# roa —- > Ss — —— ——— Se eeraee ‘The passnge qnoted by our friend “a and which ia the whole ground of his article.appeared to be one of | t ee ee ate en —— Cae —_ | = ‘but also during the winter, He farther! xination. | states that they will be able to do this at a Liberal, large profit to themselves, without which they | enmplaint against the (From the Halifax Reporter, Oct. 17) TENANT TROUBLES” IN P. E. ISLAND. | BRITISH AMERICAN FREE TRADE Never before perhaps in the history of the service, some time before, which was defeated by Tenant League sympathisers ; and the only alteraa- arefully since, openly and rietously defied; and the employment CATTLE SHOW. Tue annnal Cattle Show was held on Friday last. Tuking into consideration the shortiesa of the notice and the paucity of prizes, the exlibi- | ive was, the employment of troops. The law was TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS AND READERS, _ Wr purpose to isene The EXauxen jn new itype, on the first Monday in November, when, | commencing a vew volume as we shall then, we The tenant troubles of P. FE. Island do Bot | appear te approach a setilement, and just at pre-| jsent tae attitude of the tenantry toward the | landlords is assuming a serions aspect. Tn a! * : former number we pointed out the evils under We heve been quick to ®ee and ready tu a which the great body of tite people labored, and | mit Provinces ate.) the efforts successive governments have made to) they have, however, become a source of weak-| effeet a remedy of the same. The insincerity of] ress, rather then of strength, to the mother! the present government in their treatment of the | country — Hay, We may almost add, the m land que stton, has brenght down on their a) ther country to them: and when we have | beads the just indignation ot the tenantry., Nor | ean we wouder at the present dilemma inte which | wermly advocated their consvlidation, up| : ' : he | " . ae d ternal improv: | the government have got themselves, from the} pay; ese~raitegrene bommeghadesy ot i fact that they have net acted towards the tenan-| ment, it bas been, we must candidly admit, try in that apirit of justice and fair piay which | with @ view to their early independence, and | should ever characterise British legislation. In) the ae “ policy = ns themsel¥s |) 4 word, the government of the Colony am ite | collectively and apart, rather than in con-) supporters in the legislature appear to have beet | junction with the parent State. | devoted solely to the interests of the proprietors, From the success of the policy advocated | regardless of the evils of which the tenantry com by that able and sagecious commercial | plained. But while we sympathize with those | statesman, Sir Robert Peel—in the repeal of | rent-racked people in their desire to have their | | grievances in some measure redressed, we can- the eorn laws——dated a grand change in the| : ‘6 . | net close our eyes to the folly and madness of the British line 6f conduct toward her Colonial | Tenant Leaguers continuing te resist the law. | ebildren. This vp came bet the harbing t Lf the organization, of which they are members, | of those liberal commercial ideas, whieh | supposes for a moment that they will accomplish | Jound rm the late Richard Cobden their ables, | any gocd by such conduct, they are sadly mis most practical, and most successful exponent. ‘taken. It the Tenant Union leaders expect to To him, it is well known, Great Britain is| effect a settlement of the land question through | rodebted for ber recent Commercial Treaties | such means, they are either kuaves or fools, aud | and also for that rapid mcrease 1b European | the seoner every honest and sensible — hes trade which has proved so serviceable to ber | Ms connection from such a body the better. merchants during the late war in America The principle of free trade with the world ts no dvabt rapidly taking possession of the world have sneha opportunities for national | existence and rapid mternal developement Leen offered a dependency, og are pow, at the dwposal of the British American Provinees that, situated as these j his litetime than have te undergo long years ot | umprisonment as the reward of his lawless folly. The faet cannot be denied, the League have only, | could not undertake it, and yet at eo mach of a reduction from the, present ordivary rates uf carriage as will, he believes, amount to a clear profit to the State of Hlmois of one hundred millions of dollars annually. As Mr. Metlenry has located fifty millions of capital for the same parties during the past four years, there is no reason to doubt that his statement is the announcement of a well- settled tact in which every farmer and busi- ness wan in the west has an interest.’’ sana Broken Down Generais.—One of the dis- tinguished major-generals in the Confederate service in this State, ie, we learn, about to take charge of the construction and repair of the wharves for one of the contractors with the city. Two Brigadiers have already se- cured places inthe Commercial Express Com pany. One brigadier is prosperously engag- ed in the business of boss drayman. There are other generals who are spoken of as civil engineers on our railroads. Almost every store bas a colonel or major. There are three distinguished eclonels extensively en- gaged in the auction business. One colonel, who has heretofore directed big guns with great skill and beroism in some of the fiercest battles of the war, is now selling bad rope and bagging ; another one of Stonewall Jackson's . ; i Fan Me 2 sant . 2p ty « would be far better for the tenant to pay rent all! favourite regimental commanders, 18 pressing i and right-thinking mar in the COuUMBUDEY as au cotton vigorously. Our lawyer generals, of | whom there are several who stand very high these blemishes. In reading it over ¢ Fs hove been very much taken with it, as | wirabie burst that could have only eseaped from a | soul wrapped in pRetic phrenzy, and eeTurnishing a very artistic finish to an article Which, having | were truth than poetry in all its aher parts, just wanted this offspring of an affluert faney to com- mend it to general admiration. With this ex planation, we hope that our presaic friend +e Liberal” will view the matter in.ts proper light. Mr. Eprror:— I mnst confess that T was a good deal surprised on reading the leading article of the Eraminer of the 16th inst. The marked approval of the policy of our present Conservalive Government expressed therein, was not what T expected from | the Editor of the Examiner. Pretty phrases and | well turned compliments are very pleasant ihings |—in their place; but the following extract from | the aforesaid article is, m my opinion, a little too sweet to be wholesome :—* That their—the Go- i vernment’s — having precured the sending of ltroops at the present conjuncture of our internal relations must be regarded by every truly honest | indisputable evidence of their being possessed of these qualities which are 80 much needed by an ad-| of troops was for the purpose of testing the ques- 20p e not as well | ’ , . in the regards of the people, ar rulers on all such oceasions of popular disquiet British mind; and no nation is better pre-},,, far, gained for the Island anu inenvtable repu-| @ en the othets, owinr to theit excersion | pared for the event. Undoubtedly, so for | tation, ard entangled the much-vexed question | 5 lng oes Seman ian whic bays! as the procucts ot the earth and ocean are | of land tenures worse than ever. Backed by the | te most prosperous business in the law line, | events, wisdom to decermine on the proper course concerned, the principle should universally | military, the government w ill enforce a due ob-| vad aps ° ME Etter) Piebilens rule, inasmoch es tmpedimenis to free ex- = ° = law, = a wih conaian£Pe-| by the test oath.— Ne y ‘“ “a x rowth o arious | Ishment all those who have obstructed the sheri | ae ae re . Glin,’ would scem to be at variance witt| sd his ollicere in the exceution therevt We) A young’ United Ae ok otioel, cables. eae the designs of Providence, and we hope the | cara thet a toree of 25 men and 4 efficers of the | dine committed ewieke “ -y 3 e “ as 101 a ime : : Teeell deo lith Regt. stationed at Charlettetowu have been | age, under most painful circumstances. He. is day ™ aa _ ah whee oT. on a ‘placed under the instructions of a magistrate,| said to have been engaged to a young English trine will be cheerlully accepted by ail peo- and commotion: we inean foresight to anticipate of action, and moral courage to pursue it, how obnoxious soever it may be to the prejudices ol the many.” Now, Sir, with all due deference to | your tperior intelligence and more extended political experience, 1 submit that these virtues tion, whether the law or the rioters could be the stronger. No one can doubt the issue of such a test ; but does it not bring the country into a sad predicament? Here is a class of men who are well able to meet their engagements—who have been warm snpporters of the present Government —who used to sneer at the Liberals as the pro- moters of disorder and discontent — and who growled fiercely at the slightest allusion to the “Bloody Despatch,” which authorised the euppression of disorderly conduct by military foree, and are now compelled themselves to trot inte obedience to the laws, and to act, if possible, as honest men, at the sharp point of the bayonet. We have nota particle of sympathy for them ; but we beg our friends abroad not to believe that our population, to any great extent, is infect- ed by the ruffianiem of the Orangemen in Queen's County. Ttis deep humiliation to know that we must live in the same country with them; and it must severely try the patience of the peaceable and well-dispesed subjects of Mer Majesty in other parts of the Island to know that they must contribute their quota towards the expense ~ curred in suppressing the lawless and riotous | outrages of the Orange rowdies, The Government advocates will, no doubt, say, that the Administra- tion could not prevent the state of things which now disgraces the country. They are not, per- haps, directly answerable in the eye of the law, for the outrages of the Tenant League, and its mis- guided sympathisers; but the agitation which pre- vails is unquestionably the result of a false and deceptive policy on the part of the Government Coit prizes there was no competition, and only | place. t ofeanimals was pretty good. The blood may have something to say to our patrons touch. ion ofF i one iament-| mg our past and prospective career, Some ey horses were a good class, but there waa a iament- | : | leficiency of heavy horses. For the Cart | cellent patrons of andi hates: want may be able deficiency © J beautifully less, when an examination of our books shall enable us to learn their practical valye— must not be surprised if they do not receive our paper, and if interesting niiseives should reach them from the Small Debt Courts in whose viei. nity they reside, We want to wake Tne Ey. AMINER acceptable to those patrons, whose ey port shall be guaged and estimated by their deeds, aud not by their fallacious words, All other kind of patrons may go to well, te the society of the Tenant Leaguers, as nest congenial ty them, +4 he — COLONIAL GoVERNORS.— We are informed by some of our Exchange papers, which appear tabe well acquainted with the facts, that no appoint. ments will be made to any of the Colonial Gy vernorships for the customary period of six weeks —General Williams oceupies the post in Nova | Scotia only for a very brief period a8 Admimig. trator,—My Dundas will return here in November next, but his stay will be brief, we understand ; and the new!y-married Governor of New Brine. three fillies were shown, a very inferior lot The Sheep were very good, and the exhibitors deserve great eredit for having, with so very few facilities fur improvement, got their flocks in sv satisfactory a condition. In the cattle class there was nothing very par- ticular. It is to be regretted that our best breeders take so little interest in this part of the show. Agriculture in this Island being our main and almost our only soutee of wealth, it is unae- countable that so much apathy should exist, both ou the part of the Government and the public generally, with regard to this all-important indus- trial pursuit. Twenty years ago there was far more progress made than there is at the present day. Our Agricultural Society has gradually dwindled down tonothing—or worse than nothing. a useless expense; and no other means of en- couraging improved agriculture has arisen in ite Ifthe R. A. Society is to be allowed te die @ natural death, let our farmers put their | wick does not return to that Province to find, hy shoulders to the wheel, and help themselves.) any means, a permanent lodgment in it, Thig There is nothing to prevent them getting ep | would seem to foreshadow a determination onthe Farmers’ Clubs for mutual benefit, both in dis- cussion of different methods of farmiig, of the advantages of growing flax, hemp, roots, and other crops not at present cultivated, and for im- portation of new implements, seeds, &c. There is a large body of agriculturists in this country sufficiently advanced both in wealth and intelli- geuce to make this an easy matter. They only partof Great Britain to effect a change in her Colonial policy, FROM EUROPE. New Yorn, Oct. 16—The “Nova Seotiag” has passed Fariher Peint with dates te the Sth inet..... 1t is stated that the British Goteritineng proposes to gaurantee the Canadian Loan for the purchase of the Hudscn Bay Tervitery.... Pe . moors “page AP ; and proceeded into the country tor the purpose | lady before leaving for America, and it is surmis- | ) sect 16 alludin 0 this porn ples. Var objec g I . jot arresting the more rioteus of the Leaguers, | is tu introduce the remark that, in wanulac-| and that several of these misguided men have | tures, the same reasoning dves not apply. (been handed over to the tender mercies of thie | If an individual ought to be protected in the) law. A Charlottetown paper adds: “ Scores of | ossession of his own thoughts, skill, aod) write have been issued, and will be issued ; enor-| hook it is difficult to see why @ nation | ous costs will be ineurred, and these costs and | should not be equally secure in the profit of | the rent must be paid. The sheriff may be beaten | its own special manufacturing enterprises, |, but he will return, accompanied by treups, | . i / & d and will do his duty in spite of all the opposition inasmuch as such pursuits ought to be bas of the Laaeee” ‘on superior natural advantages. But t! 18) We would rejoice to see this perplexing agita- | matier must be entirely governed ty policy tion brought te a settlement. The erratic course | and interest. For instance, the U. States, pursued by the Tenant Leaguers will not bring | " my Jel ‘ . . ry . eh. shed-for « 7 ati ‘ i} . y while free from debt, and blessed with the about this much-wished-for Consnimiuation, ad) one to or near Charlotteaville, Va., with in- abundant harvests of avirginsviland thespon-| we doubt whether Her Majesty's Government | taneous growth of the forest and the mine, | will continue te look quietly on without teaching would have he-itated long before adopting | a! concerned a Wholesome lesson—which will be their present high tariffs and commercial ex- | ‘e Terecnting of the Island constitution, and clusivenese. Undoubtedly they would bave Banding the colony over to either Nova Scotia or long continued two exchange their natural New Bruuswick. products fur these of the tacturies of oth aT | countries, where excessive population makes | jabor necessarily cheap. The advucates of - + - — FENIAN ITEMS. A London paper says, the “Republie the ed that he was rejected by her on his return, At | which you have given the Government the credit all events, after writing a letter to the landlady | of the inn where he was staying, he deliberately | shot himeseif through the heart on his bed. He | ce i. ‘ oa course of ac re age to pursue was only 21 years of age, had served two years | COUSe of action, and moral courage to | rc t under General Sherman, and bad won a medal |it,” are precisely those which oar present rulers fur his gallantry. Had of possessing, namely, “ foresight to anticipate events,” “wisdom to determiae on the proper have never exercised. the Government o ‘“ANADA "3 | possessed even a very moderate share of political 2 arena |sagacity they would easily have foreseen that the ASSASSINATION NEAR CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va | inevitable resnit of their shuffling policy on the —The Richmond Tunes says :—* We learn | Land Question would have been to irerease the that a day or two since a military guard was discontent of the tenantry. Whether intentionally : ‘ Se, She oes be’ Wael unintentionally, they raised the hopes and ex structions to arrest a Mr. arris, who was! J : : soneudonaa ‘ee impound witness against pectations ofthe tenantty toan unreasonable height, Benj. W. Green, committed to Castle Thun- jand then by their insincerity and mismanagement ;der on Monday last, fur alleged fraudulent | plunged them into the lowest depths of discouteat | : - : Gi | dealings in government horses The guard, | }itas said, visited Larris’s bouse at nighé, 'and ascending to an upperstory, began ratil-| : ling at the a oes hearing slid Mr, | With and betrayed by those in whom they had = ‘ £ >. & e| and despair. What was to be expected of men who found their most cherished interests trifled Fenians want to set up weuld be composed ot | I. got out of bed and approached the diree- [placed unbounded confideyce? Were not men in regard to the Lan! Question; and we are truly glad that the agitation commenced with, and is chiefly confined to their own supporters. In view of our present state of affairs, we have received from an esteemed correspondent the fol- lowing communication, to which we give a promi- uent place, net because we believe all his fears are well grounded, but because his remarks are entitled to: great consideration, the times being full of peril and demanding extreme watchfulness. We have heard nothing, and of course know no- thing of the “plot” to which “a Tax Payer” refers; but he may rest assured that our rulers would not be so mad as to entertain it; or that even if they did it, the present House of Assem- bly, bad as it is, has patriotism enough to frus- trate it. ON THE PRESENT CRISIS. nian arrests continue—about 206 in all, thus far, have been arrested. A suspicious vessel, flying the American flag, and supposed to be one ef these with arms, bad appeared off Qneenstown, but put to sea’ A strange vessel is said te have septa letter on ehere whieh was opened and found to Goutain a bill for £1000, in faver of a menber jof the Feniau organization. The examination of the six Fenians at Dublin was coneluded on the 2nd. Additional evidence developed nothingnew of moment. Five of the Prisoners were com: ‘ The want something to start them. We shall be happy to do all in our power to further this ob- ject, and a list will be left at Apothecaries’ Hall, when those who take an interest in the matter | ean put down their names, and when a sufficient uuinber comes forward, we will advertize a meeting for the purpose of organizing clubs; and we trust that all who take an interest in the sub- uitted to take their trial for High Treason. prisoners denied that the indiscriminate claughter of the higher classes was ever meditated... .. The publication by the American press of the alleged j holders of the Coutederate loan caused some flute ject will not fail to attend, and earry the thing out in a manner worthy of so important a matter. | The fellowingprizes were awarded :— HORSES. i , Blood Co'ts — Ist prize, Artemas Warren. 2nd do, | _— Laird it horians Liverpoo] pa pers to say Moluchern | thar he never le Wer was interested in any of Blood Fillies—st prize, Mr. McMillan. 2nd Sel that stock ---- The important American torpede Mr. MeGongan. j experinwents took pleee at Chathaw on the 4th Cart Fillies—1st prize, George Clark. 2nd do,| inst.. under the direction of Mr. Donald MeK Duncan Robinson. Dr. Jenkins’ prize was award-| and Mr. Beards!y, in the presence of the Lords of ed to Alex. McPherson. . tle Admiralty. Numerous operations took place, SHEEP. the most important-being the destruction of the D. their now accepted course have been greatly tided by the sudden and actual necessities of the country, owing to their late troubles and cohsrquebt enormous debt, and have aceord- ingly succeeded in shapirg cedure. the effscourings ef transatiuutic rowdyism, of| tion of the noise. Reaching the window he webs of indigenous ragamufiins, and of a theatri-| shoved the blinds Open, ween one of the eal army of bervie tailors, stage-struck counter | guard drew a revolver and fired, killing bim : jumpers, and attorneys clerks pining to be taken | instantly [larris’s wife being eluse behind, TO. ent . ; ’ i ; . ‘ : ue national pro- | mto eustudy. | the second barr] of the pistol was then fired bh the B bh Progi has The New York Herald thinks Ireland ean as} at her, but fortunately tne toad did no otber a = “se aie ee $8, 16 1@ DOW | readily vbtain “freedom” as Ltaly, especially #=| damage than cutting off one of her fingers. oan . en ; se d eed rei , of ate bee & Gren friveddn amerie. Itadds: “ We Ac this tume a gentleraan named ileiskell, iemtaily change ; te want recugiize’ her i ritivere rs i , ; : 7 een Muieriaily ¢ " y the wants o will recognize’ her as a belligerent power at th | who was visitiny Mr. Harris's lamily, sprang their neurest neighbours, and the narrow first note of battle, and we will biacken the at- : . , : from his bed and ran to the door in the first mindedness of thuse neighbours lately mani-| mosphere of every climate with the smoke ot fested in their disposition to abrogate the «x- burnings British vessels, fired by [rish-Ameriean | SFY of the house, to see what was the mat- | isting Treaty. li the United States choose Alabamas. This is the lessen that England has | ter, rages either the — ee a ae te be ** penny wise and pound fovlish ” in taught us, and in the very words of English hate, | equal y 'ntent on muruer. love OG BS Ferre ohale dime. = Be Gunes. whe.the Peacin. "@t shall go hard, but we will better the example.’ jer at him, and was in the avt of firing, when ces should ivilow them. Let these boldiy set) Quenee, Oct. 6.—A Fenian recruiting agent | an officer oe _ =p — gprs 9 the example on this continent—which wil] | %9% @fested in the Jesuit Barracks yesterday | We*pon out o vs Taiawoed eventually be followed by ail Let theia,| ii# vame is Jobo Dyer, a tailor, and he was doubtless, saving Mr. Lleiskel!’s life. oad ie. < away in she e ; ~.* handed over to the police by a sergeant of the} = W hy the guard simply sent to make an 4 ’ + lac ; ola : : . e rr i. oe Wein a = Cus 7th Fusiliers, on a ebarge of attempting to enlist | arrest, should bave thus so strange Py acted, , i“ e endan OV 7 . + om pees eS / is a subj ct of great mystery. a private of the Fusiliers into the Fenian Brether- — a t sa aan, St | hued The prisuner is a tall, good-looking young Mr. Harris, we Jearn, was highly respect- secondiy as between themselves collective Yijman, and iv the employ of Mr. Reid, tailer,| on,” : = . q AAP gia i A apd the mether country, then on fair and) Mount Hill. The sitions took him into a side 7 ; a we = ee ae ieee ree equitable terms with therr American cousins, revm when ‘the prisoner gave him the Fenian eth is aoe ement io the vicinity or the uc- bod’ Sauily-with the world at large. Mean- etip. He was sent to jail pending further | CUrteuce. time they should turn their attention to the ¢*4mination, : Oiiiitihe vihieae ite a ae opening up and cultivating their own wide _ The following advertisement appears in a New | ‘ te i A estes aa ey fdr ‘es spread and teeming fivids, forests, and min« 8, York paper sa }qua : : = of. Bt rn t — ee ’ " nee ebeerfully submitting to the lighter direct “AnMs Wawntep. ~ Returned soldiers who) per ee wie nrcilepe conveye to tax necesvary to the diminished eXpenses of have Speneer or Henry rifles or carbines, ean | the Unite States by American speculators. their guvernment. They would ‘soon find dispose of the same by calling at reows Nos. 6| 5inee the drain commenced, the prices’ of manutacturing enterprises spring up, in ar- and 7, 47 I ine Street. N.B —None will be pur-| prodace have augmented, but this fact does tieles of Mheie oom peeuliatly cheap raw pro- cheered frow Feviaus intendinggo emigrate jnot cheek the ran on the markets, A om- ductions, such as | ather, lumber, heavy The Toronto Leader says, “there is in this fresh | menting upon this fact the Montreal Gazetle wetalse.&: i which would much more than ee aie ae — the oe ye, : compensate for the comparacively small 1s tie denier ie ies “ syina, their ** This ‘process will leave a good deal of sustained in other forced manulacturing in! pefarious work. There abt deehe eases /Money in the country — especially if the terests. Should such be the course of action, that these mischiefmakers are working with geeenbacka are converted into real money ; and, that section taken without delay, t | great earhestuess in their wicked privacy ; but | and Wwe should fancy the excited, indeed sime is not far distant when men now living their scheme is so ridiculous that it will end in, (Urious speculation, which a greatly too re- would read of ships, laden with merchau-| many of their dupes getting an opportunity te} dandant currency bas created, would lead, Uize at Liverpoul and London, entering at proclaim their eleventh bour repentance or their in this country at least, to a natural desire the muuth of the St Lawrence, and emerging wolish ebéilition of tnisplaced patriotisan upon the | tu be eautious in this respect. The enormous with other cargoes from the mouth of tie ocull ld. It is said that hurdreds of yeung wet volume of paper currency afloat has, un- Mississippi, and of others, laden tor India, 8! Det induced to leave Canada to join this - * forlor hope.’ Ww yee » @ ate i 7 uploading at the wharves of Upper Lake dated” aye? Ve hope the estimate is over Superior into cars destined to cross tie pivigsnnnnininscouitieitiiaiis sie | pervading desire among our neighbours to Pacific. UNITED STATES. buy up everything The return toa specie Theso views to some may now ezem vision. | — | basis appears for the present a mere chi- ary; but when able and practical engineers) Wasmixctox, Oct 15.—The reeord of the| of whi 2 eo of ee mfation, have shown that a ship canal connecting the- testimony in the Wirz trial makes 5000 fouls Of which nobody can see the consequences or waters of ihe St. Lawrence River with those C*P pages, divided into seventy parts, and) end, 18 @ much more likely occurrence. of Lake Huron, and Lake Michigan wich Contains between 300 and 400 objections and) With all the patriotism of the Americans, the Missixe:ppi, can be constructed at a cost. rulings of the court. One hundred and sixty | greenbacks cannot be regarded as a very sale jess than one months’ expenditure in thie) Witnesses were examined on both sides, seve-| F unexceptional weenie in which to hold war just closed, is it too much to expect that ral of whom were individually on the stand | money value, while their rapid conversion this progressive age will realize the fact? See examination im chivf and eross-| Wi!!! wake money plentiful in this country ag " ‘ . tle i ation. sameibednebe Bese aed: _ i the defence, thought it would take him seve: depletion of farming stocks without some ap- place of words, we will undertake to find the eight days to properly read this mass of | prehension, despite the high prices. willing capital idr the enterprise either in| “eSttmony, in addition to the subs-quent task | 2 : London or New York.—New York Albicn,| 0! ¢Xamining all the points cf law, and last | The Toronto Globe, vf late date, in course Oct. 7. jof all, the criticisms of the different classes of an article on the vil question, says :— a | of testimony and the writing out ot his argu-|"' There has been of late an evident spreading A Civek to 4 Crime PoLtowsp up.—A short| ment. He inswted on having two full weeks| Of what is sumetimes called the oil fever in time ago, a boy. not fiiteen years of aye, en-| for the performance of his labor, Saying it Canada. The excitement is no longer con- tered a jeweiler’s shop upon the Boulevard, | was utterly impossible for him to complete itl fined to Vil Springs and Bothwell, nor even and showing a swail ingot of metal stained in a shorter period of time. The court at) to that seetiun of the country which is usu- with mad, demanded to know if it was gold first gave him eight days, and afterwards ex-| ally termed the oil district. People are not or silver, stating at the same time that le! tended to him the limit of twelve, but Mr ) only looking for petroleum elsewhere, bat had found it in the street. ‘The ingot was of Baker would take nothing less than two; they are putting up the price of real estate, silver, and tte value the jeweller estimated ut weeks from Monday, and tailing in this be | 0 the strength of * indreations ’* which fali 44 franes.—** Very well,’’ said the boy,| chose to eabmit the case without argument. very far short of proving that profitable wells ** band me ever the money, and keep the bit Colonel Chipman, the judge advocate, is; May be sunk. More than that, in some in- of silver."’ ** The law won't let medo that,’ already preparing his argument, promising | stances, farms have actually been sold im such replies the cautions jeweller. “ All objects| to cover the ground on both sides, and will) localities et prices altogether beyond their found in the public way must be left with the | read it next Wednesday, when, us is usual | agricultural value—-solel y because a little oil commssaric de police, and if at the end of maesuch cases, the court will sit with closed; ay be found in them, and there is hope that twelve months they have not been claimed, dovrs, and proceed to consider and make up. a larger supply may be obtained.” they are yours by the law.’’ The boy, not| their findings in the case before them. = likemg the turn things were taking, would! have made off, but the jeweller stepped him) BURNING OF A BRIDGE ON THE NEW and hapded bim over tu the police. His con. | YORK AND NEW HAVEN RAILKOAD. feasion was soon made. Alter much shore! New York, Oct. 15 —The bridge of the questioning, be owned to having purlvined) New York and New Haven Railroad over a the ingot out of a box which fis father, a| creek near Greenwieh, took fire about 9 baker, kept ia a cellar, Thata baker should | o'clock’ last evening from the sparks of a lo- keep segots of silver in bis cellar at once © x-| eomutive, and was destroyed. Passengers by cited the Buepicion of the authorities, and! the might train going east were lerried over, sume police-vflicers called upon bim to an-| causing a delay of several hours. The 8 30 nouuce their intention of making certaia per-! train trom Boston watted at New Haven for quieitions in his cellar. The baker chang “| the other train till 6 o'clock this morning, | to these colnmos, is entiiled to the post of honor; cea toeeTe eee rae reached : the see ut oven 8 o'clock.! and in giving it, our friend will pereetve how > — ao police) Through the inetlivieney of the railroad offi-| meekly we take the reprimand which bis letter into the ** eave.’’ The search resulted in the} gals in not providing prompt and suitable! a : ‘ diseovery of several boxes contarning parna-! conveyance, the passengers were detained four | M°"o* The article referred to was written by lated eilver, and also many ingots similar tw hours at Greenwich, reaching this city az| another valuable contributor, whe discharged the onewffered tor purehase to the jeweller. | half. past one thisafterooon. A passenger by, the principal duties of the editeral chair during — ee ee oor : | the oe ct west 7 ae a culvert ,our recent absence from the Colony, and who, 7 — ” . & Gepostt in the darkness last night, and was serivusiy | > “r occas as embelli from a crmad who was employed in a a | if mot fatally injured. eas veaniios te Bee | on many Sayres r occaawns, has embellis hed these ical manufactory. The clue thas given was’ To-day a horse and wagon backed uff the columus by the productions of his pen. In the quickly followed up, and this employee w 4! embankment, killing the borse. {t will be| °*¥berance of his faney aud the flow of his elo- ulso arrestegs» By further confessions it was | ten days or # lurtnight belure the bridge can quence, he iv, like many other great writers, discovered the latter person bad bevn | be repaired. | net exempt (row the tricks which a tuo facile in the habit Tor years past of stealing from hams uk clot ‘tn! “ile tienen: Irermeiet: food ts his employers large quantities of siiver, which | INDIAN HOSTILITIES. , P p s rn nome cms xtment; Were melted dowa by his friend the baker. | N Cater tet. Uh ths iced i and we, who are not moved by the divine afllatus, end with the produce of such robberies lie | Washin a a ieeL ag eon ome ‘ee that we should not criticise too closely every) was on tie eve of concluding an arrangement | aa "pe is ea’ Dasie ; Cit “abies , ri | Senfence or paragraph from the pen of a gifted’ | to take a large manutactory for hiimse Set ee ge ee eT Thus the dishonesty of the son has led to 27th ult. Gen. Connor had surprised the Writer. A fine editice is not to be wholly con- | the ruin of the tather, and will doubei | Lodians on Tongue Kiver, killing 50 and cap-| demued because there may be dlemishes in parts conduct his father's friend to the gallows — | turing all the wirter stores and ti00 horses | of it,—a poem may have some feeble lines, but if Scotsman. ii Che Exaniner, Charlottetown, October 23, 1865. “BROUGHT TO BOOK.” Tue following communication from not merely a consistent Liberal, but a valuable contributor 7. x , ’ . ' i ,¢ i : | Colonel Coles had had aneee Cape fighting, | there be numerous noble passages amidst its killing and wounding over 2.0 Lodians, and| Dovemntei; t would toe : | Scattering them, with the loss of their stores, | ” . a = a s ory » Geaeeds wn ee a quipage and several chicle. © | author because he gives us these reminders of of the classic Mount Olympus, thirty milos ce casuals oe ts billed and aa ga erring human anata as (uriher illuStrati f Santtenentaiet ee ameense : f : ‘her illustrations o' ; rs the proneness to nod which appears to be the lot govery tor the Mediteranean steamers, which} G_. e ie =. ako pp e the lo qn ebtain their fuel from it. The mine is “@4NTIC Secure —Mr. McHenry, who is . 5 atlas tee shtsiin bi i} i of ail imaginative writers since Homer's time to sor ro e wth road | already successfully worked. ere : ee ee ae present hour. cs dai ¢ | appetite of Sir Morton Peto, made an address | Tne British Empire ede prince enerce of-nene| during the recent Progress of the British cap-; When we read the article to whih our excel- ly 7,609,000 square mtles—about tyree times tie | ee civee aoe aa me Melles ts lent friend “ a Liberal” refers, after it had been ster of the model Republic. Mer subjects nn | from the Chicago Tridune:—* Mr. McHenry laced in t ds he pri iu ber 240,000 ,006—U ele Sau’s oueeighth as many, States that bimseif and those he represents ae late: heeteat He prranhs et ae es Her feet carries 26,000 yuns~Jonatian's S760. | will earry a double track, broad guage, rail-| Teturn to the Island, we were—(and the feeling rs ial cleans | road from New York to Chicago, with vala-| was such as we havealways experienced on reading A soldier was smoking in a railway ear-' able improvements in communication, so us! the productions of tie same erudite pen )—pleased | oe France, and imprudently threw w/t send at least four express trains per day with the copious and majestic flow of the sens hgh watch upow the floor of the vehicle. | from that city to the east, vod to carry CMP i ssetce is od with the truthful Sieursly aftorwards the dress of a young girl and other produce from Chicago to New York | “O° MMPFesseé Wh the truthfulness of the : facts set forth in the body of the article, — oe A oval mine has been discovered at the foot = was found to be on fire, and bo fore the fames | ander forfeiture, within five days. at a much : and not, Id be extimyuished she was so serivusly | lower rate of freight than has ever yet been disposed to eavil at the small blemishes vie | buret that der life is despaired ot. | charged, and this not only in the summer, | might flow from the fulluess of a tuo ardentima |so outraged and disgusted rady to listen to the | wildest and most visionary schemes of heated (fanatics ot designing demagogues ? Vhen the Tt has gone forth from the organ of the Goe- vernment that the Troops are to remain here at the cost of the inhabitants of this Island, — that patient fiuds that the remedies of bis physician l only increase his diseomfort avd aggravate his | disease, is be not likely to become the victim of ‘his own ignorance, or the dupe of the first un Know- ing, as the majority of the Government wust have kuewn, that the labours of the Land Comission would euly result in grief and disappointment, i . . . | principled quack that offers bis service ? were they net short-sighted in the extreme to | buoy *he people up with false hopes and never-to- | be-realised expectations?) Why, in the name of | common sense, did they keep up the delusion to | the latest moment possible? Knowing, too, as jthey inust have kiown, the deep rooted dislike ‘that existed in the country to the provisions of I the Fitteen Years’ Purchase Bull, why did they, {in the face of the strongest aud most general ex- is, that three-fourths of the population, leyal Rest Ram of any age, J. 8. McLeod, 7 £1 0 St. Peter's Road, hg Best Ram Lamb, Geo. Tweedy, Cherry a Valley, 5 seat Pen of Ewes, Benj. Wright, themselves, and uncennected with any confede- annually, to enferee the collection of rents from ly lawless, misguided minority. It need not be | carhedacda eo a Ewes. asked whether this is just or proper. If the ; CATTLE civil power is, as it is said, inadequate to the Sest Bull—~Alex. McKinlay, Esq., £1 10 performance of its duty, let the cost of employing do Cow—~Alfred LePage, ia the military be from those townships in which PIGS. disaffection and resistance aye exhibited. Rest Boar Pig—P. McLaren,Lermi- It is high time that our representatives should 7 sow ~Cleo. Lande. Rayaley : : look the matter boldly in the face, fer the eountry wiceLe commexpan. is, apparently, on the brink of rain. It is reported oe.’ Weitiich Gee alee that a plot to subvert the Constitution—to make Steph n Rovxer. for Ball Nea uz a Crown Colony, or an appendage te some ear "Ta tuenieee old Bull, | neighboring Government—has already been eon- ee DistincersneD Visrrors.—Dr. Charles Me- | | coeteda, and with hardly any attempt at eonceal- | | racy whatever, are to be taxed many thous inde | 1 Do Ewe Lambs, Do A. HIGHLY COMMENDED. Ilenry Loneworth, Esq . for Ram Lambs. for Ewe Lambs. } ao co sailing frigate TT rpsichore. "Two hundred and | seventy-five (275) powder turpedoes were placed jat the depth of seven feet below the keel, when the electric spark was conminnicated. There 0 | was a dull rt, vessel quivered. and in 0 a tew moment ® settled down on an even keel, not a splinter ws « / Oe nki The Bank of England hae reised the of discount to sex percent... Bullion: ed during the week L777.000 sterbg Console SE to Oe. Ce Breddstufls continued quiet and firm at previous quotations..... Provisions firm. oO 0 FROM THE STATES. New Yor Oct. 17, p. m.—A large fire in this city last vight destroyed property, consisting of cotton and liquers, to the amount of one million ” | dollara..... Advices from Belize state that the 0) English Government hos repudiated the attempt made by Maximillien, in 1864, to extend the boundary of the Mexiean Eupire inte Britich Honduras by means ofa military mail from Ynea. }tan. Maximilian arquiesers,.... \aviees from | Mexico ceutirm late reports of the activity of the jsupporters of Jaurez. Leading republicans are i : , . . . detraying the expense of eruing the guerilla . : i Pe eae ilushingly: made the pression of public opinion, furce that measure | meat, and the assertion unblushingly made that /upon the country? Could they nut see that this) 00 legislative election will ever again be held in | was the last feather that was to break the camel's | this Island. If the members of the present House Kay, the American correspondent of the Landon | 28608 at Snape ae ae Saw Soper | oe tear wis bial he ot } Was decidedly declining. .... Gold 146, |} Temes, and Mr. Jiniay, the correspondent of the . Se iis oe ” oT t a a | New Yorn, Oct, 14, p. m—The Herald's | Mexican letter of the Ist. inatant states that the | London Daily Telegraph, have been on a visit to | doubtedly, quite as much to do as te open- | - oh : . . op sae0s , ° ‘asi ty ing of the Southern markets, with the all- | fect impossibilities. When at last they were in| "UP!easant duty. | had delayed much Jonger there is no Goubt but back?) Then, when owing to the blunders and the manifest insincerity of the Government, the people | yond precedent, our far seeing prompt and ener | jgetic rulers became completely paralysed. Ip- stead of nipping the mischievous o ganization in| The coming Session will witness the struggle for | place we inhabit, and of the strange p: pping g Ps . ta iL gn ithe bud they allowed it to gaia strength daily, | political exisffnce. The true patriot will then yive interest, without piquancy or eelat, to the supineness Was a positive encouragement to the The Unionists | very soon found that the Government were afraid of them, and began to imagine that they could ef- ‘growth of the Tenant Union. |some sort roused from their iethargy, their pro- | ceedings were of the most feeble and ineffective | character. They contented themselves with is- | suing a high-sounding proclamation—the only ef- | fect of which was.to bring the vice regal authori- | ty into contempt. The Unionists were more and | more convinced of their invincibility, and became | bolder and more insolent every day.+ Tnen was |} enacted the sublime farce of the posse commitatus, Mr. Baker, of the counsel for, for own part, we cannot regard the’great | which set the whole country ina roar of laughter | | trom East Point to West Cape. This ridiculous parade of empty authority on the part of the Go- vernment did more than ayything else to in- crease the baueful influence of the Tenant Union. The truculent heroes of the Tenant Union sound- eda triumphant blast from their diseordant tin \tru:mpets, aud bank notes filled the pocket-book of its treasurer, till it assumed somewhat pletho- ric dimensions, The Sheriff and his officers soon foifnd it impossible to execute their duties ; and ‘the country was, (solely owing to the incapacity of the Government), 1n a most confused and dis- jturbed state. Then, at the eleventh heur—mov- od: we know not by what influence-athe Go- |‘ vernment applied for a detachment of soldiers. j And are the Government eutitled to any very | great credit for having been foreed into a mea- If they jsure which could no longer be avoided ? | that the Administrator of the Government would | bave sent for soldiers on his own responsibility. This he wou'd have done had George Adams been Prime Minister, and What's his name MacNeill been Colonial Secretary. To sum ap—the Go- vernment found the country in peace and quiet- ness. * By their double dealing and unpopular le- gislation they so soured and irritated the tenantry that they weve ready to rise in rebellion whenever they found any one bold enough and uuprincipled enough to lead them. Ly their want of determi- nation and energy they allowed a disloyal and sedi(ious association to assume furmidable propor- tious ; and new the organ of the Opposition must | give them credit, for 1 kuow not what virtues, | because they at last had recourse to a measure whieh, ina few days, would have been forced upen them, willingly or unwillingly. Whatever _you way think, Sir, my opinion is that they are entitled to no credit whatever in this matter. On the coutrary, I sincerely believe that the present Government is responsible for many of the evils that will most undoubtedly aecrue to the Colony } fare content that it should be so, little mere can | be said. selves were induced te seek legislative distinction, jor leave to their eons a heritage of lasting shame. ; and at last to become a power in the land. Their | %* Known and honored, and the finger of scorn | pointed at the recreant who betrays bis trust. A word oer two.in cenelasion. It is ungenerous and unmanly to taunt and ridicule our military friends, Theyare here in the performanee of an They have hitherto acted with | the greatest moderation and forbearance; and | when the opponents of law and order have been brought to a sense of their duty, our gallant sol- diers will no doubt gladly withdraw and leave us to ourselves. A TAX PAYER. ‘ jit i TESTIMONIAL TO TUE REV. MR. TRUDELLE The Rev. Mr. Trudelle, lately organist in St. Dunstan’s Cathedral, and President of the Choral Society—having been translated to a distant parish in the western end of this Island, a few of his personal friends in this parish prepared an address to him, which they accompanied by a small purse, and both were presented by a deputation on Mon- day evening last. The address is as follows:— To THe Rev. Az. TRUDELLE. Very Dear and Reverend Vriend— We. a few of your personal friends amongst the Cathoalie eommnnity of Charlottetown, have heard that it is your intention to remove te an- other and distant part of the diocese. This infor- mation has given us much pain; butat is relieved hy the reflection that the change is made under the direction of our excellent Bishop, and that, ordered by his superior judgment, it must be for the best; besides, we are assured that in the contemplated translation, you will be placed in a higher position than that which you recently occupied amongst us. Your uinwearied and snecessful services in eon- nection with the Choir of the Cathedral, in en- couraging and cultivating a taste for music, and your great efforts in procuring an organ for the Cathedral—by = which the solemnity of publie worship has been so much enhanced—furnish strong claims upon our grateful remembrance. These claims are largely strengthened by the reflection. that the establishment of the St. Cecilia Choral Society owes its foundation te your zeal, and its usefulness to your guidance— which has been the means of promoting the good | work of charity by numerous concerts, and in- stilling into the minds of young persons, who would o!berwise have been destitute of the bless- ing, a taste for that divine art in which you are so proficient, and which refiues and elevates its possessor. Animated by these recollections, we beg of you, Reverend Sir, to accept this slight expression of | oar regard, together with this Purse, containing the sinall but geod-will offerings of a very few of your personal friends (Signed, on behalf of the friends of the Rever- end gentleman). : E. Wuevan, D. O'M. Reppin, 7 Joun Murpny, Committee, Wittiam Wirsoyn, | Charlottetown, Oct. 16, 1865. REPLY: from the mad proceedings of the Tenant Umn. | If, Sir, you had characterized the Governwent of | this Island as one of shifts and expedients, with-! out a settled policy, and without principle, you, would, I think, have been much nearer the frutth.4 Regretting that now, for the first time, I have! been obliged to differ so widely from you, T remain yours truly, i A LIBERAL. Queen's County. : ; ——_—_—rapee THE “BLOODY DESPATCH” AGAIN IN| FORCE — RENT DEMANDED AT THE) POINT OF THE BAYONET. Ox Wednesday last a detachment of soldiers | left Charlottetown, under thecommand of Capt. | Russell, acempauied by a Magistrate, the Sheriff and his officers. Their destination was Lot 65) —a settlemeat wherein Orangemen and Govern- | ment supporters at the last election had a very | decided majority—and their object was to enable the Sheriff's officers to serve writs fur rent. It appears that an attempt was made to effect a) Hon. E.Wueran, Joun Murpay, W.Wutsoy. D. O'M. Repoin, Esgas. Gentlemen— i this Island Jolh the during the past week. took the settlewent of the Land Question out of | They will surely pause before they venture 4:3 opinion in England, and their utterances are re-| their hands, and for that purpose formed them- disfranchise their own constituents, quetich that | garded with much interest on this | selves into an association, Uiegal and disloyal be-| Spirit of landabls ambition by whieh they them- | Atlantie. Dr. i | and there is no doubt that he will inform the | milhons ef readers of the Times of what a queer) flicers in Mexive, but t McKay madé a protracted atry »}ULS Consul presented himself three days in one But they will hardly go that length. | papers mentioned are the great oracles af public joi the palace «fiices in order te make a claim in Hfaverof a Frenclwan. ffe sent his card, and was loformed that he was unknown there, and side of the | the best he could de was to quit the palace unless he wanted tobe pnt ont by the palace gnard..... | Maximilian’s Secretary of War offered te muster jinte the Emperor's service all the Confederate hey refused the propesi sople. who | Hen, adding that they could serve hely under the | Uuited States flag, that they might have trowbles : jwueng themselves, hot that wae ne peasoy for present state of our society, }them to forget that they were North Americans — jand Republicans, and consequently unwilling to . a i, Wie! Bb . hdefend ap empire teld 146 | “Tne Nurse ann Spy."—This is the title of | O°?" 2” empire. ..-- aoe ae : . . Mew York, Oct, 13.— "ast la very attractive volume, lately issued from the | ew Youn, Oct. -18. A ” aaingran Ge : : 2 ‘ .f | patch of yesterday says: “The President te |; American press, in which the authoress, Misa S |day reeeived a petition signed by five thonsanl ee : | incidents connected with the late Ameriean war i | The style of the work is easy, flowing, and we 3 j may add familiar, but so diversified with pleasing anecdotes and soulstirring episodes eonnected with the late war as to make it one of the most valuable and interesting records connected with that great event. The book has been warm- ly recommended to public notice by many distin guished American writers, and amongst the rest no less a personage than the late lamented poetess Mra. Sigourney, has given her testimony in ite favour. Miss Edmonds is at present making a short stay on the Island, and will, we have no doubt, make a better impression on the minds of an intelligent public by her own presence, than any hasty notice of her book could procure for her. — —@s ee - Civy Tatk.—-“ The talk is that there are two correspondents of two leading English journals ; how on the Island;”’ and the talk further is. that they have in union action mutually eschewed notoriously unsound beer, as being unfitted for intelligent) gentlemen’s use, tables, tastes and habits. The talk is, that the somebody pumpkins here, being annexationists to the United States, are marked for their anti-British .poliey and dis- loyalty to our Queen and country ; and the stern fruits of seditious animus will be admiyistered to them at the propec time.—Com. — + e- — Souris, Oct. 17.—The fishings in this district are now almost over for the season. The shore boat fishery has been the most unproductive ever known, in codfish and hake partienlarly, The Mackerel fishery was something better, yet much under an average. The deep sea fishing in schooners is “tillon the increase from this port, there being 13 schooners this year, against 10 last, It is to be regretied that their success has been only very moderate; the cod fishing being almost a failure, the highest having not over 200 tls. The catch of Mackerel was greater, but very pr- regular, sume having made good fares, while © hers did not cover outfits. In the Herring fish- Ing, ovly one vessel made her full fare. ‘The catch of all fiish is much under an average, aud notwithstauding the bigh prices, curers and fitters will make a heavy loss on the seasou’s busiuess. There are five vessels still out.—Com. ae - > Fentanism Denounce. — Another Roman Catholic Bishop, Dr. Feeney, has loudiy de- nounced the Fenian conspiracy. He declares that, even thongh it were lawful to take up arms against England, it would be impossible to find the disciplined hosts who could sue- eesfully confront the greatest empire on the globe. ++ Is it not,’’ says the rev. dignitary, Please accept my best thanks for your very | kind address, and purse accompanying it, and) rest assured that the agreeable time I have) spent among my friends of Charlottetown will | be among the most pleasing remiviscences of my life. : As I have not been able to sueceed, notwith-| standing no small efforts on my part, in leaving | the Organ of St. Dunstan's Cathedral clear of| debt, I sball take great pleasure in handing the! contents of the purse into the Organ fund, while | I shall keep the Purse itself ax a grateful Souvenir) of the geserosity of the good parishioners of Charlottetown. I remain, Gentlemen, Your very obedient sery’t, AZ. TRIQDE Ee. Oct. 16, 1865. - ae —<>e- --— Coal in New York sells for eleven dollars ton. In London, witha popalation of three milliong to be sup; lied from fields two han-. dred and fifty miles distant, the price of coal is five dollars and a quarter. ** the rankest nonsense, a libel upon the pes- Sessurs of the least reason, to fancy that this horde of undisciplined men, without arms, without Commissariat, without leaders, can meet in fair fight legions that in far less pro- pitious times felled the Gaul at Waterloo and smote the Czar far away from their beloved England, on the slopes of Alma?’’ In eon- clusion, Dr. Feeney admonishes his fluck to tuke warning in time. and cease to have any connection with an *‘unholy alliance, branded by God and his Church, and condemned by by all men of sense.” — > 0 Capt. Joseph Covell, of Jay, in Maine, has beeu appointed America Consul to P. B. Island, in the room of J. LH. Sherman. deceased, ——— cee o—_- __ A man, 90 years old, was robbed in New York of $50, which he had laid aside to buy a cotfin with. The Providence Journal thinks he will hardly be able now **to pay the debt’’ | of Dature. |} Emma E. Edmonds, who is, we understand, aj Wemen of the State of Georgia, native of New Branawick, narrates many thrilling aut-) praying for the Sundar memorials, but | het so numeronsly signed, are reeeived almost | daily pone Gold 146. ee CORRESPONDENCE. | (FOR THE EXAMINER ) | The death of Miss Gordon at Boer’s Mill Pond bas brought to light some of the mis jmanagement of the Government and their | «sfficials. I shall state a few faets in eon- | nexion with this disgracefal affiir, and tes the publhie be the judges. Twelve months jago, Mr. Commissioner Campbell was heard |to say that he would not take his horse over ‘the bridze at Beer's Milt Pond for £100. Now, Sir, | ask did Mr. Campbell notify the |Government of the dangers to which the | public were exposed in crossing such a rotten fabric? And al he did, why was it not put in repair at onee lor the safety of the travell- |ing public? About three months sinee Mr. | Alley, the Superintendant of Public Works, jeame to inspect the Bridge and condemned jit. He would not take his horse aeross it, /but fetehed oats from Mr Beers to feed his horse at the other end, being fully satisfied thatit was not safe tomaketheuttempt. A /new plan was sunmitted for the building of ia new one, and the work that Mr. Beers performed which cost the ecountryfabout £100; | was to be torn down, and I suppose sent jadrift to Cape Breton, : | The buriding of a new Bridge was adver- | tised, and the day of sale came off. The | party that took the contract saw, or heard, | that they would be in debt if they attempted | to do the work according to contract—theg | found a loop-hole and got themselves clear of | the contract. , This would not be a herd | matter for them, when we eonsider they "0 supporters of the Government party. Di Mr. Alley, when he returned to Charlotte- town, tell his masters the true state of that Totten fabric? Or when the eontractors gob 'clear from their oblizations, did Mr. Alley | urge on the Government the necessity of im- mediate repairs? LItappearsngt. suppose | he was too busy engaged making out a tens, der for the new Barracks. A few days afte | this fatal accident ocenrred, Mr. Alley wae }seen again at Montague—was it to sell the | building of a new bridge? No, no; strange (to say it was to give a job of petting new stringers and covering pieces on work that he } condemned three months befure, This was | done by private contract Tor £130; and. Sify, |if Mr. Alley bad put up the work at publie competition at that time it would have been jtaken as low as £100, or even £90. But Mr. Alley was very busy hiring men to work jatthe Barracks. Ile had no time to look vafter that which he was expressly sent to do. | Never, while Mr. Thornton held office: a8 | Commissioner of Roads, were the bridges in | this District allowed to beeome so dilapidated, | that it is not safe for man and horse to cross over them. But these daysure gone by. We have new members to represent us, and new officials to carry ont their instructions. Henee the rotten state of cur bridges Now Sir, the questions tor ghe publie to Judge of are the following :—Did Commis sioner Campbell, alter stating the dangerces state of the bridge, notify the Government accordingly? If not, he is certainly to be blamed for the accident. If he did notify the Government, the case stands otherwise, | hotwithstanding the judgment displayed by | Mr. Alley in condemning the bridge in May, /and in August following give a private con- pardoa of Jeff Davie” | tract to cover the work he so lately com |demned. oping, Sir, that those disgrace | ful neglects in poblie officials will open the eyes of the people to express their contemps of such proceedings at tha hustings the next general election, is the sincere wish of AUTOPTICAL. Lot 59, Sept. 25th, 1865.