jextinction of the native races. | gigantic error, and the attempt to execute.

‘Re Mark Nathaniel Wright, George Once more, “ Let there be light!" Son of the |

JOURNAL OF POLITICS, LITERATURE AND

the Public, may speak free.’’---Euripides.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1867.

| that its regeneration is to come with the This is a

jeuch a diabolical plan has ended with the | destruction of one despot, and may be followed iby that of his accomplice. The best blood, in Mexico is of the American, and not of | ‘the European races.

It 1 not an «accident that the chosen | | President of the Mexicans, Don Benito! Juarez,is an ‘* Indian,’ nor that Altamarino, | _ the author of the vigorous and eloquent reply | to Minister Campbell's request for clemency | to Maximilian, is also of native stock; but!

| thess brave and faithful patriote, free from— | the false education the priesta have forced ‘upon @ part of this people, and educated in) |# reasonable und liberal way, may be taken | | 88 representative Mexicans.

The Imperialist and companion of Maxi-, miliau in Mexico, M. d’Auvergne, speaks of |

And thou, great-hearted ruler, through whose | the robberies in the palace by the Emperor's)

| officers, and bow Col. Lopez amused Maxi-| jmilian by his dexterity in that line. d’Au- | vergne says:

“The people by whom be was surrounded | were w most despicable set. ~ * * Lopez) wae at thie time commandant of the Imperial | chateau (Chapultepec,) and Maximilian laughed | a good deal at these pleasantries, It is known | now, the extent to which Lopez bas since pushed | them (only betraying Maximilian at Queretaro). There was, however, ouly ene honest man among the set: thiw was the Grand Marshall of the | Palace, av Indian known and estimated (esteem. | ed?) in Paris, Gen. Almonte, who represented | only yesterday, his unfortunate waster at the French capital, and whe was grossly calumuiated at the outset of the unfortunate Mexican expedi- | tion.”

Juan Nepomuclus Almonte, son of the priest Morelos, chief of the army of the Independence, after the Cura Hidalgo had been degraded by the Inquisition, and shot by the Spaniards; and the fanatical but brave Geo. Thomas Mcjia,—are examples of these people when badly trained. I have known Mexieans of the sume family entirely different in character, owing to their different education and ideas. But it was not neces- sury to leave our own country to fiad euch examples, where we had the disturbing element of negro slavery, as the Mexicans had | that of the Spanish religion.

I have lived among Mexicans in friendship | and intimacy and know them well. With} permission of the philosophers, who may | consider it @ truism,

1 shall mention that | they are essentially like other people, end)

are not, as fur as | have seen, inferior to our owa Angle-Saxon races, except in not having

|had our advantages of education and ex-

| j ! | |

|

There is much vagueness connected with | what [ am describing. If the attention bas, class often show their good natural qualities. previously been directed to Hindustan, there | I do not think Rajahs riding on ele- |

hunted and killed at aa immense expense to) #nd just without outward the nation’s treasury, has nothing to liken) Where money ie carried through uninbabit- |

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et & Vast

perience.

depend on external influences, they have shown me that they are very excellent. dj have proved their kindness of heart, generosi- | ty, and fidelity. They have more spir:tuality | than our race evinces at the present time, | but have not the same material force, | especially in getting and keeping money | They are polite aud eonsiderate of exch | other's rights; patient and long suffvring, | and tolerant even of injustice, which perhaps | ought not to be tolerated. I speak prin-| cipally of the mass of the people who are | aot partisans of tue clergy; for this relation | vitiaces the natural qualities, which are But even the latter |

In some things which do ore

they are more given to! robbery than the Anglo-Saxons, and not so much disposed to murder. Nor have | seen |

}ton, wool, and silks, that their fabrics are | that they exceed ip any erime.

| take into consideration the absence of | checks on the part of the Government, and give credit to the individual who ie moral | compulsion. |

ed regions in dilligencee, without a guard, |

| How did such widely different people come whose passengers carry no arins, and insist | 'to be called by the same name? And wat) On carrying none, it is not

surprising | that the coach is occasionally robbed. On) the road to the interior, a woman, clothed | in male attire, has repeatediy taken the) purecs of the passengers, who supposed she had foree concealed in the vicinity. But| they do not attack when there is a prospect | of resistance. This may indicate a fualt of | government, but I am not treating of the | government and laws, but of the people. So | it is not true, that when a Mexican wants) money he * kills somebody to obtain a few! dollars ;’’ on the contrary, he will borrow it} in the politest manner, promise to pay it at a certain day, and will pay it—if he has it Nor do I speak of the wany who are prompt and who keep their word.

There is not room here for a multitude of instances which I could bring up ty» tllus- trate the Mexican character. But I may admit one example which shows the people ot purely Mexican origin, or a8 they called “ Indians.’’ Tue locality ia from the great centres, and has not benefit of Kuropean civilization. 1 could, give its geographical position, but do not | thus publicly, for fear some such civilizer | might be led to abuse the simplicity of these | people. On arriving at this village, [ was) told that there was*'a man of my nation’ | there ; and it was mentioned that *‘he was) infirm.’’ I accordingly avked to be taken to | see him. I found a Cornish miner, troubled, |

of discoverier and colonization which sailed | '? need of charitable aid. nd which were never heard of after-| having been left unpaid for work in opening | Those who have observed the winds|® mine tor a Spaniard, he reached this place | iven data which show! destitute, and sick with fever and rheuma- |

|

‘him medicines.

| buginess.

indeed, with rheumatism, bat not otherwise | lie told me that |

tism from exposure during the rainy season The women nursed him most tenderly, and the men offered to ride many leagues to bring This friendship had continu ed, and he had been aided to do a little He now owned ten mules, which |

‘earried salt from the coast to the mines; he!

f this discovery nothiag except

the plaza of |

Mexico before the entrance of the conquerers, | lwhere i¢ remained tor 270 years unknown, |

‘Its outer circle measures eleven feet in diameter, and the stone weighs 46.500 ;

|pounds. It ia well cut out of hard

‘yvoleanic roek, which musthave been brought |

'from the mountains outside of the valley j over the intervening lakes and swamps. On jit are sculptured their astronomical system,

‘the days of their month, ete., in accordance |

lwith Aztee manuscript, before discovered. |The buildings of Central America, and the golden figures found in the graves in | abundance, indicate that the makers in their ‘age, were not of very inferior race or educa- tion.

| When, therefore, we speak of a Mexican ‘as an‘ Podin,’ | P 8 Assyria, or Egypt.

‘gt the Phoenicians, of the men of Babylon, |

|may resolve the question a8 to their origin.

| Several of their ianguages exist 1D manuscript, | produced some exceedingly ba land for three centuries past in printed bovks, | natural fruit of bad systems ;

| tiple of the same. ‘libraries and are re

who know this peop jreal character | formed by their eaueation.

} | |

ad by po one.

bought cheeses at five for a dollar during | their ceason, and sold them at a dollar each | in the months of scarsity ; coro he bought | at 3 dollar and a quarter the load at harvest tiwe, and sold for six to the male trains during the dry season. ‘Do you propose | returning to England?” [ asked. ** Why should 1? be answered: ‘+ I should never find triends like all of these.”’ These are Mexican * Indians.’’

I have been where they did not know leagues of distance nor hours of time, and where, in reply to inquiriewas to the distance | to a place, | was told, ** Start at sunrise, and you arrive when the sun is there,” — indicating its position at threa o'clock in the afternoon, for example. Yet these people

‘have names fur their mountains, streams, |

and intend by this to dis. arage him, we may b+: naming a descendant | than I probably

etc., in great detail. They know the names | and qualities of their plants. They put questions to me which prove their sympathy | with acience and with affiira of human in-| tereat. Lenjoyed their society much more | should that of certain ma-|

them to mistrust our own people who are of will receive, as they will probably ‘their enemies’

| witnesses or suspected criminals.

| wrists are set with needles.

NEWS.

NO. 48 need, the blood. Nevertheless, the deeided support of the public. It is abs»- Mexicans know that the American people are | lutely necessary, in the interest of Ireland, opposed to their being a prey to tha Kuro-| thatthe law by which the two great factions pean tyrants, and would welcome euch alli-)im that country are ferbidden to offer each ance with us as one free people can make | other open provocation should be firmly and with another. impartially enforced. The occurrences of the present summer are abundantly sufficient )to prove this necessity. We have happily jeseaped any serious—that is to say, any ,murderous—disturbances, and this circum-

Come with me to this old town, entersome stance, by leasening the excitement of the of these edifices, and Jook upon the adminis-| two parties, may facilitate the conduct of tration of government as it was in the six- the prosecutions. But our escape must be teenth and seventeenth centuries. We euter| considered as almost accidental, for if the one of the towers of the castle, and find our- Orangemen did everything to provoke the selves in a museum, where ure preserved the | Roman Catholics, the Roman Catholics were books and records giving us a history of the fully prepared to accept the challenge.

>> - THE HORRORS OF NUREMBURG CASTLE.

/past; and not only books, but implements | These occurrences, in fact, afford a conspi-

and instruments which show more clearly | cuous instance of the certainty with which than written words the administration of provocation on either side will excite retalis- those days with which the government of the tion on the other. The Orangewen on this United States is now compared. Here is a occasion were the first and the chief offend- post four feet high in the centre of the room, ers. On the Orange anniversary in July with two curious fixtures on the top, having they held an immense meeting at Bangor, some resemblance to gun-locks. -asmall watering place near Belfast. No» What is this? The girl who acte as our less than 117 Orange lodges marched in usher raises the hammers, which come up cession with colora, drama and ‘‘fifes in- with aclick. She touches a springaod they numerable.” Some of the members gloried go with a snap that startles you,—forced/in itat the time as the greatest breach of down by strong springs with a whack that the Party Procession Aet which had ever oo- would have smashed your fingers to a jelly curred, and one of the principal speskers had they been under the hammer. This isa | plainly declared that the meeting was held finger-crusher, a delicate little instrument) with this intention. He proclaimed that

lused to extort confessions from reluctant ‘they had been trampled on long enough,

Here are and would hide their heads under a bushel bracelets for the wrists, not of gold orsilver, no longer. They carried Orange flage, and but of iron, and the parts whieh touch the) they were determined to play such tunes as Put them on| were suitable to the occesion.”’ In other your arws, and torn a screw, and they elose words, they were determined to do that upon the fleeh, the needles piercing through | whieh they have been expressly probibited cords, tendons flesh, and bones. [t is one! by law fromdoing. The gentleman who ex- degree more excruciating than crushing the | pressed the general sentiment in this decided fingers. manner wae Mr. W. Johnston, of Ballykil-

Here ie a head-dress,—a crown which has beg, and he has been very properly seleoted been worn by many men and women. Ithas| by the Government a8 one of those who are sharp inives, which eut through the scalp) to be prosecuted. In presence of these over- to the skull. Here are chains and weighta,| whelming numbers the Roman Catholics of

jlocks and keys, handcuffs, and clasps for the | Bangor prudently remained quiet, and the

ankles, stocks for the feet, weights to hold|day passed off without any violence, It your feet to the floor, and pulleys to draw| seems, however, that Belfast was en the vour head at the same time to the ceiling. | verge of an explosion Two great crowds Here is a bench of solid oak, with a corru-| colleeted on the old battle-grounds, and the gated surface, upon which many men have | least accident would have precipitated «

been laid, held down by c the kneading process; and that rolling-pin, knotty and knobby, also of oak, which lies upon the table, has been rolled backward and forward over the naked forms of men and women, kneading live flesh to bloody dough.

Time and space would fail me were I to enu-

merate all the instruments of torture bere, or to set forth their uses. Wecar enly look at the eradle, the bottom and sides thickly sot with pins, in which many victims have been rocked to death. Think of lying on & bed of oaken pius, rolling to the righ*, to

ords, to undergo |

sanguinary combat. The mischief, however, was only postpened. The Roman Catholics did not forget the insult, and took advantage of a festival about a month later to make s counter demoustratieon. This attempt, of which the details are recounted this morning in our Dublin letter, was not equally barm- less. The Roman Catholic processioniets were encountered by the Protestants of Rathfriland, and a real engagement ensued. The two parties fired at each other, and blood was apilt, although, happily, no life was lost. In thie case @ prosecution was unavoidable; and it

would have been manifestly unjust if the Roman Catholics had been alone prosecuted. Thoee who deliberately offered a glaring pro- vocation are the most'to blame, and the lead-