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Prof. Anderson, Wizarp or THE NORTH, etc AVDA te — en ous aes - : ; — SE ssicruscomats 15.900 | DANGEROUS LEGISLATION, : oP 5 ue ig : . anaes ann te every 40,007 . jecengsbe When a short time before |} vl » to THE BR ¥ { Vi NER together with the proceedings of this meeting’ | Dominion which are not to be found here, | was, from ee : : 3 which F the Toronto Mail} ‘urope to recrt Sa ; . ee Aniki al ee aaa . : eS ee ; @ cases rom the Toro J I ope to uit his he P said 4 hh dhe te 4 “ht to the Secretary of State and the several | 7) truth, the two countries may be said | whilst 1m more than half th [ ‘n which the Dominion that ines was caused by his h ‘i, vant sain , si _| Senators and Representatives in Congress Fl | lid we. the loss was traced to the | The bold manner in w nich th Lou.g Wrune with disappointment because | IS PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY FORENOON | trom New England to be the complement of each other—one | did occur, 6h of ; t lost made | Government have used their Parliamentary oe} faile y +} Y> } :_ : . i i ™ \ ; : * Bost ae > AmMouH ; she ) Ss , ” i va . oe oer wpa BY THE These resolutions were earried. In| has what the other wants. To keep ap! persons in fault, = ‘strength during the present session, to £2@ (oir, Stewart) had seen ¢ igh of } r A ° . ‘ . a +6 i § 5 , £ i larity He would 1 hatin ; advoenting their passage, Mr, Edward the barrier of prejudic which revenue , good. i] for the | centralize power in their own hands, is one ri would m 1w eal ‘ ae ee _ ; ’ o> dt tee Le sidered right, what ever might be thought Rxaminer Printing & Publishing Co. Atkinson made a very able speech—in | restrictions have raised, vould be unwise ee f tl 3 089 were | Of its worst features. One cannot well I ‘oo Sad > : : 3 sane 496 BRG. 8 Ics O,VCe . . s rislati a him Pr % h dece] ad be OFFICE which he aside. and impolitie to the last degree, There | year was 426,886, and of t a. fancy more dangerous legislation than that ‘racticed, an too many fais a le ° : L ¢ ! , if e »on deat ate Pd ° pe a . a a : . out ui matter, seals ok hat : : Tremomber the enthusiasm with which our) were peculiar reasons growing out of the | registered. Unpaid postage contained in the passage of this resolution : oe le cael, os : rreat Governor Andrew spoke of the lower! ., . . ts Peete oF O00, That it is expedient to authorize the Gov« eume A the magnitude x h it did Refers Corner Queen and King Streets. Ri — ~ arevte j sae : te disasters oceasioned by our civil war for | ters was about $9, * That it is a “° : : ea nee had bee le jas +} } " : oo ve la: dean . ' el’ * ee anor in (% : s Giscretic advance ee pa and ete ae a a iI TER MS—Per Anaum, 81.62, if paid} 09 the last time I dined with him bef the alteration of the old treaty, which | RE WATER PROHIBITED. ernor in Council in his di a - pa Report fr ms th It i ss within the year—S1L.82, | stave paid: 82 if | bis deat He compared Nova Seotia ar nod bean in operation for ten out: bat FIRE d sth from time to time to any Province 0 : rom the Inspector of [ducation for am oe geen oe ee is sian inh ses inaral wealt! ad bee eration 10 B Jonre, Se | ——— i vias on Q require oO! that Province, and he would r ad a few ex. | 2°! paid within the year N N ee il wal tin . Ae tag a ‘ a asso for persistios: in the | | ue Pices of ete dee | ada such sums as mey be requi ed for tracts. Inspector Tremblay for the district mnenes podenngpellingr fie 4 I i seed, hat whe ; rr Se ee eee | THE Manitoba Free fress oF ’ | local improvements in the Provinces, and nse ea aun * © Chstrik ’ T / , them equal, and, be alleged, that what thr Baie eel Soe ss Ove’ ‘triment: | * , . i ‘ i ‘ Of Gaspe, said, CLUB RATES. | lacked ‘in agricultural power, if anythin ing sebawell gaa duckies re | publishes a proclamation of the ident. | not exceeding in the whole the amount by | i In the course of the year minorities in Tus Examiner will be forwarded to} was more than made up in the wealth'cf | our interests.’ Governor, in which the importation of which the debt of the Province for which zVe districts declared themse aae) oT lubs ¢ he follo #» rates per -ar—pay- | ir ficheries Jaecing fh hey miv con- | tr. . 2 5 " Pian , . . , nets d tred themsels ntient 4 at t Y t wing rates per year—pa) their fisheries. Passing by them only n- | With such a * public opinion in the a ; liquors into any part of the | Canada is responsible then falls short of the assured hout having the means of sup. | Ment strictly in advance } sider how we may spare our too much S 1 with the Domini ee i i I . % t the ing | i , : | obi ; ‘ ! ' .| Nor r states, ¢ r : Inlon : z sbite ic as allowec o enter th eto i scnools. Loweve everything | 5 copies one address, - - $ 7.00, thinned-out forests and not barely tou bh the Northern States, and with the _— North-west Territory is prohibited. The debt which it wee allows - an on “se ee ee ss He a ao on rer ea ee rae i’ | unanimous for closer commercial rela- hiskey sellers, of the Northwest are, it} Union, and on which amount Canada has could have been arrived at, taking into ac- a vs rr 17.00 | 20,000 square miles of fertile soil of Lower] , E % . ‘ ‘ whiskey § ar) ce ' ni “ i t the rat : it g : i . ; ee : . ' w » ne r Re ic—on i ci to pay interest to the Province at the rate count the difference of opinion arising from | 30 * “ as 90.00 | Canada, underlaid with limestone, of which | tions with the neighboring Republ appears, ruining the Indians. The Rev. vo divergence in religious belief. the other hand the deplorable effect of mul- tiplying schools, dividing res progress of the schools.” And here was another rather thing, from the Magdalen Islands : “TL also think that it would be inoppor- tune to pass a law exacting of every com- missioner of schools some edu ition, at least elementary, such as reading. writing and arthmetic. Formerly, educated men were unfortunately so sp resly scattere:'!, that this kind of literary guarantee was scarcely possible. To-day owing to the vigilant so licitude of the department, general educa tion has taken an immense stride in advance, and I do not hesitate to say that it be impossible to find and elect competent school corporations.’ He thought he had said enough to show why the resolution did not commend iteelf to his mind. [le hoped he hai not a lowed one word to escape his lips which grated harshly upon the ears of any. He respect- ed the feelings of Roman Catholics as much as he did hisown. He admired the candor and ability which they had broug’t to bear on the question ; but, until he heard better reasons than had been advance he could not support the resolution. He remembered well the excitement upon the Bible question. The letter of Mr. icDon: ald at that time accorded with his views. He had been almost en outcast among his friends on account of his opinion on that question. He had on account of them been on one occasion chased from a public hus- tings, and yet he believed that almost every hon. member considered that then wise. amusing course _—<e-— s+ CAUTIONARY STORM SIGNALS. Beiow is the circular issue,fro.the Met- eorological Office, Toronto. relating” to Storm Signals. {On receipt of a Storm Tek- gram, the drum will be hoisted on the nal mast, at the foot of Prince street, and notices wili be posted opposite the delivery Sic. window of the Post Office. and in my office window : H. J. CEXvDALL, Superintendent, Charlottetown. 26th May. !874 When there is reason te believe that a storm ts approaching a Storm Signal Sta- tion, or station where there is publishing storm warnings, a telegram to that effect will be from Toronto to the place concerned, where the fact will be Indicated by the display of a storm drum aud by posting un one or more notices. The drum isa cy t feet in diameter,and formed sent This has on | rees already | small enough, and retarding the genera! would | in its favor, | Was | n Agent for | | have already aroused such interest as to ef wood or iron, which are by intervals of about two inches, tern showing 4 white light wil! usually t placed within the drum when is hoisted | at night. The drum and notices wil! isuauy re- | | Congress and the country will confirm this main up abuut thirty-six hours, unless order- | bers is one of the subjects that have at- ed down by telegraph, and wil! remain up longer if a telegraphto that effect be sent from Toronto. i he “Storm” signalled must, for the pre- | sent be understood in a ge: sense, | t neither direction nor force being if there be reason for expecting a heavy | alt, it mast be thus Stated in the notice; | ut the absence ofsuch statments will not | show that the storm will nol be severe. If, through faulty transmission, the tele- gram does not arrive before the commence- ment of the storm, the time for its occur- rence not being expired,the drum will never- theless be hoisted on receipt of the warn- ing. in order to show that the disturbance is not merely local. It is to be understood that the drum is simply cauftonary, indicating the existence of a storm elsewhere, and that the proba- | bility of it reaching the neighborhood of | the place | vigilance. Bearing this in mil | seen that the display of the flied if the storm, instead of 4 the place warned.shou!d pass a warned is sufficent to call for i .it will be 1 is ju ti- vearing at a distance dru of fifty miles or more on either side of it. It must further be remembered thatthe } @bsence of a warning does not imply im- munity from danger, as defects in trans- missicii may sometimes interfere with its timely arrival. G. T. Kryeston, Superintendant. Meteorological Office, Toronto. on Prince Arthur has been created Duke of Connaught M. Goulard s efforts to form linistry bave failed, President McMahon has taken the matter into his own hands and formed one himse!f, in which are Magne, as Minis- ter of Finance ; Minister of Foreign Affairs, ani General Cissey, Minister of War and Vice President of the Council. Jeflerzon Davis writes fr idon toa friend in north Carolina health was improved by the voyage across the At» | lantic, and though yet weak, he hoped to return soon, and he «stored to | his usual conditior A brutal man in Urange county, Ind., re- cently sent one of his children for water, and because the child did not move fast enough to please him, struck it on the head with a piece of wood, killing it instantly. | He afterwards fled. and at last accounts has Bot been captured. The crown Prince of Holland expects to | marry the Princess Thyra of Denm»rk ; this fortunate Danish family wil! number | another crowned head among its members, | whic already includes the King of Greece, the future “zarine of Russia, and the fut Queen of Logland Joseph Ar bh, it is said, is working himself to death, in the cause of the labouring men. His voice is hollow, and his physical weak ness painfully evident. On his returning bome recently, from one of his hurrying, speaking, %gitating journeys he had five miles to walk to! own door, and it took | him two hours to do it; and his altered ap» Duke de Cazes r ym bs : that iis ‘ Ms entireiy 30 ire pearance naturally excited the concern of his fami'y. King Coffee Caicatli pr fe sess to be thor oughly humbled The Jatest advices from Cape Coast Castle brings the King’s thanks for the release of the Ashantee } risoners, and his assurance of the most c mplete submission to the British flag and all the terms of the treaty. The King has again teken up his residence in Commassie Hi. M.S. Niobe went recently ashore at Cape Blanc, Miquelon, during the dense fog, and will probably prove a total | The crew were saved, bul in want of } rovisions, Un receipt of this intelligence the com- mander of H. M.S.Woodlark,the only naval! vexsel in port, decided to proceed to the assistance of the Niobe and saile i Satur. day ni ht. A French war vessel has also gone to her assistance from St. Pierre. Referring to the rumour published in the Atheneum that one of the chief poets of Engiand has completed a historical tragedy | a London correspondent writes that he has | every reason to believe that Mr. fennyson is the poet referred to ; that the subject of the tragedy is‘ Mary Queen of Scots ,’ and | that the laureate will bea vised by Tom Taylor «# to the practical ways and means necessary for the adaption of his work to | the stage. He also believes that ‘Old! Drury’ has been selected for this dramatic | venture. The St. Louis Merchants are all agog with the idea of securing an important trade with Brazil, and really it looks now as though something might be done in that way. [tis stated that Brazil imports 750,- 900 berrels of flour, every year, has no manufacturies, exports immense «"antities of eotiee, and about 24 1,000,000 in gold an- nually. Before the war, the Missi-sippi Valley cities reaped profitable harvests from the South American States, but that was broken up in 1861, +nd the trade has never been resuscitated, [ts resumption be a good thing for the entire South the endeavor to secure it will fe ss, | Treaty, we were unaware of the rapid strides | | the thirteen years the Treaty was in opera- | of 89,000,000; and itis susceptible of proof | Pances; | mestic trade which will prove most oppor- | | tune during the period of transition (which ; ments. | without yielding to all the pretentions of lof commercial reciprocity with Canada. At a special meeting of the latter Board, | give us free coal, lumber, potatoes and | breadstuffs. | with Great Britain on the subject of recip- | rocal trade 4 fisheries: but our general trade and inter- ' commercial, relations of the United States | Whether Clubs may be made up at any time, but | not for a shorter period than one vear. ADVERTLISEMENTS— Until further notice, Advertisements will be inserted at the following rates :— 1 square. one insertion, - - - $1.00 Each Continuation, - - - - + 00.25 Special Notices, ** per line,” - - 00.12 ACCOUNTS RENDERED for subscriptions, Ist December, in each year; for standing advertisements etc.,Ist June, and Ist December, in each year; for transient advertisements—when ordered out. “Examiner Printing and Pub- POST } addressed | lishing Company,” Lock Drawer, 72, | OFFICE, Charlottetown. } | ; he Examiner. Ch’town, June 1, 1874. “ Tue Examiner” has been under its We acknowledge, with thanks, the patronage present manugement just one year. of its friends and supporters ; and we hope, by sedulous devotion to the interests of | the people, to merit a continuance of their ' favor. ices idl et i RECIPROCITY AND PROGRESSION, ee | Tue trade relations of the United | States, with the Dominion of Canada, are | just now receiving unwonted attention. If we may judge by the tone of several leading newspapers, and the opinions of many leading politicians and merchants, these relations will, ere long, be much more intimate than they are at present. The New York Tribune—at one time a vehement opponent of Reciprocity—in a recent issue says-— ‘It is an open secret have been for some in that negotiations progress at Wash- ington fora new Reciprocity Treaty with Canada. They do not seem to have reach- ed, as yet, any completed result; but they warrant acareful examination of the facts about the trade they affect. There has beeu a growing feeling that the Repeal of the Reciprocity Treaty in 1866 was a mistake. or not the sober judgement of feeling, it is certain that the increasing com- mercial importance of our Northern neigh- tracted no little public attention among us; aad we frankly confess that until led to look deep into Canadian statistics by the neces- sity of dealing with this proposed new these lusty Northerners have been taking.” The Tribune then shows that since 1867, the foreign commerce of the Do« minion has nearly doubled, while the foreign commerce of the United States— has decreased from 52 per cent to 35 per cent—‘‘a fact in itself most extraordinary and suggestive.” The Tribune confesses that— ‘From the moment of the repeal of the Reciprocity Treaty the balance of trade went against the United States, and that the aggregate of this balance, in the seven years that have elapsed since the ‘Treaty was repealed, has been $51,870,000. Again, as toa large proportion of the articles we recieved from them free of duty under the Treaty, itis undoubtedly true also that our | importations have been gradually increas- | ing since the repeal, at greatly enhanced prices, notwithstanding the duties we now impose upon them. For example, during tion we purchased from the Provinces lum- ber to the aggregate value of $39,000,000, er an average of $3,000,000 per annum; but in the seven yeara that have elapsed since the repeal we have purchased nearly $57,000,- 000 worth of lumber, or an annual average that the cash price of clear lumber at Tor- outo is double what it was ten years ago, and that its price at Portland, Me.. is double the present price in Toronto. We suspect the deductions of the Canadians, therefore, are not far out of the way, when they assert that we and not they pay the whole duty. lt is clear that few more important topics ALL LETTERS sent by mail should be | we in New England have none, under wheat | cultivation ; the natural home of wheat and barley, the land flowing with milk, and ren- | dering to the indstrious farmer the fleeces of the long wooled sheep, for which we | have scarce an acre that is fitted this side | of Oregon j *. | In the eight years that have elapsed the figures show $250,000,000 imports, to $200,- 000,000 exports, from and to the Dominion Instead of driving Canada into annexation | by the termination ofthe treaty, as some exs | ' pected to do, we drove the provinces into confederation; we forced them to become a } nation, to establish manufactures at great cost to themselves, to seek new and distant | markets, and to enter into competition with us in ways and places that we least expecte ed; and we built up a profitable business in smuggling that has done intinite harm to both nations, and which can never be stop- | ped on such a line Mark one single item: Once we supplied Canada with cheese; now she supplies hers self, and exports ameeighth part as much as we do to Great Britain. We forced ber to go there for her cottons, her woolens and her hardware, and she sends cheese in part pay- ment. But there is one peculiar feature in our commerce with Canada to which I would call your attention, and that is to the extent | which we even now exchange products of | like kinds. Contiguous countries must ex- | change, and on such an extent of border— measuring 3000 miles as it does—there must be an export at one end, where the same article is imported at the other. Mark these figures, from the Trade Statistics of 1873, Take coal first. Canada proper possesses no coal, and the transportation from Nova Scotia is long and costly. Hence, in 1873, while we imported from the Dominion 261,257 tons, valued at $283,292, we exported 438,- 395 tons, valued at $2,175,755. Of course, the import was mainly in New England; the export from Pennsylvania and Ohio Under a revenue tariff of fifteen per cent, with wool free, Canada has imported through Boston hundreds of thousands of pounds, even whole cargoes of Australian and other wools, for her factories, and has exported their products in payment; these very fac- tories have been built and started, and have been successful, while we were struggling to maintain our highly protected manufac- tures, and have partly, not quite wholly failed in the attempt But thus far I have treated the question mainly from our own special stand-point,but } I call upon you to mark the export of bread- | stuffs toCanada. The Canadians grant tl of their canals, and are paring to them. Restore reciprocity, and the construction of the Caughnawaffga Canal could not be deferred. Its use would become so obviously essential and profitable that it would almost build itself, and on this the in | free use enlarge terest of Boston and the great West | once more and demand the same policy. When will the people learn that all this commerce exists because both parties gain in the exchange? When will people cease to talk nonsense about the balance of trade, be- cause theyshall have at last comprehended the truth thal there can be no permanent trade at all unless both sides gain? Unless there is a profitable balance on the Ledger of each person, firm or nation, no reciprocity treaty shail have any effect whatever. Are we to be hoodwinked, blinded and misled by a set of thoerists who prate of an adverse balance of trade, because one nation appears by the Custom House books to import more than it exports? Answer such fools according to their folly, and write them down asses in large capitals. Thengeven theycannot fail to under- stand. The great trouble with them is that they have not even intelligence enough to know what asses they are, and the conviction has not yet been forced upon them. England imported $500,000,000 worth of goods more than she exported last year, and, according to these sciolists, impoverished herself to that extent. In fact, by her policy she has become the money power of the world. * * * * . . . “©T have asked, whatis the Deminion? Its area is equal to that of the whole United States, Alaska included, or 3,400,000 square miles. What does it possess? One half is covered by a vast forest, from which we must | draw our supply of lumber,cost what it may, | and subject to whatever tax a bad revenue | System may impose upon it. are their weallh—they are our necessity. The | removal of these vast forests is one reason why the population cf Canada has increase so slowly, their lands cannot be occupied like our prairies at an instant’s notice. It takes a | generation to remove the forest and make | room for the wheat, but bear in mind that the culture of wheat can only be maintained with our present knowledge of agricultural | chemistry on land that has preduced forest | trees. In the prairie soils exhaustion of the | alkalis soon takes place. The Canadas must, therefore, be the future’ granary for t These forests wheat for ourown country. Next, the fines could occupy the attention of authorities at Washington than the consideration of the | commercial relations belween the . United States and the British North American Pro- | and it is fair to infer that neqgocia- tions may resuli in an enlargement of dos we trust we have now entered upon) be- tween irredeemable paper and specie pay- We hope, therefore, that Mr. Fish, our neighbors, will make a Treaty.” The Chicago and Boston Boards of Trade, have, we observe, each passed a series of Resolutions favoring a Treaty held on the 25th ult., Mr. Edward T. Russel, said— “* | desire to say a few words at this time in favour of anew treaty of reciprocity with the Dominion of Canada that will. at least, J The abrogation of the old treaty in 1866 was unfortunate for both countries, and has been much regretted and at various times, efforts have been made to obtain a new treaty. In March, 1869, the House of Representatives adopted a resolu- tien calling for a renewal of negotiations with the British Provinces of North America, the free navigation of the St. Lawrence River, and the freedom of the course is still hampered by vexatious and unnecessary duties and expenses, from which we should seek relief by a new treaty. The opportunity is now offeredus. Bythe terms oi the Washington Treaty, the United States are bound to pay such a sum of money as may be assessed by the Commissioners as the value of the fisheries opened to us above those opened by us to Canada. This sum, it is claimed, will be alarge one. But it can, no doubt, be speedily arranged to the satisfaction of both parties through the me- dium of a treaty of reciprocity, and in this view and belief I offer the following RESOLUTIONS: Whereas, the commerce and trade actually existing between the United States and the Dominion of Canada are very great, amount- ing to some $80,000,000 per year ; and Whereas, these mutual transactions could undoubtedly be more than doubled, if unre~ stricted intercourse was had between these two great countries; and Whereas, the geographical, as well as the and Canada are so intimate, connected as they are by the great lakes, rivers and rail- way systems of the Continent; therefore it is | hereby Resolved, By the Boston Board of Trade, assembled in special meeting for the con- sideration of this subject:—That a reciprecal commercial treaty, similar in effect to the re- ciprocity treaty abrogated in 1866,should be | secured by the Government of the United | States as being eminently conducive to the | general prosperity of the country; and we | ~ ' earnestly call upon the Government to take | 4, an interest in procuring able abundance in Canada as well as in the ores of iron and copper exist in ae onl lower British Provinces, and these ores even | now supply no small portion of the consump. 1 tion of the United States. These Canadian ores have no adjacent supply of coal, ani are valuable only a3 they can be brought in- | to connection with the coal field of this coun- | try. Among cur States, none have so great a free and ample supply of these ores as Illinois and Indiana, underlain as they are with coal, and needing, as they do, the iron way even tor their coun- try cross-roads. We speak asif our railway service had come near its end, when, in fact it hasonly begun. The best grazing country in the world lies in this Dominion; will it harm any one here to be able to exchange boots, shoes, clothing, hardware and the like for the best and most ample supply of beef, mutton, butter and eggs? Yet in the ab- sence of a trealy, even the privilege is in part forbidden, and because we cannot sell we cannot buy; hence the best of their supply passes across the water to enable our com- petitors in manutacturing, whom we so much dread, to compete yet more effectually with us. The finest barley, the finest oats, the best potatoes are the product of the Maritime ’rovinces. Do we need them in New Eng- land? Is the cost of living so low with us as to make it fit to reject this abundance be- cause it can be had cheaply? Would their competition effect our farmers injvriously ? Far from it. These are the coarse products of agriculture; our farmers can do better. Not many years since the finest wheat in the country was raised in Central New York; soon the soil was exhausted for wheat and litle is now grown. Did farming become less profitable? Far from it; the farmers turned their attention to grazing, to butter and cheese and to fruit, and now farming in that section is thrice as profitable as wheat growing was. The same thing would occur in New England. Give us an abundance of these coarse products at low cost, let us have the barley. oats, potatoes, fish and the like from the British Provinces, then we decrease the cost of living to all our operatives and the difference would be spent in milk, butter, cheese, fruit and the finer products of agri- culture raised by our own farmers on our own lands in the immediate vicinity of con- sumers, at far greater profit than can be made in these coarse and heavy products that will only pay for distant transportation by water —not by rail. I have thus feebly described what the Dominion of Canada isin the power of producing a such articles as we require to consume.’ The Boston Globe, commenting upon the action of the Board respecting com- mercial reciprocity with the Dominion, says:—‘‘ As the original reciprocity treaty proved, in the main, of signal ad- vantage to this country, it seems eminent- ly desirable that a similar one should be negotiated, especially as the settlement of our relations with Canada under the e | St ttled ‘fair and honorable terms—we judge that |a Treaty of Reciprocity will be concluded as soon as possible. The people of this Province anxiously await the issue of the | negotiations. | ee DISMISSAL OF DR, JENKINS Dr, JENKINS, on Friday last, received, | by telegraph from Ottawa, a notification lof his dismissal from the office of Quar- autine at Charlottetown. Dr. | Jenkins has held this office for the past It has never been pretend- master eleven years. the office well. dismissal, which we can imagine, was his The only reason for his opposition to Mr. Laird in the late elec- tions. Although Mr. Laird is thought, by Mr. Benjamin Davies and others, to be over-forgetful of his friends, itis quite certain that he remembers his fos. Dr. Hobkirk has been appointed to the office from which Dr. Jenkins has been so dismissed. Pr. Hobkirk will, doubtless, assiduously apply himself to the duties of the office. It is, however, somewhat strange, that the claims of Dr. summarily Beer have been so completely overlooked, Dr, Beer, and his friends, have lent power- ful assistance to Mr. Laird. Dr. Beer is active, capable and courteous,—just the min to take charge of the quarantine | station. He deserved more at the hands of the Minis- Why hus he been ignored ? ser of the Interior than either Dr. Taylor |or Dr. Hobkir*. ~~~ | LM VIGRATION. Tur Report of the Minister of Agri- culture (laid before Parliament) is at hand. taips are interesting and somew! +t grati- | fying The Immigration Statistics it con- The number of immigrants re— ‘ | ported by Government agents to have Canada 59,050 ast is | | : ‘ eo m6 ° . > | Against 36,578 in 1872, an increase of | | in year 36.83 per cent., and against 10,091 in 1866, an increase of 595.98 per cent. There has been a steady increase in the arrivals in Canada since Confederation ; but the inerease was considerably larger last year than in any previous year. It | is to be due to the assistance of charitable socie— ties and persons in the mother country, as the returns show the number so assist— ed in 1873 to be only 1,124, while in 1872 the number was 2.435. In addition 059 are reported to have passed through Canada to the United States, and the Minister notices this fact particularly, because he says, ‘these through passen- gers are constantly confounded with im- migrants leaving Canada for the United States.’ There are no means of classify- ing the national origins and the trades and calling of the immigrants, excepting |ed that he did not perform the duties of noticed that this increase is not | to those who have settled in Canada, 49,— | those who arrive at the port of Quehee. | Of these, out of 36,901 that arrived last | | year, 18.004 were English, 4.336 Irish, | | 4,665 Seotch, 739 German, 664 Seandi- | }navian, and 2,634 French and Belgians The steerage male adults who landed at Quebee in 1875 are trades and callings: —Farmers, thus classified as to | 1,476; | laborers, 6,201 ; mechanies, 7,662 : clerks and traders, 62 and professional mea, 7. | The total number of arrivals in 1873 in- | cludes 8,971 persons who entered the Dominion from the United States, the figures having been obtained from the Custom Houses along the frontier, “These immigrants,’? says the report, ‘are supposed tobe for the most part United States, and persons whom the late com- Canadians returning from the merciul and industrial depression in that country forced to Canada in search of employment.” iiss ile aes ciiceac POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. The Report of the Postmaster General for the year ended 30th June, 1873, shows a very material increase in the business of the department over the pre- ceding year. On the Ist of January, 1874, there were 4,518 post offices in the Dominion ; number of miles of post route, 35,588; number of miles travelled by mail during the year, 13,266,598 ; num— ber of letters and post cards sent, 34,- 579,000; number of newspapers, 25,480,- 009; number of registered letters, 1,377,- 000; number of free letters, 1,091,000; number of parcels, 112,300. Postal! rev- enue for the year ended 30th June, 1873, $1 406,984.37 ; expenditure, $1,553,604, - 25. Number of money order offices on 30th June, 644; number of money orders issued, 160,242, amounting to $6,177,- 905,14. Number of P.O. Savings banks, 239; number of depositors during the year, 23,526; total amount deposited during the year, $2,306,918; amount of deposits, and interest to credit of deposit- ors, on the 30th of June, $3,207,051.57. During the year 6C6 appointments of postmasters and way-office keepers were made, and 733 mail contracts were enter- ed into. The chief inspector's report shows that there were 180 post offices, served by about 98 miles of mail route, by land and water, in Prince Edward Is- land. When that Provinee was admitted into the Confederation, the Revenue was estimated at $12,000 and the expenditure at $26,000 per annum. Of the Revenue, Ontario and Quebec yielded $1,192,530.77; Nova Seotia, $109,750.39; New Brunswick, $82,135.. 85; British Columbia, $17,517.24, and Manitoba, $5,05012. The increase of revenue over the preceding year was about fourteen per cent, while the increase of Treaty of Washington has proved to be fraught with difficulties. Mr. Atkinson points out in his excellent speech the immediate steps towards the negotiation of essential dependence of the two countries such a treaty. Resolved, That the secretary of this Board | "Pom each other, and the advantages to be requested to send copies of this resolution, ! New England of those products of the expenditure was about 13} per cent. Since, 1868 the number of registered letters have nearly doubled. In that year they numbered 704,000; in 1873 there were 1,377,000 registered, The ratio of miscarriage in registered letters | many men G. McDougall, Wesleyan Missionary, in a letter under date 5th January, 1874, declares that unless the traffic in strong drink is discontinued, “ the very worst results, both socially and civilly, will follow.” The Indians, it is asserted, are literally poisoned with a kind of liquor which these rascally itenerant vendors give them in exchange for peltries. The effects of this liquor upon them is similar to those which follow the drinking of strychnine. Mr. McDougall affirms that this ‘accursed traffic’ is being prosecuted with ‘increasing boldness and unserupu— lousness;’ and he declares that, within the last three years, hundreds of men, women and children, have perished miser- ably, after partaking of the poisonous ‘Fire Water.” It is probably to check this ‘ accursed traffic,’ that the ‘ procla— mation ’ has been issued. _-- PHYSIOLOGICAL STUDIES, News comes to us from across the Atlans that \r. intends availing himself which he finds at his disposal, now that he has no longer the tic Gladstone of the leisure weight of the Government on hisshoulders, to study medicine. Mr. Gladstone’s mind, is a powerful and even an original mind, yet it is hardly Likely that at this time of his life he will be able to add anything to of called medical science. andit might be thought that it is rather late in the day for him to think about his health. But Mr. Gladstone only in his sixty-fifth year and he may be the discoveries what is is able, by fitting himself to be his own phys sician, to preserve for a longer period than would otherwise be the case a life valuable to England, and indeed it can be added It is imp»ssible not to ask why he did not study medicine before. without exaggeration, to the world. He is nearing lis grand climateric when he sets himself about mak- ing himself acquainted with the laws of health, and the remedies fer disease. The cause why he has romained until thi. time ignorant on medical matters, is an evil which his example may tend to destroy. The sage’s advice to know one’s self has to Mr. Gladstone since his | youth up, and we all acknowledge the pro- the behest. Yet, like | Mr. Gladstone, we cherish invincible been familiar | found wisdom of an }ignorance regarding what constitutes a } great part of ourselves. We learn every thing but wha: concerns our health—which is the fortress of life, and which we leave | Open to all sorts of attack. We learn everything but this. We teach our child- |} ren all that has been said by dead men ; we instruct them in the nature of plants and the orbits of the stars—but the way to make a deranged stomach work healthily, nay,a way to prevent the stomach becoming deranged, on this point we grow up, and let others grow up, in the grossest ignorance. Through this ignorance men and women in their early years lay the foundation of life~ long sorrow, If women had been properly instructed in the conditions indispensable to their health, and the happy discharge of their functions, tight lacing would never have been invented, still less persisted in so long. If young men understood fully the effect on their whole system of what are mis-named the pleasures of youth, so not haves to look back with regret as they tremble before the Only that man is the hardiest of all animals, the race would would Nemesis of indulgences. | have died out before its follies. These follies arise from ignorance, and the question must present itself — why should there be this ignorance? There is a superstition in favor of ‘regular practi~ tioners’ doing everything for us, which has come down from times before the scientific study of the human frame and chemistry existed, In those days a leech was a myss terious person, who had a divining skill in regard to diseases A faith more implicit than ever a Pope demanded, was placed in these gentlemen, and the patient gave himself helplessly into their hands, He was mpatient at all events,and if the physician 2ould not help him his case was hopeless, But now there need no longer be any mystery about the curing of diseases, nor should there be any superstitious reliance placed in the opinion of a man who cannot know half as much about one-haif of the question as the patient himself. The nas sure of digestion, the circulation of the lood, the qualities of drugs and their the human frame can all be nown—and a very little knowledge would sften save peopl: from irreparable mis nakes, The faculty cry out against amateur medical study, and they will probably say Mr. Gladstone is mad because of this new resolve. But to begin—they are interested. f people did not send for them at every turn, they would not make so much money. n their confidential moments they give up ihe claim to the occult efficiency of their medicines , acknowledge that medicine ean do little good; that nature is the great physician, and that all that they can do is i give nature fair play. But if this is all taoat can be done, who so able to give nature fair play as the man _ himself, who can see his symptoms at all times? The doctors say a knowleage of medicine would make * man hypochondriac, and they quote Syd, mey Smith's axiom, that you should not Ienow so much as that you have a stomach: Hut the answer is at hand. Does it make tae doctors themselves hypochondriac ? (clearly not. And why should medical icnowledge, in the case of a man who does mot intend to make money by it, do so much harm? The thing is ridiculous, and the advantages of such knowledge are only foo obvious. Physicians are onlymen. Is it reasonable to blindly entrust your life, jor that is what it comes to, to a man of whom you know little? And _ how still raore ridiculous itis to do this when the necessary knowledge is athand. Without health we cannot long have life, nor have it pleasant while we do have it. To pres serve health should therefore be one of the master objects of life, and to do this we must early turn ourattention to the studies which are beginning for the first time to effects on of five per cent per annum such advances to be deemed additions to the debt of the Province, and the amount of interest so payable to be reduced accordingly, with permission to the Province to repay such advances to Canada on such notice, in such sums, and on such other conditions as the Dominion Government and that of the Province may agree to, any amount so re- paid being deducted from the debt of the Province in calculating the subsidy payable toit.’ Such aresolution comes with bad grace from a Government whose leading members, speaking for the whole Grit Party, denounced all attempts of the Dos minion Government to meddle with Pro- vincial affairs. Let the House of Commons affirm the principle that the Ottawa Ad. ministration may make known to the Pro- yinces whenever it chooses to do so, and Parliamentary sanction is given to a bribery scheme of the hugest kind. The danger would to some extent be lessened if Par. liament were free to pass upon each loan, Those great sticklers for Parliamentary re- sponsibility who now govern the Dominion are not willing that Parliament should have any voice in expressing an opinion upon these loans. Mr. Mackenzie, as in somany instances in connection with this Pacific Railway abortion, prefers to carry out his own behests fy Orders in Council. It does seem that loans of this nature, if at all justifiable, which we deny, should only be made when sanctioned by Parliament. This would not suit our Grit friends in power, however—they prefer managing those little jobs by Orders in Council. If Parliament had a mind of its own, we would ask it to watch narrowly this pro- posal, and take steps to lessen its inevitable dangers. As the Minister's will is law for the moment, we may say frankly we do not write with the hope of obtaining any amendment ofa proposition which is gers tain to lead to transactions of the most doubtful character. It is enough to cons sider tne influence such a scheme would give tothe Dominion Government at elecs tion times over the Ministry of one of the smaller Provinces anxious to secur’ a loan to cause deep regret that the Government has brought such a proposition before the House. Mr. Mackenzie says he hates shams. This isa sham of the most trans- parent kind. It is not what itseems. It is, pure and simple, a bribery scheme, a means of giving to the Donfinion Cabinet a degree of control over Provincial affairs which it does not now possess. We ven- ture to predict that very regrettable con. sequences will result from this dangerous legislation. PROROGATION. Own Tuesday last, His Excellency the ov~ ernor General prorogued Parliament with the following SPEECH : Honorable Gentlemen of the Senate, Gentle- men of the House of Commons :— I am glad that ata comparatively early period of the season I am enabled to relieve you from further atlendance in Parliament. I thank you for the devotion you have shown to the public interest, in the earnest pros secution of the works of the session. I con- gratulate you on having passed an election law, adapted to the requirements of the res spective provinces, and I trust that this law, with the amended act for the trial of contro- verted elections, will result in securing for the future pure and peaceable elections. The measure you have passed providing for the construction of the Canadian Pac:fic Railway, will enable my Government to pros ceed as soon as practicable with such portions of the work as are necessary to secure com- munication with the interior and with British Columbia. I hope that the law for the establishment of a military college will be found to fulfil its designs in securing a class of thoroughly ed- ucated officers of the militia service. J trust that the other measures you have adopted with so much unanimity will like~ wise prove beneficial to the country. Gentlemen of ihe House of Commons :— I thank you for the readiness with which you have made provision for an anticipated deficiency and granted the supplies for the public service. i Honorable Gentlemen of the Senate :— Genllemen of the House of Commons :— I trust that the measures I have caused to be taken for the preservation of the peace in the Northwest territories will be effectual in preventing the spirit lawlessness, so much to be feared in these vast unsettled regions,and in maintaining triendly relations with the Indian ‘tribes. The negotiations in progress relative to the compensation due to @anada under the treaty of Washington, wiil, I hope, realize our just expectations. We have reason to rejoice that within our borders are peace and prosperity, and I pray that the country may continually enjoy these invaluable blessings. UNDUE INFLUENCE. Tus Minister of Militia has denied that he wrote the letter addressed to Mr. Eagan, published in the last issue of the Examunea ER. The Montreal Gazette says :— ‘This denial comes too late to be accepted. The charge was made first on Monday night by Mr. McDonald, of Cape Breton, in presence of Mr. Ross, and the latter gentleman remainod silent. On the same evening Sir John McDonald repeated the charge again ip the presence of Mr. Ross, challenged him to deny it, and actually sat down to permit the denial to be made. And again the Minister of Militia remained silent, giving no sign except the increased redness of an ordinarly ruddy face, as the aeknowledgement of his guilt. The uext morning the letter was prirt- ed in the Gazette and Mail and on the same even- ing it Was printed in the Ottawa Citizen, and circulated among members before the six o'clock recess. And again Mr. Ross remained silent. The ministerial press then began to comment upon it, and to demand the retirement of the guilty minister. Yet Wednesday passed over, the letter being the subject of remarks on both sides of the House, and its authenticity doubted by no one, and still the minister remained silent; when last night, possibly because urged to the task, in a fit of desperation the bold denial which we print this morning was given. Unfortunately Dr. Tupper, in whose hand the letter was, in the hurry of packing to leave for home, where he was summoned by sickness in his family, mislaid the letter among some other papers, and for the mement the Minister of Militia escapes its pro- duction. Butitis only for the moment. His explanation shows that he had asked Mr Mc- Donald to give it to him, but as he did not re- ceive it, he probably counted upon its having been mislaid, acd thus ventured, after four days from the first accusation, and three days after the publication of the letfer, to deny its authen- ticity. The denial is altogether-too thin. Had he not been consciously guilty he would have been only too glad tohave denied the charge the moment it was made. The letter, we state from a personal examination of it, and from a knowledge of Mr. Ross’ signature,to be a genuine one, and the denial only an aggravation of the offence.” . eee. reports the Pope suffer. A late despatch ing from fever. A Times’ correspondent says that Presi- attract Mr, Gladstone, and every man must | ecome in a sense his own physician. — | Toronto Globe. ~~ eS + dent MeMahon has already threatened to resign. It is amusing to see a young creature | come intoa horse car, seat herself for ad- miration, look happy for five minutes and A despatch from Rome says a Ministerial | then wake up to the dismal consciousness crisis exists there also, a measure of the | that there is arip in the middle finger of Minister of Justice haying been defeated, her right glove, 5 s 4 s ~~ ASSISTED BY THE ASIATIC WONDER! Leona Anderson. 100 new and useful presents given to the audience each evening. or 25 cents; Reserved seats, 50 Admission, cents. Matinee, Sat. Jnne 2, at{2 30, p. m. Chil- dren the Matinee, only 15 cts. The Piano used by Professor Anderson is from the celebrated Firm of Sichel & Co., Piano Warerooms, Halifax. J. R. Bur- wood, Agent. H. R. MUHLICS’ Kitchen & Galley, Furnishing Depot. Ship Work, CUPPERS and Water Closet, Pipes, Lead, Figures, Deep-sea and Hand- Leads, Lead Cisterns made, and Water Closets fitted up at the shortest notice, CREIGHTON STREET, OPPOSITE UNION IIOUSE, PICTODU, N, 8S. Ch’town, June 1, 1874.—ly Kor “ale. A Splendid Carriage Horse ! VERY GENTLE, With Carriage and Harness! THE owner desires to sell him to one that will treat him kindly. To be seen on MARKET DAYS at the Rocklin House Stables. i‘ Charlottetown, June 1, 1874,—2i - Girls Wanted, AT THE ISLAND PARK HOTEL. Ten Girls as Waiters and Chambermaids, &c. Reference required, Wages, @& to $88 per month. J. L. HOLMAN. Summerside, June 1, 1874.—tf ae TEA. TEA. 130 Packages, The very best lot we have had for a length of time, TRY IT! BEER & SONS. _ June 1, 1874.—1m ON CONSIGNMENT. BOXES SCYTHES, 30 do. SCYTHE STONES, 590 lbs. Rosin, Sized Sheathiug and Carpet Felt, 2 tons Tarred Sheathing Paper. Cheap for cash or approved paper. G. C. CARMAN, Manufacturer's Agent. 11 Ex. Building, Ch’town, June 1, I874. 1 lm Notice, HAVE this day given the exclusive sale of my Nickel Fountain Pens to Wm. R. Watson, Esq., Wholesale Druggist, &c., of Cearlottetown, for Prince Edward Island, ISAAC JACOBS. Ch’town, June 1, 1874.—4i pd TO WHOM iT MAY CONCERN. S I have no wish to have a wrong inter- pretation put upon or to be unjustly accused of harsh interference with my neighbors, I beg to notify the publie that the course I have taken with respect to one of my neighbors, has been taken forthe protection of my just rights, and by the ad- vice of my Legal advisers. FRANCIS MCGRURY. Ch’town, June 1, 1874.—1i j Union Bank of PE Island: | DIVIDEND of five per cent on the Cap- ital Stock of this Bank for the half year ending this day, has been declared, and is payable to the Shareholders on demand. Ws. HEARD, Cashier. Charlottetown, Ist June, 1674. NOTICE OF SALE, THERE will be sold on Friday, the 3rd day of July next, at the hour of Twelve o'clock, at the Sheriffs office, in Summer- side, in Prince County, by Public Auction, under and by virtue of a power of sale con- tained in an Indenture of Mortgage, bear- ing date the Twenty-seventh day of March, A. D 1874, and made between John Williams, of Lot 19, in Prince County Farmer, of the one part, and Nelson How- att, of Lot 17, in said County, of the other part—All that tract, piece and of land, situ- ate, lying and being on Township number Nineteen, in said Island, and bounded and described as follows, that is to say: Com- mencing eleven chains due west, from the westermost angle of a Cove and end of a marsh belonging to Joseph Gaudet, upon Richmond Bay, at a stake there fixed, and running due south Ninety-six chains, thirty- three links, or until it comes to James Harris’, and thence west nine chains, thence north unto Richmond Bay, aforesaid, and from thence along the shore of tke said Bay to the place of beginning, being the farm of land formerly owned and occupied by the said Nelson Howat, containing Nine- ty-two acres of land, a little more or less, together with all the buildings thereon. For terms of sale and further particulars apply to Edward J. Hodgson, Esquire, Charlotte- town, or to NELSON HOWATT, Ch’town, June 1, 1874. , Mortgagee. Sole Leather. SIDES SOLE LEATHER, very superior quality and very cheap. 500 CARVELL BROS. Ch'town, May 18, 1974.—3in arg isl TEA IN CADDIES!! ye TEA, 21 lbs. each, quality warranted, Convenient for private families. CARVELL BROS. _ Ch’town, May 18, 1874.—3in arg isl Employment at your homes or travelling. The work is conge- OUTFITS nial, honorable, and pays the best + of anything ever before offered. Cash wages, samples, and complete outfits sent Sree. Address at once, Cleremont Daniels & Co. 235 Notre Dame St., Montreal, 1874, FRESH SEEDS, 1874. HE Subscriber has received via Halifax, from Covent GaRrpDEN, London, a LARGE SUPPLY OF Field, Garden and Flour Seeds, Warranted the growth of 1873. Ws. R. WATSON, ALSO, DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF | | y ADVERTISE MPUne ___NEW ADVERTISEMeyty, snare TRADE SALE | AT SALESROOM, on Weduesdoy, the 34 ¢° June ayy? AT 11 O'CLOCc 200 bbls CANADA FLOUR, 25 puns Choice MOLASSES | 15 hhds Brigit Grocery, > ' 25 bbls Refined, i 10 bbis Crushed, 4 | 25 chests TEA,\ warranted) 20 casks KEROSENE, | 10 do WASHING SODA, | 50 coils Manilla ROPE, 20 cases MATCHES, 50 reams Wrapping PAPER 25 buxes STARCH : 10 do CORN 8TARCH, 25 doz BROOMS, 6000 CIGARS, And Sundry other Goods, i Trervs—All sums under $50, Cash: o. | 50, 3 months; over $150, 4 months. proved notes. '® FENTON T. NEWBE June 1, 1874. ar SEASON 1874. THE Steamers “ Alhambra ” 7e9 t “Caroll,”1372 tors, having both being Om md overhauled, aad fitted with very superior att : modation for passengers, will leave Boston aa the season alternately every Saturday at — and returning will leave Charlottetowg ~ nately every Thursday at five p.m calen Halitax and Canso both ways. |” ling For freight or passage apply to CARVELL’ BROS, agey Ch'town, June 1, 1873.—a p is TURNIP SEED | WARRANTED Fresh, Pure, and Good, Green Top & Purple Top, — — yr The Celebrated Champion Tani, and other varieties. BEER & SONS. June 1, 1874.—Im bs RUM. RUM. RUM BY AUCTION, wil) be sold. on W DAY next, 3d ae — cod a Subscriber's stores— puns Strong Proof fine flavored India RUM. "7 B. WILSON HIGGS, Auctioneer 4 Ch’town, P. E. I., June 1, 1874 4 BL = REMEMBER The only place in P. E. Island, to buy MacCGills Prize — TURNIP SEED Is AT i HENRY A. HARVIE'S. p. Charlottetown, June 1, 1874. & ‘Turnip Seed, — ae TURNIP SEED! GET THE BEST. Farmers buy your TURNIP SEED fron HENRY A. HARVIE. Ch’town, June 1, 1874. TA A - s oa AFORE ALE @ ae #: * * * ae “* * . *26 Breadway. * adi ° ++ * ** —** > The North Star Oyster and REFRESHMENT §=ROOMS! ARE NOW OPEN! Ladies and gentlemen served DAY and EVENING. All kinds of Refreshments suitable to to the There is alsoa 7 Tr ¥ “iG r — NEWS STAND in connection with this establishment, where all the popular Illustrated Newspapers, Serials, Fashion Books, etc., can be sup- plied at moderate charges. Charlottetown, May 18, 1874. I EDGERS, 4 DAY BOOKS, JOURNALS, CASH BOOKS, BLOTTERS of all sizes, COPY BOOKS, season, SUnven mannii, READY REF. FILES, CHECK BOOKS, all kinds, NOTES OF HAND, RECEIPTS, BILLS OF EXCHANGE, GRAIN RECEIPTS, MINUTE BOOKS, LOG BOOKS, NEW TARIFFS for 1874, AND ALL KINDS OF CUSTOMS BLANKS, SUST MANUFACTURED, - AND READY FOR SALE AT Bremner Bros, 44 QUEEN STREET. May 18, 1874.—3w — - SHEDS. — HE greatest varicty in P. E. 3. Fresh pure, and true toname. Deal with the regular Seedsman, whose success de on the quality of his seeds; and call at ’ Haszard’s Agricultural Store, QUEEN SQUARE, CHARLOTTETOWN, where the best may be obtained, WHOLE: SALE and RETAIL. May 18, i874.—tf SUGAR, THE Subscribers offer for Sale— 12 hhds. Bright Retailing Sug* in Bond or duty paid. . MACDONALD & OWES. March 9, 1874. ed 40 CENTS! A GOOD STENCIL PLATE FOR MarkingLinen ett — WITH Indelible Ink and Brush NOW FOR 40 cTs. AT Adoiph Cuenther's: GREAT GEORGE ST. WANTED. IX Energetic Men, to sell Cucumber wood Pumps. An active man can Fifty Dollars a week at this business. G. C. CARMAN, Manutacturer’s . Hyndman’s Building. Queen Street. May 18, 1874. se... Lee ROOMPA BR —AT— HALF PRICE. CALL AT HARVIE’S BOOKSTORE. | Ch’town, May 11, 1874. e.