oF ~~ bet ‘ ce} G4 oe i * beer é =) ee 4 > a iy a? ae , aa 7 % A a ey ace i > ee: se % 2 & a Me . Ps oy e > ee — —_— 4 CORRESPONDENCE, SRA eI WB BIN i OO" LINES ON THE LOSS OF THE “DM BLINE ” —— li f {eat we have bupt one «ligation too ex~ e!n: ively before us exactly os the Americans’ did Tey built ironelads to encounter the Copfederate ironclads, and to penetrate the (rivers aod harbors of the South, When the iii “Tivil war ended ‘bey found themselves in The low of the t Haeline “ possession of aflect of these ve-sele — well wer this place. There were on bourd, all of designed for special service, but not ayail-\ whom it ie now certain met watery graves: able for general purposes. We build fleets' p. p. Cluy, Dundas, who left a widow and two to o*¥erpower the French fleets, and we, im| small children; Harry Clay, Dandas, brothers hike manne: sow ‘ind ourselves with a Navy! wife, and two small children, Capt. Edward composed, to a greet extent, of a special | Saville, Dandas, byother-in law tw above, widow class of sh ps, and deficient in others which, | and six children—three honses, within one hun. under the altered cireumstance. of the times, | dred yards of each other, look deaolate~Jobn are more likely to be wanted. Here, bow-| Kichards, Grand River, unmarried, lately of ever, we possess 4 most valuable advantage. 'Chene, N. 8.3 Dowguld McDonald, Grand River, Government bas only to give the word, unmarried; Tossell, and all our defects could be supplied—not, | Capt. Curry, formerly indeed, instantaneously, but with a rapidity packet which cculd not be approached in apy other) “3 : | One year has passed away, country. In our public and private yards) ; rat chanwe has o'er us come, we have matchless resources. and the ocean |... could be covercd with our crusiers before any | <cther ]’ower could send its ships to sea.” — NEW YORK JiERALD ON THE NON POSSIM US OF CARDINAL ANTONELLI. A ms has east a gleom ae y bound our hearts less merrily ,— Why are are our tongues grown damb? Why does not ring the joyous langh, Why hushed the merry song, And where ure all our dear friends gone, Those friends we loved so long ? ; |Our hopes are buried in the sea, One of our three special telegrams yesterday relative to Rome and the Pope iniorms us | that while Italy seks to make with the Holy | Father reasonable terms, aud while the Great | Powers strive to be helpful to bring about a | satisfactory settement, Cardinal Ansoneili, | with his wonted shrewdness, puts the case as | between the goveroment of Italy and the Head! ot the Chareh in such a shape that much of | the mist which has hitherto surrounded the | Ah! now they 're gone, and for them question is dispelled aad a final settlement is| How sad our tears do tlow ! no longer doubtful. x We have known that Premier Gladstone, | who of all living men perhaps, most thoreugh- | ly understands aud appreciates the Romen | difficulty, is to « large extent in sy pathy | with the Pope and his Ministers. We have known that Couat Bismark and King Williaw | are also in sympathy with the Holy Father in| his troubles; and we have more than once! printed King Wi\liam's letters to the Holy) Father. , lt now appears that some joiat effort has | : been made by the representatives of the great! fated Schooner EMELINE, Of Grand River ,Dundas, Powers to help a solution of this difficulty | lost on the night of the 20th January, $8714 between the people and government of Italy | and the Holy see. Austria and Germrny | have been particularly active. The Count! De St. Simon and the Baron De Rubeck, | acting in cempliance with instructions from | their respective yovernmenta, have each had | audiences with Cardinal Antongili and have | asked what guarantee would be suflicient to| remove the difficu!ty which. now exists between | the Holy See and the government of the Kin, | ef Ituly. f Antonelli’s re; ly is not unworthy of a true | man and a great staiesman. “ Tbe Court of an he poe “wishes no guarantees from With a sweet and pleasant gale— Sell tease A tase ot a tee es es ee ee ers territories of which that Chair bad been dee-| — es és poiled on the Neapolitan troutier and along Spouls ever look erect their tet the line of the river Po.” Upon their native sbere, The demand ou the part of Antonelli means | that the Pope and the men who advise bim | thoroughly understand the value of property. | The territory on the Neapolitan frontier and | the territory on the live of the Po represent the most ancient possessions of the Bishop of | Kome. We are uot of cpinion that the Pope | is at all likely to regain possession of these | territories; but we are not on that account} the less sutisfied that the demand mad: by! Antonelli ixj ust and right, The Papal temporalities date as far back=- | seas Ge aca A arte, taka the] erent ang pee wey Ienh Decrei#ls were not made known to the world | until after the days of Charlemagne ; but it is | not less true that belief in the bequest of | Constantine existed long after the days of Pepin or Charlemagne or Otho. According | to the Decretals of Isidore when Constantine | Jeft the old Liome of the West for the new | Rome of the East he left the Pope meter ol | K:aly, or Spein, or Gaul, and even of Britain. | Certain it is that Pepio and his son Charles | gifted to the Pope the territory whieh hitherto | had been known as the property of the exarch of Ravenna—the representative in Italy aud) the West genera'ly of the Roman Emperor at | Constantinop'e These gifts were large. | They comprised also the property which in | juter yeurs has come to be familiariy known as the ** States of the Chareh.” Those dear ones now are dead; One year ago—how much of bliss Seemed cireled round each head ! Life seemed for them 80 g?.y,.— A werry party ‘ronnd tb eir hearths One year ago were the y, Their homes are now go desolate, More households weep in wee. Those des” friends far from us gone, We tru.t to dwell in heaven ; ' And there to sing the S»viours praise Tbiough faith in Him, forgiven. * J, M, Jouxsroxe. Cumerland Hill, Dundas, Feb, Jd, 1871, ; —_>- - © | this onee my muse inspire Though rade, numtored be the hy, Sboulds’t thon in silence henceforth sleep, Beneath dark Lethe’s way Te pay a tribate whieh Ll now, To pen, have to deplore, Avd lay an offering from the heart At friendship’s final door, * Twas on the tenth December last The EMELINE set Buil, For Bay of Islands, Newfoundland, * When toward eve that fatal night, As homeward they did sail, The storm king furiously careered (‘er forest, field, and main— The angry waves of ocean deep In mountains high did rise, Aad seemed as if the swelling deep Would meet the low’ring skies. Judging from all that we can hear, As every hope fuiled faet, ‘Themselves unto the mast— But one more blast, the creaking spars Are broken by the shore, And down unto the deep, the crew Did siuk to rise no more } Ye ocean birds, O! have ye seen A vessel in the gale? , Or have ye perched ber masts for rest, Or saw ber shaken sails? ? Could ye no message to us bear, To fiicnds who yearu and weep, Whose hopes lie buried "neath the waves Of ocean's briny deep? They sleep neath ocean afar from home. Friendship may not raise How light their langh,how bright their amie, LiNgs writtey in memory of the orew of the iil- Ghe Exaniiner. LS RS SO el Cuariottetown, February 20, 1871. —_—AA a ‘SOME FACTS AND THE RAILROAD QUESTION. | In considering the question cf the cost of | transporting the produce of this Island to be exported, it must be borne in mind that \the entrance tu a'l the Harbors on the |Noerth Side ‘and are not svailable for vessels in which Grand River, avmarried, and | to ship direct during the shipping season. | Mail and other services say . : ans ; te Master of Cusewwpec |The produce must, therefore, at first be Passengers, as before given, | | j hauled to a shipping port on the South | Side, or transshipped at great expense and risk, and also ineonceiveable delays. side, Charlottetown and Georgetown. Charlottetown, places. be reduced to about eight miles, which about twenty-two miles, at a cost of 20s half the cost to the farmer. If we look at the principal exports for 1862, and apply the foregoing rate, we have, in round numbers, as follows:— 1,600,000 bus, oats — 26,500 tons, a FIGURES ON) are obstructed by sand bars | On the South Side of the Island the avail- | able ports for large vessels are Summer- | It im:ys in the Road Service which would, no people of the vast territuries of China were | tendent of New Brunswick Railroads had said) side is closed by ice be'o-e the shipping | season is nearly over, and that this is also ‘that the people of this Island would not’ |i) of Nice, flourishing religious communi somctimes the oase with the Harbor of ultimately be required to contribute One| tie, must have existed in China, for a months longer than either of the other In view of all these circumstances, we | may safely estimate that the average dis- | the shippers frequently sustain by reason | The footprints of the Missionaries were tance which the produce of this Island has |of their being obliged to purchase gr@l2 ofentimes covered with the martyrs’ blood, to be carried, by land or water, to a port} Which has not been properly secured, and and seemed as if they had been loss for- for final exportation, would be equal to a ‘from being obliged to store it, when they ever. But after a while their paths would haul by horse of about ‘hirty miles. If a| have been unable to procure tonnage for po round — some memorial of their faith F.ilroad were provided. the distance would the North Side ports, nor have we alluded ‘would be discovered, and the lost lamp 8,000 sheep, at Is 3d 1,000 cattle and hors’s at ds 5,000 cords wood & bark at 4s 1 600 9 0) 0 CATHOLIC YOUNG MENS’ LITERARY INSTITUTE. ’ 5”. O 259 0 0 es 400 tons hay & 8 raw, at 5s 125 0 0. “Missionary Footprints ’ was the subject 2,000 bbls oysters, at Ls 100 © 0 of Very Rey. Dr. MeDonald’s Lecture be- aes bbls oatm = a is * 100 O ‘fore the above Society —K. Reddin, Esqr.. | ‘ scelluncous, + ¥ — 10, eT uulscell: 9,759 © in the Chair—on Monday evening last, | = The Rev. lecturer commenced by showing 0 © thot the fundamental truths of Christianity wers much earlier known than was gene- ‘rally supposed at the present day. From ‘the very first records, it was proven that em ‘the hope of a Messixsh was entertained. 17,675. 0 0 | The Nations of the East,as well as the Eim- - £55,350 0 0| pives of the West, had views in common, 2,000 9 the one expecting the coming of a Redeem 25 500 0 er from the West, and the other from the £62 $50 0 0) Hast This was proven by reference to 3142) 0 0 the Fourth Eclogue of Virgil, and from the us 8 | writings of the Brahmas of India, and of 31,425 |Probable outward freight, £17,675 Inward freight such as conl, stone, lime manure. salt flour, molasses, sugar’, tern. hardware & manu- factnred goods, say 4S much more, Probable working expenses, | Wns dus > st rece) : i. ° 43.8 Probable net receipts, Confucious, the illustrious Chinese moral- To this might freely he added the s2V-’ ict and philosopher. Large numbers of the must also be borne in mim? that Sammer- | doubt, be effected were a Railroad built taught the principles of Christianity by it has then, we think, been fully shown | 7 eajous Missionaries. As eurly as the Coun- (georgetown remaining | dollar from their general revenue, tosecure pichoy represented that country at the, open for one, and sometimes for two, |* first-class Railway, with all the benefits | .o)eprated Council. and advantages which invariably follow | In later times and in the mighty revo- \their construction in other plaes. ‘lutions which swept over the Eastefn We have not considered the losses which | countries Christianity was swept away. ito the delays, heating of cargoes, and an-) would be replenished and made to illvmi- would save an average haul by horse of | noyances to which they are subject, because |) at. amongst heathen ignorance and de- | they are unable to concentrate their efforts _ pravity, more brightly than before. per ton weight for that distance, instead of | and dry the grain before shipping. These,| “ype Hereulean labors of Xavier and 22 miles by a Railroad, at less than one- | and numerous other phases of the question, | ovala did wonders in propagating re- we leave for consideration at a future time, ligious truth, no less di tie fedambehin | as all these circumstances assist in keeping | labors of the Monks’ who worked so faith- down the market price of the favorite Is-)| fajty for Christianity, whilst civilization jland black oats, which are rs, where | was being overrun by the hordes of barbar- (P referred, when rec.ived abroad in a sound | ig, The Lecturer asked why it was that at 20s, : £26,500 0 0 | condition. such great, good: men were so persistently pga 35 pra tons, 1,600 0 0 hes a liane ie ie” abused and maligned. We suppose it is 600 bus carrots—17 tons,at 20s | saad {because that is the only vengeance the per ton l7: g. OI The Debating Club, in connection with the pigmies of learning can wreak upon the | 38,700 eee ee tons . J Association, had tor discussion, on Tuesday | intellectual giants. | canner Daiasaell-Lwade 1,100 .@ ¢ evening, the Railroad Question, which is now | ‘The above is but a famt outline —having tons, at 20s., 16,250 0 0|eagaging the public mind. The members of taken no notes—of a lecture which was re- ee ob pork und beef— ioe the Club meet in a comfortavle room, 1! plete with ecclesiastical knowledge, and Ss a ee 1,250 0 ) |lower part of old Temperance Hall, which is) which was put together with “pkill ana ane a, ’ 500 0 a nicely filled up with eeatssand tables, being | jiterary taste. As one of the speakers ob- | 9,000 bbls. oatmeal— 200 tons. jused as a Reading Room, There is also ® soryed,parts of the lecture were too scholar- at 20s., 200 0 0 | good selection of books,—the beginning of aly for many of the audience, and, as { Butter & lard - 100 tons, at 20s., 100 0 0 \Library, and the surroundings, betoken evi- | expressed by another, there was a general £47,517 @ | dence that the Young Men have within their jesire that the lecture should be published. wood, fish. cysters, cattle. sheep and other articles for exportation, beside all that may be required for consumption in the towns; / and also coal. stone. lime, flour, and other | articles imported, which together, we may ‘safely estimate, cost for transportation | quite as much more, - say £47 5.7. | We have thus about £95,000 expended | by the people of this Island annually in | transportation of their products and other | necessaries. This laboy is for the most part. } t | To these items should be added hay, | | | reach fair chances for improvement. The | On next Tuesday evening, Rev. James | President of ihe Ulub, Dr. Beer, occupied the | Lamont will deliver a Lectare on Spiritual- | Chair, and William Heard, Esq., opened the jgr,. ‘Debate, In the brief time at his disposal he | shewed the necessity for Railroads in this Ie A Good oe an Unexpected ‘and thought one could be built here fer about! — In ™ pubiication which is said to be pub- | £3,009 sterling, per mile \lished in the Patriot O.liez, we find the fol- | ~; J ec e | | lowing :— -_ oe em ee oe ‘land, gave the cost of Roads in other places, He gave an iu- ‘eresting account of the working of a narrow rauge Railroad in one of the States of the | ; ae : ah : jour widet that serve only to engender the | Americar. Union, aud, a6 it is capabie of bitterest feelings of avimosity between persors ascending a grade of one foot in every uinety- of difierent religious faith, every one wilt | « Tnat there should not exist societies in ._--+ na -_ > \Great Anti-Rail-oad Meeting , ef the Peeple of Lots 48. 49, and 59,in Pownal Hall. (| HON, JAMES DUNCAN WILL Ovros® TUE GOV-! EKNMENT EAILWAY 1OLICY. A very large meeting of the peeple of Pownal ‘and vicinity, wae beld ow Thursday last, to ais | euse the Railway Question, JHon James Dut~ | can, ove of the representatives of the district |was present. Alexander MeNcil!, Evq., was lehosen Chairman, and Joba Lutler, Eeq, | S-eretary. | Mr. Duncan, on being called upon, suid he escertain the views ef the meeting. He had not i thought about, nor studied much about the Rail- | road question = There had been no offers made to the Government, but he understood some | . . a Railvuad, to Mr Pope. ‘Thinking the meites would not come up, be did not give the proposals |much attention, He beard that the Superin- | to Mr. Hales, that 90 per cent of New Bruns- | wick Railroad traffic was of a local natures The | Canadian ard Island traffic over the Shediae line ‘amounts tv only 10 per cent of the whole, The population and wealth of the Island was greater than existed between Shediac andSt. John’s, yet he was of the opinien that it would’ not -be for the interests of this district to have Railreads In regard to capital, which eould be had, by giving debeitures for thirty years, at six per cent, it would elmost certainly all go back to them; it would be better to ase our own mooey There were £00,00€ in the Savings Bank; and more waiting to be deposited, which would be above £100,000 for investurent lle was not oppoeed to Railreads on principle, but ag the cost of Right-away, and other expenses would be su great he did not feel justified in urging it up- on this District. It would be a more direct bene- fit to other districts; he understood that all Re- presentatives of Prince County were in favor of| it, except Mr. Howat, If we could have a Railroad, without loss, it would certainly be better to have it. In reference to local wants of the District, he would be glad to do his best to bave them aitend- ed to; he differed from them seme time ago about the Ferry Question, and he now believed | that the people saw that his eourse turned out best. J. B Gay, Eeqr., said: whilst feeling incom- petent to make a lengthy epeech, be would re- ‘mak, that he thought, at the present time, we | could not bear the enormous outlay whieh builc- | ing a Railroad would cost. The average dis- tance of shipping porte from principal places was not wore than two and a hait miles, What- ever benefit might he eonferred on Northern parts, it could not be ef much benefit to the | Southern parts. At the Chaslottet. wn meeting, Mr, Pope said, 30 000 tourists would visit the | fslaud, who would spend a large amount of |money. He thought this wes a chimerical idea —castle building in fact. (Hear! Hear!) | Besides, if tourists do come to Summerside, they | Doate, would prefer to come to Charlottetown in steam £o with transportation of merehandize liv Cid net care so much to make & speech, a8 to) Pia | repairs of a Railroad, and our isolated position, ifor several montha in the year, excluding ua ‘tromany direct trade with the wain land and leur ems trade facilities not being considered by ithia meeticg eufficie.t to maint in tle worke wg ekpemes, and the large aweunt of Iuterest, | whieh would anuually require te be paid by the Gorernment. Aud Whereas, The inefficient atate of our pree sent Public Works deimand that greater atte: ~ tention be paid to improvirg the ecoudrtion of our Roads, Bridges, and Wharves, which is con~ | sidered by this meeting would be of wore gener- nl advantage te the inhabitants of the Island. | And Whereas, The Leae- Ti system hae been steadily ou the decrease, but large tracts of land are sti!l held by propricters, and the con- ‘templated live of Railroad wiil, in all probabdili- pase through a large portion of eaid Lease land, and likely, to materially increase its /value, and place the proprietors in a position te vaiue their lands mrch higher than at present, and thereby preclude the tenant from the hope jof ever being free, Therefore Resolged, That this meeting consi | parties made proposals, in reference to building | dere, that the Lease bold tenure which prevail’ over a jarge portivn of the Island, should first if possible, be settled, and that out hredent Pubs lic Works, syclr a» the completion of our Bridges and Wharves, 29d aa improvement in our Pub- lig Roads, will be of more general benefit than the contemplate Railroad, Mr. Thomas Crane asked if Mt, Dunean would vote for the Railroad, if it were broaght imag Government measure, Mr, Dunean replied be would not, eoless at desire of is constitcents. Mr. James Haley said be had net much to say, but it would be in favor of Railrosds. The quee- tion as to ove email! section of a country oppoving any project for the general good, had long ago been settled. It was the question between civil. ization and barbarisin -—between good laws and tyranny. The time had come for Railroads, to enable Yarhiers living inland to gel sanure, and to transport their ;roduce, People every day here, gel the Jeud of woney at 10 and 12 per cent, . and make mouey out o! the transaction, It waa a sound policy, and if so, vby not apply i t Railroad uodertakings? He believed that Gov~ ernwents were warravted in incurring taxation, when there are reasonable grounds for showing that it was for the advancement and progress of o country. Buch practice was in accordance with the genius of Representative Institutions, He bad no ulterior viewe; they ali koew him, an¢ these were Lis bonest convictions, (Cheers), Mr. Crane.—Piove the benefit cf Railroada (Cries ot prove it! Prove it !). Mr. Haley satd be was vot a fatalist nor a be. liever in manifest de@tiny, therefore could pot prove what belonged to the future, Druothe, storms, accidents may come involving genera} ruin, but be bailt hus opinion upon the fact, that other countries had built Railroads and after experierce, are going on building more. Ii Nova Seetia they are extending the system, and though between New York and@ Boston there wore three lines, they were gving to have ang other. We want something to develop the re- sources cf the country, and keep the young men at home. (Hear! Ucar!) Where are the boys that grew up with me? Beareely one is bere now. You may not feel the want of Reaii- roads bere, but in the tuland parta, we absolutely require them. He moved the following reseiu- sion, which was seconded by Mr. Theo. Gay > Whereas, In the employment of capital come- it would bo conveyed by water; considering Cur | isolated eendition, we are entirely different from, | other countries aod it was extravegant to talk | of being taxed for 4:1,000,060, when, we are 80 | much in dread of taxation that we cen not raise | | twenty shillings to repair our wharves, or roads, | even wheu the wudis up to the hubs. (Great | solution, which was seconded by Alexander mensurate wi.b the resources of & c untry, im works of public improvement, of approved ytility,. we recognize the application of a true principle Theretore Besolred, That in the opinion of thig ineeting, the time has arrived when the construct tion of Railways in this Island, bas become of vital importanee te the furthering of ite best in- terest>; and the more systematic develupment of ils resources, Ho», Mr, Dunean said, Mr. Smith has over— | performed in the spring and fall of the ene ond costs much less in building and for | year when fime is so valuable, and when | Working expenses than broad gauge Roads, | it couid be otherwise expended in inoreas- ney ’ Lows he felt ed would be mae aue |ing the area under crop thus adding very bos suited to the requirements of P. E. Is- | largely to the products, exports, and con- —— sequent wealth of the Colony. It is therefore apparent, considering the | who would thus have wo need to go abroad, ‘question from these two points of view | and give their education aad egress. fo de- alone, that a Railroad would enrich the velop ine resources of other countries, The The building of st would also give em- | ployment to very many of our Young Men, | ‘readily allow; yet, were we to point to our | Orange Lodges, as such societies, there might de @ pretty general saurmur of disapprobation. | Nevertheless, in cur opinion, whatever may be their ostensible cbject, such is their only ‘appareut effvet here. In other countries, in |by-zone days, when party fecling ran high and men were compelled, tor personal safety, {to band themselves together for mutual pro- | tection, ard suffered persecution on agcount j of their rel*gion, there might nave been some | necessity for such organizatione ; but that, in drawn his figures. Raifroade would net cost more than £5000 per mile, by having a narrow Whereas : The Construc‘ion of merely a Tranh | payoe, It will effect a eavi Line of Railway, between Sammerside aud |, “ , re coins 96 ree Georgetown, would afford but limited acoome | 7°8E®S: the rolling stock and expense would be dation to a wajority of the inhabitants of this; less. The people in the no:thern part ef the Colony ; aud would pot to any great extent, | island are in favur of them, because they hare obviate the admitted imperative necessity for) iene ot iene & the improvement of our common roads, but | any rags — ages tbat you have not. Ow the | would tend, tor the present, to deprive them of | whole north side, there are only nine shipping” ihe means of seouring Other indespensable local places, and you have as many. Railroads create ‘improvements, by the imposition of a tax sufli- | traffi« Cheering.) He then subsuitted the following ol | S.with, Esq: | community, jn that it would induce a very jlarge expenditure amongst us by persons | |young gentleman who followed, agreed wath | iMr. Heard, ard stated that the increased they are at all necessary, we deny. We look the present day, in the colonies of America, ; cient!y onerous for the people to sustain at pre-| Ho bad travelled over the suute from sent; and, whereas, the tax would in all proba-| | bility be levied indiscriminately at ail alike. | One hundred and thirty-six years later, after rauch confusion und anarchy, consequent upon | the fail of the Carlovingian empire, the! donations of Pepin and Charlemagne were | repeated and Cuntirmed by Otho the Great, | when, at the hands of Pope John the Tweifth, he accepted the imperial crown, Since the year 936, when Otho was crowned and the Holy Roman empire was established. these territores were never seriously disturbed, | until the time of the tirst Napoleou ; for even | during the Avig» on period the Italian property | ot the Church was administered mere or less | in the interest ad fer behoof of the Holy See. | Une of the best proofs of the right—a rizht| sanctioned by so many centuries—ad of tha validity of the claim which is now presented, 1s to be found tn the fact that the Allies, in | 1214 and 1815, restored tothe Chair of St | Peter the greater portion ofits ancient pos | sessions, If porsessious means anythivng—ii | possession in any case constitutes a right, not, to speak of the dovatiocs of Constantine of| Peyip, of Charlemagne, of Otho—sorely that | roperty whieh bas been recoguized by all the ‘owers of Enrope ard by all the coucuerors of Italy must ha, + something of the sucreduesa, something of the right. Antonelli, in our judgment, puts the case well when hesays : ** The Supreme Pontiff will! accept no plan of arrangement which does not clearly and equivocally recognize his right to. the territories of which he las been despoiled | on the Napolijten frontier and op the line of | the Po.” It is sot our belief that Antonelli) is satished that be restoration 9! the property | possiole. But Antonelli is fully satisfied that rights| are rights in spite of conquest and of acts of | Parliament, and that if the Ubair of St Peter cannot obtain its ancient possessions it | ought to be imdeinnified, Ya this cduitry and | in our own State we are not without instructive | A monument above them, nor S rew flowers o’er their grave ; Bat yeit'e zephyrs as they eweep The raving billows o’er, Shall sing a requiem for the brave, *- The braye who are no more.” - The Captain, Saville well I knew, A man—a sailor bold; W ho oft bas crossed the raging eens In trinmph o’er, and as hath been told, A man of an undauuted heart And of « geherous soul : ‘6 Whow none had known, but to love,” Whow virtue elaimed her own., Hlesrz, and Dakivus too, Beneuth the waves doth sleep, Below the * strife’ of ocean's rage Fall fifty futhome deep. Dartve, those who kuew thy worth Will shed their bitter tears; Thy well-known voice ne moze shall fall Upon their listening ears, Some more of the ill-fated crew Benceth the waves doth sleep, * But doubtless they are not forgot ; They, too, had friends to weep, And tho’ unknown to him whe pens This race. unlettered page, lie feelex pany for those who sleep Leseuth the briny wave: And now, farewell, ve former triends, For deep, heart sickening grief, To me doth tell in daty’s paya Alone to seek re lief— Tho® this sad tribute 1 have penned, Luwerthy them, the lays, Now tc their cllerished memory +xamples, Coogest did not rob the Duteh Chareh of its rights, Revoluticn did no alie.ate the property of Trinity. The Church That weeping frjeudgbip pays. A. Curnir. a a ee —- property qeestiva if the Canadas, known for so many years ad the © Clergy Reserves,” was rot recognized without a fall and Satis- fue recognition of the clams of the different religious bodiv's. A similar se:tlemeut, we believe, was ac complished in Australia. The disestablish- ment Uf the E,iseopa!l Church in Ireland by the Gladstone government is a case in nvint, Propetty was teclaimed by the State; but tie vight of tenure was ietignored, and vested | rghts were wey respected. We live in a} eivilized'age, Might must not be allowed to | trample merejlesly on right. Ifthe property of the Uhair of 3t. Peter be necessary to the unity and welfare of Italy, fet the property be | ‘valued and let the ‘Chair of St. some satisfuctory equivalent. mg We advise Cardinal Antonelli to stick to his | rpose, to adbere to bis claims; and we ds ast ithe wholé time 2 m 2igs.. which was truly a marvelldua tifing to a read wagon aad fhe weight. As he neared tne score Mr. Bouiner called upon Dexter with a shut and a stroke of the whip, whereupe)i be tmage a dart of electric speed and Peter have! finished in a2 m. gait. ‘The timers af this ex- DEXTER'S WONDERFUL TROT, Mr Bonner drove to a road-wagon with him self, weighjug 319° pounds,’ With this lead and four wheels behind bin Dexter trotted the first quarter in 348.5 and the'next was trotted in 344 waking the half-mile in J} wm . a deat muzzler from a strong wind slfaight in the teeth, ‘and the third quarter was 378. The US “CARLETON’S CONDITION POW , . ‘DERS! bas. “He now had quarter was trotted in 364, making ALL HORSEMEN USE THEM ! traordinary trial were Mr. W. M_ Parks, Mr. Geo. C. "Hall, and Mr. value of lends, in hands of the Government, ' States, who seek habitually new and desir- whieb would increase trom bu Iding of Rail. ‘able places in which to spend the summer ‘toads, would rae to afi hss interest of | months, avd by enabling us to produce, in {the meaty Cee ee eee | larger guanties, the Island Staples. } : | Jf we would avail ourselves of these ad | greater amount of dutiable goods, thus bring- re . . . ont a ae i . . . 3 | vantages which will be surely afforded by ng te: anes Naam — es the North |our position, in view of the certain com- pone parts of “ — Ye ag a | pletion, during the fall of next year, of the | by a ae Cee ee ee Railway system between Shediac and the |" other placcs et remunerative prices, Re- I. ; ; : i leities of the United States, a Railroad be- | garding the purchase uf right-away, he hu- ‘comes an absolute necessity, and should be | morously sug gested that the Government should select two lines of Road, and take that procured without delay. . 2. purpose now briefly to consider the ‘which they could get on m<st advantageous lterms. In that case, the Government would ability of the Island to construct the | work = | probably receive a bonus by those most In this connection we may observe that ‘anxious te have the Road run through their it is said an English Railway Contractor, | lands. The next epeaker feared Railrouds on who recently visited this country, has offer- | ‘be Island would involve too much expense; ed to build the line for £5,000 eurrency per j he thought I ramways would answer ot one mile,—this for, say 100 miles, would be requirements, and said New Glasgow, N. 8., £500 000, which, at 6 per cent, interest jafter the completicu of the Railroad there did | would be equal to an annual expenditure |" improve, but rather retrograded, This of £30,000 curre-ey. We think it has already been shown that the Railway will largely enrich the Colo- ny, and effect a direct saving to the inhabitants of an amount more than equiva- lent to this proposed annual interest even | upon the absurd supposition that the trafilc would contribute nothing towards the pay- ment of the interest, and that it would cost as much as the offer made indicates. But we propose to show that the hne would contribute largely to the payment of the interest, and we will present an estimate which we have taken some pains to pre- pare, and which, we think, may be relied upon as being qui e within even reasonable probability. Assuming the population of the Island to be 90,000. and that the length of the line which will pass through a well-cultivated portion of the country, will be about 100 miles in length, this would give about 900 inhabitants per mile of railway, which is a higher average than that of the country along the Shediac and St. John Railway which gives only an average of about 800 | per mile, including the population of St. John and which line passes through an in- ifrom the crowded cities of the United Popula- tion would enlarge, and would cousume a i eo"? ‘that though New Glasgow wert down other places, through aid of Railroad wens up, and he believed that with the increased eute7rise, energy and capital, which would surely come, should cost £10,000 per mile, the bad roads to sympathise most fully with the farmers. It was no wonder that they would resort to liquor, or even worse—-poison, aiter the labor and fatigue of drawing their produce ten, fifteen, twenty, and over thirty miJes through the mud, Two others spoke against Railroads here, aa they feared expen- ses would be so great as to involve us in ruio- ous taxation; one thouzht there would be no~ thing in the winter season for the Railroad to do, and the other gentleman eaid the Kail- road, if built, would eat up the whole Island. Mr. Heard quietly replied to all the objec- tiens, and moved @ resolution in favor of speedy undertaking of Railroads, which was almost unanimously carried. ‘The unanimity of seutiment in the Ciub was, to say the least, very observable, There was scarcely any real opposition; ene of the gentlemen at the close of the meeting said he only took the op- | bearing such good fruit, it would be well to have a Kajlroad, though it| In connection with the paragraph published Another |: jast Examixer, speaker said he had enough of experience of | upon them as naughtelse but a miserabie| without regard to’ the benefits received, Ar Y ; d,in a as : effo.t to perpetuate relics of an age of super-| whereas, one-fourth of the money required for | Now there are wore than | Stition, intolerance and persecution ; a wretch-| the compleion, and working expense: of the | to the | who went formerly in coaches, Pictou to Halilax, and often found only 2 or & passengers. One coach could do al the work. 50 who travel by Rai Lail- \ed attempt, under cover of the purest prin-| Railread would bs amply sufficient to seeure to! ways will surely come on this Island, Taxes are | most deadly animosities. That we want} ties, which may possibly prove tu be of deubiiul | Orange Lodges to preserve our liberties to us | YHity. ‘as British subjects, is # manifest absurdity.| eselved, Therefore, that this meeting is-ot That without temples erected to the memory | Opsnion considering the«a resent revenue, and of King William the Thir@, our people would | keneral resources of this Colony, that we are sink into the lowest depths of degradation, and | not, at present, iv a poritiup 2 warrant _bhe jthe Protestants in this Island would tremble | SeeenG Een Of St CARON INS, Wane os law See \for their lives and properties, is an idea which | can ho fp eamenhugieed and | if persisted in, would, in all probability, 7 ; : : ‘ |Siga its enunciator to an asylum for the better Richard Smith, Eeq., said, people muat ‘be | care of persons of a diseased mind. As step- ‘amused 40 see the various opinions ef the Rail- | ping stones to political power, the Orange ! road advocotes as to the cost of the undertaking. | Lodge have been, and ever will be, toacertain! Some say it will cost £3000, others £4600, class of wapriaeeeed politicians, most neces-} others £5000. and others £7000 per nile, jsary and useful institutions ; as intolerant | Those persons may have ultenor views, whick bigotry, 80 long as our people encourage them, | : i ‘they will thrive and poison the land with their) ‘¢¥ did not want the public to see, (Applause | presence ; as tools to be thrawn aside with |avdcries of Hear! Rear!) It was therefore |contempt, when this or that political party no | the duty of the people to iaform themselves, longer needs their assistance, they have fre~' fie bad studied the cost of Railroads, and found quently proffered themselves and been readily | ty6 following \accepted, But as institutions calculated to | . 2 | benefit, in the smallest degree, either their GREAT WESTERN RAILROAD IN 1866, /owm peculiar followers, or the surroundiny Heese eae. Opinion, a most signal failure.” ciples of civil and religicus liberty, to foster | them all these much needed local mmprovements, | 4, " : : apt : . : *.| too rma!li to make much miprovement, t |and keep ever alive, religious stiife, and the | without the obvious risk of incurring heavy hiabili | : % uipruvenent, He would carry eut the desires of tLe district, and do his best for their general interests. (App'ense). Mr. McKerzie was the nest speaker, He thought it untair to institute comparsous between the costof Raiirceds Lere agd ia other places. We could build them for one balf It would net be right to deprive the whole island from their benefits, even thcugh we should suffer, Bf tbey pay im other pleces, they weuld pay berey , John Grant, Keqr,, remarked that he was not opposed tv Kvilroads being built bere, through any selfish motives but was bonestly ebnvi that they would net be for the geseral good of the Island at present, Mr, Smith estuneied the cost to be £10 000 per mule. Suppose it to be £7 509, and with purchase of land for right of Way, ‘t comes up to £8000 per mile, Mf it pays the working expenses and half the interest, that | would leave nearly £3C,000 to be provided for, (Appluuse.) dt woukl sequire two-thirds uf the | pec ple of the Island to pues over it to meet thig | was met by a young ge. tleman, who argued community, they are, and ever will be, in our) The cost ef Road was $25,777,430; length oj | suin. Besides all the tiufhc cou'd be carried lof road open for treffic, 351 miles; equal te a | ever the road im three weese, The amount of | All this was taught yearsago in the Ex-| cust por mile, £21,377, P. E. Islund currency, toreign goods brought ever the road wae not | AMINER, | elie epee tip £1374 we find the following, con- cerning the Society of Islanders in Boston :— “P, EK, Istanpers Apaoap.—The natives of the “tight little Island,” residing in Bos- ton and vicinity, have formed themselves into for traffic, 13775 equal to a cost per mile, £18- 35]. Brookville and Ottawa Railroad—Cost of and we are glad to find its teaching working expenditure per wile, including renewal) Worch taking into account, as water earriage of Rails, Ties, Bridges, &c., in Island currency, | wou'd always be cheaper than vy Railroads, The-cust of irarsterrmg gocds would be more Giand Trank Railway—Cost of read and) than carrying them duect by water, In Nova equipments, $24 245,398 ; length of road gpen| Scvtia they require thiee or four days-to get around to the Bay of Fundy. Bat with we the steamers now rit eo punctually that we do pot ieel the want cf Kaifende, It is true that a Society called the Prince Edward Islander’s Association’’ for purposes maiuly social and slightly political, At a meeting on Friday road and equipments, $2,647,000; length of there is #O steamer trea Albestor, It wight road, 86 miles ; equal to a cost per mile, 2232, Drnedit them @ little, Lut ot us. As a snmple of The New Brunswick and Canadian Railway—| the ridiewlous arguments used by the Railroad Cost of road, $2,750,000 ; length of road, 88, Ms he Would say that ot long efuce a person evening, Srd inst, the following persons were elected oflicers :— President, Dr A. E. Mc- Donaid; Viee do, J, J. Roche; Treasurc, Stephen McDonald ; Secretaries, Edward W- Doyle, and J J. Beaton; Directors, J.S McAulay, D,. Douglas, T. McKinnon and Chs MeDoneld.”’ , wiles ; equal to a cost per mile, 93751, aud equipments, $4,747,7135 length ef road, 108 miler; equal tu a cost per mile, 13,1871. Road {ro Halifax to Windsor and Pictou Cost of road, 86,292,029; length of read, 145) miles; equal to a cost per mile, 13,0174, Nom. | ber of bands employed, 310, ' Length of Railroad in Dominion in 1868 2495 miles, at a cost of $158,401,595, equal per mile in P, E. Isiand wurreney, to £19,046, Prince Kdward Island.—Proballe Jength of Road 126 wiles. Probable coet of road, taking largest estimate, £9000, Total cost of fine 1, 080 000. IJunterest at 6 per cent. £64,800. Atmost A CENTENARIAN.—There is liy- ing in North Shore, Savage Ilgrbor, an) old gent!eman who has reached the age of ninety-six years. Mr. McInnis is still so strong and healthy that he may be seen making heavy cart wheels or otherwise at- tending to his business, —_—__— oo ———— Tus Port Hill Debating Society was re-| opened on Wednesday, the Sth inst. by a . p aiies b. "Bach. Mr eure him thyt «¢é @re riot without the bhope| Parks made the tue 2 ‘ur 2ijs5 Mr. Hall’s that, if the Supreme Pontiff cannot retain his | wateh sald 2 ui. 21gs., and Mr. Bach’s, 2 m 21 ancient possessions and reap the revenues 4-58. In this prodigious petfotmance Vester ‘thereof, he will obtain a satisfactory quivalent, | “°T’ "° bobts, ‘stockings, nor bandages, “and ferior and much less productive country. The published reports of that line, for 18C9, show that about 17,000 passengers were conyeyed an average distance ot about position side to elicit discussion, and wound np with a Railroad speech, The Debate whilst being earnest, was marked by exceed- ingly good humor, and several of the speak- Lecture delivered by Mr. Thomas Murphy, Subject: ‘ How do you do on the Railway Question.” At the close of the Lesure, Mr, The Cardinal, through oor ‘special corres | "¢¥*T Wwuched s beips” ft us’ now beloved thet ‘to prosecute gdld . ‘vonaumytion by tne use of “ Jehuson’s A pondent, ‘has t-ached the comnion sense of | TAKE NONE BUT CARLEZON'S CONDI mankind, and the common seuse of mankind | JWR Pow Dis! ; probably the next best horse to Dexter ia the will etand by hm. Let os have fair play in|? oY ; : 19 ed ; | United States ie @ five-year-old colt; which Mr. wll thogs and wil He wertd over. Bonner hae in thé bands of ¢ trainer ii the lines Aa ee try, and which is developing Ge most extinord Geip Mime wm New Bruxswick.— nary «peed, Sold by all dealera *** °°" ‘The Sentinel, published af Woodstock, Car- tee Jeton County, N. B . says a party from the| If Congress had eisployed as much ecientifie State o né intends to make ani attempt | **1!! in thé’arrangement of ite © Uschadiedesiee niining’ of thé Tobigue | Pohey _ os the close, as tie War Departiient the ¥ | in the egiouing of the War, 10 ortang) for ae athae stan Kos the manufacture of ‘what’ was called ** Sheri ‘Arrangements amt made s dan‘ Catalry Conditiod Powders” ‘for the’ ase Brunswick Government. : pecimens a) of the Caval ry horses, ho doabt the Union would remy tested indicate Uiat the yield may be have beew restored long ago Sant Seo a sufficient to puy a profitable retufn for the | i Ps oO ae money and labor invested. Sorreniné of the brain is becoming ugeom- oe fortably prevoleot. 8 atistics show that’ in ten WE neticed w one“ot bdt exchanges this week yeare, 1556 to 1866, 11.655 deaths were regic- thé etetement ef Der, Jdha Hodgkine * ef South tered from this Cause in’ England ‘alone, This Jefierron, Me., «here cou was cured of Incipient disease cuaroates from overiuxing jhe, braia, ead ve Not supplying substance to repl ¢e the waste, tlie use of ‘River next sun, mer, od Lintment.” (We refer te tie at tiie t t- 4 to cértndordte the! s atewert we trust Jast weet in relstion te this® Liniumert as em yee te consum pti, ey Feifows’ Cenipound Syrup of ™ the “matertal for thonght’ is supplied, the mind made Figo bus, and the & dy Sortitied afJainat divease, a ee h ers made bits, which seemed to give the au- dience a good deal of enjoyment. —_—_—$—$<~¢ @ os In consequence of the meeting of «Artisan’’ Division. S. of J., on Thursday evening, the fourth of the series of pubiic meetings by the Sons of ‘emperance, has been deferred from th<i nightto Monday, Feb. 27, then to be held in Lower Athen- eum, (east end) at the hour of 8 o clook, sharp. —Free to «ll. >? twenty-six miles each, which will no doubt be largely increased upon the completion of their line to Truro. ‘The passengér trafic vpon an Island Baiload would, no doubt, be in » greater ratio than in New Brunswick; but we will assume that it will be Jess, and take the "170 000 at 3s. each, equal to £25,500, which would be at the rate of about 14d hs = each per mile. ; In regard to freiht we will assume that ‘st would be carried by Rail : : 41,000 000 bus. oats, at i4d, £6,250 0 WE regret to learn that Mr. Lauchlan o MeDonald of West River, East Point while 50,0 0 bus. barley, at 2d, walking on the slippery side-walk, bear Bien hae’ antes at'aa 16 1a. 6 the Hon. Mr. Walker s on Wednesday fell g g and broke his leg Dr. Gaffney was sent for immediately, set the bone, and the 0 patient is now doing well.—Jat, 0 * ++ : 0 Don't forget the Grand Concert m Si. 0 0, Patrick's Hall, this Munday) evening. 400 000 bush. pee at 2d, $333 1.009 tons fresh pork beef, and other meats, 750 4,000 bbls eggs all sdd , 25! 2,0" cwt butter an! Tard, at 1s 190 iD 0, OU bbls fish, at 1s 500 W. Hopwood, made some remarks, touching on the statistical bearing of the question. The following persons were appointed Uflicers for the ensujng term: Hon, John Yeo, Pre- sident, Hugh A. Ramsay, Vice-President, Wm. Hopwood; ‘)'reasurer, Thus. Adams, Se- eretary. This Society meets on Wednesday eveuing. asthe camila eS SERVICES AT 8. PETERS CHURCH, Wednesday, the 224 imst., being Ash- Vednes- day, the services at 5. Peter's Church will be as follows: Hely Communion, 7.30 a. m ; Mattins. Litany ‘and Comuunation Service, 11 a.m; Evensong | with 8 «mon, 7.30 p. 9. | Friday, the 24th inst., being the east of St ‘Matthias, Apostle and Martyr the services at St, | Peter's ( bureh will be as ‘ollow: Voly Communio , 7:G a wm 3 Mittine and Litany, 9.30 :. um 5 1 vensoag (Choral, with Ber ,mon, 7.30 p. ta. ee Total export value in the year 1869, in Island, which includes barley, oats, potatoes, turnips, pork and wool, is £435,600, which would te- quire an interest of ebout 14 per cent to pay the interest of debts of Railroad, consequently where said tv him, ** Wait a while, we will get our Europern and North American Railroad — or | Weed ebeap enough by rail trom the West.” Road from St. John to Shediac — Cost of read | [Laughter.|] Theo it will be lweated to suit every one He expected evon to be told that if he did net oppose the preject, he would have a branch runeing dewn to his place. [Laughter und applause, } ’ a Tb mas Beers, E-q., was for Railroads, but was against proposed policy of building them. In Eng!and there were 14,000 miles of Railroad ty 18,000,000 penple- Now can we build a mile of Railroad to 750 people, when in England they have only 1 anile to 2500 people, . He believed a suall begivnirg should be commenced and it should commence from China Point to Gallows Point. (Great Laughter.] This would not be laughed at, if gec ple would consider that in this Jocality there is every indication of coal miacs, and probably vil springy, He thought the Gov~ ernment ought to give a grant of £3.000 oF £4,000 for the purpose of seeing if there was coal in these sicinitirs, and it would be better to a farmer receives now £100, be would only leave Kailroads to be built by a chartered com- receive £86, the other 14/ would go to pay in- terest on Railroad debt, or, in other terms, al-| pany. [Applause. } lowing our population to be 100,000, our tax | Mr. Haley was oppesed te companies being will amount to 12s 8d per head to pay thetia (given each wetke. They formed nicnopolies, terest of Railroad debt, we would be undertaking | and engaged in jobbery and corruption, a» might a greater work than any other nafioa, | be seen in other places, where heedy politicians Population of the Dowinjon of Canada in the! getting into companies, in a few years became year 186", was 3,879,835, with 2495 miles of, immensely ric!. [Applause ] railroad, or a mile of read for every 1569 ine | Mr Crane wanted to know the policy of Br. habitente, a greater work than Neva Govtia, Duneas, and the Government, in regard to the New Brunswick and Canada And [ttle P, E. Ratiread gecstum: ‘Last Jagr be was a Ceafed. | Island, with a population of about 100,000, at- erate, and supported thew. He would not de - tempts to build a mile of road for every $33 now, because they were traitors to their prince « inbabitante,we certainly must have great induce va te wenld.tikete know why Mr. Dusen, nents of trade held out to us. [he pruicesed to been Anti, joined 8 ( oaseter, He then submitted the following R<solwion, ate Government. Le was no: opposed te Rail which was seconded by Mr, James Sentner. "| Road roads, Formerly we were satisied with the ‘the Dotin:on of Canada, eonchisively prove, Wewieg machines, and we will seeg have Rail } that enurmous expense attend the working and ways ng, MOE Se ete soni ae