‘ge he id- 1) sre ur rill al. Ne SW ee": oat Ww. EN. TH ET- ag° uur fot — A TS ATT iti VOL. XXV. SRT ee CLOSING AND | 1.6 Cf ah . UF MAILS, POST OFFICE, TES ' 44 ATE! , 01 TETOWN, P, E. ISLAND i, th DECEMBER. DUE. Ontario, Que ? \bout Tuesday, Thursday, Nova Scotia, New B and Saturday evening, but and United States, ‘ uncertain About Tuesday the 30th, and Great Britain & N every alternate Tuesday land, via Halifax afterwards CHAR LOTT KTOWN on POETRY. | SOLARA WWE WVAAA i THB SHORTEST WAY HOM! | ** The shortest way by halfa mile- | Icome so very often by it— | Is up the road, across the stile, | And througb the meadow. Shall we try fhe days were not without a charm When, talking sott and looking silly My love and I walked arim-in-arm And lanes were lone and fields were stilly We found se many things to say That always, in the shiny weather, We took the—well, the s/orfer way To be a longer time together We spoke about [but, goodness knows Our topics of confabulation About the weather, I suppose, The crops, the harvest, and the nation. Atall events, although the talk i : Was neither wise nor witty, reat Britain, via Un M i { Sa- Uncertain. We ended each successive walk States. ) . 5 With ** Home already—what a pity?” West Indies, neertain We might have lost a little grouad Through coming by the road selected, Summerside and in : ’ Daily, Sunday excepted, 2 | But both agreed that we had found ate offices . .,p- Mm. The journey shorter than expected Georgetown and t ( i) Sunday excepted, 2 oa s he ethene ¢ ». mn Can Life's experiment support Western — Tig iesday, Friday, 2 p. m. | The paradox that Love proposes ? ee | Does any path seem very short, Weste: a, -$t.1 \ sday, Saturday, 7 p.m. Doar it be a path of roses? ae ‘ e seldom find the nearer way Southe \ Wednesday, Saturday, 2 p.m, And if we hit upon, and take it, Belfas By creeping on from day to day Bedeque—1 ‘ Monday, Wednesday, Friday, It seems as long as length can make it. &c., ’ 2.30, p. Mm. The road to fame is never brief, Brackley F ( > Tuesday, Friday, 9 a. m, The way to wealth is dull and dreary; ae., ey All earthly routes, in my belief, Pisquid— Johns Friday, 10 a.m Are very long and very weary. &e ? Nay—one that leads through care and strife ~ ; = en — —— — ls short, when mortals once begin it; Letters intended tor i an hour previous to the closing | We take the ‘near cut” of life, of the M by W { the postage and registration Although we take the longest i» it. ¢ must be prepaid Tinste wari . The post age on trans s for City delivery, must, in all Tinstey's Magazine. eases, be prepaid. Malls arriving bet Office hours from | «a Money Orders iss DONALD, Postmaster. Post Office, Ch’town, 19th D lm - ey 2 et all aoa Business Cacds. jlroperties for Sale. w* . JOSEPH CREAMER, BUS! Physician & Surgeon, I will Sell by Public Auction, on CITY BOTL. FRIDAY, CHARLOT Ceri vw =" t va Patients attended 1 SS STAND FOR SALE! rhe ist day of May next, oon, if net previously dis- LITERATURE. RRR AR ee een CHAPTER XX. different picture. that discontent and mutual distrust, whict now reigned in tho Swedgg and their adherents, every hears o the of heady bravely repulsed ; the courare and resolu k | All that the President of the Commission _ be at large ; at the same time I do not wish, 'e-uld obtain was authority to interrogate | for the present, to avail myself of your vols Count Martini‘z at his owa apartments in untary impeachment. A commodious room | the eas'le, rather then summon him before | shall be easigned to you, where I beg you the military tribunal; and hoping to receive | to reflect upon what I have said ; end if you he proceed:d though reluctantly, to fulfil other motive may have indueed you te screen his mivs‘on. | Count Martinitz st your own expense, hae Count Martinitz received De la Garde | carried you too far, remember, it is Count de with politenes¢ and urbanity, but when the| la Garde who bes beard your confe:sion, | full cxeulpation from the venerable o!d man, | shall find that your gererosity, cr whatever iatter went on to explain the purport of his | visit, the Count, like an old tactician, shrank | into silence and dogged reserve. He know nothing of the affair; be had neither fied the rocket, norsecn any person fire it, and, in conclusion, begged to be excuscd from answerit g such inquisitorial qnest'ovs which he regarded as offensive to his selfsrespect and dignity. De ia Garde reported the denial ef the Governor, and urged the indelicacy cf subs | Jecting that nobleman to any further scrutiny, | ¥ | and not the president of the committee. Joanna made ber obeisanee, and, not withs out emotion, thanked the Count for his cars dor, and then willingly followed a servant, who was ordered by the Count tocorduct her to an spaitment named by himself Here, in the solitude of a confined room, which, though tolerably clean and convenient, only rece ved its light froma high grated window, the possible eonsequenees cf her step began gradually to usfold themselves. At times, indeed, unused to strong trials, she doubted but, overpowered by a majo ity of votes, he | that she had gone too far. She pictured to | Was at length oblized to yield to the arranges herself her father’s sorrow, and the anxiety : : ‘ : : archy and confusion in ever Yatholic meat of Count Martinitz being confined, asa lof Wellenste’n. wore he to hear of her situs | i 7 © cose prisoner, to his own rvovn, unti] he Paton; and yet, Srange to say, this latter} should feel d’sposed to be more explicit. thought served, in some degree, to comfort | Pope to the Papal throne, and when the The old Gover: or Gene:al submitted to this | her. It was for bis and her country’s sake fresh insult with dignified composure, und | she had run so great a risk, and she knew . . os . . ! struzgied manfully with bis rising indigna- tion when apprized that even the Countess, him too well not to feel assured that he would approve of the course she bad taken bis wife could not be svffered to hold in- ard be convinced she ought not, under all | tercourse with him onies. in presence cf a ¢ rcumstances, to have acted othorw's>. | Swedish officer. The proceedin js of the investigating coms | mitiee hud previously been little regarded, | and their purport scarcely understood. Now, | however, they were adveited to and watch- | THE ARKANSAS STRIFE. It is little more than a year ago since we | Were edified by an account of a species of coup @ etat in one of the Southern States of THE SWEDES IN PRAGUE. ed with interest and apprehension, Exags | America, Then the cause was that of Mr. erated rumors, as is usual, flew around; and ; gerated rumors, as is : ? Warmouth, the Governor of the State penetrated, amonz other quarters, into the | The parts of Prague unoccupied by the }é¢memy, exhibited, after the battle, a very ‘My dear father,’ cried Joanna, as soon Instead of experiencing as the triend who brought this intelligence W:l'eustein, that the life of the honorable mah wasio imminent danger. 1 bad left the room; ‘My dear father, I nei- | iarters of the ther can nor will be silent any longer. The ' life of Count Martinitz is threaened by er side of the Moldavia felt gay and these diabolical Swedes, because he ja con- | confident. The repeated storming had beer 1 | sidered, it seems, the author of that signal, ~ but from which accusation he musi be clear- tion of the garrison, as well as of the ins) eq: : y private sale, the valuable Busr-{ habitants, had stood a severe (ria! and the ‘Joanna!’ excla'med Bertram, much el- sultations given to : ian . : The : MONDAYS ue ro R . it ROAD } Joss of the enemy had been so great, as to armed, ‘What are you thinking of? Do ‘ ; t cGustus TO Hickgy’s : : ssid biaibene tte Hitsnorever River—one of the | ™%e 8 long interval of rest more than pros yeu want us to become cur own accusers? ay ae JAMES BRENA! ¢ places on House, Si, ail Carviag , ii £2 fee 2 f elt new and in good aper Hanger XN G izier ther rticulars, apply to E. SOURIS WEST. Dwelling House, 31 x Carlottetown, or on the ROBERT WEBSTER. the Island—consist- with the buildings 9 feet, and Warehouse | the firat place, Colonel Golz bable, perhaps, until the town }an erent to be shortly expected, since, in | troops in the Circle of Budweis , aud j next, the conclusion of peace cou'd not b | at any very great distance. | Searcely bal Father Plachy unbuckled was relieved, was co lecticrg in the ‘You, father’ 1 not implicated in this matter. replied she calmly, ‘are I sm the delinquent; and it is, there‘ore, but j ist F ‘QO God!’ cried the old man in angui-h. - Lou will destroy yourself without saving | Claimed for a Mr. McEmery the office of | chief of the Executive against a certain Senator Kellogg. The United States Courts, however, interfered in the matter,and occu. | pied the State House with soldiers, and the extraordinary spectacle was seen of a State in direct collision with the Federal authori- ties, and the Governor resisting them. The ; remarkable political condition of the coun. | try where such things could happen, was commented upon at the time. Now the spectacle is in a manner repeated in another form. This time it isin Arkansas. In the present case it is a quarrel between two rival Governors. It is as though some pretender had entered the Government House, ejected the Lieutenant Governor and taken possession, and in his turn was be- sieged by the expelled gent eman with the rys Of ruin yourself and me, too, without Leng of local militia. This singular spectacle arises out of circumstances of no great interest to us in Canada. Briefly told, the story amounts to this. One Brooks was elected by a majority of some three thousand votes to the Governorship of Arkansas, but was him.’ *Why, surely, were I to come forwad | and admit that it was I , f «They will not believe you, you will | any use to the Governor.’ ' : stus, M pe doa his sword and ta\en off his casqua, ere, as Orders will vs TNO T ; the pious priest, he stood et tie bedsids o _daly 7, 1875 y rh CEHOLD PROPERTY the wounded (part cu'arly of the « 6 0 R i fj 1 gc F FOR SALE. | students), anxiously taking care of those B A N JV by n F.0t Number 23.) whose eases admitted | - of ri ry nd PLEASANTLY SITUATEI soothing by the last offices of the Church ee ee _,. | the deathsbed of such as were civen over. North Side King's | | iis ot March, A. a ar. As soon as he had fulfilled these seered ote and Anastatia his wife tract, piece and parcel of land; lhe three fri nds eat down to : j wn, under and by virtue J H. RUSSEL, PRO! Hh i vined in an Indenture of - = : and made between Lazare Buote, ae abet ty €, in Queen’s f A at°T r mawaru GENERAL Mi FE Ri : i } ' wife, of the one part, and Henry ZI eee Thomas DesBrisay, of Char- ee MISSION +4 j _ 0 Freeh Bu TRINITY CORNER, GLORGL LY AGENT FOR , at St. John. st Beh pana ae New P . i vit K. | on noon, at the Colonial e Tenth day of Decem- F.M. CAMPBE e between fsland, Farmer, and iid Island, Esquires, of the “4UCZTIONEER & BROs Lazare Bu > east Standard Life Insvrance Lo Sant & int ses, situate, lying aud being in said uumber twenty-three, and bounded ae | a to say ne at a stake side of the road leading from Cavendish, the same being the adary stake of a tract of land to Isidore Buote, now iu possess Woolner, from thence running VULCAN FOUNDRY. hains and fifty (50 links,thence j 1ins, thence west tothe aforesaid GErORGHTOW | “rs, fcom thence southwardly aloag anid | STOVES, wholesale an * f beg uning, conta ning fifty end MACHINERY CASTING 1 game a little more or less. Ways on hand, ors i t other tract, piece or parcel of z Cash Paid los p twenty-three, and POR ALL KINDS of OLD bed as follows, that is to say : . — j the est side of the Onavendish J. A. RUTHE! i eee) » of above denesthed June 2, 1873.—1 ¥ ence east for the t A t ; ly QD it y Gil WILLIA M DU i , of Domnick Doriant, thence Commission { chains a (49) links, thence AUCTIONS Ve p< Sy a i forty thence along the road I « Cr ntaining by QUEEN SQUAi seven acres, a iittie more or CHARLOTTETOWN, P Fe ok las eg é R. R. FirzGeratp, CARVELL BRO?! H. J. CUNDALL, for Mortgagees } 1874 AUCTION ERS, woman digs am Sale hereby postponed until : : - ae ae Punt _— a nah 9 c lay of May next, A. D., Commission Merchin 3; Sf eile koley ehatinoe dleates CUNDALL, for Mortgagees FOR SALE. 4 6000 FARM WEST. CURRY FARM, AND : GNERAL AGEN BANK BUILDING, QUEEN Charlottetown, P. E. I HERMANS & S° | XK Bell-Hangers, Gin aad Tis-suil ~ QUEEN sSTREW'! THE OPPOSITE WATSON’S DRI : (" \INING 120 ACRES, situate on KG to retarn th +} Western Road, 10 chains front, 70 4 . af hel ‘ is B public for the libera ! well cultivated and fenced with Siticnelaentiads Co covered with hardwood and = ask for es HANDSOME DWELLING HOUSE, eprtor anty ; ie sibit «staal fluished throughout, with Kit- A meat Assortment « ched 12x 17, Barn 34x 41, with TINWARE MITCHESN UT! j ind Sheep-house. There is also | WWREE, Beet ie , DwerLunG House, 16x25. This . o ¢ ld with or without the stock, | &c., &¢.. . civen inSpring, or Cropped ALL ORDERS the Crop delivered next Fall will be punctuz att . Apply to Having jately ma i GEORGE W, How LAN, Cheapest Marketr,intended “4 ach as Gas Fitting, Wate: Bell Fittings, &. lam prepared to SELL AS LOW AS CAN BE fH and wil) fit them us Valuable Business Stand for Sale. r will sell, by private sale, To @ conetous vablic, w b ( i Dweling House, with other Orders in THIS BRANCH ¢ iidings, situated at Cardigas ary eee B 1t 4 chains from Railroad hend. ee t Ast § 18 On f the fine at and SAYR’S CRY TAT ¢ veir at bu ness stands on the | ; : ' ' ‘ iesirous otf engaging in Sold Chea; ' Lusinese, wi'l find it to their to call and exsmine, ~ art eer ez of bu sincss. There is also ee So ints hae ese ne ae Power & Gorden P pened |, a wit be sold to suit intending And a Good Vari | 150 serce of Free gen Bridge. the Subseriber iotends to wind up| svens. for the prescot, he requesie | parties iadebted to him by Note of | Avcovnt, or otherwise, to | The Newest Styles of We are prepared t Book BOOK & FANCY JOB PRIVING <e est Tiurine, at EXAMINER OFFICE. r HUGH L. McoDNOALD. Cardigan Bridge, June 10, 1878. as, or tothe boundary | bert Gallant, but j before | Nov. ! ; PR | \ hid dl ' 1) Bulldog Lots, situated within } 4 | s the Bridge, and guitable stands duties, he hastened to Wallerscin, whom he found wih his friend Wulden, orer the labors of the day. ; of tha worthy ecclesiastic, : and pressed his hand. * God bless you, my boy!’ sad Piachy } much affected, ‘aud grant that you may ld Estate aad [aterest | emulate the fame of your nob! nnele!’ take | necessary refreshment, and to ‘ battles o’or again’ in cheerful } couveree, There was ove ri flection, however, which talking A bert, at sivht some git ther) from participating in her confession, ‘Be at peace, father, at least as far as re gards yoursel’. Ihave long considered the matter; indeed, ever since I heard this ins It was I ag'one who originally ext.rted the eecret from these Swedish morsters; I alone gave the signa). You were a prisonsr at the time, and they quiry was perding. n toward bim | dare not toueh a hair of your head! and, as} jast to me, it 1s by no m ana clear that they would proceed to exiremities. Their ob- cruel.’ Joanna foued it difficel: to prevent him Be» tram tenderly Jovwed hie daughter; and the iden even cf dying with her appeared less seemed to check the exuberance Wallecs afflicting than that of seeing her exposed to stein’s mitth; tha idea of the danver that danger in which he bad no elare. Nets | bad possibly accrued to Joa ne, in conse- | que: ce of her conrex'on with tiie the sigoal rocket. Nor was this apprehension groundless. Odowalsky, loudly and publicly ins’sting on }an inquiry, Ko: igemisk was induced to aps point a committee for the iavestigation of the affiir, of which committee Odcwalsky was hims- lf constituted a member Ulis mest anxious des're wes t» be reve: ged on the sorrowful but firm heart, the castle steps, | betraycr of his individual scheme. as we] as on Wallestmi:,who became mre hatefu | mortify by the punishment of one of h’s } mest faithful dep2ndents, for his natural | sagacity had at once fixed on Bectram as | the delinquent. Konigsmark, dizguste] with «ll these pros | ceedings, took advantage of the short iaters val of tha armistice, to comp'im nt upon his | arrival in Leipsic,the Count Palatine, Charles Gu:tarus, to wh-m Queen Christiina hid } | confi’ed the command of hr whole arwy. This Prince had bought with him a cons siderable reinforcement from Sweden, and was onthe point of marching bis troops isto Bohemia, for the Prague. Konigsmark , therefore, namin: Count Ma:- nus de !a Garde presicent of this commiss'on, set out for Saxony. Nothing came to light for some time re- specting the supp°sed signa’. Beruuam stoutly denied: everything, avd no cne sus. | pected Joanna. Another meth d was vow | therefore taken, by eadeavoring to ase rtain | what ptrson from the Government Cestle might have been on that spot at the time coinciding with the account of the Swedish officer who had noticed the s'gnal. And here, to t'e grat astonshment of every member of the court, the course of the examination brought befvre them a prr- son whose rank, birth and characte: differed widely from those hitbertoserotinw-d. This was Count Martinitz, Governor Geveral of Bohemia, the first person in the Kiozdom, and represe tative of the Sovercign, He had been walking that evening—on th's poist all accoun's agrecd—quito a'one, on that part of the ccstle hill. reduction of | the Swedes, and to the creed which they supported in Germany, was well known; whilst his kigh station, and the uviversal attachment of the people, might well p'ace it in his power to obtain secret information of everything going on both in Prague and with tbe beseiging army. Count dela Garde was much inclined to put an end to an in- quiry which could now leed to rone but | painful result: ; for what measures could be | adopted, in case of conviction, aga’ast e | man of the Governor's powerful c. nnections, | and of such an edvanced age. thet would not be extremely cdious, and, possibly, in the sow, lath and shingle mill, having | event, dieastrous to the Swedes themselves ? Swedish scheme, she eppropriated to her- ‘erger ciren'ar for catting all kinds of | Odowalsky, however, roee in « fury, and! self; and ended, rot a little exciting the Louber, besides other Saws, with about! maintained, in an evergetic srcech, that it _ astonishment and incredulity of her auditcr, hold Land, 2 miles from | was these s-vere measures only which could | He listened to her with deep attention, but ‘insure the safety of the Swedish troors in doubted while he listened, and when she had the middie of a people addicied t» sedition and rebel] on. The votes of the officers bes gan t» be divided. One part adhered to spective accounts on or before their former opivion, and wished to suppress * er ee e — age st next. All sums remaining the inquiry ; whilst the other, and by far the WOU, @ tanle | oP ore ee ‘Lat date will be handed over mort numerous, were induced by Odowal- shuddered, but continued firm. At lenzth, | oky’s speech to insist upon instituting crim- De Is Garde, after looking at her fora inal proceedings against the Governor Gen- While with great interest, said, ‘ After what ral eral, His hatred to | withstanding, the giri found s:fficient ad- » aluir of dress to quiet Ler father’s anx‘ous solic tade | on this point also, persuading bim that the actionsof a woman were far less likely to be | visited with severity than those of a man Having thus wruny fiom the poor old man his slow consent, the Bohemian maiden, simply and modestly dressed, and attended only ty s female seivart, aecnded with a t midly spprcached the Swedish s ntries, and requested en audience of the Count de to him every day, ard whom le hoped to la Garde, as a citizeu’e diugh'er from tke | Kleirseite, who had some importart:ommu- | nicaticn to make to him reepecting the sizs | nal given to the enemy on the eve of the! storming of the bridg» tower. | She was soon admitted, aud entered, cov» as well as innocence of hor appearance, ins | duced De !a Gard» to advance a few steps, | ani suggest ber adj uning int) en ther room, where find:ng berse!f alo e vith the | noble Swele, she summoned all Ler strength | of mind and said, *1 have been inf rmed, my | Lord, that an inquiry hus been sct cn foct | acainet His Excell ney the Governor, who is accuced of having fired that rocket which, | in the Sweci-h headquaiters, bra been tes garded as a signal given t» their enemy.’ ‘ You are right, fair maiden,’ answered De la Garde, courtecusly, * Have you any further details to communicate ?’ ‘I have,’ repled che, ‘and if you, my Lord, will ple¢ge ycur word thit Count Martinitz shall be restored t> liberty, and no longer exporved to trouble and vexation, when you Know the guilty person, [ will exs pose that persor.’ ‘You? ‘ Will you give me your promise ?° ‘Yes, provided the Count can be fully exs | in the midst of his fancied Utopia :—* It is | the youthful mind were indelible, and the cu!lpated.’ ‘He cao, most fully end un:eservedly. It waa / alone who fired the rocket.’ ‘Ani do you tell me this yourself?” * f cannot, my Lord, endere éo s2e an in- pocent man, and one so universally respects | ed, suffer for an action of my own, and of which, I candidly confess, I am proud’ De Ja Garde looked at Joanna with aston. ishment. ‘Who are you, young vonan ?’ asked be. She told him her name, and explained, in _ addition, the circumstances which bad yres | ceded and accompanied the discharge of the rocket, carefully suppressing, hows ever, ercounter with Martinitz. | Her {father’s expedition also to Wallenstein, | in disguiss, to apprize him generally of the her coneluded, told her as much. Joanna pers sisted, however, in her confession; and when De la Garde pointed out the evil cons | has pessed between us, I cannot allow you to ject is to intimidate, not to ba gratuitously | by a process of wire-pulling not installed. | The votes in the election had to be sent to the Secretary of State to be counted, and for political reasons, so at least say one party, the adyersary of Brooks, one Baxter, was declared the elected Governor. Hence arose litigation, but without any very de- finite conclusion being arrived at until June Baxter is said to have declared, that |; if the sentence of the Courts was ad- | verse to him, he should not observe it. But on the 14th of June the Court gave sen- tence, declaring Baxter Governor. But nothing daunted, Brooks watched his op- | portunity and a few days ago suddenly took | his case back to court, and in the absence | of any representative of Baxter obtained ‘judgment of ouster’ against him. Nor | did the victor lose a moment in taking ad- vantage of his victory, for, immediately proceeding to the house of the Governor he ejected him and proclaimed himself Gov~ ernor of the State. Now he is in a state of saxter is not so easily suppressed. } | siege. He has now, it is reported, more than 2,000 | n:ilitia, hostile from party reasons,to Brooks, ready and willing to do his bidding, while it does not appear that the Rev. Mr. Brooks has any force to speak of. The whole story reads more lie a comedy than a chapter of sober history. It is bard to comprehend the Federal Constitution | that can provide room for such political scan ‘als to have play, or to think that so. called courts ot law can exist in any civil- ized country that can contribute to such | confusion. There are evidently wheels with- ered with blustes; for there were a great | The chief officer of the United States, General Grant, favours | in wheels, in the matter. numter of cficers with the Count, and the | eyes of all were turned upon her. paused a movrent, and the s‘riking beauty | | She | Baxter and the United States troops sent, though nominallyneutral, really afford aid to that candidate. A significant feature in the matter is, that the ‘ Brigadier-General ’ of Brooks, and others of his staff, are Con- federate officers. News may arrive at any moment of the outbreak of another cruel war, for so it would to all intents and purs poses be. At a time when the people of the United States are seriously thinking of holding a centennial, this untoward evil comes somewhat unfortunately. It shows chat however loudly boasts may be made, the truth mast be confessed that there is little homogeneousness in a Federal Union, or in the tendencies of the people that can lower their country by such an outbreak and exhibition as this; patriotism must be at a low ebb, and the exaltation of his pet fac- tion the main object of the United States citizens. Singularly applicable at such a juncture are the words of Washington in his valedictory address when he saw all the evils of democracy and republicanism rising little else than a name where the Govern~ ment is too feeble to withstand the enters prise of faction, to confine each member of the society within the limita prescribed by the ‘aws, and to maintain allin the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property. * * The alternate dominion of one faction over another,sharp= ened by the spirit of revenge natural to | party discussion, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itselfa most horrid despotism. But this leads at length toa more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and re- pose in the absolute power of a single indi» vidual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this despotism to the purpose of his own eleva- tion, on the ruins of public liberty.’" Mode ern America seems to show that the writer of these was, if not inspired certainly, toa great extent, a prophet.— Toronto Leader, Gambling is rife in Montreal just now. Cremation furnaces are advertized by a manufacturing lirm in Berlin. The new steamship Faraday has begun to load the new Atlantic cable. If it wasn’t for the Acheneese and the temperance war the entire world would now | | HOUSE | THE SCHOOL QUESTION. | OF ASSEMBLY. Aprit 22, 1874. | Mr. McEacuern.—The hon. member for Tignish had meade this not a Roman Catho- | lic, but an Irish question. There were other Catholics besides the Irish who felt as deeply on this question as did the hon. member for Tignish, although they may not be so Joud in their professions in this respect as the hon. member from Tignish. The Irish were, however, both in worth and | ability, quite equal to any other race, and could fight their way successfully, if placed in competition with any other nationality. The member from Georgetown seemed to think that there was nothing truly Catholic but what was liberal. By the dictionary definitions, this might be true, but those definitions were not correct. If he would view, from a Catholic standpoint, the re- sults of Liberalism in Europe, he would be better able to decide. He (Mr. McEachs ern) was often twitted with holding Tory ideas, but he did not regret it. There never had been a time when so-called Libs eralism ruled in Britain, but there was an- | country in Europe. He remembered that at the time of the accession of the present fame of his liberal reforms had gone abroad throughout the world, the Palmers ston-Russel party was in power, and fear-~ ing that Catholicism would gain too much favor, they despatched the Earl of Minto to Rome, under pretence of reviving dip~ lomatic relations with the Papal Court. And was it not curious that in every Catholic State through which he passed, during his progress towards the Eternal City, trea- son and rebellion sprang up in his foot- steps? Arrived in Rome, instead of at- tempting to establish diplomatic relations with his Holiness, he set himself to the liberal task of fomenting disaffection among the people. ‘There was a gentleman now res siding in this city, who was pursuing his collegiate studies at the Propayanda at the time to which he referred,and who heard the proud Earl of Minto haranguing, from the steps of his hotel, a Roman mob, and at the close of his speech calling for three cheers for Cicero Vachio, a gross mobocrat of the city, who happened then to wield an enormous influence among the Roman pop» ulace. The rebellion arose, Garibaldi and his liberals succeeded, the Pope had to flee, the Earl of Minto took up his budget, and was heard from ro more. On the contrary, when the Conservatives were in power, peace and Catholicity flourished. The last time that the late Earl of Derby, the then head of the English Tories, was hurled from power, the principal charge preferred against him by his Liberal foes, was, that he was too favorable to the Pope, the King of Naples, and the Italian Grand Dukes. The hon. member for Tignish had stated that public house keepers were not fit to bring up children properly. That was a hard thing to say. Public houses were re quired. , & young family was being reared, and he | thought there was no better family in the lIsland. And they were Roman Catholica, | ) and Irish, too. The change asked for by | | the resolution under discussion, was a very |small one. It was as well to come to the | point, and say that what was wanted was a | | sum of money for the Bishop’s schools. | was not fair to deny this small demand. | No one would say that those schools had | ; not done good. When he had come to the House as as a representative twenty years | ago, the streets of Charlottetown had pres | sented a diferent aspect from that which they now presented, in the number of uns | ruly childern to be seen. The Bishop whad | taken the matter into consideration, and | had built these schools at great expense. | To accomplish his purpose, he had assumed | the role of beggar. His whitened locks, | comparatively young man though he was, | showed the anxiety for his flock which had | weighed upon his mind. It was a mistake | to say that this demand was aggressive. | He (Mr. McE.) had never spoken toa. Protestant who did not acknowledge that | something should ba done for those schools, | but how it was to be done they could not see clearly. Where there was a will how- ever, there wasa way. If the Protestants | made asmilar demand, and believed that | their children were not safe without a res | ligious education,:he would accede to their | demand, no matter whom he offended. | Was the education imparted in the Bishop's | schools vicious, or did it tend to make the | children worse members of society than they otherwise would have been? Was it | calculated to make them traitors or rebels ? | No; the Church taught them to love Ged, and their neighbors as themselves, to obey their superiors, and render unto Cxssr the | things that were Cmsar’s,—and why, in | God’s name, was assistance to those schools refused ?_ Why were not the the taxes ex. | torted from Catholics returned to them, if} nothing else wasdone? In the country the | taxes paid were small. In the city a spes | cial tax for the support of education was collected. Because Roman Catholics could | not send their children to the common | schools, believing that they would not there | receive such an education as would make | them good members of society, they were | refused the very money which was extorted | from them. It was disgraceful to deny this | | act of justice,—it was simply disgraceful, whether done by friends or foes. Protest- | ants admitted that the common schools of | the city were not fit places to which to send children, This was proved by the fact of the Wesleyans having erected a school for | themselves, to afford a religious as well as |asecular education. A great many Pro- | testants and Presbyterians would accede to | this demand if they could see their way clear, In Sootland they had religious in- | struction in the schools, and this was why | the Roman Catholics who came from that country were not educated. There was nothing which had tended so much to make | Scotchmen celebrated in the world as the re- ligious education imparted in their schools, The Bishop asked for nothing unreasonable. He gave a good education to the children | over whose spiritual welfare he was placed. Resides the religious education, he gave a | | better secular education than was imparted to the common schools. Le hoped his Protestant friends in Government and Opposition, would agree to this act of jus tice towards the Bishop's schools in the lcity. And if religious education was re- | quisite in the city, was iz not equally so in | the country. The impressions made on | firstimpressions made should be love and | | fear of God, and desire to keep His oom- mandments. | Mr. Coyroy had spoken of the Irish, not | to make it an Irish question, but because he knew mor: of the condition of his own | | countrymen than of others Mr. Srawarr did not think that there should he a disposition to evade this ques» ; tion. There had been already a most im portant question betore the House this | session—the land question—one which had | agitated the country for more than half a| century; and this school question, though | it had only loomed up within a decade of time, was also of great importance. {[t had been the means of hurling Gornments from power, and putting others in their | stead, and the man who could devise a/| good scheme to settle the matter, and | cement the feelings of the a would be the greatest patriot which the Island | had ever produced. It therefore became | the duty of hon. members to discuss the | question temperately ; look at it in all its | bearings, and see if we had an eyil in our midst. It had been said that he who had | introduced the Free Education System, | deserved the esteem and good opinion of | the people. It had been the means of raising many ® poor boy, who would not) without it have risen, to a position of honor | and trust and respect in the country. He) regretted, and the regret was shared by many hon. members, that the statesman | who had given this Island free schools was deprived of his reason, and was forever | dead so this and all other questions which would arise in this Island. He (Mr. 8.) | be at peace, otra: ness with which the hon member for Georges town had appealed to the Liberal side of the House. Byso doing, he had cast re- flection upon the party with which he (Mr. McDonald) was connected. and which had a large majority in the House. Were not the Protestants on one side as liberal to- wards Catholics as those on the other? He eould divest himself of all partizan feeli in this matter, and look upon it as y as upon a mathematical problem. What were the grievances of Roman Catholics? To listen to the hon. metaber for Tignish it might be supposed that there were no free institutions in this country at which an education could be obtained: He agreed with that hon. member that a parent’s first duty to his child was to give that child a religious education ; that read-~ ing and writing were but the tools by which education was obtained; that the man upon whom rested the responsibility of rearing a child, and preparing him for that world which is to come, soni be called to account for the mode in which he had dis- charged hisduty. The point on which he differed with the hon. member, was res garding the place in which religious in. struction shonld be imparted, whether in school, or at the home fireside, or under the teachings of the clergyman. In a mixed community, like that in this Island, the imparting of religious education in schools was impracticable Those who argued that it was not, said that the State bad no right to interfere in the matter of education, We knew how hard it had been to sever the connection of Church and State in Europe, and was itright to take a por- tion of the taxes paid for the common protection of life and property, and devote that portion to the support of any system of religions teaching? He was a ‘Protes- NO. 18 result. He could approach this question as he could any other—with calmness. If this discussion amounted to nothing else, he hoped it would produce a good unders standing, and tend to cement together par« ties who thinkalike. If the present Oppos sition conceded one point of the Bishop’s demands, the government would not be a would tea penshaeet to the country. Hon, Me. McEacuzarn had never demand- ed that religious instruction should be im- parted in mixed schools. He had said that God had not a different code for city and country , that if it was essential that religi- ous education should be given in the city it was equally essential in the country, in districts where it could be i with. out offence to any. He wo net have such Instruction given in the nee of children of another religion. The princi- ple of religious instruction was admitted by the establishment of the Protestant schools. The insinuations ofthe hon. member who had lost spoken regarding promises made to the people, and broken for the sake of office were directed at him, but he had never deceived his friends. He was sup= ported by a large number of Protestants, and but for their support would not be in the House. They had never lost confi. dence in him, and he would not do any~ thtng, even in this matter, which ive them offence. At the time of the tant, and belonged to that church which - general election, he had been invited was generally supposed to be most strongly opposed to this course ; but he was o to conviction, and if any hon. mem would show him that the Free Education system was at fault, and inflicted an injury upon Roman Catholics, he would be ready to a political meeting, but finding, on arrivs ing at the place, that it was to be compos- ed exclusively of Roman Casholics, he re- fused to enter the door of the building. Ma. Srewart had not directed his res marks to any member in particular. He to aid in doing them justice. But it must be shown that the system was faulty, that the party who held the opinions he held, wished to thrust upon the Roman Catho. lies something which they were unwilling to have thrust upon themselves. very one gave credit to the Bishop for building up the system of education which he had built for the people; but the Bishop was not singular in this. The Wesleyans, ata large cost, had also established a school for themselves, so had St. Peter's Church, and the Presbyterians were putting forth an effort in the same direction. What was the reason? Not that they wished to create any bitterness, or that they found | fault with the free school system, but be- cause they wanted to give a higher class of | education, and develop the mind more than | could be done in the common schools. He oe a believed that the present system required | Opposition side thought proper to sit silent, amendment, but instead of sitting down | looking at each other and waiting to see calmly and ascertaining where its faulta were | WO would be the first to speak. He did politicians engaged in religious strife, The ®t know that this question was of less spoke only in ageneral way. The question had too often been made a hobby horse for the purpose of riding into power. Progress reported and House adjourned for one hour. EVENING SESSION. House again in Committee u Mr. McDonald's Resolution. or Mr. McIsaac did not understand why there was so much silence on both sides. It would seem as ifa thunderbolt had fail. en into the House. It could not bedenied that a peonen was worthy = considera- tion, fairly squarely. @ hoped it would be s0 discussed. How. Me. Svitivan.—On the introduction of no other question during this session had hon. members on the Government or He lived in one himself, in which | P®8¢2t system could be improved and made a benefit and a good to the country. He believed, however, that the state had nothing to do with religious teachings, and that when it stepped aside and appropriated public money in support of the teaching of the doctrines of any sect it did an injustice While he held that it was {im than others which had been brought forward durin a session ; on the contrary, it was one most important that could be brought before the House. It was impossible to introduce into any Le. islature a question which transcended it importance. He had been much pleased in listening to the observations of some | to the public, | the duty of every head of a family to in- | hon. members, and was glad to see that | were forgotten. struct his children in his particular religious opinions, and that failing to do so he did a great injustice to his children, he held also that these matters were the duties of pa- rents, with which the State had no right to There were abundant proofs for The Roman Catholics said interfere. this opinion. that they could not avail themselves of the common schools, because religious education was not imparted there, dDecause no secs tarianism was taught. The hon. Member ‘or Tignish had said that in some cases the teachers of these schools were not moral. This was a great grievance, but it was one for which the system was not responsible, which it did not countenance. It was within the province of the district to dis- miss such a teacher and engage one who would set a good example tothe children. The Roman Catholics were not satisfied with education free from religious testa. They said, and had aright tosay, tnat they would teach the doctrines of their own church, and ‘or that purpose they had set up separate schools. This they had a right to do, but when they came to the Treasury, — practic - ally to each individual man who paid taxes —and asked that money should be granted to these schools, they asked for something which was antagonistic to true political doctrines. Some of his best friends were Roman Catholics, some with whom he did the largest amount of business,and in whose hospitable homes he was always welcome ; but when @ question of this kind came up, and when he knew that the majority of his Roman Catholic supporters did not wish the change asked for, he failed io do his duty if he did not enter into this question, though as he had said he was open to con. viction. It was said that the separate sys~ tem worked well in Ontario. It was but on its trial in that province, and whether its workings were satisfactory or not was not for him to say. He could speak of the mixed system, however, for he remem- bered well when he attended a country | school and sat beside Catholic boys who | prosecuted their studies under the same | teacher- That system had remained works ing well for years until the Bible Question had arisen. It was the first question to ins troduce discord. Until then the Roman Catholics and Protestants attended the same school without the slightest bad feel- ing. He wished the question had never been heard of. We would then have had better government, established on a more solid system. The question had overthrown governments and would again do so, accord. ing to what the Bishop said, until it had been set at rest. @ commended the Bishop for what he haddone. When aman believed he was right, he was Jaid under obligation to press his claims until they were recognised even if the advocacy of his prins ciples placed him in the pillory of the world’s acorn. But Catholic candidates had gone to Catholic districts and made great promis- es of what they would do, and when elected and occupying official chairs these promises The cause of the question being so long agitated was the dishonesty of those who agitated it. He had been in | hopes that the hon. member for Indian | River would have gone fully into the quess tion, or would have got some one to come forward and tell the Mouse what the | Roman Catholics wanted, and where the present system was at fault. He (Mr. Stew art) had been charged by his constituents, three hundred of whom were Roman Cath- | olics, that they did not want the system altered, but by what the hon. member for East Point had said the change asked for | must take effect in the country as well as in the city. His constituents would not ob- ject to any amendment in the present sys- tem which would render it more. effective, but they did not wish to have the religious element introduced. In the New Perth district, of which he was a native, Protest~ ants and Roman Catholics were about equal- ly divided, if the religious system was intro- | duced there the result would be that there would be noschoolatall. Either was too weak tomaintain aseparate school. Farm mers had enough to do without paying extra taxes for schools, and the result would be that boys who had talents which would make them a eredit to the country would get no education. The granting of the des mand would destroy the free school system, would narrow it down to a sectarian system, and educate men as narrow-minded bigots, who could not see except through the specs tacles of the Church, and bi was an owl gotry that could not see in daylight, but with dark | and spectral wing flew through midnight gioom resting upon the belfry of ruined churehes. If such would be the result it would be most disastrous to the colony, where harmony and good feeling existed, and when the present system imperfect as it was, had worked well and accomplished much. Boys educated under it had gone abrood and taken a stand which was credit~ able to themselves and to the colony; but the views of those who had spoken on the subject, with one exception, were similar to the opinions held by himself. fe was much pleased also to learn that the hon. member for Strathalbyn was open to con - viction, that though he held strong views upon the question, asa good, sound Presbyterian should, he was nevertheless anxious to receive new light, and, if con» vinced that he was wrong, his opinion. In the few observations which he (Mr. Sullivan) would offer, he trusted that he would say nothing which would hurt the feelings of any hon. mem- ber. He would besorry todoso. This was a question which should be discussed in a calm and moderate manner. It was a question in which all were deeply interest- . The system of education at present in force in this Colony had done some good. This system, established by Mr. Coles and supported by tke Liberal Party, had cons ferred upon the Island substantial benefits, Lite many other measures, however, which had been introduced without due considers ation, it was found to besusceptible of im. provement. When the Legislature con. sidered the measure on its merits, it would be found that the Education Act was defec- tive in many respects. Looking at the system as a purely secular one, he that it was not, as at present enforced, suc as to give satisfaction to the people gener- ally. Even those who held that religious instruction should not be imparted in the schools, were dissatisfied. e cost of the present system was about £20 000 per an-~ num, and he thought that every hon. mem- ber, and indeed everyone outside the House, who looked upon the matter ims partially, would arrive at the conclusion that the people of the Island did not receive an equivalent for so large an outlay. About one-fourth of the revenue of the Colony was paid for education, and but very little advantage, comparatively, was derived from 80 great an expenditure. We had in this Island a large number of schools —some three hundred and fifty in all. At the head of them stood the Prince of Wales College, which had been established and maintained at a large e se, The Nor mal School had been des as a training school for teachers; bnt held that this institution, as at present managed, and as it had been for some y was of no benefit for the purpose for which it had been intended. It cost about $1.500 @ year, and had on its roll from sixty to one hundred pupils, whilst the roll of the Col- lege did not exceed thirty, and it cost about $2,600 a year. Those who uttends ed the latter institution resided principal. ly in the city. Very few of them were from the country, and most of them were those who had scholarships, and whose educa- tion was paid for by the Government. He thought that the money e upon this institution was money for which. the general public, who did not reside in the city, received very little or no ee It was in fact a misnomer to eall it a “Col-. lege,” for it waa only a high school. Profes sors had been imported from Scotland, and they resided in the coliege,and had fuel pro. vided at the publicexpense. The — received $1,298 persnnum. And all! thi expense was incurred for the teaching of some thirty pupils, most of them sons of men who were able to educate their childs ren without entailing this expense upon the public. Both these institutions—and he had always been of this opinion—oost too much for the advantages gained. The question had been raised by the hon. member for Strathalbyn, as to whether the right of the State to pay for the religious ucation of children, but the resolution | introduced by the hon. member for Indian River, set forth that it was desirable that religious education should be made per- missive in schools where all the children were of one denomination ; and such re- ligious teaching te be subject to the -” proval of the parents or guardians of the children. It also set forth that it was de. sirable to make provision ior the payment of teachers without compelling them to undergo a special examination before the Board of Education. It provided that pers sons who produced satisfactory certitictes regarding their competency, from any ins stitution of learning in Europe or America, could be e as teachers. He did not think that there was anything unfait in the resolution. He did not think that | the Board should refuse to grant licenses to persons who could produce certificates that | they were quali to teach, and were of such a character as would entitle them to admission as teachers. As regarded re~ ligious instruction, the most that the re- solution required was that it should be rendered permissive. It did not require that those who did not believe in the res hgious instruction of any school should be present during such instruction, and it only required that such instruction should was surprised at the oiliness and insidious | if this demand was pressed disaster would | be given in schools where all were of one es