Che Examiner. Charlottetown, Oct. 16, 1S76, MR. LAIRD AND THE VACANT SEAT. Tur Hon. Davin LAIRD Was bever very popular. He never could command the respeet or admiration of the people. Ile was thrice a candidate for popular suffrazes before he obtained a seat in the House of Assembly. He suce eded in gaining the support of the people of Belfast by denouncing the railway, and he maintained himself in power by building the branches. To obtain power he de nounced Mr. Pope for contractivg with Schreiber & Burpee to build the railwey, and when in power he contracted with Schreiber & Burpee to build the branches et an additional cost of $1000 per mile. While elevating his horn he denounced | Mr. Boyd as au incapable truckler, and | when his horn was elevated he gave Mr. | Boyd the superintendence of the railway works. When in Opposition he professed | to abhor the idea of Confederation ° best to in the Government he did his effect an union with the Dominion at an | anou al To gain a seat in the House of Commons, he professed friendship for the Govern- eot of Sir Joho A. McDonald. After obtained the seat he deserted Sir John in his extremity, to accept a Cabinet office in the McKenzie Administration at $7000 per year. He deserted Sir John on the ground of corruption ; has been hugging a party individually and collect» mh oe 1 and he ively corrupt ever since, —witness, the decisions of the judges on the contro- verted election trials ; witness, Madiver’s laconie “ come along John, we’ve got lots of money” ; witness Brown's “ Big Push” loss to the Province of $24,000. | aa Haviland, when they settled the terms of | union; and we receive annually (ve proportioa of the interest of $30,000,000 So | ' which we will be required to pay. that the building of the Pacific Railway will be no loss to us; and the Patriot's computation is a mere bug-bear. The | fact is that the railway must be built | | whatever Government is ip power. Cana- da is solemuly pledged to perform the | work, The only question is whether it | shall be performed under Mr. McKenzie, | who is by sheer iheapacity, fast driving a ‘“ glorious Provinee’’—the Pacifie key to the Dominion—into secession, or under a Government capable of grappling with the question, and preserving the union intact. Th s question, we commend to the at- teution of the people of Queen’s County at the present juncture. We trust tht in the comiag election they will follow the example of Ontario in signt- fying their detestation of corre »tion and hypocrisy, and their disapproval of in- capacity in the Government. . CIVIL SERVICE. so + al Tue new Government is neither well re- when | ° ° | presented nor ably defended by its Press. We search the columns of the Argus and | Patriot in vain for any indication of | its policy or any vindication ot its acts, |The organs have not yet risen to the dignity of their positions, The does nothing but criticize the Opposition, while the Argus argues that Hayes should be President because he has a wife! Yet the Government have already been charged with offences which have chal- lenged the attention of the Press of the neighboring Provinces, and which, if de- fensible, should certainly be defended by its organs. We are free to admit that it is a difficult task to defend the members of a Government who know that *atriot and Senator Simpsoa’s plethoric bank ; | witness, the bribery of the first Common- | er of Sanada by twenty per cent over and | above the cost of the Post Office printing | of New Brunswick. All this corruption of the hypocritical party has _ been brought to light and proved beyond the possibility of a doubt, since Mr. Laird threw from him in well effected disgust the blue book in which the evidence of Sir John’s guilt was alleged to be set forth. And yet Mr. Laird clung to his office and pocketed his $7000, till the very day of his appointment to the Gov- ernorship of the North-West. Mr. Laird’s political career has been marked by falsehood and selfishness. Ia every pcominent act he was,to serve his own purposes, false to the principles he pre- viously laid down and the cries he pre~ viously He false to the people of Belfast and he gained a seat in the Government of this Island, He was false to the people of this Island and he gained a seat in the House of Commons. He was false to Sir John and he gained $7000 a year. He was faise to political morality and he gained the Governor- ship of the Northwest. This consumma~ tion of his falsehood and _ his selfishness has given infinite pleasure to the people ot this Island. The politically “ evil man ’’ has been removed far from them. The people of Queen’s County will soon be called upon to elect a member to fill the seat which he has vacated. In making choice of a representative the first con- sideration should be THE MAN. He should be a man of integrity and intel- ligence, versed in politics and capable of taking part in debate. We agree with the Patriot that there is no necessity to raised. was a elect a respectable nincompoop or an igno- rant unlettered boor who may happen to have local influence. There are several men in the community who possesss the necessary qualifications. Then, the elec- tors should see to it that they elect a man who will be loyal to the Dominion; who will not support a Government, the policy of which is calculated to bring abouta disruption of the Confederation. The Pacific Railwgy Policy of the present administration has already caused a gréat elamour and some dissaffection in British Columbia. So grave was the situation in the Pacifi? Province that the Governor General, when there, deemed it his duty to make a speech for the purpose of. re- assuring the people and restoring con- fidence in Mr. McKewzie. His Excel- lency showed very clearly that Mr. Me Kenzie was honest in his endeavors to build the railway. He declared that in his opinion, the Pacific Railway had fo more sincere friend in Canada than Mr. McKenzie. Yet, British Columbia has been driven to the verge of rebellion by Mr. McKenzie, on account of the railway. Herd surely is ground for suspicion as to Mr. McKenzie’s administrative ’ ability. Had Mr. McKenzie been, like Mr. Blake, avowedly opposed to the Paciffe railway, no one would have wondered’ at the dis- satisfaction of British umbia; but being its sincere frie grave doubts must be entertaingd th r. McKenzie (willing he is,) is no with the Pacific way question.” Since he “obtained r, Mr. Mackekzie has promulgated at least three distinct ilway. Yet the able to grapple policies concerning Governor General, lay the discontent of British Colum a, felt compelled to announce that thé original policy of Sir John A. Macdonald had been returned to, and that the contracts would be let as soon as possible. Under these circumstances the statements of the Patriot of Saturday are most unfairtand dishenest. The Patriot says: “The loweSt estimate that we have seen of its cost is within a trifle of Eicuty Mitiions oF Hou.aks. Weare afortieth part of the Vom‘nion cousecuently, our sbarelof the debt contracted to build the Pacific Railway will be $2,000,000, which, at five per centsywould be a burden oa the Island alone of $100,000 @ year.” "+ Under Sir John Macdonald’s scheme, (whi 8 at last been adopted by Mac ken e contractors are to have 50,- 009 acres of land gn the No est Ter equal to at Mast oapaiee. N t of that will come out of the f the people of this Island. Then have $30,000,000 as the work - Of the interest of this amount ward Island will, of course,have tits share. But the Government to reserve 50,000,000 acres of land Northwest, by the sale of which the inion Government will reeeive a sum sufficient to repay us all the money we lay out. Besides the the building of the Pacific Railway was their acts are unjustifiable—who them- selves believe that what they have done is opposed to the trve interests of the country. The practice of removing officials mere- ly for the sake of rewarding the political friends of a Government, is uaiversally condemned. What answer has the Argus to the following trom the Halifax Chron. icle ?:— Uur sister Province of Prince Edward Is- land has yet to learn an important lesson in the matter of Civil Service. The general election held in the Island a few weeks ago resulted, as already reported, in the triumph of the secular school party and the formation Of & Lew governmont under the leadership of Mr. Louis H. Davies. As the first result of the change of administration we have the announcement that a batch of oflicials, high and low, have been dismissed on politica! grounds, and their places filled by others whose political views are more in iccord with the policy of the new Government. It is not pretended, so far as we have seen, that any of these officials has been unfaithful to his trust. The presumption is that they were efficient public servants. But because they were notin sympathy with the triumphant party they have been removed and others put in their places. To many readers in the Dominion this proceeding will seem little less than an outrage on good government and the commonest principles of justice. But Mr. Davies's Government mnst not be too hastily condemned. The circumstances of his situation and the practices of the past must be taken into consideration, and these may be held to justify the changes that have been made. Other Governments in Prince Edward Island dismissed officials to make room for political friends, and consequently, from the Island point’ of view, Mr. Davies’ administration has done nothing extraordin- ary. But while custom may justify or ex. cuse the action of the Government, it cer, tainly cannot defend the evil system under which the dismissals have been ordered. The practice is a bad one and should be abandoned. So long as electiuneering ser- vices are counted of more value than faith- ful official work the civil service will be in- efficient, if not corrupt. The evil of sucha system may be seen in the demoralized cone dition of the civil service in the United States to-day. * * ° * The civil service should be non-political and every member of it should be secure in_his office so long as_ he faithfuliy performs his duties. The leaders of both political parties in Prince Edward Island would act. wisely if they came to an agreement on this basis. The public service would gain Ly such a system, the politicians would be relieved from much of the oflice se~kers pressure which they must all feel to be a burden, and the political] contests of the country would be marked by more patriotism and less seltishness than at present. Will the Patriot advise the Premier to | take a friendly advice of the»Halifax Re- The Reporter alluding to the recent dismissals by the Davies Adminis— tration remarks :— These men are dismissed from office for no greater fault than that they could not see political maters through the same spectacle as the members of the victorious party. They are not accused of actively engaging in the political contest which has just closed and driving their friends from office and from ower. They belonged to the tosing party the struggle, and that is sufficient. There | ee in this prnciple of action so re- pugnant to every feeling of our nature—so subversive of freedom —so pregnant with evil to the State—that the wonder is that it has ever found a footing in any civilized land—much less in one boasting of its free institutions—or laying any claims to being guided in its Government by British prin- ciples. Inthe United States this principle has full swing ani the fruit itis yielding has aroused a storm of indignation among the people, which it is to be hoped will result in a much needed reform in the civil service of that country, where fraud and embezzlement among the officials is almost a matter of every day occurence, * * * * Will Mr. L.H. Davies, the:leader of the Government, take our friendly advice. He is young, but not inexperienced. He has had greatness thrust upon him, but he should not abuse the power placed in his hands. Should he do so, he w:ll have cause for regret in after years, when, perhaps, his well-known talents will have placed him in a more commanding position than he occupies at present. porter ? The vile system which the government has perpetuated on this Island is doomed in the United States. The following re- solutions unanimously adopted at a great political meeting held in Indiana, indicate the manner in which the greatest curse ever fastened upou a free country is re« garded in the neighbouring republic :— ** Resolved, That we heartily indorse and approve the declaration of principles of the Republican National Convention, and we especially commend and approve the manly and courageous sentiments of the letter of acceptance of the nomads of the said Convention for Presideng® of the United States ; that by said declaration of principl ra and letter of acceptance of the nominee for President, the Répufican party stands fully and squarely committed to a radicéj and complete reform of the civil servige of the Government, to the end that offices Shall no longer be towed as rewargs* for party services, DOR services in beh { any indi- vidual or individuals of the dominant party but that the good cf the public service ‘honesty, fidelity and capacity,’ shall be tae sole test of preferment} and, in the language of the national! pla f the party, «that Senators and re entdlives, who may be judges and accugers, should not dictate ap- pointments Lo office.’ Resolved, That we require of the nominee of this Convention, in case of his election, that he faithfully observe the doctrine of the fith resolution of the national platform and the doctrine of Mr. Hayes’ letter of accept- ance in reference to civil service reform, and that he shall use such power and influence as he may possess as repsesentative to secure the adoption and carrying into effect the doctrines of said resolution and letter of acceptance as the ‘invariable rule’in the bestowal of and removal from office. Resolved, That we denounce asa glaring offence against good morals and public policy the bestowal or promise of bestowal of oflice for services rendered or to be ren- taken account of by Pope, Howlan, and dered at party caucuses or nominating con- ch offence as ventions, and*that we regard su | only secon:! to the crime of selling offices for a stipulated price, or a share in the emolu- | ments of the same,” s The last resolution is worthy g \at- tention of the magnates of Tooley « ‘eet and all our local politicians. So also is the following from the writings of the late John Stuart Mill :— “The entire business of government is skilled employment; the qualilications for the | discharge of it are of that special and pro- fessional kind, which cannot be properly judged of except by those who have theme | se,ves some share of qualitications, or some practical experience of them, The business of finding the fittest persons to fill public employments—not merely selecting the best who olfer, but looking out for the absolutely best, and taking note of all fil persons who are me! with, that they may be found when wante!—is very laborious, and requires a delicate as Weill as highly conscientious dis- cernment: aud as there is no public duty which is in yeneral so badly performed, so there is none for which itis of greater im— portance to enforce the utmost practicable amount of personal responsibility, by im- posing it as a special obligation on bigh functionaries in the several departments, All suborfinate oublic officers who are not ap. pointed by some mode of public competition should be selected on the direct responsi- bility of the minister under whom they serve. The ministers, all but the chief, and the chief himself, though really designated by Parliament, should be, in a regal govern- ment, officially appointed by the Crown, The functionary who appoints should be the sole person empowered to remove any sube ordinate officer who is liable to removal ; which the far greater number ought not to be, except for personal misconduct ; since it would be vain to expect that the body of persons by whom the whole detail of the public business is transacted, and whose qualifications are generally of much more importance to the public than those of the minister himself, will devote themselves to their profession, and acquire the knowledge and skill on which the minister must often place entire dependance, if they are liable at any moment to be turned adrift for no fault that the minister may gratify himself or promote his political interest, by appointing somebody else.” _--—- D> oe PD -o Oo —- -—" OUR JAIL. Tue old-time, dreary, and forbidding appearance of the jail in this city, has lately given place to an aspect at once fresh and attractive. But for the high fence which surrounds it, it might now be taken for a daily rendezvous for our public officials. The rain-worn roof—at which many an impatient prisoner, anx— ious to escape, has cast a longing eye— has been removed. The dingy walls have been stripped. In short, the entire build- ing has undergone a metamorphosis. A story has been added to its height. Its length has been increased some twenty feet. It has been re-shingled and re-painted, Its entrauce is quite as ¢legant as that of the private abodes of many of our most law-abiding citizens. If an old jailbird, who had left his country tor his couutry's good, were to pay a flying visit to the land of his crimes, he would hardly know the place of his punishment— ** So chang-ed is the scene.” The keeper’s apartments, we are specially pleased to note, have been greatly improved. They are now at the southern end of the building. With windows overlooking the jail yard, is the keeper’s office; opposite is his dining room; and adjvining are bed rooms for the use of himself and fam- ily. Below is the kitchen, a root cellar, and a room for general uses. In the lat- ter there is a force pump by means of which the water uceded in the prison is drawn from a well in the yard, and, when required, furced to a tank in the third story. The half only of the second and third flats of the new building are set apart for the use of the keeper. The other half is divided into rooms in which unfortunate debtors are to be incarcerated. The rooms on the western side com- mand pleasing views of the harbor ; and, if it were not for the checks which strong locks and bars impose on liberty, they would not be dreadful places of abode during the winter months, From the third flat of the new building a passage-way leads throvgh the middle of the story which has Leen added to the old prison. Twenty-one apartments have been added. Each room is ventilated. A bath-room is among the improvements. Gas-lights are provided for the keeper’s and debtors’ rooms and for the several halls. Inthe yard there is in course of erection a small brick building, 80x18 feet, in which to do the cooking and wash- ing of the establishment. This building will contain —besides the cookery, ete.,— a morque and a storeroom. Attached to it will be four dry earth closets. These will be provided with boxes (on runners or wheels) which may be drawn away without expense or offence. A drain (of Nova Scotia tiles) is being laid trom the jail to the shere ; so that the cesspool which has higfferto heightened the ap- pearance ofthe jail-yard will be.no more seen. Altogether, the changé* effected has been a good one. The néw arrangements reflect high credit upon Richard Weeks, Esq., late Superjgftendent of Public Works for Quegm’s County. The work performed upder the inspection of his toreman—Mr. Profit—has been well done. We need hardly remark that Messrs, Hermans and Trainor—who did the gas- fitting and painting— performed their parts in a workmanlike and finished manner. We trust that the attention of the Com- missioner of Public Works will now be directed to the provision of labor and dis- cipline for the criminals, THE NEW MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR. It is announced that Mr. Cauchon is Minister of the Interior in the room of Mr. Laird. There must surely be some mistake here. The Government would never give the care of the ‘‘ poor Indian ” to the man who, for starving poor lunatics, was denounced by the Toronto Globe as one whose ‘crime is rank and Smells to Heaven! ”’ GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS. To be Commissioners of Highways’—Mr. Docald Crockett for the fourth District vice Thomas McGrath, Esq., whose papeintment has been cancelled; Mr. Daniel McLaren tor the eleventh district of King’s County vice Mr. Joha F. Holland, whose appointment has ‘been can- celled; Mr. Richard Pooley forthe ninth disirict of Prince County vice Mr. Heury Dawson, whose appointment has been cancelled. = Tue Nova Scorm Gianress.—Captain Bates and his wife, formerly Miss Anna Swan, the glants, whose marriage in Lon- don attracted much attention several years ago, have retired from show life, and built a fitting residence near Rochester, N. Y. zie is seven and a half feet high, and she is an inch taller, and each weigh over four hundred pounds. The rooms of tneyeppase are eighteen feet high and the doors twelve feet. Their bedstead is ten feet long, and all the furniture is proportionately large. FARL DUFFERIN ON BRITISH | COLUMBIA. The following is the opening Put of | Earl Dufferin’s speech at Victor's, as lished in the Toronto Mail :— GextLEMeN,—I am indeed Very glad to have an opportunity before qui ing British Columbia of thanking vo". vied rough you | the citizens Of View, BEY ily for the | general kinduess and courtesy 1 have met | with during my residence amongst you, but especially tor the invitation to the banquet with which you have honored me, [regret extremely that my engagements did not ermit me to accept this additional proof of your hospitality; but my desire to see as | much as possible of the country, and other ‘engagements, forced me most reluctantly to decline it, [sbail, however, have a final opportunity of mingling with your citizens | at the entertainment arranged for me at | Bacon Hill this afternoon, to which | am | looking forward with the greatest pleasure. | Perhaps, geptlemen, | may be also pers | mitted to take advantage of this occasion to express to you the satisfaction and en- joyment | have derived from my recent progress through such portions of the pro- vince as I have been able to reach within the short period at my disposal. I am well aware L have visited but a small proportion of your domains and that there are import- ant centres of population from which I have been kept aloof. More especially have I to regret my inability to reach Cari- boo, the chief theatre of your mining 1D» dustry, and the home of a community with whose feelings, wishes, and sentiments 1b would have been advantageous for me to become personally intimate. Still, by dint of considerable exertion, | have traversed the entire coast of British Columbia from its southern extremity to Alaska, I have penetrated to the head of Bute Inlet, I have examined the Seymour Narrows, and the other channels which intervene between the head of Bute Inlet and Vancouver Is~ land. {[ have looked into the mouth of Dean's canal and passed across the entrance to Gardiner’s Channel. I bave visited Mr. Duncan’s wonderful settlement at Metlak~ atiah, and the interesting siethodist mis-~ sion at Fort Simpson, and have been able to realize what scenes of primitive peace and innocence, of idyllic peace and beauty, and material comfort can be presented by stalwart men and comely maidens of an In- dian community under the wise adminis~ tration of a judicious and devoted mission~ ary. I have passed across the intervening Sound of Queen Charlotte Island to Skide- gate, and studied with wonder the strange characteristic of a Hydah village with its forest of heraldic pillars. Ihave been pre~ sented with a sinister oppoftunity of descending upon a tribe of our Pagan savages in the midst of their drunken orgies and barbarous rites,and after various other explorations | have made have had the privilege of visiting under very gratify- ing circumstances the Royal City of New Westminister. Taking from that spot a new departure, we proceeded up the valley of the Fraser River, where the river has cloven its way through the granite ridges and bulwarks of the Cascade range, and along a road of such admirable construction considering the engineering difficulties of the line and the modest resources of the colony when it was built, as does the greats est credit to the able administrator who directed its execution. Passing thence into the open va'leys and rounded emineuces boyond, wo had an Opportunity of apprevi- ating the pastoral resources and agricultus ral capabilities of What is known as the bunch grass country. It is needless to say that wherever we went we found the same kindness, the same loyalty, the same honest pride in their country and its institutions, which characterize the English race throughout the world, while Her Majesty's Indian subjects on their spirited horses, which the ladies ot their families seemed to bestride with as much ease and grace as their husbands and brothers, notwithstand- ing the embarrassments of one baby on the pommel and another on the crupper, met us everywhere in large numbers, and testi- fied in their untutored fashion their genu-~ ine loyalty and devotion to their White Mother. Having journeyed into the ins terior as far as Kamloops and admired from a lofty eminence iu its neighborhood what seemed an almost interminable prospect of grazirg lands and valleys susceptible of cultivation we were forced with much res luctance to turn our faces homewards to Victoria. And now that lam back it may perhaps interest you to learn what are the impressions I haté derived during the journey. Well, I may frankly tell you that I think British Columbia a glorious Pro- vince—a Province which Canada should be proud to possess, and whose association with the Dominion she ought to regard as the crowning triumph of Federation, Such a spectacle as its coast line presents is not to be paralleled by any country in the worid. Day after day for a whole week, in a vessel of nearly 2,000 tons, we threaded an inters minable labyrinth of watery lanes and reach- es that wound endlessly in and out of a net- work of islands, promontries, and peninsu - las for thousands of miles, unruffled by the slightest swell from the adjoining ocean and presenting at every turn an ever shifting combination of rock, verdure, forest, glaci~ er, and snow capped mountain of unrivalled grandeur and beauty. When it 1s remem-~ bered that this wonderful system of navi- gation, equally well adopted to the largest line of-battle-ship and the frailest canoe, fringes the entire seaboard of your Pro- Vince, and communicates at points some- times more than a hundred miles from the coast, with a multitude of valleys stretchs ing eastward into the interior, at the same time that it is furnished with innumerabie harbours on either band, one 1s lost in ad- miration at the facilities for’ inter.commu-~ nication whic are thus provided for the future inhabitants of this wonderful region. It is true at the present moment they lie unused except by the Indian fisherman and. villager, but the day willSurely come when the rapidly diminishing’stores of pine upon this continent wilt ull further exhaust. ed, and when the nations of Europg as well as of America will -be obliged t& recur to British Columbia fora materif6f which you will by thatfime be the clpal deposi- tory.» Algéady from an_g@joining * port on the maififand a large e is being done in lumber with Great tain, Europe, Aus. tralia; and South America, and I venture to think that ere long the ports of the United States will pe® force be thrown open to your traflic. I had the pleasure of witness- ing the overthrow by the axes of your woodmen of one of your forest giants, that that towered to the height of 250 feet above our heads, and whose rings bore witness that it dated its birth from the reign of the Fourth Edward, and where it grew and for thousands of miles along the coast beyond it, millions of its contemporaries are await- ing the same fate. . With such facilities of access as I have described, to the heart and centre of your various forest lands, where almost every tree can be rolled from the spot upon which it grew to the ship which is to transfer it to its destination, it would be difficult to over-estimate the opportuni- ties of industrial development thus indicat- ed—and to prove that lam not over-san- guine in my conjectures 1 will read youa letter recently received from the British Admiralty by Mr. Innes, the Superintend- ent of the Dockyard at Esquimalt :—* From various causes spars from Canada, the for. mer main source of supply, have not of late years been obtainable, and the trade in New Zealand spars for top-masts has also completely died away. Of late years the sole source of supply has been the casual cargoes of Oregon spars, imported from time to time, and from these the wants of the service have been met. But my Lords feel that this is not a mode to be depended upon, more especially for the larger sized spars.” Their Lordships then proceed to order Mr. Innis to make arrangements for the traushipment for the Dockyards of Great, Britain of the specified num- ber of Douglas pine which will be required by the service during the ensuing year,— and what England does in this direction Other nations will feel themselves compell- ed to do as well. But I have learnt a further lesson; I have had rtunities of inspect- ing some of the spots ‘where your mineral wealth is stored, and here again the ocean stands your friend, the mouth of the coal- pits I have visited almost opening into the hulls of the vessels which are to convey their contents across the ocean. When it is further remembered that inexhaustable supplies of iron ore are found in juxtaposi- tion with your coal, no one can blame you for regarding the beautiful Island on which you live as having been especially favoured by Providence in the distribution of these natural gifts. But still more precious mins erals than either coal or iron enuance the 4% value of your possessions, As we skirted the banks of the Fraser we were Qpet at every turn by evidences of its extrabrdin- ary supplies of fish; but scarcely less fres quent were the signs afforded us of the | any traveller pube.| side him is sures it rolls down, nor need think it strange to see the Indian fisherman hauling out — on to the sands, from whence the miner be- | sifting the sparkling ore. But | the signs of mineral wealth which may hap- pen to have attracted my personal we tion are as nothing, | understand, to : rat is exhibited in Cariboo, Cassiar, and along | the valley of the Stickeen, and most griev- | ed I am to think that ] have not had the time to testify by my presence — them to the sympathy I feel with the ~~ |= venturous prospector and the miner in their | arduous enterpri‘es. I had also the satis- | faction of having pointed out to me where | various loads of silver «nly await greater | facilities of acces to be worked with profit and advantage. But perbaps the greatest | surprise in store for us was the discovery, on our exit from the pass through tha Cas~ cade range,of the noble expense of pastoral lands and the long vistas of fertile valleys which open up on every side as we a ed through the country; and which, as could see with my own eyes from various heights we traversed, extended in rounded upland slopes or in gentle depressions for huodreds of miles to the foot of the Rocky Mountains, proving after ail, that the mountain ranges which frown along your coo<t no more accurately indicate the na- ture of the territory they guard, than does the wall of breaking surf that roars along a tropic beach presage the softly undulating sea that glitters in the sun beyond. But you wiil very likely say to me, of what ser.- vice to us are these resources which you describe, if they and we are to remain lock~ ed up in a distant and at present Inaccess~ ible corner of the Dominion, cut off by a trackless waste of intervening territory from all intercourse, whether of a social, or of a commercial character with those with whom we are politically united? Well gentlemen. | can only answer :—Ot comparatively little use, or at all events of far less profit than they would immediately become, were the railway upon whose construction you natur- ally counted when you entered into Cons federation once completed. We regret that we have not space for His Excellency’s remarks on the Pacific Railway. golden tres THE HARRISON TRAGEDY. A CRAZY LOVER'S ATTEMPT TO KILL A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN — PRESIDENT HARRISON'S GRANDSON TURNING THE HOUSE OF A FRIEND INTO MOURN- ING—A STRONG WOMAN'S FIGHT FOR LIFE—A TERRIBLE SOENE, ETO. [From the Cincinnati Enquirer, Oct. 4.) The people of Boone County, Ky., who lived along the river nearly opposite to North Bend, in sight of the tomb of Harris son, and only about fifteen miles from this city, were appalled yesterday morning at the intelligence that William Henry Harri. son, a son of the late Symmese Harrison and a grandson of a President of the United States, had entered the residence of Major John H, More and stabbed to death Miss Mary More, the only daughter living at home. In the early part of the summer young Harrison began to visit at Major Harrison’s oftener than usual, and it was soon suspected that he had designs on Miss More. Harrison had received no encourage~ ment, and was never by word or look given to understand that his feelings were reci. procated or that his attentions were agree- able. He had conceived an idea that Miss More’s father was his bitte ene and when that gentleman was Tome he rarely came to the house? t Mondg¥ morning Major More came up’to Cincinatti and Cov- ington. Monday night, and in fact nearly all day Monday, Harrisore availing himself of the Major’s absence’, hung round the old More homestead. During the day he obs tained intimatidh that Major More would be home Monday evening, and it was during that evening that his hellish ambition was first developed. He slipped into the sitting room unan- nounced, found Mary their, and, it is sup~ posed, made some proposition of marriage to her, which she rejected. He had been in there but a moment, however, when he begeu yelling, ++I’ crazy, I’m crazy!" whisked out a formidable jack knife with a blade as thjck as @ razor, and dashed at his victim. His first lunge resulted in a ghast- ly wound in the breast, just to the left of the breast-bone. He struck again for the heart, and another wound was made in the left breast, and still again a third wound spurted blood from just over the heart. Then he lunged again, this time for his victim’s throat, and a bloody slip, down the left temple was all he accomplished; then again, and a wound in the left cheek was made. By this time Mary caught the knife-blade in her hand, but her assassin drew it through, and her hand, with every finger wounded, was helpless. Again, with uplitted blade, he sprung for her throat only to plunge his ugly weapon into her le arm which she raised for defense, and ftill again and again until.five gapifg wounds were bleeding in her arm and still the de-~ mon followed. Harrisén walked deliberate~ ly out of the house and towards his own home. Apriving there he told his boys that he had kilied Mary More —*‘ She would not tnarry me, and [ killed her ’’—and that he was now going to kill himself. He then took his own rifle in his hands as if to shoot himself, when his son Pike seized it. A struggle ensued, but Pike, discovering that the rifle, too, had no cap, ceased struggling. [arrison made the discovery, or pertended to about the same time, dropped the rifle, and with the same yell, “I’m crazy! I'm crazy !” ran to the cistern and jumped in. The cistern contained only about four feet of water, and the supposition is that Harri- son knew it, for had he been bent on sui- cide the Ohio river would have answered every purpose, and that was only a few rods away: He floundered around in the cistern a few minutes, keeping up his cry of ‘I’m crazy !’’ until his sons fished him out; then he made a dive for a small medi- cine-chest in the house, saying he was going to poison himself, but when our re<« porter left he was still alive and trying to devise some means of self distruction. [he room in which the deadly scuffle occurred was still as it was left in the morning, and presented a horrible appearance. The matting on the floor was stained with blotches of blood, and the door where the fiercest struggie had occurred was all stain= ed over with the crimson fluid, as were the doors in William More’s room. From the sitting~room clear across the kitchen the struggling woman’s course could be traced in blood, On Saturday afternoon about half past five o'clock, as the son of James L, Holman, Esq., was driving a team down his father’s wharf, he was run into by the shunting engine. He had barely got over the rails way crossing when the engine struck the hind wheels of the carriage and hurled it with the little boy in it, to one side of the track, tearing it clear of the horse, and completely smashing it to pieces. The little boy was considerably hurt, the result of the fall causing concussion of the brain, Had the carriage been an open one the boy would probably have been killed. Fortuns ately he was wrapped up in an apron. This and the carriage top, no doubt, pootected him from receiving injuries which otherwise might have proved fatal, The engine, Mr. Holman informs us, was running back and forth at a furious rate, only whistling occa~ sionally and not ringing the bell at all. Drivers should rut their engines cautiously around that. part of the tract crossing streets and nies 0 many times. — Swim- . ° *. merside Jou —-— —~ a - Further butcheriés by the T dhownte afe te y urks at Krus. THE NORTH-WEST TERRITORY, [From the Toronto Mail,} Hon. David Laird has accented the ap- pointment of Lieut. Governor of the North- West ‘Territory, and will leave for Battle- ford in the course of a few days. Let those ‘‘ advanced Reformers’ who scoffed at the establishment of a Viceregal Court im this Province, imagine a Court with all its trappings, paraphernalia and appanages in the North-West Territory, that howling region beyond the confines of Ma- nitoba and Keewatin, where the wild Indi. an is the solitary subject of his White Mother! In Ontario we have at leasta wealthy and intelligent people among whom the symbols of royslty are respected and, it may be added, paid for. But in the North-West region, who, what is there, to be governed ? Tne land is void and empty, a vast desolation where the white man ir al- most unknown. Picture, we say, the gaunt Prince Edward Island publisher rigged out in his Windsor clothes with a sword and a cocked hat and a body guard of office-hold- ers and a blaze of gold lace and an aide-des camp with the regulation eyeglass, sitting on a throne, waiting to administer consti- tutional government to generations of Ice- landic emigrants yet unborn, amid soli« tudes unbroken save by the cry of the be- numbed Indian for his Government annuity and his contraband whiskey ! For this gorgeous vision, we are indebted to the austere “‘ Reformers” now in power. Sir John Macdonald entreated them in the session of 1875, to let the North-West region remain as in the past, under the tuteleage of the Lieut. Governor of Manitoba, but Mr. Mackenzie saw achance of providing a right royal refuge for a follower, and eagerly he seized it without counting the cost to the country. In 1874-75 the expense of gover ning the wilderness in question—if seeing that a waste place is not stolen and does not stray be governing it—was $2,308 (Pub lic Accounts, 1875, p. 181.) For that sum annually the territory might have been ef- ficiently governed from Manitoba until such time in the far-off future as it became pos~ sessed of a population large enough to pay for the luxury of a separate Court. But our ‘ Reform’ Premier who is himself fond of strutting it in Windsor clothes, rejected the views of the Opposition and created a Court, of which Mr. Laird is King David the First, to rule over utter desolation and emptiness at the expense of a heavily taxed people of the rest of the Dominion. Ontario, of course, will have to pay the bill for this mockery, and no small bill it will be. Imprimis, take the expenses of the Court itself as given in the Estimates for 1876-77, p. 70: Lieutenant~Governor $7,000 Two Members of Council 2,000 Clerk of Covneil 1,800 $10,800 Salaries of two Stipendiary Magis. trates at $3,000 each (p. 18) 6,000 Total $16,800 That is a very fair beginning. It is by odds, truly, a more ‘ Liberal’ way of governing a desert place than that of ruling it from Manitoba at a cost of $2,300 a year! Turn now from the Court to its subjects, the scattered Indian tribes over whom Mr. Laird is to wield his sceprte. They are provided for at p. 69 of the Estimates, their brethren in Manitoba having a separate ac~ count on the same page: BMNBUIOS... .nccrccchdcvprisove eosbbboed «s+» $27 610 Agricultural Implements............ 8 000 POGUIRRIIEE «..0..5000 ccccccesorvccesensececss ” BEE Ammunition and Twine............... 1,500 Salaries and Office Expenses......... 19,000 TRGR ERAN 66 oc ccieneseviccersow 80,000 Total......0 coe seepepes ovessenebovepeed $148,110 This, it is well to repeat, does not include the annual grants to Manitoba Indians, but is the year’s estimate for the new North- West Superintendency alone,and the reader will not fail to notice the comfortabie sum ‘set apart for ‘‘salaries and office expenses.” Then there is the North«West Mounted Police Force established in 1874, which for the future must be regarded as Mr. Laird’s little army, as in the past its operations have been confined to the Indian region, It isa mere skeleton of the original force: but as will be seen at page 38 of the Estix mates that does not lead to to any decrease in the annual expenditure: Pay of Forces......... neonniniial mina $120,750 BE NR Bi oicts ccisinsctiscdbsecens 2,985 Ra sii isan diadmstbeiedannnis 47.816 Te bibs dibebinecstiicieed » 28,000 Bet oat Light isis... iviccies.0ssiee 5 500 GER, onrrsernetecdiccebvessenbiessobie 21,300 Repairs, Horses, &C...........0..++0 oe Miscellaneous Stores............- vine 5,500 BI, TUR csiccrintindbeasbesiasenenens 2,000 Transport and Freight Cherges... 30,000 Comtingencies.......ccccccsesssccoseseee 16,000 ROUBL .cccce vvecbails pisbenbacinacteny - $292,651 The original force numbered 300 men, but it has been reduced by withdrawals and des sertions to 200 men. Thus each man costs us $1,400 a year, exactly $400 a year more than the American soldier on the frontier costs his Government. The reader will not fail to notice also that $29,000 is set apart for forage —a significant item, in view of the boasted fertility of the soil. If the whole region, or ut least those sections of it round about Fort Pelly and the other forts built forthe force, connot supply 200 horses with hay and oats, sorrow will be the pors tion of the adventurous emigrant of the future. The Court, its subjects, and its little army therefore involve an annual charge of $457,561—a far more “Liberal” idea, by the rood, of governing a waste place than that of leaving it in charge of the neighbor- ing authorities at a cost of $2,300 a year. But that is not all. The process of “ organ- izing the NorthsWest Government,’’ what~ ever that may consist of, has been going on for some time in anticipation of the creation of Mr. Laird’s Court: Expenditure, 1874-75....00.......s0e06 $25,702 (Pub. Accts, 1875, p. 192 ) Estimated expenditure, 1875-76... (Estimates for 1875-76, p. 57.) Estimated expenditure, 1876.77... (Estimates for 1876-77, p. 70.) 33,800 12,000 TOtal....e0ssererererersseerersreerees $71,502 Thus on the 30th June next we shall have expended $71,500 in erecting a mock- ery of a Court (which will entail an annual expenditure of $457,500) for the Vice-regal enforcements of the Consolidated Statutes of Canada upon a desert region at present almost uninhabited. If Manitoba and Keewatin had been full and overflowing with population, this step might have been justifiable, but under the circumstances Mr, Laird’s appoiatment cans not be described otherwise than as a costly and wholly unnecessary creation of patron- age. Let us sincerely hope that there are not many more “ Reformers”’ like him yet to be provided for by this wise and econo, mical Government. : JUDICIAL Inony.—Judge Smith, of Nova Scotia, lately said, in reply to a compli- mentary address from the bar :— “ There is nothing, you may rel that is calculated to give greater stabilite to our social and politica! institutions, in- Spire a larger sense of security in the minds of our people or afford to them a more en- during satisfaction with our free constitu- tion, and our enobling pride in the flag under which we live, than an unresistless abiding faith in the unsullied honor and un- yielding integri country, grity of the judiciary of the i en MISCELLANEOUS, The exodus of Russian soldi has been stopped by the Cran, for Servig The Porte has conciuded armistice with the Menteneginn dayy Ds, The Spanish naval forces on the Cubes ladelphia | Station is shortly to be augmented er, driven bac pling to om, The Centennial Exhibition at Phi if! be closed on the 10ih Novemb The Turks have again been by the Montenegrins, in attem the pas age of the Drina. ws Itis said that the Egyptians lost sand men by being surprised - in the deliles at Abysinia, oth aod massacreg John Lee, convicted of participation ; M_untain Meadow mnestere, bes Sout the enced to be shot in January next, —_ Governor Hendricks, candid : President, telegraphs the talowinn = Indiana: * Democratic majority 5,000 8,000 for entire ticket.” re The barque Ocean Gem, on ber from Port Hawesbury to Montrea| for Mcibourne, Australia, went ashor Goose Island on the 10th inst, She hist - taken off and is now in dock at Quebec The Gulf Port Steamship Com this season carried nearly 25,00) hens cargo from Montreal to the lower ports than — ee time last year, notwith, standing the opposition of the [ntereo nial Railway. E ~ The Times in its leading editori: ; “If it is true that an armistice heel! granted there is still good hope for peace and Turkey has placed herself right, Should Servia reject the armistic, she would forfeit all claim to consideration, Servia has expressed his willingness to accept the Porte’s proposed armistice as soon as formal notification is made the; by the Powers, and General Tchernayegf has received orders from Prince Milan to suspend hostilities for the time being. The Presidential contest in the United States promises to be a sharp one, The returns from Ohio and Indiana, where the elections were held yerterday, resulted ab. cording to the N. Y Herald, in « drawn battle. The contest for the next three or four weeks will be viewed with muoh ins terest. The man of Blood and Iron is avenged, In spite of Count Von Arnim’s vast family influence, in spite of pressure in the Royal Family it-elf, in spite of a defiant defencs Prince Bismark has beaten his rival to the ground, and a sentence of five years im. prisonment has been awarded to one of the lirst of the German aobles. The diplomatic service of Germany will hereafter be perform. ed with military promptitude. On the 12th inst. will take place at Phils, delpbia the inauguration of & monument to Christopher Columbus. The pre tions for conferring this signal om a honor on the memory of the illustrious navigator, by whose genius, energy snd per- severence “the dashing, silver- i surges Of San Salvador ”’ were first rev: to European eyes, has for several months past been occupying the attention of the — —- of Philadelphia. But not only they, but persons of all other origins have been allowed to havea share in the contributions to so great, so merited, so seemly an enterprise. Mr. Anglin has clearly forfeited his seat in the Louse, and if he is incapable of either sitting or voting even as an ordi mem.~ ber, how much less can he legally occupy the still more important position of Speaks er? In defiance of this Act Mr. Anglin be. came a contractor to the extent of $8,000, While he was enjoying the snug sallary at- tached to the Speakership, he was making & snug profit eut of his contract. The Goy. ernment winked at the law and the con. tractor of course was content, but the country is not satisfied, and when the House meets the Government will be called s ly to account for their contempt of the law in this matter.— Dundas Standard. Just as the Challenger returns to Eng. land, after an absence of three years anda half, an expedition starts on a similar quest, and equipped in like manner, though ona more modest scale, for a cruise of three summers, Its aim is to examine the region of sea surf and bottom bounded by Norway, ee — — ~ the ice East reenland, Jan Mayen, an i 4 This expedition is cont Out by Meron of whose inhabitants esra their livelihood wa 60 load in these seas, w scientific men have started the idea brought it into a defie nite form, and whose ment and Storthing have accepted the proposal and anc supplied the necessary funds with s clear recognition, not only of the wants of science, but of its importance for the natio» nal welfare. The ship selected is the Vormgen, of 400 tons burden. ; The Pope's physicians are said to be again alarmed as to his health. In spite of the energy which carried him through fatiguing audiences, his feebleness of body increases, and the odema of the left foot and ankle is such that he maintains the standing posture with extreme difficulty, and only fora short time. The symptoms of general senile dropsy are sufficiently threatening to cause much uneasiness to his medical advisers, foreseeing as they do the inefficiency of measures which rarely succed in less tried constitutions On Thursday, the 14th, in reply to the con» gratulatory address of an irish deputation, he delivered a Latin discourse, in which his usual distinctness of utterance was 80 impaired that many of his words were ins auditle. His bonhomie, however, continues, and while he amuses,by his vivacity he gives evidence of an amount of vital ren sources peculiarly gratifying to his physie-~ ians, Dean Stanley was not present at the un» veiling of the bust of Canon Kingsley, which took place recently at Wesminister Abbey. In his absence Canon Duckworth made a brief address, which he gracefully concluded by ss the following words from Canon Kingsley himeelf: + Let us judge his right to be here by the noble words in which he himself tested the right of others to commemoration in this shrine: ‘What was your work? Did we edmire you for it? Did we love you for it? And why? Because you made us in some way or other better men. Because you helped us somey what toward whatsover things are pure, true, just, honorable, of good report. Be cause if there was any virtue—that is, true valor and manhood ; if there was any praise —that is, just honor in the sight of man, and, therefore, surely in the sight of the Son of Man, who died for men—you helped us to think on such things, You, in one word helped to make us better men.’ The bust, which is by Woolner, is said to be & good one, Judging from some of the incident: of Mr. Beecher’s lecturing tour in Western Canada, that erratic clergyman has some admirers still in the Domimion. These will doubtless rejoice to learn that the services st Plymouth Church have not lost their power to “draw.” The N. Y. Herald says of Sunday's service:— The rush to hear Mr. Beecher yesterday was greater than ever before. Before half past nine o'clock a crowd had collected in front of the door of his church, and twenty minutes past tet —ten minutes before service began—there were, by actual count, in and around the building, 9,521 persons. As the building cannot by the closest packing be made contain more than 3,000, somewhere in the neighborhood of 4,000 people must hevé been unable to gain admission. Many of those turned away had been standing pst ently in line upon the cold sidewalk for a0 hour previously. A number of pew _ ers, who came just before the beginuing the services, were unable to force a passage through the crowd, although assisted by the ushers and several stalwart policeme®- A Lucky Man.—The St. John Jelegrap! referring to the appointment of Mr. Laird to the “overnorship of the Northwest Territories says:—‘Mr, Lairdg may said to have been born under & -_ star. He had scarcely made himself as @ power in local politics than bis inh ence was sought by Dominion politiciaus behalf of the scheme of Union, and be scarcely reached the House of before he was landed in the M became the recipient of $7 who would probably have tune made could he have of Colonial Secretary of P. E. salary of a few hundred pounds! after less than three years harness, Mr, Laird is appointed t ernorship to which, it is true, great sibilities attach, but which also field for the display of ability by ®! parts. On the whole, Mr. Laird aoe congratulated “not less on the the several of his political career thao for ence of bis marks of the esteem and conlidenct yy colleagues of which be bas cipient,”’ alELy é i = LE late c + 4 : a 252 ~